Engineering Philosophy: Adi Shamir
Adi Shamir is the S in RSA and a master cryptanalyst -- he builds secure systems by also learning to break them. Attack to defend, turning clean number theory into mechanism.
Engineering & CraftWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Engineering Philosophy: Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton coined 'software engineering' and wrote the Apollo flight code that survived the 1202 alarm. Defensive design and error recovery.
Engineering & CraftEngineering Philosophy: Roberto Ierusalimschy
Roberto Ierusalimschy designed Lua around one principle -- mechanisms, not policy -- a small, fast, embeddable language that hands you the levers instead of the rules.
Engineering & CraftSwift 6.2 Concurrency in Practice: Default to MainActor, Escape on Purpose
Swift 6.2 inverts concurrency: default your module to MainActor (SE-0466), run nonisolated async on the caller (SE-0461), escape with @concurrent.
AI & TechnologyEngineering Philosophy: Yann LeCun, Learning the World, Openly
Yann LeCun built deep vision on convolution, then bet that real intelligence comes from learning the world unsupervised and publishing it openly -- not bigger LLMs.
Engineering & CraftMLX on Apple Silicon: When You Need Your Own Model, Not Apple's
Foundation Models gives you Apple's sealed on-device LLM. MLX runs your own: quantized open-weight models and LoRA fine-tunes on Apple Silicon.
AI & TechnologyEngineering Philosophy: Sophie Wilson
Sophie Wilson designed the ARM instruction set -- now in nearly every phone on Earth -- with a tiny team and a ruthless RISC efficiency that made low power almost an accident.
Engineering & CraftApple Foundation Models: The On-Device LLM Framework, Explained
Apple's Foundation Models framework: LanguageModelSession, @Generable guided generation, tool calling, availability, and when to leave the on-device model.
AI & TechnologyEngineering Philosophy: Jim Keller, Transistors Are Free
Jim Keller architected the chips behind AMD's comeback, the iPhone, Tesla's Autopilot and more -- by spending silicon to remove bottlenecks and rethinking from first principles.
Engineering & CraftEngineering Philosophy: Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Shuttleworth built Ubuntu on one idea -- Linux for human beings, free software for everyone -- grounded in ubuntu: humanity to others, shipped on a clock.
Engineering & CraftEngineering Philosophy: Fei-Fei Li, Data Is the Foundation
Fei-Fei Li gave AI its eyes by building ImageNet -- betting that data at scale, not a cleverer model, was the missing ingredient, and that AI must stay human-centered.
Engineering & CraftEngineering Philosophy: Thompson & Ritchie, Do One Thing Well
Thompson and Ritchie built Unix and C from small sharp tools composed through one universal interface: text streams and pipes. Simplicity over features.
Engineering & CraftExternal Publications
Technical writing published at Introl
Local LLM Hardware Pricing Guide 2025
Comprehensive hardware recommendations and cost analysis for running large language models locally.
H100 vs. H200 vs. B200: Choosing the Right NVIDIA GPUs for Your AI Workload
GPU selection guide comparing NVIDIA's latest datacenter accelerators for different AI workloads.
TPU Architecture: Complete Guide to Google's 7 Generations
Deep technical dive into Google's Tensor Processing Unit evolution from TPUv1 to TPUv5.
GPU Memory Pooling in Multi-Tenant Kubernetes
Resource sharing strategies for GPU clusters in containerized environments.
Ray Clusters: Distributed AI Computing Infrastructure
Guide to building and managing distributed AI computing with Ray framework.
DeepSeek V3 Open Source AI Cost Advantage
Analysis of open source LLM economics and DeepSeek's competitive positioning.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPU 600kW Racks 2027
Future datacenter power requirements and NVIDIA's next-generation GPU roadmap.
SMR Nuclear Power for AI Data Centers
Small modular reactor solutions for powering next-generation AI infrastructure.
DeepSeek MHC Architecture Breakthrough
Technical analysis of DeepSeek's Multi-Head Compression architecture innovations.
