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Notes on the craft.
Long-form on systems architecture, microfrontends, WebGL / shaders, and on-device AI. Search by title, tag or topic — the filter is live, no submit button.
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- 33 min
Carnegie Hall, rebuilt from a seating chart
How I turned a flat ticketing map into a complete Stern Auditorium: 2,758 seats, four tiers of gilded parapets, vaulted ceilings and hundreds of real light fixtures. I did it by building tools instead of sculpting.
- technical-art
- houdini
- blender
- python
- 12 min
Parsing documents without uploading them
A procurement pipeline that never leaves the tab: PDF, DOCX and XLSX to editable Markdown, PP-OCRv6 on ONNX Runtime Web inside a module worker, and the canvas shims nobody warns you about.
- onnx
- ocr
- wasm
- web-worker
- 15 min
Rendering Brilliance
A visual tour of the cubemap-based diamond shader — how a faceted gemstone becomes a single texture lookup, and what that gets you. Eight interactive figures, plain-English asides, and the optics that hold it all together.
- graphics
- shaders
- webgl
- three.js
- 17 min
Building a 3D ring configurator in Expo
The complete story of Lumière: loading GLBs on device, composing rings from parts at runtime, a custom refractive gem shader, porting the whole thing to the browser — and the audit that found a stranger's email address inside a binary before I made it public.
- expo
- react-native
- three.js
- r3f
- 23 min
Making AI feel realtime with hybrid segmentation
Segmentation is the substrate for nearly every AI photo workflow worth shipping in 2026 — inpainting, object swaps, controlled generation. Here is how to make it feel instant on the web by splitting SAM2 across a notebook on the user's hardware and a decoder in their browser.
- sam2
- onnx
- webgpu
- segmentation
- 4 min
Running ONNX models in the browser without losing your weekend
A working recipe for shipping image segmentation in a tab — Web Workers, WASM, pre-encoded embeddings, and the small things that decide whether the demo is fast or felt-fast.
- onnx
- wasm
- ai
- web-worker
- 1 min
Welcome to the new blog
A short tour of the new MDX-powered writing setup, complete with syntax-highlighted code blocks rendered by Shiki at build time.
- meta
- next.js
- mdx