Tag: #deep-dive
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 254 posts
Map & Geospatial Tools 2026 — Mapbox / MapLibre / deck.gl / Leaflet / ProtoMaps / Felt / OSM Deep Dive
The 2026 web/mobile map stack at a glance — Mapbox closing its license starting with GL JS v3 (Sept 2023) and the resulting open fork MapLibre GL JS 5 (June 2025), Uber-born WebGL/WebGPU visualization engine deck.gl 9, t
2026-05-16 · 23 min read #map#gis#geospatial#mapbox#maplibreLSP & Tree-sitter Ecosystem 2026 — ast-grep / Biome / Helix / Zed / Neovim Treesitter / Per-Language LSPs Deep Dive
In 2026, the real center of gravity of code tooling is no longer "which app you use." It is two standards. LSP (Language Server Protocol) standardized intelligence; Tree-sitter standardized structure. On top of these two
2026-05-16 · 20 min read #lsp#tree-sitter#ast-grep#biomejs#marksmanIcon Libraries 2026 — Lucide / Heroicons / Phosphor / Tabler / Radix / FontAwesome 7 / Material Symbols / Iconify Deep Dive
The 2026 icon landscape splits four ways — free OSS, commercial Pro, design-system companions, and variable fonts. Lucide (Feather successor, 1500+ MIT), Heroicons (Tailwind team), Phosphor (5400+ x 6 weights), Tabler (4
2026-05-16 · 19 min read #icons#icon-library#lucide#heroicons#iconoirLLM Serving & Local Inference in 2026 — vLLM / llama.cpp / MLX / Ollama / LM Studio / SGLang / TGI Deep Dive
A map of the 2026 LLM serving and inference landscape. Datacenter camp (vLLM, SGLang, TGI, Triton, TensorRT-LLM), local camp (llama.cpp, MLX, llamafile, Ollama, LM Studio, GPT4All), emerging camp (KTransformers, MLC LLM,
2026-05-16 · 25 min read #llm#model-serving#inference#vllm#llama-cppHealth & Fitness Tech in 2026 — Apple Watch / Garmin Fenix 8 / Whoop 5 / Oura Ring 4 / 8sleep / Strava / CGM Deep Dive
Health and fitness tech in 2026 has hardened into four solid categories: the watch on your wrist, the ring on your finger, the cover on your mattress, the CGM on your arm. Apple Watch Series 10 (Sept 2024, thinnest yet,
2026-05-16 · 19 min read #health-tech#fitness#wearable#apple-watch#garminLLM Landmark Papers Roundup 2026 - Transformer / Scaling Laws / Flash Attention / Mamba / DeepSeek-R1 / Titans Deep Dive
From the 2017 Attention Is All You Need paper to 2026 Titans and DeepSeek-R1, a thematic roundup of the 50+ landmark papers that built the LLM era. Transformer, BERT, GPT 1-3, Scaling Laws, Chinchilla, InstructGPT, PaLM,
2026-05-16 · 21 min read #llm-papers#transformer#scaling-laws#flash-attention#mambaMobile & Product Analytics 2026 Deep Dive - Firebase, Amplitude, Mixpanel, PostHog, Branch, AppsFlyer, RevenueCat, Airbridge
A practical 2026 map of mobile and product analytics: Firebase, GA4, Amplitude, Mixpanel, PostHog, Heap for product analytics; AppsFlyer, Adjust, Branch, Singular, Airbridge for mobile attribution; RevenueCat and Adapty
2026-05-16 · 29 min read #mobile-analytics#product-analytics#firebase#amplitude#mixpanelLive Coding Music & Visuals in 2026 — Sonic Pi / TidalCycles / Strudel / Hydra / TouchDesigner / SuperCollider Deep-Dive
In 2026, live coding is no longer a fringe experiment. Sonic Pi has landed in school music rooms, TidalCycles and Strudel rule club stages, and Hydra paints visuals in a browser tab. On top of the classic SuperCollider/P
2026-05-16 · 21 min read #live-coding#algorave#sonic-pi#tidalcycles#strudelGraph Databases & Knowledge Graphs 2026 Deep Dive — Neo4j 5 · ArangoDB · Memgraph · TigerGraph · Amazon Neptune · Apache AGE · Kuzu · FalkorDB · Dgraph · GraphRAG
A complete 2026 survey of graph databases and knowledge graphs. Covers Neo4j 5, ArangoDB, Memgraph, TigerGraph, Amazon Neptune, Apache AGE, Kuzu, FalkorDB, Dgraph and other graph DBs, GraphDB/Stardog/Virtuoso/Apache Jena
2026-05-16 · 24 min read #graph-database#knowledge-graph#neo4j#arangodb#memgraphMechanical Keyboards for Developers 2026 — HHKB Studio / Keychron Q,V / Glove80 / ZSA Moonlander / Kinesis 360 / Dygma / Wooting Deep Dive
The tool a developer pounds on for 8 hours a day. The 2026 mechanical keyboard market consolidates into 5 big currents. HHKB Studios gesture pad, the Keychron Q/V/K/B price-performance revolution, split ergonomics cement
2026-05-16 · 24 min read #mechanical-keyboard#keyboard#hhkb#keychron#glove80Kubernetes Admission Policies & Security 2026 — Kyverno (CNCF Graduated) / OPA Gatekeeper / VAP (CEL) / Falco / KubeArmor / Tetragon Deep Dive
The full topology of Kubernetes security in 2026. Kyverno that became CNCF Graduated in November 2024, Rego-based OPA Gatekeeper, the built-in Validating Admission Policy that went GA in k8s 1.30 (CEL), the alpha Mutatin
2026-05-16 · 24 min read #kubernetes#security#admission-controller#kyverno#opa-gatekeeperGame Audio Middleware in 2026 — A Deep Dive into Wwise (Sony-Owned) / FMOD / Steam Audio (OSS) / Resonance / Tempest 3D / MetaSounds
The full 2026 map of game audio middleware — Sony-acquired Audiokinetic Wwise, Firelight FMOD Studio, Valve Steam Audio (Apache 2.0 as of June 2024), open-sourced Google Resonance Audio, Sony Tempest 3D AudioTech, AMD Tr
2026-05-16 · 24 min read #game-audio#wwise#audiokinetic#sony-audiokinetic#fmodMarkdown Presentation Tools 2026 — Deep Dive into Marp, Slidev, RevealJS, Spectacle, Gamma, Beautiful.ai, iA Presenter
The 2026 landscape of presentation tools has shifted. Marp (Microsoft) and Slidev (Anthony Fu) are now the two pillars of developer presentations, while RevealJS endures as the OG. In the React camp, Spectacle gained gro
2026-05-16 · 24 min read #presentation#slides#markdown#marp#slidevmacOS Power User Apps 2026 — Raycast / BetterDisplay / AltTab / AeroSpace / Loop / Hammerspoon / Karabiner / CleanShot X Deep Dive
The complete 2026 map of macOS power user tools — Raycast after Series B with first-class AI, Alfred as a legacy classic, BetterDisplay reviving HiDPI control, AltTab bringing Windows-style alt-tab, the window-manager sp
2026-05-16 · 32 min read #macos#power-user#raycast#alfred#betterdisplayFinOps / Cloud Cost Management 2026 — Vantage / Infracost / OpenCost / Kubecost / CloudZero Deep Dive
A single map of the 2026 FinOps landscape. The GenAI-driven explosion in GPU and inference cost, why the FinOps Foundation FOCUS spec became the de-facto common vocabulary, how Vantage took multi-cloud visibility, how In
2026-05-16 · 19 min read #finops#cloud-cost#vantage#infracost#opencostIoT Cloud Platforms in 2026 — AWS IoT Core / Azure IoT Hub / Particle / Arduino Cloud / ThingsBoard / Balena / Magistrala (Mainflux) Deep-Dive Comparison
The 2026 map of IoT cloud platforms is completely different from 2018. Google shut down Cloud IoT Core in August 2023, and IBM Watson IoT followed in August 2024. Among the hyperscalers, only AWS IoT Core (+Greengrass+De
2026-05-16 · 32 min read #iot#aws-iot-core#aws-greengrass#azure-iot-hub#azure-iot-edgeLocal AI & On-Device LLMs 2026 — Ollama · LM Studio · Jan · Msty · Open WebUI · GPT4All · AnythingLLM · Faraday Deep Dive
By May 2026, local AI is no longer a hobby. An M4 Max MacBook Pro runs Llama 4 Scout 109B MoE at 24 tokens per second. Desktop runtimes like Ollama, LM Studio, Jan, and Msty unify GUI and CLI, while Open WebUI, AnythingL
2026-05-16 · 23 min read #local-ai#on-device-llm#ollama#lm-studio#janFeature Flags & Experimentation Platforms 2026 — LaunchDarkly / Statsig / GrowthBook / Unleash / PostHog / OpenFeature Deep Dive
A map of the feature flag and experimentation platform landscape in 2026. OpenFeature became the CNCF standard; LaunchDarkly remains the enterprise leader; Statsig bundles flags + experimentation + analytics; open source
2026-05-16 · 23 min read #feature-flags#experimentation#ab-testing#launchdarkly#statsigLLM Observability & Prompt Tools 2026 — Helicone / LangSmith / Langfuse / Braintrust / Athina / Comet Opik / Portkey Deep Dive
The 2026 LLM ops map. Helicone (YC) · LangSmith (LangChain) · Langfuse (open source, Series A) · W&B Weave · Arize Phoenix · Braintrust · Athina · Comet Opik (released March 2025) · Vellum · PromptHub · Portkey AI Gatewa
2026-05-16 · 22 min read #llm-observability#prompt-engineering#helicone#langsmith#langchainIn-memory Caching & KV Stores in 2026 — Redis 8 / Valkey / KeyDB / Dragonfly / Memcached / Garnet (Microsoft) / Speedb Deep Dive
A snapshot of the great in-memory cache schism that Redis kicked off in March 2024 when it switched to RSALv2/SSPL — and where the dust has settled in May 2026. Redis 8 after the relicense, the Linux Foundation Valkey fo
2026-05-16 · 24 min read #caching#key-value-store#redis#valkey#keydb