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Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 592 posts
Robotics Development ROS 2 2026 — Nav2 / MoveIt / Gazebo / Isaac Sim / MuJoCo / LeRobot / GR00T Deep Dive
Robotics development in 2026 is no longer the world of ROS 1 and Gazebo Classic. ROS 2 Jazzy / Kilted / Lyrical have settled into a yearly LTS cadence, Nav2 and MoveIt 2 are de facto standards, and Gazebo Harmonic has re
2026-05-15 · 30 min read #robotics#ros2#nav2#moveit#gazeboVoice AI in 2026 — ElevenLabs / Cartesia / Sesame / Whisper Turbo / Deepgram / Parakeet Deep Dive
In October 2024 Whisper Large v3 Turbo got 8x faster, Cartesia (built by the Mamba authors) hit sub-90ms TTS, and Sesame from Brendan Iribe launched "voice presence." By May 2026 the TTS, STT, and realtime-agent axes hav
2026-05-15 · 22 min read #voice-ai#tts#stt#asr#elevenlabsPKM Tools 2026 — A Deep Dive into Notion, Obsidian, Logseq, Anytype, Tana, Capacities, and Heptabase
The 2026 landscape of Personal Knowledge Management tools. Notion AI Workflows, Obsidian 1.7 Bases, Logseq, Anytype P2P, Capacities object model, Tana supertags, Heptabase whiteboard, Reflect, AppFlowy, RemNote, Mem, Bea
2026-05-15 · 20 min read #pkm#note-taking#second-brain#notion#obsidianSelf-Hosted Media and Homelab 2026 — Jellyfin / Immich / Navidrome / Audiobookshelf / arr Stack / Tdarr Deep Dive
Plex's 2025 price hike and the move to gate remote streaming behind a paywall cracked open the self-hosted media community. Jellyfin 10.10 finally delivers solid hardware transcoding for everyone, Immich has become the d
2026-05-15 · 25 min read #self-hosted#homelab#jellyfin#plex#immichCross-Platform Mobile Development in 2026 — React Native New Architecture / Flutter / KMP / Tauri / Lynx Deep Dive
Mobile cross-platform in 2026 is the age of five contenders. React Native New Architecture became default from 0.76. Expo SDK 52 and Expo Router 4 are now the de-facto standard setup. Flutter promoted Impeller to its def
2026-05-15 · 22 min read #mobile#react-native#flutter#kotlin-multiplatform#compose-multiplatformPython Type Checkers in 2026 — Mypy, Pyright (Pylance), Pyre, Pyrefly, ty: Deep-Dive Comparison
The Python type-checking landscape exploded in 2025-2026. Astral (the uv and ruff company) shipped ty, a Rust-based checker, in alpha. Meta released Pyrefly, a Rust rewrite of Pyre. Mypy remains the reference implementat
2026-05-15 · 19 min read #python#mypy#pyright#pylance#pyreGame Engines in 2026 — A Deep Comparison of Godot 4.3, Unity, Bevy, Unreal 5.5, Defold, and Stride
After the September 2023 Unity Runtime Fee disaster, the indie game engine landscape was permanently rewired. Godot 4.3 became the new default, Bevy 0.15 grew at scary speed, Unreal 5.5 stayed dominant for AAA, and Defol
2026-05-15 · 17 min read #game-dev#godot#unity#bevy#unrealMusic Production 2026 — Ableton 12 / FL Studio 21 / Logic Pro 11 / Reaper 7 / Bitwig 5 / Suno v4 / Udio / Stem Separation Deep Dive
A single comprehensive map of the 2026 music production landscape. Compares major DAWs (Ableton Live 12, FL Studio 21, Logic Pro 11, Cubase 14, Reaper 7, Bitwig Studio 5, Studio One 7, Pro Tools 2025, Reason 13, GarageBa
2026-05-15 · 22 min read #music#daw#ableton#fl-studio#logic-proDocument AI / OCR in 2026 — Mistral OCR / Marker / Surya / LlamaParse / Docling / OlmoOCR Deep Dive
Document AI in 2026 is no longer "extract text with Tesseract." Purpose-built APIs like Mistral OCR (March 2025), open-source PDF-to-Markdown engines like Marker / Surya / Docling / OlmoOCR, pretrained document models li
2026-05-15 · 19 min read #ocr#document-ai#pdf#mistral-ocr#markerJS Build Tools Rust Wave 2026 — Turbopack, Rspack, Rolldown, oxc, Biome, Vite 6, Bun Deep Dive
The JavaScript build chain is going through a generational rewrite in 2026. webpack and Babel, Rollup and Prettier, ESLint and terser — the tools that defined an era are being replaced by Rust rewrites. Turbopack is now
2026-05-15 · 21 min read #javascript#build-tools#turbopack#rspack#esbuildDistributed Messaging 2026 — Kafka 3.9 / NATS / Redpanda / Pulsar / RabbitMQ 4 / WarpStream Deep-Dive
The 2026 landscape of distributed messaging. Kafka 3.9 made KRaft the default and ZooKeeper is gone. WarpStream put the Kafka API on top of S3 and was acquired by Confluent. Redpanda pushes Kafka compatibility in C++, NA
2026-05-15 · 18 min read #messaging#distributed-systems#kafka#nats#redpandaeBPF Observability 2026 — Pixie / Parca / Cilium Hubble / Tetragon / Beyla / Coroot / Falco Deep Dive
A complete map of the eBPF ecosystem as of 2026. Compares Pixie, Parca, Cilium Hubble, Tetragon, BCC/bpftrace, OpenTelemetry eBPF Collector, Grafana Beyla, Coroot, Inspektor Gadget, Kepler and Falco — plus the CO-RE revo
2026-05-15 · 24 min read #ebpf#observability#pixie#parca#ciliumAI Video Generation 2026 — Sora 2 / Veo 3 / Kling 2 / Hailuo / Runway Gen-4 / Luma Ray 2 / HunyuanVideo Deep Dive
Two years after Sora 1 stunned the film industry in Feb 2024, the AI video generation landscape of May 2026 has hardened around three camps — closed-source SOTA (Sora 2, Veo 3, Kling 2, Hailuo), industry-standard video t
2026-05-15 · 27 min read #ai-video#video-generation#sora#veo#klingDistributed SQL / NewSQL 2026 — CockroachDB / TiDB / YugabyteDB / Spanner / Aurora DSQL / Neon Deep Dive
The 2026 distributed SQL landscape no longer fits under the single word "NewSQL" that defined the early 2020s. CockroachDB 24 has settled into its position eighteen months after its license change, TiDB 8 has dragged the
2026-05-15 · 18 min read #database#distributed-sql#newsql#cockroachdb#tidb3D Modeling Tools 2026 — Blender 4.4 / Houdini 21 / Maya / ZBrush / Substance / USD / 3D AI Deep Dive
The full 2026 stack for 3D modeling and content creation in one post — Blender 4.4 Geometry Nodes and EEVEE Next, Houdini 21 APEX auto-rigging, Maya 2026 USD-first workflow, ZBrush 2025 digital sculpting, Adobe Substance
2026-05-15 · 18 min read #3d#3d-modeling#blender#houdini#mayaChinese AI Labs in 2026 — A Deep Dive into DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM, Yi, Doubao, Hunyuan (The New Center of Gravity for Open Weights)
When DeepSeek-V3 dropped a 671B MoE in December 2024 and R1 added open-weight reasoning in January 2025, the world paused. Since then Alibaba's Qwen 3 (235B-A22B) has become the de facto new open-weight standard; Moonsho
2026-05-15 · 25 min read #ai#china#deepseek#qwen#alibabaAI Agent Frameworks in 2026 — A Deep Dive on LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, Anthropic Agent SDK, and More
In 2026 the AI agent framework landscape has exploded into a dozen camps. Vendor SDKs from OpenAI and Anthropic, orchestration frameworks like LangGraph and AutoGen and CrewAI, minimalist contenders like smolagents and M
2026-05-15 · 19 min read #ai-agent#langgraph#autogen#crewai#smolagentsWriting Great Tickets: The Craft of Issues for Humans and AI Agents
The ticket is the single highest-leverage written artifact in software. The anatomy of a great ticket, acceptance criteria as checkboxes, the 'one ticket = one reviewable PR' rule, bug and feature templates, and what mak
2026-05-14 · 22 min read #tickets#issues#writing#communication#ai-agentWebRTC Media Infrastructure 2026 — LiveKit·Pion·Daily·100ms·mediasoup·Janus·Cloudflare Realtime and WHIP/WHEP Deep Dive
Real-time voice and video in 2026 is no longer the 'write WebRTC by hand' game. The explosion of AI voice agents pushed LiveKit into de facto standard status, and Pion settled in as the engine of the Go camp. Daily, 100m
2026-05-14 · 26 min read #webrtc#livekit#pion#mediasoup#dailyThe 2026 Vision Model Development & Fine-Tuning Guide — CNN, ViT, DETR, SAM 2, VLMs and a Real Decision Tree
Vision model development in 2026 is no longer 'grab a ResNet and call it a day.' Between CNNs, ViTs, DETR variants, SAM 2, and VLMs like LLaVA, Qwen-VL, Gemini Vision, and Claude Vision, your choice for the same photo ca
2026-05-14 · 20 min read #computer-vision#vision-model#cnn#vit#detr