Towards the Modern Transformer Architecture
Tracing how the 2017 Transformer evolved into the recipes used by modern frontier models — norms, activations, attention variants, RoPE, KV cache, and more.
Jul 22, 2026 · 36 min read
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Explorations of systems, protocols, and models, with explanations built from first principles.
You Don't Know WebSockets. Yet.
The WebSocket protocol, handshake to frames, and how bidirectional sockets actually work.
Aug 25, 2025 · 31 min read
Go Beneath the Abstraction: Building Interactive UIs with FernKit
Building interactive UIs from scratch in C++ with FernKit’s renderer and widgets.
Aug 3, 2025 · 10 min read
Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme and Multi Party Computation.
Shamir’s secret sharing and multi-party computation for splitting a private key.
Jul 5, 2025 · 23 min read
Your Hardest "Hello World!": Text Rasterization #1
How TrueType fonts are parsed and pixels get onto the screen.
Jun 14, 2025 · 36 min read
Bits of Trust: The Elegance of AES
How AES encrypts a block, from S-boxes through the last round.
Apr 1, 2025 · 26 min read
Building Rosenblatt's Perceptron From Scratch in Flutter
Building Rosenblatt’s perceptron in Flutter, with the geometry drawn out.
Feb 27, 2025 · 26 min read
Getting Cracked at Clean and BLoC Architecture
Clean architecture and BLoC in Flutter, past the introductory examples.
Jan 5, 2025 · 25 min read
Getting Started at BLoC Architecture
The BLoC pattern in Flutter, with small examples you can run.
Dec 13, 2024 · 25 min read
Resource Management with Probabilistic Scheduling in Linux
How the Linux scheduler allocates CPU, and why probabilistic methods show up.
Nov 1, 2024 · 37 min read
State of the Art - ART (Android Runtime)
How Android Runtime compiles, garbage-collects, and changes what apps can assume.
Sep 3, 2024 · 6 min read
Comprehensive Arch Linux Blog
Installing, configuring, and administering Arch Linux from a blank disk.
Aug 16, 2024 · 28 min read