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• Making vLLM Fast — Configuration, Internals, and Where to Actually Touch the Code ♪ Listenable

  A step-by-step walk through improving vLLM performance, starting from everything you can fix without touching code. Covers batching-related arguments, prefix caching, chunked prefill, and quantization choice first, then

  2026-08-02 · 21 min read #vllm#llm-inference#paged-attention#benchmark#scheduler

• What We Lose by Delegating — Automation Doesn't Erode Skill Evenly

  Nobody feels guilty using a calculator, but most people feel a little uneasy after sending off a document AI drafted for them. That asymmetry is the question behind this piece. It sorts out the territory where offloading

  2026-08-02 · 14 min read #humanities#ai#cognition#automation#skill

• GPU Compiler and Framework Landscape — One Problem, Turning a Graph into a Kernel, a Different Answer at Every Layer ♪ Listenable

  This post puts NVCC and PTX, LLVM, MLIR, Triton, torch.compile, XLA, IREE, and TVM on one map. Different names, different owners, but they all solve the same problem: turning a computation graph into an executable kernel

  2026-08-02 · 21 min read #gpu#compiler#mlir#triton#pytorch

• What It Really Means to Hand-Tune a GPU Kernel — Making One Transpose Kernel 5x Faster ♪ Listenable

  Starting from threads, warps, and the memory hierarchy, this post covers what it actually means to hand-modify a GPU kernel. It explains why occupancy is a symptom rather than a goal, and why most kernels are bound by me

  2026-08-02 · 19 min read #cuda#gpu-kernel#nsight-compute#memory-bandwidth#performance

• The Math You Need for Robotics, in Order: And What You Can Safely Put Off ♪ Listenable

  An answer to how far you actually need to take your math to build a robot arm. Organized into six branches in order: linear algebra, trigonometry and rotation representations, calculus and multivariable methods, differen

  2026-08-02 · 25 min read #robotics#math#electronics#linear-algebra#control

• What a Robot Arm Is Made Of: Links, Joints, and What Actually Drives Them ♪ Listenable

  Buy six servos to build a robot arm and it almost always collapses under its own weight. This post starts from the precise definitions of link, joint, and end effector, explains what degrees of freedom actually count and

  2026-08-02 · 29 min read #robotics#hardware#electronics#arduino#math

• Three Layers of Writing a Kernel — Comparing CUDA C++, Triton, and CUTLASS on the Same Problem ♪ Listenable

  Compares what changes when you approach the same GPU kernel by hand in CUDA C++, tile-by-tile in Python with Triton, or assembled from templates in CUTLASS and CuTe. We actually write a row-wise softmax in both CUDA C++

  2026-08-02 · 18 min read #triton#cuda#cutlass#gpu-kernel#compiler

• Korean Film and Drama Roundup 2025-2026 — The Year Theaters Came Back, the Year OTT Got Reshuffled

  A roundup of 18 Korean films and dramas that actually became talked-about from 2025 through the first half of 2026. Covers The King's Warden, which drew 16.91 million admissions, Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice, which p

  2026-08-02 · 17 min read #culture#korean-film#k-drama#movie-recommendation#netflix

• Chinese-Language Film and Drama Roundup 2025-2026 — Three Different Report Cards From the Mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan ♪ Listenable

  A roundup of 17 Chinese-language films and dramas that actually became talked-about from 2025 through the first half of 2026, sorted by mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Covers Ne Zha 2, which became the highest-gro

  2026-08-02 · 18 min read #culture#chinese-film#hong-kong-cinema#taiwan-cinema#movie-recommendation

• Japanese Film, Drama, and Anime Roundup 2025-2026 — Two Records That Got Rewritten, and the Shadow They Cast

  A roundup of 18 Japanese films, dramas, and anime that actually became talked-about from 2025 through the first half of 2026. Covers the theatrical Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle film that rewrote Japan's all-time box off

  2026-08-02 · 17 min read #culture#japanese-film#anime#j-drama#movie-recommendation

• American Film and TV Roundup 2025-2026 — What the Oscars Picked and What Audiences Picked

  A roundup of 17 American films and series that actually became talked-about from 2025 through the first half of 2026. Covers One Battle After Another, winner of the 98th Academy Award for Best Picture; Sinners, which tie

  2026-08-02 · 15 min read #culture#american-film#tv-series#movie-recommendation#oscars

• Where AI-Written Posts Fall Apart — Six Failure Modes and a Guardrail for Each

  AI-written posts fail while the sentences stay smooth. This post organizes six failure modes — fabricated sources, information stale past the cutoff, paragraphs stretched to repeat the same point, unsupported assertions,

  2026-08-02 · 15 min read #ai-writing#content-quality#hallucination#seo#editing

• Making Logs Searchable, and Not Going Broke Doing It — Structuring, Mapping Explosions, Retention, and Real Cost

  The point where log costs overtake compute costs arrives for most organizations. What delays that point isn't the compression ratio — it's the decision about what becomes a field. This post covers field design for struct

  2026-08-02 · 15 min read #observability#logging#opensearch#elasticsearch#cost

• Persuasive Writing — The Structure That Gets Design Docs and RFCs Approved

  For anyone writing design docs, RFCs, proposals, or incident follow-up recommendations. This post covers putting the decision you want at the very top instead of the order in which you solved the problem, why showing the

  2026-08-02 · 14 min read #career#writing#persuasion#design-doc#engineering

• How to Handle Objections — Telling Factual, Value, and Status Disagreements Apart

  Objections are the part most people learning persuasion skip. This post covers steelmanning as a working procedure — restating the other side's argument better than they did, out loud, and getting it confirmed — why rais

  2026-08-02 · 14 min read #career#persuasion#communication#conflict#teamwork

• Taking Apart LLM Benchmark Tooling — Why the Same MMLU Gives Different Scores in Different Harnesses ♪ Listenable

  A benchmark score is not a property of the model — it is the result of a measurement performed under specific conditions. The incident where the same LLaMA 65B scored 63.6 and 48.8 on the same MMLU at the same time shows

  2026-08-02 · 21 min read #llm-evaluation#benchmark#lm-evaluation-harness#helm#reproducibility

• Building an Eval Set for Your Own Service — From Traffic Collection to Statistical Significance ♪ Listenable

  Public benchmarks cannot measure your problem for you, because the input distribution, the definition of a correct answer, and the cost structure of failure are all different. This post walks through, with real code, how

  2026-08-02 · 23 min read #llm-evaluation#eval-set#rubric#statistics#regression-testing

• How Text, Images, and Agents Are Each Measured — Why the Three Domains Measure Fundamentally Different Things ♪ Listenable

  Text, images, and agents all use the word "performance," but their measurement structures are entirely different. Text splits into multiple-choice that pretends to have a correct answer and open-ended generation that has

  2026-08-02 · 21 min read #llm-evaluation#multimodal#llm-as-judge#agent-benchmark#metrics

• The Structure of Persuasion — It's Sequence, Not Eloquence, That Moves People

  Persuasion fails at the level of structure long before it fails at the level of phrasing. This post is organized around four axes: establishing a shared premise before you make your claim, putting your strongest evidence

  2026-08-02 · 17 min read #career#persuasion#communication#influence#psychology

• Instrumenting Your App With OpenTelemetry — From Auto-Instrumentation to Manual Spans, and Why You Put a Collector in Front

  Instrumentation isn't about installing an SDK — it's about following an order of operations. This post builds a skeleton in a day with auto-instrumentation, locks down resource attributes first, and shows the order for a

  2026-08-02 · 16 min read #observability#opentelemetry#instrumentation#otel-collector#tracing