BLOGS
Thoughts, experiments, and
how it all comes together.
What a 2B Vision Model Sees vs. What It Knows
Probing the internal representations of Qwen3-VL-2B — extracting attention heatmaps and hidden state embeddings to understand how a small model encodes spatial information about UI elements.
WebSockets vs SSE vs Long Polling
A practical guide to choosing the right real-time transport for your specific use case.
Typography as the Only Design System You Need
When color is stripped away, type hierarchy alone can carry an entire visual identity.
The Feature Nobody Asked For That Doubled Retention
A postmortem on an accidental discovery during a hackathon that changed our product roadmap.
My Homelab Setup in 2026
Self-hosting Gitea, Coolify, and a full observability stack on a single NUC machine.
Monorepos at Scale: What Nobody Tells You
The real tradeoffs of turborepo, nx, and bare pnpm workspaces when your team hits 50 engineers.
Building a Zero-Latency UI with React Server Components
How streaming SSR and selective hydration changed the way we think about perceived performance.