Writing
- Choosing an Image Format for Film Scans: JPEG, JPEG XL, AVIF, and TIFF
I tested 18 TIFF masters and 36 lab JPEGs to separate the best delivery format from the safest archive format.
- Do Looped Transformers Generalize? A Three-Day, Five-Task Test
What happened when I spent three days testing looped-Transformer length generalization across five algorithmic tasks on an M4 Max.
- Building a Vara DApp with Hermes Agent — From Spec to Mainnet
How I set up a Hermes agent, installed vara-skills and vara-wallet, and built a full dApp from scratch — smart contract, tests, CLI client, and a new frontend.
- From Opaque Bytes to Universal Services: Introducing Sails Header v1
How a 16-byte header transforms opaque SCALE payloads into self-describing service calls — and why that lets wallets render UIs instantly and indexers query the whole network by type.
- Profiling WASM Runtime in Substrate Using Perf
This post will guide you through webassembly profiling using perf.