Boba is an experimental AI co-pilot for product strategy & generative ideation, designed to augment the creative ideation process. It’s an LLM-powered application that we are building to learn about: An AI co-pilot refers to an artificial intelligence-powered assistant designed … Read more
Introduction My name is Kam. I’m the founder of Linen and today we are launching our Mac and Windows Desktop clients. Linen is a search engine friendly Slack alternative for communities. We started out as a static site render but … Read more
This post is about building an FPGA based networked key-value-store in the functional hardware description language Clash. I’ll describe my FPGA-tailored hashtable design, the testing framework I built for it, and its performance and resource usage. I also just think … Read more
TL;DR Yes, it is possible to build a new DBMS in academia. It’s still hard. We found that using Postgres as a starting point was too slow for in-memory OLTP. The challenges in academia are slightly different than with a … Read more
Recently had a fun branding project come through at my day job. One of my unused brand directions was the idea of using Lissajous curves to form parts of the logo and various brand elements. Lissajous curves, named after the … Read more
I know I promised to put out an article every week on a Sunday. I haven’t been too good at sticking to that schedule. It’s now Sunday morning at around 8:50 AM. I have a thing I have to be … Read more
Building a Personal VoIP System [home] [blog] [git] [email] [rss] JMJ May 25, 2023 AD I’ve always been a big self-hoster, but had never attempted anything related to VoIP. I recently purchased some IP phones and set up a personal … Read more
Article summary Business self-help books like Deep Work, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Triggers, and Atomic Habits are super boring to me. Which kinda sucks, because there’s some really good ideas hiding inside them. I read them anyway … Read more
I recently spent some time building a browser-based signal analyzer (spectrogram + oscilloscope) as part of one of my projects. I ended up using some very modern browser APIs and technologies that I’d not worked with before, and I discovered … Read more
