💻 Builder. Ever curious. Create things. Share what I learn. Explore the world. Love. Not necessarily in that order.
🇨🇦 Montreal, QC, Canada
Joined December 2011
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I wanted to see what’s inside a photonic quantum computer. Here's one in 3D in the browser, real numbers included.
It’s mostly lasers, fibre loops and detectors at 2.5 K. The plumbing I get. The physics, still working on it. 🙂
exploded.storagebits.workers…
A 3.5" 7,200 rpm hard drive in the browser. Every gauge reads the model that moves the parts: 15 m/s under the head at the inner edge, 35 m/s at the outer one, a seek drawn live, a head flying 3 nm above the platter.
spindl.storagebits.workers.d…
Live telemetry on my desktop, memory in Obsidian. It's starting to learn its own routes. And it says hi when it sees me. And it has a SpaceX-style control tower 👇
Weekend PoC: Meet J-E-F-E 🤖 I put an Android phone on a Thymio II robot: on-device face detection (ML Kit), whisper.cpp ears, local reflexes in 0.5 s, an LLM brain for the rest, and a bandit that learned the best 2.4 s pivot to escape corners. Plus a SpaceX-style control tower. 🤖
#Thymio #robotics #MLKit #whispercpp
What crossed my radar this week:
· An ESP32-S3 that turns any USB printer into an AirPrint printer
· Claude Code goes multiplayer
· Solar quietly overtaking nuclear
· An open-source voice assistant on an ESP32 for Hermes
· Lightpanda (headless browser for agents)
All links: blok.storagebits.workers.dev…
Every effect has optimisation steps with their cost, the code of two languages side by side, and the full source a click away.
Code (MIT): github.com/algotitanhq/babel…
The fun part is making them agree to the bit. SQLite only has doubles, so float32 rounding is emulated in SQL (Veltkamp's split). Wasm has no sin(), so the hand-written port builds its sine table itself. Perl rounds with pack 'f'.
How do you draw a plasma in SQL? In Perl? In hand-written x86 assembly?
Babeltro: 9 classic demoscene effects in 13 languages, running live in your browser. Every single one draws exactly the same pixels.
babeltro.storagebits.workers…
Install takes about 2 minutes: get the Downloader app on the TV, allow it to install apps, then type
github.com/storagebits/lukar…
It's a sideload, not a Play Store app. New versions are announced in the app; it never downloads or installs an update by itself.
ALT Nine screens of Lukarne: the globe, diving into a region, the places of a region, a wall of live road cams in Truckee, fullscreen cams at Indian River Inlet in Delaware, Wrights Lake and the Bay Bridge in fog in California, Kotka in Finland, and the Settings screen with the update notice.