đź’» 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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ZFS deserves a museum, so I had one built.
Uberblok: 11 rooms (copy-on-write, the uberblock, RAID-Z, the ARC, the ZIL…), each animating one idea next to the real OpenZFS code that does it.
Built by Algotitan. Human set the brief and the bar.
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#ZFS #OpenZFS
Pepper: the Curta Type I, the mechanical calculator you hold in one hand. One stepped drum, carries that run column after column.
Every gauge reads the same model that moves the parts.
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2. Radial: the Pratt & Whitney R-2800, an 18-cylinder twin-row radial. The starter, the firing order round the star, a master rod and its eight articulated rods, the cam rings, take-off rpm. Not affiliated with Pratt & Whitney.
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3 new incredible machines on Exploded, to take apart in your browser.
1. Rope: the Apollo Guidance Computer and its DSKY. A program woven into core rope, one kind of gate, and the 1202 alarm of Apollo 11. Not affiliated with NASA or MIT.
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Every gauge reads the model: 4 photons come out at ~1 kHz, and the 6-photon rate lands close to what Quandela’s Ascella paper measured. A script rechecks every number.
#Quantumcomputing #Photonics
Built with Claude Code. It joins Spindl, the hard drive, in Exploded.
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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. 🙂
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Built with Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5) and the teardown skill. A script recomputes every figure against the brief before each build.
This skill is really powerful, and I think we should pool what it produces into a kind of encyclopedia. There’s something to be done on that front...
Code: github.com/algotitanhq/spind…
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.
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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.
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Cams come from Caltrans, DelDOT, Fintraffic and YouTube live streams: about 800 in 41 regions, rebuilt every day.
In Android's Canvas, the globe's land dots alone took 28 ms a frame. In OpenGL ES a full frame takes ~3 ms: 60 fps on the Shield.
MIT, no ads. #AndroidTV
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.
Turn on the TV, grab the remote, and travel. đź“ş
Lukarne, a free Android TV app: spin a night-and-day globe, dive into a region, get a wall of live webcams.
Built with agents, tested on Nvidia Shield.
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Gave a Redmi 9A and a 2012 Galaxy Tab 2 a second life with Claude Code.
Tablet free RAM: 21 → 234 MB. Phone services: 103 → 31.
It’s now faster than when it was new.
What did you debloat this weekend?
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ALT Dark card from storagebits. Left: “Second life for old hardware. A 2012 Galaxy Tab 2 and a Redmi 9A, debloated with Claude Code. What did you debloat this weekend?” Right: before/after bar chart. Tablet free RAM: 21 MB before, 234 MB after (higher is better). Phone running services: 103 before, 31 after. Phone swap used: 577 MB before, 43 MB after (lower is better).
