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All posts →The Post-Transformer Era: State Space Models, Mamba, and What Comes After Attention
A practitioner's guide to Mamba and State Space Models — how selective state spaces achieve linear scaling, when to use SSMs vs Transformers vs hybrids, and production-ready models.
February 10, 2026
·machine-learningmambaVLA Models Demystified: How Robots Learned to See, Listen, and Act
VLA models give robots the ability to see, parse language, and execute physical actions through a single architecture. This post covers how they work, what shipped in 2025, and where the limitations are.
February 03, 2026
·roboticsaiJavaScript Date Is Broken. Here's What Replaces It
A tutorial on building a timezone-aware scheduler with React and the Temporal API, covering why Date fails at serious datetime work and how Temporal's type system prevents those bugs.
January 23, 2026
·javascriptweb-devOpen Source Sunday: Open Source Health Tools That Don't Sell You Out
Your fitness tracker is selling you out. The open source alternatives that aren't.
January 18, 2026
·open-sourceprivacyContext-Free Grammars Weren't Invented in the 1950s
The 2,500-year history of formal grammar, from Pāṇini's Sanskrit rules to BNF, and why someone proposed renaming it 'Panini-Backus Form' in 1967.
January 13, 2026
·computer-sciencehistoryWritten by Serendeep Rudraraju — navigating the intersection of technology and humanity.