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February 10, 2026

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.

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VLA Models Demystified: How Robots Learned to See, Listen, and Act

Explore the breakthrough VLA models that enable robots to see, understand language, and act in the physical world. Learn how this architecture is transforming robotics.

January 23, 2026

JavaScript Date Is Broken. Here's What Replaces It

Build a timezone-aware scheduler with React and the Temporal API. Learn why Date is broken and how Temporal fixes it at the language level.

January 18, 2026

Open 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 13, 2026

Context-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.

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Serendeep Rudraraju

A curious mind navigating the intersection of technology and humanity. Writing about the tools we build, the systems we inhabit, and the occasional existential tangent. Always buffering, usually about tech.