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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

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.

January 23, 2026

JavaScript 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 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.