Notes on building fast, scalable web applications with Next.js and headless CMS — the decisions and trade-offs behind real client work.
A small Stuttgart team built a processor that runs neural-network math inside optical waveguides, claiming far lower energy because light barely heats up and one optical element replaces hundreds of transistors.
Read →A two-person startup goes after the real bottleneck for AI agents: not raw capability but reliability, by recording a workflow once and replaying it deterministically across any app, even legacy software with no API.
Read →The bottleneck for AI data centers isn't chips, it's a multi-year wait to plug into the grid. Voxel skips the grid entirely with off-grid solar, second-life EV batteries, and a microgrid that stays DC end to end.
Read →Most AI coding tools have a soft definition of success. Hardware doesn't: Verilog either passes synthesis or it doesn't. SigmanticAI points fine-tuned models and reinforcement learning at exactly that pass/fail oracle.
Read →Two founders, 40-gram drones, and a serious idea hiding behind a joke: chemical-free mosquito control that identifies the female by its wingbeat and runs the whole signal chain on board.
Read →Instead of photographing thousands of defective parts, Bucket generates the vision model straight from CAD with synthetic data, so quality control is ready before production starts.
Read →An all-software, AI-based ISP that works on the sensor's RAW signal before it's degraded: +75% object detection and −91% false positives in low light, all at the edge.
Read →One non-invasive clip-on sensor plus a neural net that disaggregates the load, turning a single meter reading into appliance-by-appliance insight, and cutting bills ~20%.
Read →While everyone races for bigger models, an Indian startup is squeezing a voice assistant into a feature phone: offline, a few megabytes, 22 languages. The constraint is the feature.
Read →A team that started by building better weather balloons now out-forecasts agencies that have owned the field for decades, because the balloons and the AI feed each other.
Read →Most engineering software runs on a geometry kernel older than the people using it. Aurorin is rebuilding that load-bearing layer from scratch: AI-native, for modern hardware.
Read →A London startup puts AI cameras over recycling conveyor belts, turning an opaque plant into a measurable system: proof that the best vision work happens where nobody expected it.
Read →A ten-person Toronto team turns food waste into a polyester alternative, and the clever part isn't the chemistry: it's that it runs on the polyester machines that already exist.
Read →There's no single best headless CMS — only the right fit for the project. Here's how I decide between Payload, Sanity, and Strapi.
Read →Notes on building fast, scalable web applications with Next.js and headless CMS — the decisions, trade-offs, and lessons from real client work.
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