I’ve spent many hours with field technicians—on service vans, in telecom huts, and crouched under factory conveyors—watching how they solve problems with limited tools and even less patience for latency. Bringing a local LLM into that environment can be a game changer: instant troubleshooting suggestions, on-device wiring diagrams, and offline SOPs accessible with a short prompt. But in...
I’ve been tracking npm supply-chain incidents long enough to know that most successful attacks share the same...
I recently spent weeks comparing three deployment paths for large language models: using hosted API services (OpenAI,...
Hello — I’m Anaïs Dupont. Over the years I’ve spent time inside engineering teams, poking at data pipelines, and...
I’ve been testing compressed vector embeddings for search pipelines for a while now, because the promise is...
I spent the last few weeks pushing a Pixel Tablet through a set of pro-photography chores: rapid culling, raw...
I bought a cheap smart plug for my kitchen lamp last month. It was under £50, tucked into a sale, with shiny app...
Hello — I’m Anaïs Dupont. Over the years I’ve spent time inside engineering teams, poking at data pipelines, and helping organisations ask the awkward questions about what exactly is feeding their models. In this piece I’ll walk you through a practical audit mindset for enterprise AI...
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I’ve been testing compressed vector embeddings for search pipelines for a while now, because the promise is irresistible: save storage and speed up retrieval while keeping relevance high. In practice it’s a balancing act. Below I share hands‑on experiments, the failure modes I’ve seen, and...
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I spent the last few weeks pushing a Pixel Tablet through a set of pro-photography chores: rapid culling, raw adjustments, masked edits, and a handful of “magic” fixes that promise to save time. My aim was simple: figure out whether the Pixel Tablet’s on-device AI is fast and private enough...
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I bought a cheap smart plug for my kitchen lamp last month. It was under £50, tucked into a sale, with shiny app screenshots and hundreds of five-star reviews. On the face of it, it solved a small convenience problem: turn the lamp on and off from my phone, schedule it, and integrate with my voice...
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I spent a month living with the Tilt Five mixed-reality dev kit on my desk, on my coffee table, and — embarrassingly often — in the middle of the living room carpet while I debugged raycasting math at 2 a.m. The kit is delightful: the holographic glasses are lightweight, the retrofitted...
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I wanted a private, offline note-taking assistant that I could carry around on a cheap, low-power device. The Raspberry Pi 5—when paired with the right model and software—lets you do exactly that: run a local language model that summarizes, tags, and searches your notes without ever sending...
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I’ve helped teams evaluate incident management tooling from both an engineering and product perspective, and one question keeps coming up: can we replace PagerDuty with a cheaper alternative without sacrificing reliability or security? The short answer is: yes — in many cases — but it depends...
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I’ve spent a lot of time testing biometric systems and threat modelling authentication flows for mobile apps and kiosks. Face biometrics are convenient and increasingly common, but they invite a wide range of “liveness” or spoofing attacks — from simple printed photos to sophisticated...
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I remember the first time I had to migrate an authentication system for a business unit: months of planning, frantic late-night debugging, and a growing pile of post-it notes stuck to the monitor. Passwords were everywhere—hard-coded in scripts, reused across subsystems, and guarded by brittle...
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I’ve been living with a privacy-first smart home setup for a couple of years now, and every week I find one more way to stop sending data to cloud services while keeping — and sometimes improving — the convenience I actually want. If you care about privacy, security, and resilience, you can...
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