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Deep-dives on the technical decisions behind my work.

Engine systems, security pipelines, audio synthesis, game design reviews, incident investigations. Some technical posts are detailed enough that I could rebuild the project from them, and that's the point!

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  1. 12HardwareN° 12Hardware20 min

    The thermal wall: how phones and handhelds spend the same watt-budget two different ways

    Mobile silicon stopped being transistor-limited and became heat-limited. This is a deep dive on what actually moves the heat (graphite, vapor chambers, fans) and the software that decides who gets throttled first, read across two device classes that answer the same thermal equation in opposite directions.    20 min