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Andrés Morales

Developer and AI researcher. Writes about language models, frameworks, developer tooling, and open source releases. Covers ML papers, the tech startup ecosystem, and programming trends.
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Tech News

Flatten SF: Multi-Objective Routing Between Distance and Elevation Gain

Flatten SF solves the trade-off between walking less and climbing less right in the browser, using USGS lidar and the Overture/OpenStreetMap street graph. This article walks through how to build that same multi-objective routing for any city, step by step, with code and the most common pitfalls.

By Andrés Morales, 1 week5 October, 2026 ago
Reflection AI's open Beam model
Artificial Intelligence

Reflection Unveils Beam, an Open 501B-Parameter MoE

Reflection AI introduced Beam, its first open-weight model: a mixture-of-experts system with 501 billion total parameters and just 23 billion active. The company says it performs close to GLM-5.2 and Qwen 3.8-Max while using far less compute per response.

By Andrés Morales, 1 week5 October, 2026 ago
Conceptual diagram of the copy-on-write technique in memory
Programming

Copy-on-write: the copy the kernel postpones

Copy-on-write is the mechanism that lets Linux, Git, Docker, and ZFS share memory and files without copying them, postponing that copy until something actually changes. This guide explains how it works internally, with code examples and commands to try it yourself.

By Andrés Morales, 1 week5 October, 2026 ago
Conceptual screenshot of the Visual Basic 6 editor running in a web browser
Tech News

Visual Basic 6: How Its IDE Comes Back to Life in the Browser

An independent developer recreated the classic Visual Basic 6 editor as a web app, forms, controls and all. We look at how VB6 worked under the hood and what it means to bring that model to the browser thirty years later.

By Andrés Morales, 1 week5 October, 2026 ago
Expert offloading on a gaming GPU running a 125B MoE model
Tech News

Strata: How to Run a 125B MoE Model on 12 GB of VRAM

Strata is an open source inference engine that runs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125-billion-parameter MoE model, on a gaming GPU with just 12 GB of VRAM. The key combines aggressive GGUF quantization with expert offloading between VRAM and system RAM. The result is a server-scale model running on a regular PC, with the limitations that imposes.

By Andrés Morales, 2 weeks4 October, 2026 ago
Conceptual screenshot of native browser APIs like dialog and popover
Tech News

Native APIs vs JS Libraries: A Practical Guide

Dialog, popover, :has(), and the View Transitions API are native browser APIs that now replace typical JavaScript library patterns. This article explains what each one does, with code examples and the official documentation as a source.

By Andrés Morales, 2 weeks4 October, 2026 ago
hard spending limit enabled on a cloud billing dashboard
Tech News

Hard Spending Limits in Cloud and AI: How to Enable Them

A hard spending limit cuts off access to an API or cloud service the moment usage hits the cap, without depending on anyone reading an alert in time. AWS and Google Cloud already offer this natively, and OpenAI and Anthropic let you configure it from the billing dashboard. Here are the concrete steps to enable it on each one.

By Andrés Morales, 2 weeks3 October, 2026 ago
userspace kernel isolating containers in a diagram
Tech News

FTL Bets on Isolating Containers Like a VM

FTL is an operating system project that moves nearly all kernel logic into a userspace library, isolating containers with the security of a virtual machine without the cost of booting one. This article explains what a userspace kernel is, how it works internally, and what you can run on it today, along with the project’s official roadmap through 2027.

By Andrés Morales, 2 weeks3 October, 2026 ago
Chief technology officer leading an AI team at a robotics company
Tech News

AMC Robotics Hires Ang Li as Chief Technology Officer, Report Says

AMC Robotics named Dr. Ang Li as its new chief technology officer, part of a 2026 wave of robotics companies adding specialized AI leadership. The company did not publicly detail its technical roadmap or any funding tied to the change.

By Andrés Morales, 2 weeks3 October, 2026 ago
Aleph Alpha Kolibri, the German mixture-of-experts LLM
Artificial Intelligence

Aleph Alpha launches Kolibri, a German LLM with 78 billion parameters

Aleph Alpha unveiled Kolibri, a German open-weight language model with 78.1 billion parameters that activates only 3.46 billion per token. The company built it with the European AI Act in mind from the ground up, training it entirely in Germany and Finland.

By Andrés Morales, 2 weeks3 October, 2026 ago

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