Author: romanov

  • Testing different models for real-time style transfer

    Testing different models for real-time style transfer

    Testing a Ghibli style model The image below was used as style target for training the model. My own custom Liquid Glass design model My friend the Chicken is helping testing different models and frameworks

  • macOS 26, iPadOS 26, and iOS 26 with Liquid Glass Design: A User and Developer Review ✍🏻

    macOS 26, iPadOS 26, and iOS 26 with Liquid Glass Design: A User and Developer Review ✍🏻

    macOS 26, iPadOS 26, and iOS 26 with Liquid Glass Design: A User and Developer Review

  • Choosing the Best AI Framework for Real-Time Apps

    Choosing the Best AI Framework for Real-Time Apps

    Ok… you’ve decided to build a real-time AI app. What framework do you choose for it? The answer is not trivial at all. Inference performance is matter more than you think for real-time solutions especially on mobile devices. The market is filled with various solutions which are not compatible with each other. When it comes…

  • Found Japanese version of “Where’s Waldo?” 🤓

    Found Japanese version of “Where’s Waldo?” 🤓

    The other “viby” summer day I went to Toko-ji temple with my kid on outskirts of Nishinomya city where I live at the moment. Was pleasantly surprised. Though I saw quite many Japanese temples in my life that one was quite unique in terms of tourist entertainment.

  • My 50 cents on iPadOS 26 design or Apple’s design time machine

    My 50 cents on iPadOS 26 design or Apple’s design time machine

    WWDC25 has just kicked off and lots of news started to circulate. The most shiny and selling feature is a new look for entire ecosystem called Liquid Glass. So I decided to jumped on a hype train and take look for myself. Bugs Popup keyboard is stale Keyboard is not responsive btw and looks like…

  • Neural Style Transfer: Challenges with Apple’s AI Ecosystem

    Neural Style Transfer: Challenges with Apple’s AI Ecosystem

    Diving into Apple’s NPU, it’s a mess! The ANE is underused and can’t handle workloads solo, so it’s always relying on CPU/GPU. OpenCL’s gone, and conversions between models are glitchy. For AI to flourish here, Apple needs to open up, support standards, and get ANE properly utilized. Good luck, Apple!

  • Made a weirdly satisfying style transfer webcam app in C++

    It’s amazing how C++ ecosystem has evolved just for recent 10 years. Made an AI-powered app in just a couple of days. Probably with a little optimization can be the next cutting edge cross-platform AI-conference call app.

  • Some thoughts about the current state on LLM’s assist coding…

    It’s good for small projects to kickstart or use it as an intelligent autocomplete tool but doesn’t shine as much for complex projects with vague documentation where tribal knowledge is predominant and no straightforward solution. Because AI, even in an agentic mode, cannot ask your colleague why it’s implemented this way and not another. Some…

  • Straggling with C++ experimental features

    Today I’ve tried to play with recent standard C++ features as modules. Apparently they were implemented in C++20 but only partially since standard library imports are still work in progress. But there is an experimental support for those! I thought there’s a straightforward way to enable them and how wrong I was! Nevertheless knowing the…

  • QR Code Scan And Generate App

    Didn’t expect my pet project become so popular. I’ve built it with Flutter in 2 days. Maybe due to pandemic QR code related apps got spikes. Therefore I decided to add more features to it and republish. The last version includes ux and stability improvements, automatic url, email, sms launcher, options to automatically/manual copy the…