Autoregressive vs diffusion image generation — how gpt-image-1 and DALL-E 3 differ
Why gpt-image-1 and DALL-E 3 differ: autoregressive tokens vs iterative denoising, the discrete-vs-continuous wall, DiT, and the three-way 2026 market.
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A 2 MB PNG became 316 KB WebP — but only before the first commit
Measuring PNG, JPEG and WebP for article figures, why re-compressing the PNG made it larger, and why converting an image git already tracks reclaims nothing.
My work email was in all 27 personal repos — fixing it with git includeIf and filter-repo --mailmap
Git identity belongs to the directory, not the repo. includeIf gitdir fixes it going forward; git filter-repo --mailmap fixes the commits already pushed.
Astro content collections instead of a CMS — MDX over Markdown, and where the foreign keys went
Why this trilingual Astro blog has no CMS: the directory layout images forced, MDX over Markdown, and a tag registry standing in for foreign keys.
A2A vs MCP — why agent-to-agent needs its own protocol, and why only A2A added gRPC
Why MCP alone is not enough between agents: peer refusal, Agent Card discovery, task state, and why A2A v1.0 offers gRPC while MCP stays on HTTP.
Python's yield streams input into a running AI agent — the difference from return, in Node.js too
How Python's yield differs from return, and how an async generator passed as a prompt streams input into a long-running AI agent, with the Node.js equivalent.