https://simedw.com/ Personal blog by Simon Edwardsson - dd if=/dev/me of=/simedw.com en-us Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:04:54 +0000 Simon Edwardsson Simon Edwardsson https://simedw.com/2026/03/10/magic-eye/ https://simedw.com/2026/03/10/magic-eye/ Magic Eye autostereograms encode depth using repeated pixel patterns. This post shows how to generate them and how to recover the depth map. Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://simedw.com/2026/01/31/ear-pronunication-via-ctc/ https://simedw.com/2026/01/31/ear-pronunication-via-ctc/ Mandarin pronunciation is hard, so I trained a 9M-parameter CTC model on 300 hours of speech to grade my pronunciation. It runs entirely on-device. Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://simedw.com/2026/01/18/agent-user-testing/ https://simedw.com/2026/01/18/agent-user-testing/ Coding agents encode years of software conventions. Their confusion is often a signal that your interface is asking too much of a new user. Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://simedw.com/2025/12/15/langseed/ https://simedw.com/2025/12/15/langseed/ LangSeed is a proof-of-concept language learning app that defines new words using only the vocabulary you already know, with emojis bridging semantic gaps Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://simedw.com/2025/12/09/ideation/ https://simedw.com/2025/12/09/ideation/ Product decisions shouldn't be democratic, but great ideas can come from anywhere. Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://simedw.com/2025/07/10/gemini-bounding-boxes/ https://simedw.com/2025/07/10/gemini-bounding-boxes/ I decided to write a small benchmark and check Gemini 2.5 performance on MS-COCO, focusing on object detection. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://simedw.com/2025/06/30/books-are-malleable/ https://simedw.com/2025/06/30/books-are-malleable/ What if we could modify books as easily as we tweak open-source software? Perhaps we already can. Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://simedw.com/2025/06/23/introducing-spegel/ https://simedw.com/2025/06/23/introducing-spegel/ Spegel is a proof-of-concept terminal web browser that feeds HTML through an LLM before serving it as markdown in the terminal. Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://simedw.com/2025/06/20/hello-world/ https://simedw.com/2025/06/20/hello-world/ For the past few years, I've primarily shared my (subjectively cool) proof-of-concepts and various tech experiments exclusively with coworkers and close friends… Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000