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My kids attend a Mandarin immersion school. Every week they come home with homework I can barely read. I know a few basic characters, but not nearly enough to help them practice. 
 So I built a small tool: 
 
 Take a photo of any homework page 
 AI extracts vocabulary worth learning (characters, pinyin, English meaning) 
 Tap-to-flip flashcards that speak the words aloud 
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In 2025 I went off the deep end with AI-assisted programming, specifically Claude Code . I’m not looking back. My productivity has changed in ways I couldn’t have imagined two years ago, and I’ve shipped projects that would have taken months in a matter of days. 
 But I’m concerned about some aspects of where this is heading. 
 AI slop has already hit inboxes,…
Last weekend I spent some more time tinkering with the bug rendering project . Bugs don’t really feel like bugs until they start crawling, and that’s what I did. Let’s talk about this a little bit. I also published the project at https://bugs.pablart.com for anyone to play around. 
 From static images to animations 
 An animation is nothing more than a sequence of…
Last weekend I spent some time playing with a fun side project that I had been thinking about for a while. I remember as a kid, I think it was in a Scientific American issue that someone described a computer program to generate insect-looking drawings, which evolve over time into increasingly weird looking critters. The point was to demonstrate the ease with which evolution can produce vastly…
A couple of weeks ago I was on a particularly beatiful ride around the Oakland/Berkeley hills when, reaching the top of a climb, I noticed someone taking pictures of a friend as he was reaching the summit. Then I had a flashback to events like the Death Ride and similar events where they contract a photographer to take snaps of all participants, with the option to sell some prints shortly after.…
So here we are, it’s 2020 and I’m starting a new blog. It’s not my first rodeo but I hope this one sticks. The initial goals to be are twofold: 
 
 Exercise my writing, making it a part of my daily routine 
 Learn some new technology in the process of deploying and maintaining it 
 
 If in the process I write something interesting, all the better, but I…
My name is Pablo, and I’m a father of two, husband of one who moonlights as a software enginer, company founder and jack of all trades. I enjoy good coffee, tasty beers, gardening and cycling. In a previous life I was a computer science researcher, working on the intersection of computer graphics, computational geometry and topology. I was born in Granada, Spain, although I’ve been in…