Highlights
Personal stories I keep coming back to.
Latest posts
Notes from the workshop floor.
Krea 2 Turbo: Why 16-Channel Latents and ConvRot Beat 24GB GPUs
How Krea 2 Turbo delivers photorealistic chiaroscuro and candid depth on a 12GB GPU using 16-channel Wan VAE latents and ConvRot INT8 quantization.
Hindsight: Beyond RAG, How AI Agents Build Long-Term Memory That Learns
What is Hindsight? Deep dive into vectorize-io/hindsight: the open-source biomimetic agent memory engine replacing naive RAG with Retain, Recall, and Reflect.
BFS Head V1.1 Explained: In-Context Head Swap without Plastic Skin in Qwen Image 2.1
Master in-context head swapping in Qwen Image 2.1 DiT with BFS Head V1.1. Eliminate neck seams and plastic skin via surgical 16-layer MLP weight ablation.
Lanshu AI Presenter Video Explained: Audio-First Architecture vs Viral Hype
Deconstructing Lanshu, the viral AI presenter video skill: audio-first timeline clocks, motion plate separation, billable circuit breakers, and hype vs reality.
Pi Agent in Practice: Setup, Custom Extensions & 5 Best Practices
Master Pi Agent from scratch: complete CLI setup, multi-provider LLM routing, custom TypeScript extensions, and 5 battle-tested best practices.
Qwen-Image-2.1 Viggle Turbo LoRA: 4-Step DMD2 Speed Guide for ComfyUI
Qwen-Image-2.1-viggle-turbo LoRA: 4-step DMD2 distillation cuts inference 10x on consumer GPUs. ComfyUI GGUF setup, LoRA adapter config, and benchmark results.
Qwen-Image-2.1 ncnn Vulkan: Run 7B DiT on 2GB VRAM Without CUDA
Run Qwen-Image-2.1 locally on Intel, AMD, and Mac GPUs with 2GB VRAM. Master nihui's portable C++ ncnn Vulkan engine without Python, PyTorch, or CUDA lock-in.
OpenCreator Explained: Open-Source AI Video Subtitling & Dubbing
Deep dive into OpenCreator (formerly KrillinAI), an open-source Go & Electron engine that transcribes, translates, dubs, and reframes videos into vertical shorts.
Jev Ultrafast Explained: Sub-20ms Decision Engine for Browser AI Agents
Mổ xẻ jev-ultrafast: sub-20ms browser agent speed, atomic DOM extraction, and the brutal truth behind TypeSafe vendor lock-in and cherry-picked benchmarks.
From the HoangYell galaxy
Sister projects I quietly maintain.Gallery
The friendly Astro image gallery - lightbox, pyramid layout, dark mode.
gallery.hoangyell.com
Yellorn
One browser tab for dirty data and webhook debugging - JSON, XML, YAML, CSV, mock APIs.
yellorn.com
Markdy
Animated architecture & system diagrams as code - 17 layout engines, Well-Architected linter, and browser-native motion.
markdy.com
Yell Chat
Casual AI chat playground I built to test ideas - yes, it talks back.
chat.hoangyell.com