Brainstorming: Design First
How the brainstorming skill prevents wrong turns by forcing design-first workflows.
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A 19-article deep-dive into each AI agent skill and cross-cutting theme, with real examples from our sessions.
How the brainstorming skill prevents wrong turns by forcing design-first workflows.
Read articleTuring approved designs into actionable, verifiable task lists.
Read articleDelivering work step by step with checkpoint rules and error handling.
Read articleWhen parallel agents earn their overhead and when they don't.
Read articleThe four-phase root cause debugging process.
Read articleEnforcing the Iron Law: write the test before the code.
Read articleNever claim something is fixed without evidence.
Read articleHow the using-superpowers skill bootstraps the entire workflow.
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Experiments, interactive worlds, and the engineering behind them.
igloo.inc: Inside a WebGL2 Procedural Crystal Experience igloo.inc is a striking immersive web experience built on Three.js with WebGL2 rendering, GPGPU particle systems, and Draco/KTX2 compressed 3D assets. Here’s what…
Read articleSee a volumetric nebula rendered live in your browser with ray marching, parallax stars and zero textures. One self-contained HTML file, no…
Read articleA crystal field renders real depth of field in the browser: focus where a lens would focus, blur distant lights into bokeh discs. Interactive demo…
Read articleA CRT boot sequence rebuilt in shaders: barrel distortion, scanlines, phosphor glow and typed terminal text, plus sound. Interactive demo in your…
Read articleScroll an interactive computer timeline from the 1977 TRS-80 to a 2026 neural core: eight machines rebuilt low-poly, each lit in its decade’s…
Read articleTour an interactive solar system from Sol out to Pluto: real relative orbital motion, moons, rings and an asteroid belt in one self-contained…
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Hardware builds, practical automation, infrastructure, and working with AI.
Ubuntu Server without a desktop, the nvidia-smi moment of truth, llama.cpp compiled from source in 189 seconds without root, a 22-byte GGUF download that lied, and the first real tokens-per-second numbers from the AI Inference Server…
Read articleRead the full series: Running AI models locally gives you privacy, no rate limits, and better per-token cost once you pass the break-even point. This is the first article in a series documenting our AI Inference Server…
Read articleInside the DGX Spark Cluster: 2-Node Configuration Our DGX Spark Cluster is a pair of NVIDIA DGX Spark units running distributed inference with vLLM and Ray. This is the second article in a four-part series documenting…
Read articleInside the DGX Spark Cluster: Single-Node Configuration The DGX Spark Cluster is a series of articles documenting each cluster size with real-world metrics, cost analysis, and operational details. This is the first…
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From the first spark of personal computing to the machines that changed everything.
The cloud’s real address: a 19-inch steel cage from a 1922 telephone building, now holding the internet at ten kilowatts a frame.…
Read articleThree devices that became one, a keyboard era that ended in a single keynote, and a phone with no App Store that reorganized an industry.…
Read articleBondi Blue, one USB bet, no floppy drive, and a $1,299 all-in-one that took Apple from written-off to profitable in a single year.…
Read articleThe 1993 DX2-66 setup: a case you opened yourself, a sound card, a CD-ROM, and a shareware disk called DOOM that sold the whole upgrade economy.…
Read articleThe 1984 Macintosh lost the first years and won the argument: how a fanless box with 128 KB and a one-button mouse made the graphical interface the way every computer now talks to you.…
Read articleThe 1981 IBM 5150 didn’t invent the personal computer — it invented the PC. How a secret Boca Raton team’s open-architecture bet became the standard the whole industry built to.…
Read articleThe Intel 8086, released in 1978, started the x86 family that still runs most of the world’s computers. Here’s what the chip actually was, and why the IBM PC’s 8088 version made computer…
Read articleThe real story of the 1977 Tandy TRS-80: designed in-house at Tandy, sold through Radio Shack at $599, and one of the three machines that started the personal computer…
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Hello, my name is Daymond Armstrong, and long before Byte IT existed, my technology journey began. In 1977, I sat down at a Tandy TRS80 and was instantly hooked. That first spark ignited a lifelong passion for computers and technology.
Shortly after the release of the IBM 8086, my father opened a computer service and repair shop. With the dawning of the PC era, my enthusiasm for learning and building grew even stronger.
Over the years, my career took me through leading companies such as Compaq (now HP), Cisco Systems, and others. But despite the opportunities, I often saw mismanagement and inefficiency. One of my most rewarding roles had me training teams across three countries—only to have our jobs eliminated once the training was done. That experience inspired me to form Byte IT, a company built on values of integrity, expertise, and real problem-solving.
Later, I returned to the corporate world, only to face more of the same challenges: mismanagement, short-sighted leadership, and even a mass layoff. These experiences only strengthened my belief that the IT world needs voices willing to share honest insights.
With more than 47 years of hands-on experience in PCs, networks, and countless sub-technologies, I’ve gained a perspective worth sharing. This site is where I document that technology journey—from the early days of personal computing to the innovations shaping our future.
So join me as I walk through the past, analyze the present, and look ahead to the future of technology.
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