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What it takes to remove the monitor and keyboard: decoders, projection and phosphenes

The question that started this: can AI send signals into a brain so that an image shows up on someone's retina? I wanted to see AI output with my own eyes and skip the keyboard.

  • Decoding speech from brain activity involves motor areas and 256 intracortical electrodes.
  • Phosphene generation maps electrodes to phosphene production for per-patient tuning.
  • Retinal projection uses optics to maintain image sharpness regardless of eye focus.

How I built 272 privacy-first tools with WebAssembly and no backend

Five weeks ago I started building a PDF compressor. Today the site has 272 tools and none of them upload your files to a server.

  • Author creates 272 privacy-first tools using WebAssembly and no backend
  • Tools operate entirely on client side with WebAssembly, Web Workers, Canvas API
  • Stack includes Next.js 16, ffmpeg.wasm, pdf-lib, libheif-js, and service worker

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