Blog posts

2026

Zarr v2 vs v3: What Actually Changed, and When It Matters

7 minute read

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Zarr v3 is not a cosmetic rewrite of v2. It reorganizes metadata, replaces the compressor with a typed codec pipeline, and adds sharding — which is the change that actually decides whether your dataset works on object storage. A practical comparison, and when each version is the right choice.

Graph Signal Processing: A Short History, and Who Is Building It

18 minute read

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Where graph signal processing came from, how a field got named in 2013 by two papers that disagreed about what frequency means on a graph, how it reached biology, and the people whose work carries it now. With figures computed rather than drawn.

5 min knowledge from chatsheet: qptiff

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Visual cheat sheets on the TIFF family for microscopy — TIFF, OME-TIFF, QPTIFF, and how they compare. Click any thumbnail to zoom.