track: what a computer does

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Isometric diorama of an open drawer holding neatly labelled cards of data, one card lifted out to show it is made of tiny numbered blocks

Every photo, row and document your app saves is one thing: a named box of bytes

What a file actually is, why its type matters, and how it differs from memory that forgets the instant the power goes off.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min

Editorial infographic of the fetch, decode, execute loop as three labelled stages in a circle with arrows returning to the start

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The chip reading every instruction, billions of times a second

The CPU does the actual work while you vibe code. The tiny fetch-decode-execute loop it runs, how it differs from a GPU, and why it's where speed and cost come from.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min

Extreme macro photograph of the gold contact fingers of a computer memory module, lit with cool blue accent light against a dark, softly blurred background

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Your app got busy and crashed — it ran out of desk space

RAM is the desk your computer works on: fast, and wiped the moment the power's off. Why a busy app runs out, how it differs from storage, and how it relates to a GPU's VRAM. Tap to see it fill.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min

Flat illustration of a friendly robot reading a numbered recipe card and doing each step in turn, with a small result appearing

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When you vibe code, this is what the AI is actually writing

A program is just an ordered list of exact steps — no magic, no guessing. Tap "run" to step through a tiny one and watch it happen.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min