https://www.sidopillai.dev Projects and writing on cartography, spatial engineering and immersive technology. en https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/holopoint https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/holopoint Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT A visionOS app that scans the room around you into a point cloud and exports it, with capture, rendering and export all running on the device. https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/spatialreference https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/spatialreference Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT A visionOS app that brings ArcGIS StoryMaps into mixed reality, with 360° imagery, 3D models, point clouds and Gaussian splats you can step into. https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/splatgen https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/splatgen Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT A macOS app that turns a single photo into a 3D Gaussian-splat scene you can move through, generated and rendered entirely on device. https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/agoapichecker https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/agoapichecker Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT A native macOS app for testing ArcGIS item and resource operations, with a request builder, redacted cURL previews and a response inspector. https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/xcodeshift https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/xcodeshift Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT A small native macOS menu-bar utility for switching the system-wide active Xcode in one click. https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/cartographer https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/cartographer Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Sketch a map in seconds and ship it anywhere. Draw, switch basemaps, flip into a 3D globe, and export a single self-contained HTML map with no server. https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/bookshelf https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/bookshelf Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A small React app for searching books, built on the Open Library API. https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/spatial-intelligence https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/spatial-intelligence Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The next leap for AI is understanding where things are, how they relate, and why location matters. https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/tiny-interaction-models https://www.sidopillai.dev/writing/tiny-interaction-models Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Post-training a small open model to read typing as a live stream, so it can look things up while you write and stay quiet the rest of the time.