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Mecury / A parallel life

A parallel life.
Built for real.

I'm Zhi. A scientist with more than one life in mind. This is where I start building the others.

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Zhi LuoMolecular & Computational Biologist
Imperial College London Graduate
Vibeit running a Python notebook with code, a waveform and a spectrogram on iPad

The first chapter

Vibeit Studio

An old wish. A very real app.

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Vibeit Studio

I built the iPad IDE
I once wished for.

It began with a student, an iPad, and a question: why couldn’t I do my Python work here?

Vibeit is my answer.

Vibeit running a Python notebook with code, a waveform and a spectrogram on iPad
Real Python, on deviceInteractive notebooksMade for Apple silicon
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01 / How Vibeit began

Some ideas stay with you
until you make them real.

01 — The wish

A tablet full of possibilities.

My first iPad held my notes and sketches. As a student, I wanted to write Python and analyse biological data on it, too. I couldn’t find the IDE I was looking for.

02 — The decision

Build the thing I wanted.

That thought never quite left. I began turning it into Vibeit: a real workspace for code, notebooks, and scientific exploration, right on the device.

03 — The possibility

Let the hardware do more.

M-series chips bring more computing power to iPad. Vibeit gives that power a place in my everyday work, and gives an old idea a future beyond me.

02 / The other lives

For the parts of me
still becoming.

I am a molecular and computational biologist, and an Imperial College London graduate. I love science. I also wonder about the worlds I haven’t lived in: medicine, law, acting, music.

Mecury is the name I gave one of those parallel lives. In my spare time, I get to begin it — one piece of software at a time.

ScientistDoctorLawyerActorSingerBuilder, here and now ↗
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Zhi LuoThe scientist & the maker

A few other creations.

The story continues

Timenu

A little more perspective on time.
World clocks in your Mac menu bar.

Server Sentinel

A quieter way to keep watch.
Private monitoring for your servers.

Make room for
another possibility.

Start with Vibeit. See where your curiosity takes you.

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