Modders, start your engines. - With the rather excellent Steam Controller now on its way to the lucky few that managed to order one, Valve has released a ful...

Upgrade your project car to electric with Chevrolet's eCrate system, featuring a 400V motor and 66 kWh battery for superior performance and reliability.

Updates and articles from the Val Town team

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.03546: ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs From Scratch?

TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989. Contribute to wojtczyk/trust development by creating an account on GitHub.

I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit’s High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my …

AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

Your professional cringe, amplified. A social network where Kiss Ass meets Kick Ass.

Motivation # I wanted to test out the new Unsloth models for Qwen3.6 and Gemma4 on my gaming PC. llama.cpp on Windows is tedious to compile, and I have littered my Windows installation with too many toolchains already. Python venvs, Mingw, Cuda, UCRT64 & WSL to name a few. Windows still does not feel developer friendly to me. I think I’m ok with it being a frontend for Steam’s Big Picture mode. I didn’t want to disturb my Windows setup that I use for gaming. Windows has a nasty habit of breaking GRUB on updates. UEFI fixes that to some extent, but it’s a pain to maintain the UEFI entries manually and change them every time the kernel updates. One of the best benefits of using the method described here is that GRUB is also on the remote drive. I have a couple of NVME drives in the PC, both contain a few games that I play frequently. I didn’t want to get into the hassle of repartitioning everything that the boot loader works with both Linux & Windows. Sure I can use a USB drive and in the past I have done so, but I tend to misplace my USB drives everywhere and when I urgently need one, I tend to pick the USB that’s readily available e.g. for some FedEx printing or as backup drive for photos when on vacation. I end up wiping the Linux USBs more often than not. I already have a NAS, so why not use remote boot ? I always wanted to know how PXE worked over iSCSI. Limitations # Installing Debian on a network drive will indeed be noticeably slower than a native install. Since I’m going to use some portion of my local NVMe drive to store & load the models, I didn’t really care about the OS performance as I have enough RAM to run everything smoothly once the OS has booted up. I won’t be using this for browsing stuff using Firefox.

A test runner for agentskills.io-style AI agent skills - darkrishabh/agent-skills-eval

Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam's blog post where they said that "most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds" - I wondered if that was true for my site. I've been writing this blog for a while. I've never much bothered with "aggressive" SEO - I have a fairly semantic layout, all my reviews have metadata, and stuff like that - but I'm not…

Travel the longest route on the NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice. Transfer before the end of the line! A new start station each day.

A blog about software craft and quality

Learn how NVIDIA helped Unsloth to make fine-tuning AI models 20% faster with explanations and diagrams.

Firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper display reader. Contribute to crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader development by creating an account on GitHub.

Today at Next ‘26, we’re launching Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the trust platform for the agentic web and the next evolution of reCAPTCHA.

SoundOff: Low-cost Passive Ultrasound Tags for Non-invasive and Non-Intrusive Smart Home Sensing Yibo Fu, Vivian Shen, Víctor Riera Naranjo, Bolei Deng,...

A recent trip to New Zealand to visit her pen pal of 40 years made an Associated Press reporter from New Hampshire wonder about the history of programs that bring strangers together to write letters.

We finally know why deep learning works.

Tilde turns running AI agents and pipelines on real data into a transactional, auditable operation. Compose GitHub, S3, and Drive as one versioned filesystem. Roll back any run with one command. Every network call audited.

A deep dive on flow maps.

An encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it.

The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without sustaining damage from dangerously intense rays.

An adventure in making a utility

This blog contains electronics, amateur radio and computer-related open source projects which I did in my free time.