Victor's place
A personal collection of things worth keeping
Thoughts
Diffusion LLMs
diffusion
impressions
On getting a diffusion LLM to converge and where things in LLMs might lead.
Meshtastic and the missing mesh
boressay
decentralization
networking
Reflections on independent networking, mesh radios and missing infrastructure.
On boring software and the art of digital embassy
decentralization
email
essay
Protocol cleanliness is a form of user sovereignty: you get to decide how you process your own data.
Stalwart under the microscope
email
self-hosting
nixos
An examination of Stalwart and Bulwark, made with an intention to be regularly updated.
Stop bleeding money on easily avoidable tech debt
essay
tech-debt
business
Consider the cost of keeping outdated systems.
Brewing my own flux
chemistry
electronics
flux
Making liquid rosin flux in bulk: the recipe, the process, and what I'd like to try next.
Paper notes
On returning to papers
tradition
note
Following curiosity back to the source.
On action selection and animats
animats
embodiment
note
How animats and simulations help us understand embodied action selection.
Machine learning
Phonoweaver
pytorch
onnx
phonetics
Mixes words at the phoneme level using a custom encoder-decoder network inspired by Pincelate, trained in PyTorch and deployed via ONNX.
Games
Lattice breaker
minigame
patterns
resources
A triangle lattice puzzle to tinker with chain reactions.
Writing
The apprentice
short story
fantasy
A visit to the mage's tower goes awry.