Kenton Varda and Jade Wang designed and built a custom Austin house optimized for LAN parties and family life, finished in late 2023, with integrated game stations, DDR pads, cat-friendly features, and guest/office spaces. The build includes 12 built-in wall PCs plus additional netbooted machines in an “engine room,” extensive Cat6/UniFi PoE networking, and PC hardware (e.g., i5-13600, RTX 4070) powering the setup.
The post inspects how mobile agent platforms run per-tenant VMs on phones: Claude Code boots a Firecracker microVM with a sealed in-guest control process and read-only harness while inference is served remotely over SSE, and Instinct rents disposable E2B KVM sandboxes running Ubuntu where the agent persists memory as a git-backed Markdown vault pushed to S3 using short-lived STS creds.
A gallery of John Margolies' photographs documenting quirky roadside America—giant sculptures, neon signs, motels, diners and billboards—shot at various US highway locations between the late 1970s and early 2000s.