Valhalla Research Blog

there's a specific kind of developer who is going to hate this blog, and a specific kind of developer that's going to love it, and they're both probably annoying.

You can build at the high level, you can build at the low level, you can build everywhere in between.

South Mississippi is about as far from NYC and San Francisco as you can get in terms of distance, economy, philosophy, politics and history.

a note on self-defeating thoughts on mathematics, from someone who is "bad at math"

a running, live, constantly in-flux note on how I am using this site for research, writing, building a better world, etc.

We need far fewer Poasters and far more Doers.

I didn't realize it, but I spent all of 2025 exploring ideas that in 2026 I will be consolidating into the most ambitious project I've ever worked on

I wanted to test the boundaries of Claude Code and what I found shocked me.

our world is not a simulation, but I can still build a simworld myself

on maturity, entrepreneurship and building big things

I'm not launching a SaaS app, at least for a long while

ScrollWise, my AI superpower browser extension, is coming along nicely.

on the value of launching dumb stuff

where do we even go from here

content that breaks the norms, breaks the algorithm, but makes this a better place to browse