Category: General

I remember sitting on the floor of my childhood bedroom in Vermont, surrounded by a chaotic mess of jumper cables and salvaged motherboard parts, feeling that pure, electric rush of finally getting…

I remember sitting at my desk in Vermont, surrounded by a mountain of salvaged circuit boards and a notebook that looked more like a grocery list for a small army. I was…

I remember sitting on my bedroom floor in Vermont, the air smelling of ozone and old solder, surrounded by the glorious, messy components of a computer I’d cobbled together from a catalog.…

I still remember the hum of my first hand-built PC cooling down in the quiet of my Vermont bedroom, the smell of warm solder and old plastic lingering in the air like…

I still remember the smell of ozone and old carpet in the basement of my local library back in Vermont, where I’d spend hours tinkering with salvaged circuit boards. Back then, “community…

I still remember the hum of the old CRT monitor in my bedroom back in Vermont, the kind of sound that meant you were about to embark on something huge. Back then,…

I was sitting at my desk last Tuesday, surrounded by the comforting glow of my dual monitors and my trusty SNES acting as a bookend, when it hit me: I hadn’t actually…

Camping road trips. The words alone carry the weight of a thousand mosquito bites and the aroma of burned marshmallows. I still remember my first attempt—armed with a map that looked like…