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Why Cyclotronic?
Three words collapsed into one: Cycle, Cyclotron, and Electronics. The name is a short autobiography.
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Green Phosphor Dreams: The Amstrad CPC 6128
A built-in disk drive, a green monochrome monitor, a first taste of Locomotive BASIC, and an afternoon that disappeared into Bomb Jack, Arkanoid, and Prohibition.
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Small Wheels, Long Roads: Why I Love My Brompton
A folding bike that fits under a cafe table, locks in twenty seconds, and somehow makes every city ride feel like a small adventure.
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From Film to D300: A Camera Bag History
Six cameras, four decades of technology, and one slow-built habit of stopping to actually look at things.
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512K and a Dream: Life With the Commodore Amiga 500
It came in a single beige box that doubled as a keyboard, had more colors than seemed physically possible, and made everything before it feel instantly obsolete.
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Wood Grain and Wonder: Growing Up With the Atari 2600
A wood-paneled box, two joysticks, and a cartridge slot that opened up entire universes one game at a time — Space Invaders most of all.
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cheat.sh: The Only Cheat Sheet You Need
A single curl command stands between you and the answer to almost any command-line question. Igor Chubin’s cheat.sh is one of the great quiet utilities of the modern terminal.
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Explorable Explanations: Why Showing Beats Telling
Some ideas refuse to fit into paragraphs. Explorabl.es is a hub built on a simple bet: you understand a system faster by playing with it than by reading about it.
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48K of Everything: Growing Up With the ZX Spectrum
Before broadband, before GUIs, before everything — there was a rubber keyboard, a cassette deck, and 48 kilobytes of pure possibility.
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Tailscale: Why You Should Use It and How to Access Your Home Server From Anywhere
Tailscale makes private networking so simple it almost feels like cheating. Here’s why it’s worth it and how to use it to reach your home server from anywhere.
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Static Sites Are Not a Regression
The web got complicated. Going back to static HTML isn’t giving up — it’s knowing when complexity is the wrong answer.
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On Building Things That Last
The machines we build outlive the intentions we had when we built them. A few thoughts on durability in software.
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The Terminal as a Way of Thinking
Why some of us still live in the command line — and what it teaches about how computation actually works.
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