Last night, I was hunched over my workbench, trying to solder a new sensor onto “Faraday”—my custom-built smart thermostat—while simultaneously scrolling through a Slack thread and listening to a tech…
I still remember the smell of ozone and burnt solder in my parents’ garage back in the late 90s, surrounded by half-disassembled gadgets that I was convinced would live forever.…
I remember sitting in my garage back in ’04, surrounded by half-finished circuit boards and the smell of solder, trying to figure out why my latest smart-thermostat prototype—I’d dubbed it…
I still remember the sinking feeling in my gut when I was moving out of my first studio in San Jose. I had spent months meticulously cleaning, yet I still…
I was sitting in my workshop last night, surrounded by the hum of my latest DIY smart hub—I’ve dubbed this one ‘Faraday’—when I realized I’d spent three hours scrolling through…
Ever feel like you’re losing a high-stakes race against your own alarm clock every single day? We’ve all been there—tripping over a rogue charging cable while trying to find matching…
I still remember the smell of ozone and burnt solder in my parents’ garage back in ’99, right around the time I first realized how fragile our digital lives actually…
I still remember sitting in my parents’ garage back in the late 90s, surrounded by the smell of solder and the hum of old CRT monitors, trying to decide if…
Ever feel like you’re stuck on a loop, walking the same three blocks to the coffee shop and staring at the same gray pavement, wondering where the magic went? It’s…
Ever feel like you’re drowning in a sea of “game-changing” messaging apps, only to realize they all feel exactly the same once the honeymoon phase ends? It’s incredibly frustrating when…