Welcome to my little corner of the internet! By day, I am a senior systems architect knee-deep in high-security government and defense contracts. That’s a fancy way of saying I spend most of my waking hours convincing stubborn databases to talk to hardware that was obsolete before the turn of the century. My desk is usually buried under a mountain of half-empty coffee mugs, dog-eared schematic printouts, and enough sticky notes to wallpaper a small room. I’ve spent the better part of three decades making complex, top-secret machinery run smoothly, and honestly, I still get a kick out of watching a brand-new compilation finish without a single error.
When I’m not tethered to a classified terminal or locked in a windowless room arguing about encryption protocols, you’ll likely find me in my garage tinkering with vintage electronics. I have an ongoing, highly stubborn restoration project involving a 1980s mainframe that takes up entirely too much space and occasionally dims the lights in the entire neighborhood when I boot it up. I’m also an unapologetic sci-fi purist, a tabletop RPG dungeon master of twenty-plus years, and a proud collector of mechanical keyboards that click loudly enough to annoy anyone within a fifty-foot radius. To me, debugging a stubborn piece of firmware isn't just a job—it's practically a puzzle game I've been playing since middle school.
This site is my digital sanctuary away from clearance forms, non-disclosure agreements, and endless status meetings. Here, I write about the lighter side of engineering, share tips on hardware hacking, and occasionally post overly detailed retrospectives on retro computing. I don't take myself too seriously, and I believe that if you can't laugh when your production build crashes spectacularly, you're in the wrong profession. Pull up a virtual chair, check out my project logs, and feel free to drop a line if you share my obsession with obscure code and vintage tech!
Arthur Pendelton
Systems Architect & Reluctant Code-Wrangler