Somewhere along the way the infrastructure habit went physical. I’ve spent twenty-odd years keeping systems alive at the software and network layer — lately I’ve been going a lot deeper, down to the board itself. Microsoldering, component-level diagnosis, and the vintage machines that got me into computers in the first place.

This is where that work lives. It’s a growing practice, not a storefront — but it’s real, and it’s what the bench is set up to do.

Where to go from here

Related project: benchhud, the heads-up display I’m building for the repair bench.