DUROCHER.IN / VECTOR SOUL / PRELUDE 00

SCROLL TO OPEN THE MACHINETHE DRAGON WILL FIND ITS PLACE

PASSION 01 / BSD · UNIX · SYSTEMS

ttyv0durocher.in / console80×24

FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE GENERIC amd64

durocher.in ttyv0

Last login: *** on ttyv0

$ uname -srm

FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE amd64

$ find ~/passions -maxdepth 1 -type d

~/passions/bsd       ~/passions/linux
~/passions/unix      ~/passions/macos
~/passions/electronics ~/passions/old-machines
~/passions/radio     ~/passions/code

$ echo $MOTD

OPEN THE BOX. FOLLOW THE SIGNAL.

ROOTS / BELOW THE DESKTOP

The system beneath the system.

SCROLL / OPEN THE RADIO BAND

THE AIR BETWEEN US

Listening for a human signal.

SCROLL / RETURN TO THE WORKSHOP

J.F. DUROCHERVA2IMJNODE 00

Curiosity,
with the covers off.

Software, radio waves, old machines and the pleasure of finding out how things work. This is my workshop on the open web.

Enter the archive Inspect source ↗

01 / SYSTEMS UNDER THE SYSTEM

Below the desktop,
another world.

Linux, Unix, macOS, old Windows and the layers that make a machine feel alive. The CRT is a door—open it.

Enter the utility deck ↗

02 / FIELD NOTES · MAGNETIC MEMORY

Small disks.
Long memories.

Old software, first experiments and the stories that stayed with me long after the hardware moved on.

Read the field notes ↗

03 / VA2IMJ · THE AIR BETWEEN US

A signal leaves
the workbench.

HF, DX, antennas and contacts crossing the globe. Tune the radio to see where the latest signal landed.

Trace my radio contacts ↗

04 / CIRCUITS · CODE · FIELD NOTES

Take it apart.
Leave a trace.

Electronics, strange little utilities, remembered machines and ideas caught in Markdown before they disappear.

Read the field notes ↗

SYSTEM MAP / THREE OPEN CHANNELS

Choose a frequency.

This place is part notebook, part workbench and part radio shack. Follow whichever signal sounds interesting.

Continue

0105 entries / mounted

FIELD NOTES

Ramblings

DOS, Visual Basic, old games, the web and whatever has my attention long enough to become words.

0223 nodes / indexed

UTILITY DECK

Tools & tests

Small browser utilities, Linux helpers, conversion tools and experiments that exist because I wanted them to.

03VA2IMJ / listening

RADIO ROOM

HF & DX

My station, antenna experiments, amateur-radio tools and the strange delight of sending a signal over the horizon.

ORIGIN / NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE

I learned by opening the box anyway.

My father brought home old computers and my parents gave me room to experiment. DOS commands led to BASIC, Borland C++, networks, Linux and a career spent solving problems with software.

More than twenty years in, I still approach technology the same way: take it apart, understand the signal path, and put it back together into something useful—or at least interesting.