About

Hello and welcome! You’ve discovered my personal dumping ground on the internet.

I’m Sam, currently living in Richmond, Virginia. This is a picture of me:

bonus arm not included

Since this picture was taken, I’ve lost the beard, so don’t be too alarmed about that.

I have several irons and place them in many different fires. Below, you’ll find are the ones you’re likely to see posts about here:

What I do:

My education / self-direction / career have turned me into a firmware and systems engineer. During the day, I’m an embedded systems engineer. Here, you’ll see occasional posts about hobby projects.

I run too much.

I started taking up running sometime in early 2015 and have run at least one mile every day since March 11, 2016. In January 2021, I ran a 50 mile solo “race” as a first foray into ultramarathons. I’m dialing back the mileage from that extreme a nowadays, in an attempt to stay not-injured, but will do marathon training occasionally.

I like cooking and baking, pretty much everything.

If there’s some cooking or baking-related thing I haven’t tried to do or haven’t been exposed to, I pretty much always want to give it a shot.

I’ve been sporadically sending cookies to my friends and family. For more information on that, look over here.

.. and also beer!

I like brewing and tasting beer. I’m still pretty new at it, but I’ve had fun trying to brew all kinds of styles of beer. Maltier ales have been a fun area to explore recently.

And some other things.

Broadly, I’m interested in technology and electronics. Coffee’s great and I love it, even bad coffee.

Finally, I would like to say that I am into these…

but I can’t really claim these in good faith at the present time.

I’d like to get more into reading.

Releasing a video game is on my bucket list but who knows if we’ll ever see that happen. (I did a game jam in 2022 to kickstart learning!)

Stick around for a while, if you’re not busy.