How Humans Learned to Boss Electrons Around
From the stray current Edison found in a light bulb to a switch that steers electrons on command — vacuum tube, PN junction, transistor, the short history of taming electricity.
Taming Electrons & Light
5 parts · Jun 20, 2026 – Jun 20, 2026
How a CPU Actually Does Math
A circuit that can remember a single 0 or 1, grown step by step into a register — and why cache, not clock speed, is what makes a gaming CPU fast.
Where Your Data Actually Lives — and Why RAID 5 Won't Save You
Hard drives store with magnetism, SSDs trap electrons in an insulator, RAID trades extra disks for reliability — plus the truth behind that scary "RAID 5 rebuild fails 99% of the time."
RAM and VRAM Both Store Data. Here's Why They're Nothing Alike.
Main memory and video memory came from the same place and then split — one obsesses over latency, the other over bandwidth, and HBM ends up bolting memory onto the GPU's roof.
Taming Light Inside a Chip
Light is both the chisel that carves chips (lithography) and the paint that makes screens (quantum dots, AR waveguides) — how humans learned to tame it in the space of a silicon chip.