[event] Legacy Labs Summer Camp 2026 Kickoff
I'm honestly wicked excited about this, I think I've been talking about LegacyLabs in some capacity or another since July of last year. See, I've been a regular participant of a wonderful retrocomputing group called The Old Computer Challenge or OCC for about 5 years. And each of those 5 years I spent participating the focus was always on a singular week of retrocomputing. There's nothing wrong with that, and in fact I had a great deal of fun each year restricting what I could use and being as anachronistic as is humanly possible in the process, mixing new tech with old and so on. The problem always was that a singular week never provided much time for the depth of work that I like to do with these things.
Naturally this meant that I would discuss what I was going to do for OCC with my friends for months on end. Prep work for that singular week started in earnest behind the scenes either reading, researching, purchasing, fixing, or building solutions around perceived or understood problems.
Over time, I really think I came to realize that this process of researching and learning was the part that appealed to me most about these retrocomputing challenges. And that my friends, is what Legacy Labs Summer Camp is all about! We'll take two months to dive deep on retro/perma computing topics (all incredibly loosely defined in the interest of inclusion!) and hopefully learn something along the way. After all, that's the point, tinker with something that interests you and learn something in the process.
I've outlined my own plans for my legacy lab here, and while it might seem like a lot, note that I wanted to do this ridiculous idea for about two years now and the list has grown and grown and grown as I've gotten more wonderfully absurd ideas. You don't need to do anything as complex, or it could be more complicated. I have a personal fondness for infrastructure and systems administration work, so revisiting those concepts in a manner that is foreign to me is my idea of fun learning. Especially when I know fully that I vehemently rejected learning Windows systems administration in lieu of Linux administration and then later DevOps engineering professionally.