by Byron Seastrunk | May 16, 2026 | Engineer, General, Married to an Engineer, New
Years ago, I led a team of exceptional engineers supporting production. A newly introduced product was averaging 30 hours to assemble instead of the 5 hours management had confidently estimated during one of their “everything is under control” meetings. We weren’t...
by Byron Seastrunk | May 7, 2026 | Engineer, Married to an Engineer, New, Technology
Staring at my computer’s display, I’m watching a Python program run exactly to the specifications I wrote before I started coding. No debugging. No mysterious crashes. No three-hour hunts for a missing semicolon buried in line 1400. It just worked. And instead of...
by Byron Seastrunk | Apr 15, 2026 | Animals, Engineer, Gaming, Married to an Engineer, New, Politics
I don’t know when or how it started, but the drive to customize and brag about the results has been with humans long before I was born. Today we usually call it a hobby, something that has become increasingly important to me in my retirement. Age, improved...
by Byron Seastrunk | Mar 3, 2026 | Engineer, Married to an Engineer, New, Technology
3D printer technology is improving so fast that I find myself replacing printers more often than I replace the contents of my sock drawer. What did I do with all those printers I replaced? Several days ago, someone posted a picture of a 7-11 vacuum tube tester on...
by Byron Seastrunk | Dec 31, 2025 | Engineer, General, Married to an Engineer, New
When it comes to hobbies, my Wife and I are polar opposites, so far apart that we may as well live on different planets. She has her garden and cooking; I have my love of high tech. Were I to put a hard drive and a processor on a table, she would be hard pressed to...
by Byron Seastrunk | Dec 15, 2025 | Engineer, Married to an Engineer, New, Technology
I feel comfortable relating this, having retired several years ago, and everyone involved has since moved on to other positions, but this remains one of the more frustrating episodes of my entire career. Not the most technically difficult. Not the most complex. Just...