Originally published on LinkedIn (reformatted for zahradnik.io / Medium)
My range is broad — and for most people that usually signals a lack of depth.
But I hope my recent posts made one thing clear:
👉 My depth matches my range.
Today let’s put engineering and leadership aside.
Let’s talk about my… unusual hobbies.
A few minutes ago, I watched a YouTube video where someone tried to install an antique Voodoo 2 GPU into Windows 11.
Spoiler alert: he succeeded.
Some absolute madman wrote a brand new Win11 driver by reverse‑engineering the original 1990s Windows NT driver — building an NT→Win11 API translation layer so the old DLLs still work.
This is where Paul Graham was right:
Hackers and painters really are the same species.
I’m one of the rare ones who sees code as art.
- The person who writes an NVMe SSD driver for Windows 2000
- The one who builds a translation layer between operating systems
- The hacker who resurrects dead hardware on a modern OS
These people are artists.
Their medium just happens to be logic, not oil paint.
And if I had Hermione’s Time‑Turner, I’d spend entire days:
- reverse‑engineering old binaries
- building emulators for forgotten consoles
- writing tiny tech demos that nobody asked for
Because when I do projects like these, ten hours feel like one.
At my core, I am a hacker — and a painter — who decided to scale my curiosity upward and hack something larger:
the world.
That’s why I’m here.
Not as a programmer anymore —
but as a founder.
Let’s hack the world for the better.
