The Forge Blog

At Sarah's Forge, we’ve been putting a lot of energy into Axon — our decentralized, peer-to-peer mesh network built to keep communicating even when the wider internet goes dark. Axon started life entirely in Go, taking full advantage of its clean...

Hey everyone, Sarah here from Sarah's Forge. Today, I want to share a very real, very raw story about a recent project: building a dark web search engine. It was an ambitious undertaking, a deep dive into distributed systems, web crawling, and the et...

Every now and then, a project comes along that perfectly combines passion with a technical challenge. For me, that project was PocketDigi. As an amateur radio operator, I've always been fascinated by APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System), yet ofte...

If you've ever played with software-defined radio, you've probably stumbled upon the magic of decoding analog signals. There's something special about pulling a noisy, invisible broadcast out of the air and turning it into something tangible. For me,...

FIRC: My Journey Toward a Federated IRC Server Hey everyone! Sarah here. It's been a while since I've given a deep dive into another passion project, FIRC – the Federated IRC Server. Today, I want to pull back the curtain on where we are, the chall...