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Hand-picked tools, gear, and goods for builders.
Software
3 Curated software used by our team.Dreamspace
$10/monthOfflineDraft
$24.99Gadgets
10 Affiliate picks for the curious and the restless.🥧Affiliate
Raspberry Pi 5
8 GB — the homelab heart
🤖Affiliate
Arduino Starter Kit
Sensors, LEDs, and bad decisions
🐬Affiliate
Flipper Zero
Multi-tool for pentesters & curious minds
🕹️
Analogue Pocket
FPGA handheld — every cartridge, zero emulation
🎛️
Teenage Engineering EP-133
K.O. II sampler — pocket beat machine
🎙️
Teenage Engineering TP-7
Field recorder meets objet d'art
🎬Affiliate
Stream Deck MK.2
15-key macro pad — not just for streamers
📝
reMarkable 2
Paper tablet — write like you mean it
⌨️Affiliate
Keychron Q1 Pro
Wireless QMK/VIA — endgame (for now)
🖨️Affiliate
Bambu Lab A1 Mini
Multicolor 3D printer — just works
Hardware
8 Desk infrastructure for the serious setup.🔌Staff Pick
CalDigit TS4
Thunderbolt 4 dock — 18 ports of peace
🖥️
15.6″ Portable Monitor
USB-C, 1080p — the road warrior's second screen
📖
Dasung 25.3″ E-ink Monitor
Paperlike display — your eyes called, they're grateful
💾
Synology DS224+
2-bay NAS — your cloud, your rules
🦙Exclusive
"Run Your Own Ollama" Box
Curated mini-PC bundle — local LLMs, no cloud
🔀
USB-C KVM Switch
Two machines, one desk — zero chaos
📦
Intel NUC 14 Pro
Tiny box, big energy — homelab node
🔗
Anker 7-in-1 USB-C Hub
HDMI, SD, USB-A — dongle life, simplified
Books
23 Thrifted classics, SLO Software Shop editions.📘SLO Edition
The Mythical Man-Month
Frederick Brooks
📗SLO Edition
Hackers
Steven Levy
📕
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
📙SLO Edition
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
📘
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
📗
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert Pirsig
📕SLO Edition
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Abelson & Sussman
📙
High Output Management
Andrew Grove
📘
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
📗SLO Edition
Dealers of Lightning
Michael Hiltzik
📕
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
📙
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
📘SLO Edition
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward Tufte
📗
Less But Better
Dieter Rams
📕
Simulacra and Simulation
Jean Baudrillard
📙
Understanding Media
Marshall McLuhan
📘
Creative Selection
Ken Kocienda
📗SLO Edition
Code
Charles Petzold
📕
The Pragmatic Programmer
Hunt & Thomas
📙
A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander
📘
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Katie Hafner
📗
Masters of Doom
David Kushner
📕
Showstopper!
G. Pascal Zachary
Clothing
15 Vintage tech tees & Monterey Street originals.☀️Vintage
Sun Microsystems Tee
Vintage logo — the network is the computer
◼️Vintage
NeXT Logo Tee
Paul Rand's masterpiece, on your chest
🟦Vintage
SGI Cube Tee
Silicon Graphics — rendering dreams since '82
🔔Vintage
Bell Labs Tee
Where Unix was born
🖱️Vintage
Xerox PARC Tee
They invented everything — and gave it away
🧑🍳SLO Branded
Shop Apron
SLO Software Shop — canvas & leather
🧢SLO Branded
SLO Dad Hat
Embroidered floppy disk — washed canvas
👜SLO Branded
Shop Tote
Heavy-duty canvas — fits a keyboard
🍎
WWDC '97 Retro Tee
Conference swag reproduction — one more thing
🌀
SIGGRAPH '93 Tee
Conference swag reproduction — ray traced dreams
🏔️SLO Branded
Monterey Street Hoodie
Heavyweight French terry — SLO coordinates
🧥SLO Branded
Monterey Street Crewneck
Midweight fleece — dithered shop logo
⏱️
Unix Epoch Tee
January 1, 1970 — it all started here
🔴Vintage
Amiga Boing Ball Tee
The checkered ball that launched a thousand demos
🧦
Terminal Green Socks
Phosphor green on black — monospaced ankle art
Misc
7 Stickers, pins, desk goods, and one very special USB stick.🏷️
Sticker Pack (12 ct)
Dithered icons, terminal art, SLO logos
💾
Floppy Disk Enamel Pin
1.44 MB of nostalgia — hard enamel, gold finish
▮
Terminal Cursor Pin
Blinking block cursor — glow-in-the-dark
⌘
Command Key Pin
The Bowen knot ⌘ — hard enamel
🖱️SLO Branded
Dithered Desk Mat
900 × 400mm — SLO topographic pattern
📓
Build Log Notebook
120 pages — dot grid + circuit board cover
🔑Exclusive
Curated USB Toolkit
32 GB — open source starter pack, the modern shareware CD