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tl;dr a creative roommate refits a bed frame as a multi purpose table and workbench and opens the eyes and the heart of the author to "hack the physical world" to fit his needs.

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Some other people started by seeing that they could modify pre-existing compiled code to better fit their needs.

after the bed part I wanted to quit reading, it was so simple and the bed looked modern not like "we were poor as dirt!"

workbench was cool though

(Author here) Although we were not rich, the group wasn't that poor either. We were fortunate as a group to have fun with what we had...

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