a Customer Success Manager's Notes to Self
The Web Design Museum preserves the internet before templates, conventions and polished sameness took over. Its archive of early websites, Flash games, mobile apps and forgotten design tools reveals a web that was often chaotic, awkward and excessive, but also inventive, personal and full of character.
Tox takes a different approach to messaging by removing central servers, advertising and corporate control. Built around encrypted, peer-to-peer communication, it gives users greater privacy and independence, but also asks them to accept a few rough edges, from limited offline messaging to uneven mobile support.
Spotify pausing every ~30 seconds is usually not a normal glitch but something actively sending pause commands—most often Discord’s Spotify integration, other third-party apps, ghost devices, or Spotify Connect sessions fighting for control.
86Box emulates IBM PC hardware from the original 1981 era to late-1990s systems—recreating processors, BIOS, sound cards, graphics adapters and storage controllers to preserve the messy reality of early personal computing.
Point-and-click adventure engine lineages from Sierra AGI/SCI to SCUMM, ScummVM, AGS, Wintermute, Visionaire, Unity, Godot and modern frameworks—separating true lineages from influences and reimplementations.
AE-Find-WebLinks: browser-free PowerShell URL extraction, filtering and crawling from pages or source lists—covering archives, download lists, deduplication, blacklists, logs, retries and safe crawl controls.
Microsoft Activation Scripts, or MAS, became popular because software activation can be confusing and frustrating. But unofficial activation tools also raise serious licensing, legal, and security questions.
A retro pixel-art career quest marking the transition from Armis to ServiceNow, with Player One ready for the next chapter.
MiniIRC and MiniTelnet bring the classic Amiga back online without the weight of the modern web. Small, sharp, and full of character, they reconnect old hardware to IRC channels and BBS worlds where the internet still feels personal, direct, and alive.
Moltbook is a strange glimpse of the agent internet: a social network where AI agents post, reply, upvote, and build reputations while humans mostly watch from the sidelines.
The Amiga never really died – it fractured into many futures. From Commodore’s collapse to today’s emulators, FPGA projects, PowerPC systems, and Apollo Vampire machines, this article follows the strange afterlife of a beloved platform and the community still trying to move it forward.
A spoiler-friendly golden walkthrough for The Secret of Monkey Island, covering the fastest path, optional jokes, full insult sword-fighting answers, strange curiosities, fake deaths, root beer ghosts, rubber trees, and the legendary T-shirt treasure.
A quick workaround for Typora’s “file is too large” error: how I raised the default 2 MB limit to 50 MB and kept using my favourite Markdown editor.
A complete, spoiler-friendly walkthrough for The Adventures of Willy Beamish, with fast instructions, detailed puzzle notes, dead-end warnings, and object uses
PikaOS does not make Linux gaming magic, but it does make it less annoying: fewer manual fixes, better gaming defaults, and more time actually playing.
Hidden rooms, unused graphics, forgotten dialogue, and abandoned puzzles: a playful look at the strange leftovers buried inside classic point-and-click adventure games.
A failed Windows update looked mysterious, but the real cause was simple: the App Readiness service had been disabled, breaking the AppX registration phase.
DreamServer shows the promise and the limits of local AI: more control, more privacy, and more ownership, but only as much power as your hardware can realistically provide.
Halupedia is a fake AI-generated encyclopedia that turns hallucinations into entertainment. It looks serious, sounds academic, and invents entire worlds with fake confidence; funny, clever, and slightly terrifying in the age of AI-written rubbish.
Legcord is an unofficial, open-source Discord client for people who want a lighter, more customisable experience, especially on Linux, ARM devices, and older hardware.
