a Customer Success Manager's Notes to Self
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.
