Server-Backed Backends and Peripherals Go Physical
Migrating backends to server APIs with NATS pub/sub, adding microservices, and building the peripheral slot system alongside the Canada Goose game.
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Dev Logs
Development journal entries tracking progress on various projects.
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Identity, SEO, and a Lot of Polish
Identity got real: guest sessions, passkeys, and a server‑backed auth surface, plus gopher content routing, Z‑Machine version wiring, and a formatting sweep.
CC-40 Completion and IVR Launch
Shipping the TI CC-40 backend with authentic CALL commands and audio, plus a full IVR phone tree system.
Storage Peripherals and Audio Realism
Floppy, hard drive, and cassette peripherals with Kansas City Standard encoding, plus a peripheral audio bus that makes the machine feel physical.
Deployment Prep and Backend Growth
Kubernetes/K3s deployment configs, CI/CD scaffolding, schema-driven API generation, and the Star Trek BASIC backend.
The Big web/ Move and Parser Migrations
Moving the web app under web/, migrating three parsers to Pest and Pratt, and getting the Z-Machine opcode engine executing.
Z-Machine Foundations and Storage Sync
Z-Machine decoder work, text handling, and SAVE/RESTORE, plus content-addressable storage with S3 sync.
The Dungeon Gets Real
Turning the dungeon crawler demo into a persistent roguelike: progression gates, deterministic daily seeds, and meta-unlocks across five pull requests.
Emulation Milestones and TypeScript Migration
Intel 8088 demos, Zig-based 6502 experiments, and migrating the frontend to TypeScript for better type safety.
Big Repo Restructure and Backend Migration
Splitting the repository into cores, languages, assemblers, and BIOS so the directory layout matches the dependency graph.
Build System Groundwork and Modem Plumbing
Making the WASM build honest about its dependencies, loading backends on dial, and giving the modem one source of truth for pacing.
A Small Day That Mattered
Nine small bugs in the CRT, modem, and BBS paths, cleared before they had a chance to compound.