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Blog
Notes on what we're building and why, written as it happens.
Every Board That Still Answers
BBS lists rot - dead entries sit next to live ones until the list stops meaning anything. BBS HQ redials all 1,057 of them every night and shows each board in its own art.
Scanning a Network Without Asking for Root
Most scanners make you choose between needing administrator and missing half your hosts. That choice is a leftover from raw sockets, and every OS has quietly provided a way out of it.
What Was Left of The Vortex
An 81 MB zip sealed in October 2013 turned out to hold six years of a BBS's daily call logs, four Usurper installs, and the Turbo Pascal source of two doors written for it.
The TLS Session You Can Only Use Once
A strict FTPS server kept rejecting a perfectly valid resumed session on the data connection. The cause was an OpenSSL behavior that isn't documented anywhere we could find.
Why Windows Won't Format a Big Drive as FAT32
The 32 GB limit isn't a FAT32 limit. It's a Windows limit. Here's the difference, and what we did about it.
Hello, Bad Cluster
Why we picked this name, and what this site is actually for.