Migrating 200,000 comments
Nearly 200,000 Disqus comments were part of the archive's editorial record. Migrating them to self-hosted Remark42 — and owning the community again.
Every Nokia N-Gage Game
A complete directory of every game developed for Nokia's N-Gage — released and cancelled — assembled two decades after the taco-phone jokes.
Bringing N-Gage Home
N-Gage's story is half-remembered jokes; the detail has been offline since 2020. Integrating Nokia's gaming archive back into the historical record.
What 449k forum posts tell us About Symbian
Stats from the restored AAS forum: what 449,000 posts reveal about the rise and fall of a technology community — things no market-share graph captures.
Bringing back the forum — 449,000 posts
The All About Symbian forum — 449,000 posts from 39,000 members, 2001–2013 — restored as a static archive after a decade offline.
Claude Code as a migration partner
Two days, three sites, 20 years of content moved off a dying server, with Claude Code as primary operator. What the collaboration actually looked like.
Optimising an old codebase for modern web standards
Taking the archive's decade-old codebase from Lighthouse scores in the 70s to modern web standards before freezing the pages forever.
Preserving All About Symbian
All About Symbian was the go-to destination for Nokia and Symbian coverage. How — and why — I preserved it as a permanent static archive.
Archiving 20 years of mobile history
Three sites, 24,000+ articles documenting the rise and fall of entire mobile ecosystems — migrated from a dying server into a permanent static archive.
Fireside with Founders & Leaders Podcast
A guest spot on rmg digital's Fireside with Founders: technology and product, building effective teams, and treating the operating model as a product.