Modernising the archive: what the search data says
Static, schema, Lighthouse to the top marks — did Google notice? Sixteen weeks of Search Console data on 145,000 modernised pages.
All About Archive
14All About and mobile history, Symbian and more.
Preserving Flickr Archive with a Data Lifeboat
Two decades of press events, device launches and MWC show floors live in my Flickr archive. How I preserved it with a Data Lifeboat.
Building Author Authority for a preserved website
How do you establish E-E-A-T for a site that's no longer publishing? Making two decades of credentialed authorship visible to search engines.
Adding Schema.org to 145k Static Pages
Adding structured data is a template change on a live CMS. On 145,000 static HTML files from a CMS that no longer exists, it's a different problem.
What Google Search Console actually tells you (and what to do about it)
A day after cutting over DNS for the archive sites, Search Console had opinions. Setting up programmatic access and working through what it flagged.
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.