Devlog

Short notes from the build, newest first. RSS

  1. 10 May 2026, 16:00 UTC

    One engine for every host

    Rebuilt the host engine from the ground up. A bulletin board, a bank, a telephone exchange, and a UNIX box are all the same machine underneath now: pure data over one state machine.

    enginehosts

  2. 09 May 2026, 21:00 UTC

    Writing the world down

    A lore dump and the start of a world bible. The AMY 16, Uncle Mark, and the threads that tie the town to something larger now live in writing before they live in code.

    loreworld

  3. 09 May 2026, 18:00 UTC

    Day one

    First commit. 80SHACK begins as a folder and an idea: a kid, a home computer, and a town in coastal Maine in the winter of 1983.

    meta