Hey, I'm Derek (@d4rkwyng) — I build software that bridges vintage machines and the modern web, poke at security, and document the history of retro computing & gaming.
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📝 From the Blog
Farewell Obsidian Publish, Hello Quartz
This site and SierraVault moved off Obsidian Publish onto Quartz + Cloudflare Workers — and why SierraVault’s size forced the switch. (2026-07-08)
First Light — A Living Apple-1 for Apple’s 50th
A native Mac app that puts a working 1976 Apple-1 on your bench — real 6502, cassette deck and all. (2026-07-06)
DuckFind — The Modern Web in Plain HTML for Vintage Browsers
A self-hosted search engine and reader that serves the modern, JS-heavy web as clean HTML 3.2. (2026-07-06)
Johnny Castaway Is Stranded on the Mac Now
The classic 1992 Sierra/Dynamix story screensaver, recreated natively for macOS. (2026-06-11)