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What It Is # Saimin 2 is a browser-based recreation of Saimin Chat System — a real multi-user BBS that ran on an Apple II+ in Aiea, Hawaii in the 1980s and early 1990s. Five phone lines, 300 baud, a small community of regulars who dialed in to chat in real time.

What It Was # Migration Manager was an in-house client/server platform built at Hawaiian Airlines to migrate FluentBit log exporter configurations from a legacy log repository (ElasticSearch on AWS) to its replacement (AWS OpenSearch) — across a fleet of 100+ systems, without downtime.

What It Was # RPM Back-Port Publisher was an in-house pipeline built at Hawaiian Airlines to solve a specific, urgent problem: getting a patched version of Squid onto production RHEL 8 and 9 systems after Red Hat’s standard package update cycle couldn’t deliver one in a reasonable timeframe.