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Working notes from the studio. The tools I build, the workflows I keep, the mistakes I paid for.

471 entries · latest 2026-10-23

2026-04-05 11 min read

3,000 Attempts, 14 Countries, Zero Winners: What I Learned Building a Viral Game

Real numbers from a viral CSS game. 134K Reddit views, zero orders, and what actually works for growth…

2026-04-05 12 min read

The real experience of launching a free open-source CSS game on ProductHunt. No growth hacks, no team, just…

2026-04-05 11 min read

Three versions of anti-cheat for a CSS centering game with 3,000+ attempts. HMAC tokens, pattern analysis, and HTTP…

2026-04-04 11 min read

Inside the CSS centering game with a 0.0001px threshold, anti-cheat that returns HTTP 418, and why free open…

2026-04-04 10 min read

Local AI models through Ollama handle 80 percent of coding tasks at zero cost. Setup guide, model comparison,…

2026-04-04 11 min read

Anthropic ended subscription access for third-party Claude tools. What this means for developers, why the economics forced the…

2026-04-03 2 min read

We built an impossible CSS centering game with a JARVIS HUD. 0.0001px threshold. 0 global successes. Ever. Play…

2026-04-03 2 min read

Serverless Postgres for side projects. One npm install, one env var, global leaderboard running for free.

2026-04-03 2 min read

Radar sweeps, HUD effects, floating labels. All pure CSS, zero dependencies, 60fps.

2026-04-02 8 min read

dev-browser gives AI agents full Playwright control inside a sandboxed QuickJS runtime

2026-04-02 7 min read

Claude Code's NO_FLICKER mode eliminates terminal flickering with a virtual viewport renderer. Here is how to enable it…

2026-04-02 8 min read

A leaked .npmignore exposed Claude Code's hidden /buddy: a terminal Tamagotchi with 18 species, 5 rarity tiers, and…