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I implemented keyword extraction with keybert and learned the bitter lesson once again: Just use LLMs. Keybert: - "Game design ", "blogs paoramen ", "easier", "Devlog" - Cost: $0.0001 Llama 3.1: - "game design", "emergence", "edge of chaos", "Whatajong" - Cost: $0.0005

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Little known secret: Half of the S&P 500’s total value depends on just these two pages.

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It's a pity that we have to chose between lazy-loading and offline support. It would be great if there was an easy way to download all the bundles, but only evaluate them when needed. I guess it can be done by fetching them as text, and then inserting script tags manually?

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Today I learned that Miniclip has 400M MAU. Add Poki (90M), Crazy Games (30M) and Y8 (30M) to the mix, and you're looking at 550M monthly players. With 5.6 billion people online, that means these casual gaming platforms reach nearly 10% of the entire internet population.

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Building a web game in 2025 app.fika.bar/blog/(filter...

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New interview question for backend developers: Implement a service that opens a transaction, does a bunch of heavy updates on parallel, and commits the transaction once they are all done. Language: Whatever you want. Database: PostgreSQL Can you solve it without asking an AI?

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I'm ecstatic! A couple of players played for more than 2 straight hours and managed to reach level 16! No one has finished the whole 24 rounds yet, not even in easy mode. But I know it's doable: I've done the numbers :)

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Crazy! 3D game engine built on CSS github.com/haasva/WarCl... "Everything you see is an html div. I'm not a code expert so I relied quite a lot on chatGPT. Code might look extremely ugly and obviously unefficient. But things work!"

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So, if I'm understanding this correctly, doing marketing nowadays looks a lot like hiring developers: - Source hundreds of influencers - Reach them with a crafting a pseudo-personalized email - Hear nothing from 99% of them, but somehow getting a handful of opportunities

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Pocket, the bookmarking service acquired by Mozilla, is shutting down. If you are looking for alternatives, give fika a try! It has all the tools a content curator needs: - Offline bookmarking - Easily create link blogs - Discover and subscribe to feeds fika.bar/pocket/

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Today I realized that fika.bar already has 1000 users!

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I've recently built a little mobile game, and many people asked me if I've built it with AI but for some reason, mahjong is "out of distribution". I tried to generate mahjong tiles, layouts and code, but it was mostly a waste of time. Here are for example stitch and v0 results.

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"Guys literally only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting."

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Several AI products have pitched me their ideas, but I haven't been excited about any of them. I think the common denominator is that those are UI-less products. So there is nothing that sticks the customer to the product, it's a commodity.

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One of the worse things about having built a successful company is that people expect you to do it again. There’s always this buzz among VCs that I’m “building something new,” when in reality I’m just exploring and having fun. I'm tired of having to justify myself all the time.

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I have an idea for a VS-Code extension

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Today I learned that companies can buy their own TLD for $185,000 and an annual maintenance fee of $25,000. Given how expensive some .com domains are... this looks like a really appealing option for some companies. Examples: .google, .amazon, .bmw, .sony.

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"It's like X but for Y" If you like games, you've probably noticed that a lot of games nowadays are Balatro clones. I've been tempted to do the same, but in the end, it didn't work out for me. Devlog: fika.bar/blogs/paoram...

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Something fun on @itch.io: you can call your game something else than "game". If you need a confidence boost, you can call it a "masterpiece" and then all the emails and notifications will refer to it as such. "Your masterpiece has a new follower" "Add a trailer to your masterpiece"

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Whatajong is live on itch.io now! Should I also release it on steam too? I think it's not worth it since it's 100 bucks that I won't likely recover (not the kind of game that sells well over there). paoramen.itch.io/whatajong

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I can't believe it! Someone played my game for 44 minutes straight yesterday. This alone makes it worth it.

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I've spent the last 3 months building a fun little game. I've learned a lot and I would love to share some of those learnings. First devlog entry: How to build a game without spending thousands of euros and hours. fika.bar/blogs/paoram...

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Now that I'm wrapping up my game (whatajong.com) I've learned that: Building a game is easy, but building assets, localizing and making it responsive is not. Even with AI, most of the time goes into being sure it works for anyone.

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Solo Game development is savage. The average person is desperately posting messages like "I've been working on my game for the last 7 years, I left my job and wife and only 3 people wishlisted my game on steam. Help!"

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I learned to program building games in Flash. The web was once the best platform for casual gaming, but the iPhone killed it. I've built a roguelike Mahjong Solitaire. It's still a bit raw, but you can try it out here: whatajong.com Open source: github.com/masylum/what...

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I'm raw-building a game, typing the code and pushing the pixels myself, like our ancestors. It's a mix of Mahjong solitaire, Balatro, and Hearthstone Battlegrounds. Who wants to help me test it?

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A really good way to determine the seniority of a programmer is to challenge them to think about mutable state, derived state, and their performance implications. Immutability is mitwit.

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some people could solve hunger, climate change and cancer, but they choose to run doom on things instead.

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A lot of the discourse of "tech going right wing" can be simply explained by a shift towards an employer's market.

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Someone should tell Trump about the Mercator projection. Otherwise, after he buys Greenland he will be like "oh fuck, it's way smaller than advertised!"

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The humiliation of the Deepseek models is another demonstration that scarcity is the mother of innovation. By imposing bans in nvidia exports, the US hasn't slowed down China's AI development, but accelerated it. The US labs instead, are drowning in chips, and have mostly learned to brute force.

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You might not like his writing, but you can't deny Venkatesh is one of the best nomenclaturators.

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trump doesn't have enough ass for all those tongues

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#CSS `text-box` a very exciting feature! available in: Chrome 133 & Safari 18.2 My post on Chrome Developers: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/css-text-box-trim ↪ https://nerdy.dev/text-box-trim

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End of year milestone! 1024 members at chat.e18e.dev 🙌 If you care about JavaScript packages performance, join the community and get involved! Let's keep improving our dependencies together 🧡

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I started @fika_bar because people want to share ideas and discoveries with like-minded people, but struggle to build an audience. This week I've redone the editor and added the following features: - An easier way to embed images - A simple way to make layouts - Alert components Merry xmas!

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In B2C can go far with a handful of very senior engineers since products have a smaller surface but deeper technical challenge. While in B2B, due to bigger product surface is exactly the opposite: it requires bigger teams, which can host more junior talent.

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Spaniards are obsessed with Sweden. Whenever we talk about how bad Spain is doing, there is always someone who mentions how amazing Sweden is instead. There is this shared belief that they have the best policies, and that, somehow, Spain should adopt them to thrive.

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