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Idlescape: the game I am building right now
My main project at the moment: a big, lore-driven idle game inspired by RuneScape, with dungeon crawling, lots of skills and monsters I modelled myself.
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My Labubu - Care & Play: a game for Android
A multi-game, tamagotchi and Pou inspired Labubu care-and-play game for Android. Version 2.0 just shipped, adding the care side that ties every mode together.
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Bringing Warrior Epic back from the dead, one packet at a time
Warrior Epic's servers went dark around 2010. These are my running notes on building a local server so the original client can be played again, offline.
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The same game, twelve years apart
I rebuilt my high school Pokémon browser game in Vue, with multiplayer, chat and PVP, and still no game engine. Here is what twelve years changed.
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Talking time and space complexity at dxTechTalk
On October 17 I will be at the Devexperts Porto office, talking about optimizing code with time and space complexity analysis.
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A home security system you actually own
How to build a private home security system with a Raspberry Pi and MotionEye: the hardware, the setup, and the settings that matter most.
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Ninja Trials: a game for a dojo that closed
A board game inspired by Club Penguin's Fire Dojo. I wanted to play it again, but Club Penguin closed years ago, so I made my own.
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Meal Planner: one place to plan our week
A meal planner I made so my girlfriend and I could plan our meals in one place, with Firebase and Google sign-in keeping our food in sync.
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A borrowed masthead, three dead names and a move to Nuxt
How this blog was built: a design inspired by The Verge, the names it nearly had, and why it moved from Vue to Nuxt before launch.
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Scary: two projects built by prompting Gemini 3 Pro
I tried Gemini 3 Pro on a real web app and a Three.js game. It handled migrations and backends, right up until old bugs started coming back.
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Bubble TD: one more game jam
What we made for Global Game Jam 2025. It runs in the browser, the code is open source, and it will definitely have bugs.