I’ve also been exploring this idea. What if you could bring your own (or pull in a 3rd party) “CPU player” into a game?

Using an LLM friendly api with a snapshot of game state and calculated heuristics, legal moves, and varying levels of strategy in working out nicely. They can play a web based game via curl.

The personas were brutal in the best possible way. Great job

Worth reading The Creative Act by Rick Rubin. May help your relationship with side projects.

I've always been hesitant about that book, mainly because I've never been a fan of books about creativity. But you're not the first person to suggest it to me so I might read it.

This all started with a simple question: when metrics are down, how do you know part of your application isn’t broken for a subset of users?

Production for the frontend is the user’s device, and we all know things can go wrong without an explicit error. With the current state of frontend observability tools, how do you tell when something should have happened but didn’t?

Too bad we can’t just have our users run `it('opens checkout modal on click', …)`, right? What if we could..

Maybe the world doesn’t need more HTML attributes, but it’s my best attempt so far at improving frontend observability. I think the ends justify the means.

I should add, this is the instrumentation layer. You still send all the events generated to your event collection backend.

We follow a similar structure at my home. They have iPads but strict screen time limits during the week, and less strict on weekends if we are home. No social media, no chat of any kind, and they are not able to install apps without me approving them (iOS parental controls feature).

YouTube is an interesting one. Like the Internet itself, there is some really great stuff, but letting them roam is a recipe for disaster. YouTube Kids has gotten better over the years but nothing's perfect. On one hand, I didn't want to block YT completely but I also wanted to be able to approve anything they watch. So, I did what any other programmer dad would do in this situation and built what I wanted.

They now have a permission layer on top of Safari (as an extension that cannot be disabled when coupled with Safari's content moderation setting). I set Safari to only allow YouTube and any channel they try and view that I have not approved will require them to send a permission request to my phone. That "permission request" is a button + them coming to me with "Hey Dad, I sent you a request". It's worked quite well in our home and has opened a nice dialog about what they are trying to watch and why. I made it public if any other parents are interested -- https://www.sunscreenapp.com/

Seeing an index of all the posts someone made is a good idea, it just didn't make the cut for the first iteration.

I would try and add a bigger twist to standard x vs y poll to separate yourself. The basic concept has been done many times before, without massive success.

USvsTHEM (http://usvsthem.com) is a site that I co-created - and still very early alpha; but adds a twist that centers a debate around people and their network of support. There is no browse-able stream yet, as the alpha release was meant to test the social utility.

Good Luck!

USvsTHEM also allows you to send and receive debate challenges with Twitter, which is a neat convenience.

I've used escrow.com with great success. You can split the fee to escrow between the two parties or have 1 side agree to pay it. I think the seller decides what the split is, so make sure you agree on it before they set it up.

At first i was cautious since escrow.com looks like it straight out of 1996 but it's legit.

check for duplicate URLs when submitting or a confirmation page showing similar stories already submitted.

call me old fashioned, but I still use my browser to view RSS. I skim the headlines as a live bookmark and go to the actual post if interested.