no harm in doing a big refactor of the backend a week before launching, right?

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first prod issue today - adios green fields, the era of maintenance begins

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We're onboarding testers to our closed beta!

LEADR is THE cross-platform leaderboard backend that does so much more than just store scores, built for indie games.

Want to try LEADR in your game? Sign up here: cloud.umami.is/q/yZu0VCVZ9

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just discovered github.com/charmbracele... and the charm ecosystem. might need to rewrite the whole Rust CLI into Go...

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enough perfectionism and polish (aka stalling). time to disable holiday mode, refocus, and do the hard thing.

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trying to get the gears turning again after 2 weeks out sick & traveling... just taking stock of how huge the last 2/3 months have been for @leadr-official.bsky.social

Why We Built a Game Leaderboard Service (And Why Existing Solutions Fall Short)

leadr.gg/blog/why-we-...

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so close to having a first release of the open-source core server and admin CLI. it's starting to feel real...

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talking infra design with chatGPT this morning and getting some lip - being told "you’ll blow more on coffee". apparently the latest model is trained on my spending habits...

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this is the way:

"Nothing compelling was created by a team meeting expectations"

"most [people] only believe what they have already seen"

"if what you were trying to build was obvious, it would’ve already been done"

randsinrepose.com/archives/the...

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today was a just two enormous refactors. doesn't feel like progress, which is tough, but the app is much better for it. even the best software planning doesn't survive first contact with reality.

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somehow getting traffic to the projects website and stars on the github repo already despite being deliberately quiet about what I'm building still!? could be profile clickthroughs or random? either way still feels exciting

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found an excuse to write some #rust in the end... made a handy CLI wrapping the API for admin tasks. Itch scratched.

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never thought I'd say this, but I'm really getting into DDD right now. combine it with Claude Code + TDD + ~20 years of Python muscle memory = stupid fast velocity. scaffolding in seconds, repeatable patterns and the tests write themselves

writing an SDK for a game engine I've never used (Unity) is going to be interesting - and in C#. expect plenty of complaining about Java-esque verbosity and Microsoft tooling. at least the unity docs are decent, and stackoverflow is absolutely loaded with answers from 2019 that mostly still work

just gave up on writing the whole thing in Rust. turns out the classic new shiny tech isn't the best bet - who knew! cargo is sick, genuinely 10x better than anything in Python, but the crate chaos is real. db is the bottleneck either way. already shipped more in 2 days than entire last 2 weeks.