It doesn't happen often, but sometimes they are lucky and like to brag about it. It's a bit like gambling I guess, but you are stuck with anything that you couldn't sell filing up your storage.

I know someone who does that and then sells them on the eBay and a local fleamarket.
It's more of a hobby for them, I think, that a way to make any real money.
There is a certain thrill to it of selling something for much more what you paid for it.

This one is more of a lyric game really than anything you would want to play.
Though I think bookmark is a perfect form for a lyric game.

A final version:

I really enjoyed doing it. Even though it's such a small thing. Thanks @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social for hosting this jam.

And the itch page is up: elvas09.itch.io/something-od...

It took some trial and error to get a version that I can reliability print on my home printer (it randomly shifts one side a few millimeters when printing double sided).
Note to self, next time drawing something to size on a paper - consider drawing it bigger to account for bleed.

Sie sind wunderschön. Ich würde gerne Nummer 7 haben.

Also AI/vibe coding is making things way worse. As the code that it spits out is maybe working, but not at all optimized.

Mainly though it's a convenience problem. To make something maximally optimized you have to use low level languages that let you manipulate memory directly and write more of the code yourself (to avoid generalisation overhead).
And that's just way harder than bash something together in Python or JS.

I think it depends on the field. I'm mostly doing data processing and it's possible to find hyper optimized libraries that do things way more efficiently than whatever I could have come up with on my own.
But also things like Electron (the thing that apps like slack, discord are built on) exist.

Oh and sometimes it just gets pushed down indefinitely (or until something breaks for good) because you have to push out new features.

And even then it's always a decision between development costs and infrastructure costs.
And in many cases it's simply cheaper to add more RAM to the instance, than has someone spend a week or two working on optimizing the code.

I don't know about desktop software development, but for the server side software there is never time for RAM usage optimization, unless it's obnoxiously high for what is being done(but that's subjective) or you work on a scale where little added coat will snowball quickly(big data, ML, etc.).

The backside is also done now. The only thing left to do is an itch page.

Yeah, I have been like: this is a solo game, I can play it when I have some time. And I haven't played the solo game in two weeks, because there is always something to do.

Found this blog by @behindthehelm.bsky.social and will try to use the approach to make a spark table:
behindthehelm.bearblog.dev/building-spa...

One side of the bookmark - done. No I actually have to come up with a table for the other side.

Adding the tree. Still not fully happy with the top branches. Will try to improve it tomorrow.