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the pond. what we write while making things

Experiment logs, release notes, things we learned building them. We write about what went strange more often than what went well.

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2026

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Jev, the AI that writes nothingJev picks one of your predefined answers and attaches a probability instead of writing text; a week of outside measurements shows where that is fast and cheap, and where it is not good enough.Working with AI#ai #games Where do users come fromAn indie developer was billed for 56 installs and 33 were bots; we have eight apps and the same question, so here is what we do instead of buying installs.Studio#growth #ads Why we can't put 'Rubik's' in a cube app's nameRubik's Cube is a registered trademark and both app stores forbid other people's marks in app names, so our cube app is called Cube at a Glance.Shipping#naming #trademark Why we took React and Babel out of our home pageWhy a one-page studio site was shipping 4.2 MB of JavaScript, and what it ships now.Making#performance #static-site

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