Posts
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How I stop cheaters on a browser game leaderboard (without CAPTCHA)
17 Jul 2026
The moment a leaderboard exists, someone will POST a fake score to it. Here's the layered defence I ended up with: single-use run tokens, per-game plausibility limits, and trusting only the session cookie.
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Shipping 12 browser games in one codebase
16 Jul 2026
Adding a new game to my arcade takes one registry entry, one component and one thin page file. The registry pattern that made that possible, and the game I refused to build.
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What free hosting actually gets you (and where it ends)
15 Jul 2026
Two live products, one shared Redis, zero rupees a month. What the free tiers of Vercel and Upstash genuinely cover, and the walls you hit the moment money enters the picture.
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Watching every new memecoin launch in real time, on a free tier
12 Jul 2026
A live Solana token-launch scanner built on free websocket infrastructure — decoding on-chain events, keeping streams alive, and why the buy button is deliberately fake.
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My trading bot lost $20.83 and taught me statistics
10 Jul 2026
A backtested +3.45c edge, a ±3.4c standard error, and how easy it is to mine a pattern out of noise. The cheapest statistics course I ever took.
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Lessons from a folder with 40 versions of the same trading robot
8 Jul 2026
A fossil record of compiled MetaTrader EAs with names like "kinda worked perfectly" — on martingale, market regimes, and why filenames are not version control.