Developer Experience
The Wrong Shoes for the Race
Test environments wobble because local ones do not exist.
Jupiter Jayna
British algorist based in the Cotswolds, England. He's run system engineering for some of the worlds busiest websites.
Philosophy & Perspective
Shaping Architecture Through Behaviour
The chart is not the system. The system is what teams make visible.
Player Experience
As Fast As It Feels
Real speed and perceived speed are the same thing. If it feels slow, it is slow.
Developer Experience
Refactor, Rewrite, Repeat?
How AI shifts the balance between improving and starting over.
Player Experience
Not Just Upwards
A healthy system creates space to rise, and has the strength to let go.
Player Experience
Lowest Common Denominator Thinking
Choice beats compromise.
Art & Analogue
Cassette Logic
A song about something that never dies but is already dead turned up on a thirty-year-old mixtape this morning. Cassette has a way of delivering what you would never think to ask for.
Player Experience
Beyond the WebView: What’s Next?
The web has caught up. PWAs and TWAs now deliver apps that feel native, run faster, and update instantly - while still leaving space for native SDKs where they matter. On Android especially, it’s time to move beyond WebViews.
Player Experience
When the Numbers Get Worse but the App Feels Faster
Waiting times are down by a third. You would not guess it from the numbers. That is the paradox at the heart of this story.
Player Experience
Watching the Watchers
Passive observers are meant to watch, not slow the service. Trackers promise insight, but can often triple response times and leave players waiting.
Developer Experience
Keep the Heart Beating
The case for a common process supervisor.
Developer Experience
Timeouts Aren’t Safety Nets
They are canaries. If they go silent, the answer is not to ignore the silence, it is to make the air safe again.