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Balancing Esports Idle Against Simulated Players Every system in my esports idle game was in place by the morning after the first commit. Balancing its economy has taken the ten days since, mostly by letting simulated players run it for hours and reading where the money went. Play · 24 September 2026 Building LinkMe Around the Host's Browser LinkMe is a four-clue party quiz for up to 16 players. Its host's browser runs the room, which shaped how the timer, private guesses and end-of-card reveal work. Play · 24 September 2026 Building Bill Orbit: A Multiplayer Receipt Splitter for the Browser I built a temporary browser-based bill splitter where everyone at the table can scan a receipt, claim items and see the same totals without creating an account. Play · 23 August 2026 Building a Read-Only Dark Souls III Minimap for My Sister I built a Windows minimap with breadcrumbs, bonfires and optional item markers for my sister, who cannot rely on a visual memory of a route. Play · 23 August 2026 Don't build a budget gaming PC in 2026. Buy somebody else's laptop. Somebody paid almost £3,000 for this laptop in 2023. I paid £1,150. The cheapest desktop I could build to replace it costs more than that before you plug in a monitor. Play · 6 August 2026 Designing Colour Palettes for Accessibility This generator creates palettes of three to sixteen chart colours and checks each label against WCAG contrast targets. Play · 5 August 2026 Planning and Picking a Game Night I built one shared page for scheduling a game night and choosing something the group can play. It compares availability and shared game libraries, then shows how each recommendation was scored. Play · 5 August 2026 Putting Claude on a Round ESP32 Display I adapted Anthropic's maker firmware for a 1.85-inch round ESP32-S3 display with touch controls, physical buttons and Bluetooth. Play · 5 August 2026

Name	Kind	Date modified	Summary
Balancing Esports Idle Against Simulated Players	Play	24/09/2026	Every system in my esports idle game was in place by the morning after the first commit. Balancing its economy has taken the ten days since, mostly by letting simulated players run it for hours and reading where the money went.
Building LinkMe Around the Host's Browser	Play	24/09/2026	LinkMe is a four-clue party quiz for up to 16 players. Its host's browser runs the room, which shaped how the timer, private guesses and end-of-card reveal work.
Building Bill Orbit: A Multiplayer Receipt Splitter for the Browser	Play	23/08/2026	I built a temporary browser-based bill splitter where everyone at the table can scan a receipt, claim items and see the same totals without creating an account.
Building a Read-Only Dark Souls III Minimap for My Sister	Play	23/08/2026	I built a Windows minimap with breadcrumbs, bonfires and optional item markers for my sister, who cannot rely on a visual memory of a route.
Don't build a budget gaming PC in 2026. Buy somebody else's laptop.	Play	27/09/2026	Somebody paid almost £3,000 for this laptop in 2023. I paid £1,150. The cheapest desktop I could build to replace it costs more than that before you plug in a monitor.
Designing Colour Palettes for Accessibility	Play	05/08/2026	This generator creates palettes of three to sixteen chart colours and checks each label against WCAG contrast targets.
Planning and Picking a Game Night	Play	05/08/2026	I built one shared page for scheduling a game night and choosing something the group can play. It compares availability and shared game libraries, then shows how each recommendation was scored.
Putting Claude on a Round ESP32 Display	Play	05/08/2026	I adapted Anthropic's maker firmware for a 1.85-inch round ESP32-S3 display with touch controls, physical buttons and Bluetooth.

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