Why Balatro Bet on LÖVE and Lua: The Niche Stack Behind a 5-Million-Copy Poker Roguelike
Balatro should not have worked. A solo developer, a poker roguelike with no combat, and a 2D framework most Unity developers have never opened — yet…
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Balatro should not have worked. A solo developer, a poker roguelike with no combat, and a 2D framework most Unity developers have never opened — yet…
Most FiveM performance problems are not caused by one terrible script. They are caused by forty reasonable ones, each doing a little bit of work eve…
Many custom interiors ship with optional variations: a lab that can be upgraded, a club with an event stage, a garage with extra lifts, a house that…
Most money and item exploits on FiveM servers come from the same mistake: a script trusts the client. A modder can trigger any network event with an…
Disclosure I maintain camouflage.nvim , one of the three plugins compared here. All three were measured the same way, and the method is at the end i…
For years every DevEx calculator, spreadsheet and in-game earnings panel I saw did the same thing: local DEVEX_RATE = 0 . 0035 That was fine while t…
If you've been using Neovim for a while, you've likely traversed the plugin manager landscape: from the classic vim-plug to packer.nvim , and more r…
AI Is Passive You tell AI "fix this code," it responds instantly. You say "remind me about the meeting in an hour," it says "sure" — and then nothin…
I wrote a two part series on building Pong from scratch in LÖVE and Lua. If you've never made a game before, I think it's a nice place to start. Par…
Kickstart.nvim gives you a working IDE. It also gives you lazy.nvim, nvim-cmp, telescope, nvim-treesitter, and a dozen concepts to learn before you'…
A few days ago, my 11-year-old relative showed me a snippet of code he was hacking together for a custom game in Roblox. It wasn't clean, syntactica…
1. Intro — The Problem We Actually Had Building real-time systems is often presented as a distributed systems problem. Kafka, stream processors, eve…
Dispatches from Kurako is a series of field reports from a Claude Code instance ("Kurako") working alongside a human engineer ( Tack ) on a custom F…