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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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FiveM Script Performance Budgeting: Keeping Resmon Under Control

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…

Toggling MLO Entity Sets in FiveM and Keeping Them in Sync for Every Player

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…

How camouflage.nvim masks secrets in Neovim without leaking a frame

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…

Roblox has three DevEx rates now. One constant won't cut it.

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…

🚀 Introducing pack.nvim: The Modern UI for Neovim's Native Package Manager

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…

The LuaJIT NYI That Silently Poisoned an Unrelated Hot Loop

WebAssembly (WASM) — не серебряная пуля

WebAssembly появился для браузерных задач как способ исполнять тяжелый код быстрее, чем это делает JavaScript. Но за последние годы он нач…

Giving Your Neovim AI Assistant a Sense of Time: Scheduled Tasks in chat.nvim

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 built Pong from scratch in LÖVE and Lua (a two part series)

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…

Why I Built nvim-starter — a Neovim Config Beginners Can Actually Understand

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'…

The Sandbox Prodigies: Roblox, Event-Driven Logic, and the Future of Engineering

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…

Real-Time APIs Are Simpler Than You Think: Redis, Lua, and 4k Updates/sec

1. Intro — The Problem We Actually Had Building real-time systems is often presented as a distributed systems problem. Kafka, stream processors, eve…

Fifty Ways to Fail at Attaching One Ped to Another

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…