Viewing profile — mitchm

What if your web apps e2e tests ran in production through actual user sessions? Know exactly what browser session cohorts are having issues. Open source, https://github.com/Faultse…

I love Uno, so for fun I made a web based multiplayer version of the game. Completely free, no ads, no accounts. Has some of my favorite custom “house” rules like stacking, shuffle…

“ This is a test review from the debugging script. Please ignore it.” ?

This started out as an exercise in what’s possible building web apps without JS UI libraries. It’s a real-time multiplayer version of the classic card game Uno. Heavy use of the SS…

I’ve also been exploring this idea. What if you could bring your own (or pull in a 3rd party) “CPU player” into a game? Using an LLM friendly api with a snapshot of game state and …

The personas were brutal in the best possible way. Great job

Worth reading The Creative Act by Rick Rubin. May help your relationship with side projects.

I should add, this is the instrumentation layer. You still send all the events generated to your event collection backend.

This all started with a simple question: when metrics are down, how do you know part of your application isn’t broken for a subset of users? Production for the frontend is the user…

If you’ve ever been asked, “Conversions for XYZ are down. Did something break on the site?” this might resonate. Fault Sense is the library I wish existed to answer the kinds of qu…

We follow a similar structure at my home. They have iPads but strict screen time limits during the week, and less strict on weekends if we are home. No social media, no chat of any…

Seeing an index of all the posts someone made is a good idea, it just didn't make the cut for the first iteration.

I would try and add a bigger twist to standard x vs y poll to separate yourself. The basic concept has been done many times before, without massive success. USvsTHEM ( http://usvst…

I've used escrow.com with great success. You can split the fee to escrow between the two parties or have 1 side agree to pay it. I think the seller decides what the split is, so ma…

check for duplicate URLs when submitting or a confirmation page showing similar stories already submitted.

call me old fashioned, but I still use my browser to view RSS. I skim the headlines as a live bookmark and go to the actual post if interested.