@backlitbytes

creating tiny games 🎮, web experiments 🕸️. follow me for rare, but fun posts 💎

 California
github.com/backlitbytes
Joined October 2023
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I built a Gameboy with Svelte using HTML, CSS, Javascript 🎮 There’s a few details I’d like to share….
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Nintendo of America
@NintendoAmericaSep 11
It’s not unusual for a friendly match of table tennis to get a little competitive! Check out the return of Table Tennis in #NintendoSwitchSportsResort when it arrives Oct 22 only on Nintendo Switch 2! Watch the full #TreehouseLive segment here: ninten.do/6017akkMT
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If I had to name this, I would call it work life balance
@levelsio
@levelsioMay 23
There was some great tweet about how work life balance was kinda bs and true freedom is just life mixed with different moments of some work here, some life here and if you love what you do (like creating things) it should be mixed in with your life all the time, but I lost the tweet
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Has anyone built Tayne (the dancer) yet? Tayne is now possible.
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Vibe coding gives me less friction to create, and so I find myself abandoning projects much faster than before AI. It feels like a waste of time to not use AI, but also I’m wasting all my time using AI. Eventually I’ll figure this out for myself, but for now it’s a weird paradox.
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Throw 10 points into design, make beautiful graphics, and then vibe code irresistible, dead simple games
Bean Juice Studios@BeanJuiceStudioApr 14
Question for all game devs. If you had 10 skill points, how would you spend them? Design: 0/10 Programming: 0/10 Marketing: 0/10 Business: 0/10
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Startup where these pillows are wired to the ceiling. Pull the lever and they go up/down
@levelsio
@levelsioApr 10
Why do girls want the bed to be full of decorative pillows that you don't use But then at night you have to remove all those pillows Like what's the reasoning here, it's completely form over function huh
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Wealthfront
@WealthfrontApr 6
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Understanding how to code and then choosing to vibe code anyway is definitely the greatest. But one thing that is tough is how much direction do I give? Do I really know problem X and the arch for it better than AI?
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I used to give a lot of arch direction, then I started giving almost none. Now I find that, for two way door decisions (most), I only start dictating arch when the AI does it clearly wrong (to some detriment) the first time
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Vibe coding a godot game (very minimal architecture direction). Got pretty far until the game just started freezing randomly on level creation. Agent couldn’t solve the issue. I had to actually get into the debugger and resolve myself! So I did, found the infinite loop. Then…
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I just gave that loop info back to the agent, and I’ve continued vibing since. Agents can’t solve everything all the time, but they can solve most things, most of the time. When they can’t, they just need more context. Doomers are doomed imo
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People love to pretend that all games share a common set of underlying technologies. Every game has different priorities, timelines, etc. Nothing will ever be “forever solved” across all games
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Will local models ever be good enough when they will always seem like idiots compared to online models?
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At that really fun part of a project where everything is working and I haven’t needed to peek into the mess my LLMs have made
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LLMs writing my commit messages makes me look like a good engineer
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Playing Mario Galaxy the other day, every single level of this game (and that levels unique mechanic) could be expanded to a full indie game.
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I need my x algo to completely remove any vague posting. I HATE these posts! I don’t even care about the subject but I have to dig in to find out that I don’t care! It makes this app suck
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Nasdaq Exchange
@NasdaqExchange12 Dec 2025
🎊 Welcome to @Nasdaq, @Wealthfront! 🎊 #NasdaqListed
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Jeff Richards
@jrichlive4 Oct 2025
Hot take: the people currently in their 20’s with Wealthfront accounts will be wealthier in their 40’s than the people currently in their 20’s with RobinHood accounts. 🤞
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I’ve updated my Gameboy app to Svelte 5! It was… trickier than expected. Click in to read the details.... (Svelte 4 code on the left, Svelte 5 code on the right)
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Final Thoughts: I love Svelte 3/4, but it could feel broken in nonintuitive ways. Svelte 5 is feeling imperfect, but somewhat more explicitly. Like yes, I need to type more, but I expect I’ll be able to spot broken code faster in the Svelte 5 once I’m more used to it.
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If you want to see more neat web dev / game dev posts, you could follow me. If you’d like to read all the old / new code, here are the repos: 5: github.com/backlitbytes/Svel… 4: github.com/backlitbytes/lil-… What do y'all of Svelte 5 so far?
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