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Latest- 18 Oct 2026Onboarding without flattening: what 9T keeps hard on purpose
A tester opened 9T and understood nothing. bievh kept the guide at four tabs and left the rest hidden. Two weeks later tuanddd proposed a story opening at full power, reset to level 1.
- 18 Oct 2026Play a quarter, wait the rest: the dead-air problem in turn-based artillery games
In a four-player artillery match you play about a quarter of the time and nothing after you die. tieubao's T/N formula and the off-turn options the lobshot thread raised.
- 18 Oct 2026Twenty accounts and the rich players: the economy loop behind farm-and-fight MMOs
bievh's account of why farm-and-fight MMOs pay: 20-account farmers supply the rich players, who keep paying. Plus the Vietnam licensing wall a solo builder hits before launch.
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110- 18 Oct 2026Onboarding without flattening: what 9T keeps hard on purposeAnalysisProduct engineering
- 18 Oct 2026Play a quarter, wait the rest: the dead-air problem in turn-based artillery gamesAnalysisProduct engineering
- 18 Oct 2026Twenty accounts and the rich players: the economy loop behind farm-and-fight MMOsAnalysisMarkets and strategy
- 27 Aug 2026Assert, require and revert: enforcing smart contract invariants in SolidityResearch notesDigital assets
- 27 Aug 2026Evidence communication: inform your audience instead of persuading themResearch notesEngineering practice
- 27 Aug 2026General Solidity best practices: abstract contracts, interfaces and checksResearch notesDigital assets
- 27 Aug 2026How many users should you interview?Research notesProduct engineering
- 27 Aug 2026Lester Dent's master plot for pulp fictionResearch notesKnowledge work
- 27 Aug 2026Spend more time in the problem space before you chase a solutionResearch notesProduct engineering
- 27 Aug 2026The three clicks rule is a mythResearch notesProduct engineering
- 27 Aug 2026User research teams as organizational multipliersResearch notesProduct engineering
- 27 Aug 2026Why expressing uncertainty does not undermine a researcher's authorityResearch notesEngineering practice
- 1 Jan 2024Team profileAbout
- 16 Oct 2023UXPlaybooksProduct engineering
- 8 Jun 2023A paid project as an interview assessment at DwarvesResearch notesEngineering practice
- 29 May 2023How we created an AI powered interview system using OpenAI's ChatGPTResearch notesAI agents
- 24 Apr 2023A layer 2 design system with zkEVM and zero-knowledge proofsResearch notesDigital assets
- 24 Apr 2023Choosing a JavaScript framework: React versus Angular versus VueResearch notesProduct engineering
- 24 Apr 2023Lessons learned from a corporate micro-frontend implementationResearch notesProduct engineering
- 17 Apr 2023Lessons learned from concurrency in blockchain projectsResearch notesDigital assets
- 11 Apr 2023Database designs for multilingual apps: column, JSON and translation tablesResearch notesEngineering practice
- 3 Apr 2023Accelerating project initiation with a Next.js boilerplate and React toolkitResearch notesProduct engineering
- 3 Apr 2023An i18n guideline for frontends: locale detection, routing and RTL textResearch notesProduct engineering
- 3 Apr 2023How blue-green deployment helped Mochi Bot ship updatesResearch notesPlatform ops
- 27 Mar 2023Radio talk 61: adopting a monorepo with Turborepo and NxResearch notesEngineering practice
- 20 Mar 2023From multi-repo to monorepo: a case study with Nghenhan TurboField reportProduct engineering
- 26 Dec 2022The key security mechanisms for tackling cyber threatsResearch notesProduction readiness
- 9 Sep 2022Secret management on iOS: from obfuscation to keeping secrets off the deviceResearch notesProduct engineering
- 29 Aug 2022A data analyst in retail trading: Power BI and SQL for business insightResearch notesFinancial systems
- 14 Apr 2021Six lessons from design thinking for everyday decisionsResearch notesProduct engineering
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- 10 Apr 2021Gitflow and pull requests: branching models, reviews and workflowsResearch notesPlatform ops
- 6 Apr 2021Git commit message convention: types, scopes and subjectsResearch notesPlatform ops
- 8 Mar 2021Software engineering is engineering: the case for itResearch notesEngineering practice
- 16 Feb 2021How we set up CI/CD at DwarvesResearch notesPlatform ops
- 23 Jan 2021Getting started with Webflow: responsive sites on a no-code platformResearch notesProduct engineering
- 24 Nov 2020UI design best practices at Dwarves: Figma handover to developersResearch notesProduct engineering
- 5 Nov 2020XPC services in a macOS app with SwiftResearch notesProduct engineering
- 3 Nov 2020The correct way to build a KPI, with a mindful view of measurementResearch notesEngineering practice
- 21 Oct 2020The Domain Insight Research framework for understanding a new industryResearch notesProduct engineering
- 17 Aug 2020Grids and layout: columns, gutters and responsive techniquesResearch notesProduct engineering
- 13 Jul 2020Gestalt principles in UI design: proximity, similarity and closureResearch notesProduct engineering
- 15 Jun 2020A quick introduction to WebAssembly, part 1: why it exists and how JavaScript runsResearch notesProduct engineering
- 15 Jun 2020A quick introduction to WebAssembly, part 2: from asm.js to WebAssemblyResearch notesProduct engineering
- 19 May 2020Software development life cycle 101: phases and artifactsResearch notesEngineering practice
- 9 May 2020How a design system works: naming for colors, text styles and componentsResearch notesProduct engineering
- 8 May 2020Software modeling: core objects, diagrams and maintainabilityResearch notesEngineering practice
- 5 May 2020Reusability in software development, part 1: benefits, problems and the reuse landscapeResearch notesEngineering practice
- 5 May 2020Reusability in software development, part 2: application frameworks and product linesResearch notesEngineering practice
- 4 May 2020Blockchain for designers: trust, decentralization and immutabilityResearch notesDigital assets
- 24 Apr 2020An introduction to software craftsmanship at DwarvesResearch notesEngineering practice
- 27 Mar 2020Architecture decision records: documenting software choicesResearch notesEngineering practice
- 27 Mar 2020Building an AI assistant for the terminal with MimirResearch notesEngineering practice
- 20 Sep 2019Seven traits to assess in an interviewPlaybooksEngineering practice
- 24 Aug 2019The broker pattern in distributed systems: decoupling clients and serversResearch notesArchitecture
- 9 Jun 2019Istio service mesh: traffic management, security and observabilityResearch notesEngineering practice
- 18 May 2019Byzantine agreement: Stellar consensus with quorum slicesResearch notesDigital assets
- 15 May 2019Hyperledger Fabric architecture for permissioned enterprise networksResearch notesDigital assets
- 2 May 2019Splitting and reusing code in React: render props, HOCs and hooksResearch notesEngineering practice
- 21 Feb 2019Borrowing & requesting company assetsAbout
- 1 Nov 2018The principle of spacing in UI design, part 2: line height and paragraph spacingResearch notesProduct engineering
- 26 Aug 2018Card sorting for information architecture and an experimental sorting sessionResearch notesProduct engineering
- 23 Jul 2018About DevOps: continuous integration, automation and collaborationResearch notesPlatform ops
- 2 Apr 2018What makes good design: usability, accessibility, credibility and typographyResearch notesProduct engineering
- 1 Apr 2018A competency map for user research, design and client managementResearch notesProduct engineering
- 23 Mar 2018Building a design system that unites teams and speeds up design workResearch notesProduct engineering
- 22 Mar 2018A design workflow from user research to UI principlesResearch notesProduct engineering
- 20 Mar 2018UI design fundamentals: aesthetics, content and interactionResearch notesProduct engineering
- 17 Jul 2017Be careful with your code splitting setup: scroll resets in virtual listsResearch notesProduct engineering
- 13 Mar 2016How we contribute to HomebrewPlaybooksEngineering practice
- 12 Feb 2016Estimation in agile: story points, time and planning pokerResearch notesEngineering practice
- Agile requirement - user storyPlaybooksEngineering practice
- Agile team workflowPlaybooksEngineering practice
- Application health checks and status pagesPlaybooksPlatform ops
- Basic security practicesPlaybooksProduction readiness
- Best practices in blockchain developmentPlaybooksDigital assets
- Code editorsPlaybooksEngineering practice
- Continuous integrationPlaybooksPlatform ops
- Database migrationPlaybooksData
- Database migration in iOS developmentPlaybooksProduct engineering
- Defect report templatePlaybooksProduction readiness
- Definition of done (DoD)PlaybooksEngineering practice
- Development security checklistPlaybooksProduction readiness
- Diagram and project document structurePlaybooksEngineering practice
- DotfilesPlaybooksPlatform ops
- EnvironmentsPlaybooksPlatform ops
- Error message conventionPlaybooksEngineering practice
- Frontend code stylePlaybooksProduct engineering
- Frontend tech ecosystemPlaybooksProduct engineering
- How we do code reviewPlaybooksProduction readiness
- Incident management and postmortemsPlaybooksPlatform ops
- LicensingPlaybooksEngineering practice
- Logging and monitoringPlaybooksPlatform ops
- Logging systemPlaybooksPlatform ops
- Pair programmingPlaybooksEngineering practice
- Project charterPlaybooksEngineering practice
- Project handover checklistsPlaybooksEngineering practice
- Project README templatePlaybooksEngineering practice
- Project setupPlaybooksEngineering practice
- QA practices and definition of donePlaybooksProduction readiness
- READMEPlaybooksEngineering practice
- Release checklistPlaybooksPlatform ops
- Repository setupPlaybooksPlatform ops
- RESTful APIPlaybooksArchitecture
- Semantic versioningPlaybooksEngineering practice
- Source version controlPlaybooksPlatform ops
- Technology stackPlaybooksEngineering practice
- Test plans, test cases and closurePlaybooksProduction readiness
- The 12-factor appPlaybooksPlatform ops
- Writing a useful changelogPlaybooksEngineering practice
- Writing frontend testsPlaybooksProduction readiness