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The backend that ran every game we made, ten years and counting

16 points · 6 comments · MikeHer

  1. stevoski · · focus · HN ↗
    > I want to build a feature in the morning and have it live in the afternoon, and anything that gets in the way of that has to go.

    Love this!

    The philosophy behind how the author runs his app is very much like mine - go for simple, proven tech that you know really well.

    (For the people dismissing the article because AI, you are missing out on a good read.)

    1. flohofwoe · · focus · HN ↗
      So basically "move fast and break things", hardly new or controversial in the tech bro sphere ;)
      1. stevoski · · focus · HN ↗
        Reading back, I can see how you interpreted that way.

        But the quote from the article is in the context of a 1-person dev team, and how by keeping things really simple so that it is indeed _possible_ to build a feature in the morning and have it live in the afternoon.

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