Welcome to my home, version 3.5.
The best ideas are both simple and outlandish.
The best ideas are both simple and outlandish.
Today marks the day Hi Stakes Markets Game is feature complete.
It was a wild ride, the first version of this bad boy was in 2022 which I decided to go into Wolfram Alpha and Mathematica to devise a...
Gemini 2.5 Pro is better overall. 2.5 Pro March 2025 remains king. Gemini 3 is a step forward in some ways reasoning wise and a giant step back in following instructions. Just fighting too much wit...
I discuss in a previous post that Hi Stakes Market Game is under a feature freeze and I am ironing out bugs. One bug relates to asset valuations. Another terrible bug was related to my in memory db...
Hi Stakes Markets Game is now feature frozen. I should have feature froze sooner, but I needed to add support for the Bond Market. A financial simulator without the bond market is hallow. Bonds are...
Gemini 2.5 Pro March 2025 was the peak of Gemini. Ever since that, it's gone down hill. Somewhere around Summer '25 it regained some of that intelligence, but since Gemini 3 Pro Preview... yikes. G...
GitHub: excsn/ironwal
Crates.io: ironwal
For a while now, I've been diving deep into the foundations of durable storage. Every high-performance database or distributed system eventually needs a Write...
2025 was definitely something new, something different. 2025 was supposed to be the year of two financial related apps, but hah I failed at that. I failed because I discovered Gemini 2.5 Pro. 2025 ...
TL;DR: TypeScript + modern CSS, compiled straight to browser-ready ES modules, no node_modules, no package.json, no bundler chain.
I just created and released Snapfire Compiler (snapfirec), a tiny...
I've been super focused on Hi Stakes and wanted to give another update on the world of Hi Stakes Game. The core simulation I talked about last time, the one that ticks on its own with economies tha...