Journal

Notes on craft.

Short essays on building native apps, working with Swift, and exploring the open web.

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Jun 30, 20268 min read
Replaying the chain locally: the fork that made my bot's simulations affordable
A bot that picks fights by simulating the game's battle engine needs hundreds of thousands of on-chain reads. The free RPC tier can't keep up, and I refused to pay for it. The fix: fork the chain onto my own machine — and the memory bug that taught me elegant isn't the same as correct.
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May 3, 20267 min read
Anatomy of the PatolabsOG contract
229 lines of Solidity, an ERC-721 with on-chain SVG art, a 1-per-tier invariant enforced on transfers, and a few design decisions worth explaining.
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