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Cadenceweekly · Fridays · 09:00 ISTNotes from a studio that ships in print.
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Radar this week · 02 — nothing moved on the wire, one endpoint moved on ours
Edition 02 lands quiet by design — the daily scrape's diff window hasn't filled, so the changes table is empty. The week's news is on the adjacent surface: penpot2react became the seventh endpoint on the Dev Snippets API.
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Why a puzzle game belongs on a software studio's homepage
Arrow Shift is on /games for three reasons: a traffic loop the rest of the site can't reach, a quiet rebuttal to 'all corporate, no fun', and a forcing function for the parts of the stack a marketing page never exercises. Plus the daily-puzzle math.
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Radar this week · 01 — twenty-one tools added, zero price moves
The first edition of the radar journal. Coverage tripled overnight when the seed list landed, the daily scrape pulled fresh pricing on every coding tool, and nothing actually changed price — which is itself a data point worth recording.
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How the six-endpoint Dev Snippets API got built in one weekend
A frank rundown of how the Dev Snippets API actually came together — sql.js as the database, Next route handlers, test-key tier bypass, and the schema migration that 500'd /v1/keys until we noticed.
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- #025min read
How we ship every week
An operating manual for a one-person studio. The unit, the cadence, the tools, and the things we cut to make Friday work.
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Why we built Elofyn
A short note on why a one-person studio exists in 2026, what we mean by 'practical', and the small set of beliefs the work is built on.
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