Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | What I’d Tell Myself Before Starting (October 13, 2026)
Tuesday, October 13, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play What was harder than it looked Building the app was the easy part. Getting…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | The First Cent (October 8, 2026)
Thursday, October 8, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Revenue, technically Interestingly, the Chaos Screen Recorder received one cent of revenue today. Someone…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | AdMob Registered for the Live App (October 6, 2026)
Tuesday, October 6, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Ready for revenue I registered AdMob for the new Chaos Screen Recorder, which is…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | A Wrong Declaration Slowing Down the Release (October 5, 2026)
Monday, October 5, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Why was it taking so long? The release was taking about three days and…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Approved for Production (October 3, 2026)
Saturday, October 3, 2026 (starting before dawn) Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play The approval I got on the computer, looked at the tasks…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Waiting for Production (October 1, 2026)
Thursday, October 1, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Still waiting I am still waiting for production testing to be confirmed for the…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | The Last Days of Closed Testing (September 26, 2026)
Saturday, September 26, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Expecting a no The Chaos Screen Recorder is up to its last days before…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Dark Mode Bug From a Tester (September 18, 2026)
Friday, September 18, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play A tester finds a bug One of the testers found a bug in my…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | What I’d Tell Myself Before Starting (Lessons Learned)
Reflections on Polymatrix, July 7 to September 14, 2026 Get Polymatrix on Google Play Polymatrix started as a shower thought: could Fable 5 make polygon…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Record and Stop on One Line (September 15, 2026)
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Another round of changes I put the Chaos Screen Recorder through another round of…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Rejected Over an Icon, Then Live on Google Play (September 14, 2026)
Monday, September 14, 2026 Get Polymatrix on Google Play The icon discrepancy Polymatrix actually got rejected because of an icon discrepancy. I was using a…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | The Twelfth Tester Signs In (September 14, 2026)
Monday, September 14, 2026 (into the early morning) Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Fourteen more days I saw that Polymatrix was finally approved,…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | The New Look, Tested (September 13, 2026)
Sunday, September 13, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Back in the garage While I waited for some mac and cheese, I tested…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Production Access Granted and Shorter Mini Games (September 12, 2026)
Saturday, September 12, 2026 Get Polymatrix on Google Play Approved for production I checked Google Play Console and saw that Polymatrix had been approved for…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Icons, Titles and a Drop-Down Control Box (September 12, 2026)
Saturday, September 12, 2026 (into the early morning) Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Eleven testers, one to go I made some updates to…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Fourteen Days Done: Submitting Polymatrix to Google Play (September 10, 2026)
Thursday, September 10, 2026 (early morning) Get Polymatrix on Google Play The end of closed testing Yesterday was the final day of testing. Polymatrix had…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Plan: More Testing and AdMob (September 9, 2026)
Wednesday, September 9, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play What comes next I might have to start on the Chaos Screen Recorder and…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Hunting the Whack-a-Mole Bug (September 4, 2026)
Friday, September 4, 2026 (the night before into the morning) Get Polymatrix on Google Play A mini game that wouldn’t finish The night before, testing…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Seven Testers (September 3, 2026)
Thursday, September 3, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Helping testers to get testers I spent the night helping closed testers with their…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | The Tutorial Goes Live (September 2, 2026)
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 (morning to late night) Get Polymatrix on Google Play First thing in the morning When I woke up at 8:15 a.m.,…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Designing a Level Zero Tutorial (September 1, 2026)
Tuesday, September 1, 2026 Get Polymatrix on Google Play A tutorial with pointing fingers I wrote out a big prompt to add a tutorial at…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Taming the Globulator Life Rafts (August 31, 2026)
Monday, August 31, 2026 (evening) Get Polymatrix on Google Play The globulator was too generous I upgraded my Claude plan, and the first thing I…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Hunting for Closed Testers and a Polymatrix Video (August 31, 2026)
Monday, August 31, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Closed testers I looked at the testers I could get for the app. I…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | What I’d Tell Myself Before Starting (Lessons Learned)
A look back at the whole build, from the first gym log in March 2026 to the Google Play launch on August 28, 2026. Get…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Fixing the Ad Timing and Testing Analytics (August 28, 2026)
Friday, August 28, 2026 Get Polymatrix on Google Play The game started under the ad I was testing Polymatrix to see whether Google Analytics would…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Approved for Production: BeStreak Goes Live on Google Play (August 28, 2026)
August 28, 2026. 1:00 p.m. until 11:15 p.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play The umpteenth check This morning I was still waiting for an update….
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Four Mini Games and a Lottery Bowl (August 27, 2026)
Thursday, August 27, 2026 Get Polymatrix on Google Play Helping testers, cleaning screens By 10:50 a.m. I had worked with some closed testers, sending them…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Bugs Gone, Status Unchanged (August 27, 2026)
August 27, 2026. Morning and early afternoon. Get BeStreak on Google Play Checked on the phone In the morning I uploaded an update while I…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Twelve Testers and a Cleaner Home Screen (August 26, 2026)
Wednesday, August 26, 2026 (into the early morning) Get Polymatrix on Google Play Testers testing I did some closed testing for other developers, and they…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | A Pop-Up Inside a Pop-Up (August 26, 2026)
August 26, 2026. Late night until 2:30 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play The report Some guy came onto Facebook and told me there was…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Closed Testing Begins, a Neon Look and Irregular Flasks (August 25, 2026)
Tuesday, August 25, 2026 (morning to late night) Get Polymatrix on Google Play A 3D look While I was getting Lance ready, I quickly created…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | A Plain Bagel and 3,500 Meals (August 25, 2026)
August 25, 2026. Late night. Get BeStreak on Google Play Base meals Tonight I updated the BeStreak app with new meals, up to about 3,500…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | The Closed Testing Release and a Policy Violation Fixed (August 25, 2026)
Tuesday, August 25, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play A new version, with feature images At 12:50 p.m. the new Chaos Screen Recorder…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Packaging Polymatrix for Google Play (August 24, 2026)
Monday, August 24, 2026 (evening into the early morning) Get Polymatrix on Google Play Pivoting back to Polymatrix I was thinking of pivoting back to…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Smart Notifications and an Anxious Look at the Numbers (August 24, 2026)
August 24, 2026. Midday to 5:15 p.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Fourteen days, again I saw that the fourteen days of closed testing had…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Floating Buttons That Got in the Way (August 23, 2026)
August 23, 2026. Morning and evening. Get BeStreak on Google Play A tester recommendation The update I did was something one of the closed testers…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Ideas: What Would You Like to Do Today? (August 22, 2026)
August 22, 2026. Afternoon. Get BeStreak on Google Play A panel of choices Some people, when they come onto the app, aren’t sure where to…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Recording My Own Gameplay With It (August 19, 2026)
Wednesday, August 19, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Using it on a different game I installed one of my games on my…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Recruiting Testers in Facebook Groups (August 16, 2026)
August 16, 2026. 3:30 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. the next night. Get BeStreak on Google Play Pushing harder I’ve been working with Facebook groups to…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Six Apps in Six Months (August 16, 2026)
Sunday, August 16, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play The plan I can push some games onto Steam and others onto Apple, but…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Finding Where the Nutrition Data Lives (August 15, 2026)
August 15, 2026. Afternoon. Get BeStreak on Google Play More meals, but where? Last night I let Claude Cowork update the meal and beverage database,…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Twenty Test Accounts for Testers (August 11, 2026)
August 11, 2026. Afternoon. Get BeStreak on Google Play Making it easy to get in I invited a few more people to do the closed…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Not Approved: Fourteen More Days (August 10, 2026)
August 10, 2026. Afternoon. Get BeStreak on Google Play More testing needed Interestingly, today when I checked the BeStreak app, it was not approved for…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Pretty Much Complete, and No Pay to Win (August 8, 2026)
Saturday, August 8, 2026 Get Polymatrix on Google Play Next on the whiteboard With another app going through its publishing steps, I could start the…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Fourteen Days Done: Applying for Production (August 8, 2026)
August 8, 2026. 5:30 p.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Past closed testing I knew that my BeStreak PB Tracker app would now be past…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Next Up: Chaos Screen Recorder and Polymatrix (August 8, 2026)
Saturday, August 8, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Waiting on approval I went through the steps to publish my personal best tracker….
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | What I’d Tell Myself Before Starting (Lessons Learned)
Reflections after 14 weeks, 550+ versions, and one seven-year-old co-designer Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Floor Is Lava started as a seven-year-old talking…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | First Organic Download and Automating Promotion (August 5, 2026)
Wednesday, August 5, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play The first download from a stranger A small but real milestone: downloads ticked up…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Fixing the Premium Sign-In Bug for Good (August 4, 2026)
Tuesday, August 4, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play The premium sign-in bug, properly fixed A lighter day, running on not much sleep,…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Building the Trigger Registry System (August 3, 2026)
Monday, August 3, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Morning testing, before school The newest build had gone live overnight, so the morning…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | First Revenue and the “AI Slop” Comments (August 2, 2026)
Sunday, August 2, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Console listing touch-ups A quieter, tidying-up kind of day. A teaser video for Scorcha’s…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Madcap Test Recording and the Game Volume Fix (August 2, 2026)
Sunday, August 2, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Madcap fun I tested the Chaos Screen Recorder by doing some madcap fun: yelling…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Published Live on Google Play (August 1, 2026)
Saturday, August 1, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Approved for production The day started with the news: Floor Is Lava had been…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | A Tester Switch for Premium (August 1, 2026)
Saturday, August 1, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Still no premium I got up, checked the computer and opened the Chaos Screen…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | An Automated Promotion Pipeline (July 31, 2026)
Friday, July 31, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Promotional artwork and an automated pipeline Built promotional art from real in-game assets: the…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Premium Will Not Work, So I Rebuilt the App (July 31, 2026)
Friday, July 31, 2026 (into the early morning) Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Another upload before the school run For about twenty minutes…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Lance Draws the Lava Ship (July 30, 2026)
Thursday, July 30, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Lance draws the lava ship A genuinely lovely collaborative moment: found a spaceship Lance…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | A Dial for Drop Sets (July 30, 2026)
July 30, 2026. Afternoon. Get BeStreak on Google Play Found mid set There was one small bug I came across when I was doing drop…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Subscriptions and a Remove Ads Purchase (July 30, 2026)
Thursday, July 30, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play More compute, more projects Once I was back home I worked on the Chaos…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | A Toy Lava Ship for Lance (July 29, 2026)
Wednesday, July 29, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play A toy lava ship for Lance A small, off-screen echo of the game showed…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | A Banner Ad in Settings and Newer Google Libraries (July 29, 2026)
Wednesday, July 29, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Hitting the limit in two prompts I paid for another month of Claude on…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Final Polish Before Launch (July 28, 2026)
Tuesday, July 28, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Final polish: leaderboards and victory music A last bug sweep before launch: victory screens…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | “I’ll Be Live on Wednesday” (July 27, 2026)
Monday, July 27, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play An apostrophe crashed the game Found and fixed a genuinely sneaky bug: the code-comment-stripping…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Ads Before You Record and a Review Video for Google (July 27, 2026)
Monday, July 27, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play A video for Google Play Console It was a bit of a job. I…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Update Notifications and Version 515 (July 26, 2026)
Sunday, July 26, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Update notifications Looked into automatic update delivery and chose the more portable option: a…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Weekly Stats on Opening the App (July 26, 2026)
July 26, 2026. Early morning. Get BeStreak on Google Play Your week I checked the updates in the app as well as the online version,…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Calendar Overlays, Meal Plans and a Direct Way to Add a Personal Best (July 25, 2026)
July 25, 2026. Morning, and from the car. Get BeStreak on Google Play What remains The nutrition calendar and the meal plans have been coded…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Version 504, Nothing Left to Build (July 24, 2026)
Friday, July 24, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Version 504, and pure testing Nothing left to build: downloaded v504 onto the phone…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | The Twelfth Tester, a Nutrition Tab and a Meal Plan (July 24, 2026)
July 24, 2026. 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play The twelfth tester saw nothing A guy downloaded the app, and that…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | The Google Play Questionnaire and the First Signed Bundle (July 23, 2026)
Thursday, July 23, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Getting it ready for closed testing After I got back home from getting the…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Hearts, Checkpoints, and a Bug-Replay Tool (July 22, 2026)
Wednesday, July 22, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Hearts and checkpoints Added collectible hearts after finding the last level brutally hard to…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | AdMob, Firebase, a Landing Page and a Red Theme (July 22, 2026)
Wednesday, July 22, 2026 (starting after midnight) Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Focusing on the recorder Because I could finally step away from…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Bug Hunting From the Mattress (July 22, 2026)
July 22, 2026. Early morning and afternoon. Get BeStreak on Google Play Testing where I don’t usually go I downloaded the latest update on my…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Round Dials on Every Input (July 21, 2026)
July 21, 2026. Evening until midnight. Get BeStreak on Google Play Too many buttons I did a pass of the BeStreak app. I think it…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Difficulty Tiers, Legs, and Lance’s Dinner Feedback (July 21, 2026)
Tuesday, July 21, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Three difficulties, and legs Added Easy, Normal, and Hard difficulty tiers to Story Mode:…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Recording Lance Finishing His Level (July 20, 2026)
Monday, July 20, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Another finished level Lance kept playing his game, and eventually he finished it. I…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Tester Bugs Fixed, a Unit Converter and Five AI Personas (July 20, 2026)
July 20, 2026. Afternoon until 2:15 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Two fixes from a tester A closed tester had mentioned two issues. On…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Stress-Testing the Build (July 20, 2026)
Monday, July 20, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Testing, not building A quieter day: no new features, just climbing nearly 1,000 platforms…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Two Thousand Meals and the First Outside Bug Report (July 19, 2026)
July 19, 2026. Afternoon until 4:00 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Salad math I used the nutrition database to put my regular salad together,…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Eight More Days Until the Game Is Live (July 19, 2026)
Sunday, July 19, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Scorcha scales with the story Tuned Scorcha’s boss fights to appear every seventh level…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | The Hot Water Bubble and a Higher Exit Target (July 18, 2026)
Saturday, July 18, 2026 (late afternoon) Get Polymatrix on Google Play Building the hot water bubble I got home at 4:55 p.m., and the first…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | A Food Scale, Small Wording Fixes and Seven Cents (July 18, 2026)
July 18, 2026. Evening until 2:30 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Weighing a salad The nutrition database is now up to 1,550 meals and…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | A Full Icon Set and Boss Mode Polish (July 18, 2026)
Saturday, July 18, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Boss mode, made presentable Boss mode worked mechanically from yesterday but looked too primitive:…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Pulling Baddies Forward and Merging Two Versions (July 17, 2026)
Friday, July 17, 2026 Get Polymatrix on Google Play Gaming the usage clock I played Polymatrix in the shower before heading home. I’d worked out…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Boss Mode and Scorcha’s Backstory (July 17, 2026)
Friday, July 17, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play The guest-account payment hunt Traced a guest-account Paddle payment that appeared to succeed in…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Server-Side Payments Confirmed Working (July 16, 2026)
Thursday, July 16, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play A frustrating, essential day A genuinely rough stretch; the whole day spent wrestling with…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | A Console-Log Build, Long-Press Tilt and the Jellyfish (July 15, 2026)
Wednesday, July 15, 2026 (all day into the late night) Get Polymatrix on Google Play Testing on the go After my shower I loaded the…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Moving the Coin Economy Server-Side (July 15, 2026)
Wednesday, July 15, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Moving the economy server-side A major hardening pass against the cheating vulnerability found on…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Building a Game Without Knowing Physics (July 14, 2026)
Tuesday, July 14, 2026 Get Polymatrix on Google Play Explaining Polymatrix at home I showed the Polymatrix game to a family member at home and…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Chasing the Crash and a New Win Screen (July 14, 2026)
Tuesday, July 14, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Chasing the crash, and a proper win screen Traced the crash bug further; it…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Third in the Release Queue (July 14, 2026)
Tuesday, July 14, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play The order of releases I worked out the order. My personal best tracker goes…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Spin the Bottle, Hot Beads and a Tuning Guide (July 13, 2026)
Monday, July 13, 2026 (into the early morning) Get Polymatrix on Google Play Talking the game into my phone Yesterday was a super manic day:…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Recording Lance’s Finished Level (July 13, 2026)
Monday, July 13, 2026 (into the early morning) Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Building out the recorder I built out the recorder with…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Custom Meals and a Promise to Stop Adding Features (July 13, 2026)
July 13, 2026. Early morning and evening. Get BeStreak on Google Play Seventy five, then two hundred and thirty seven By early morning the nutrition…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Ten Testers and a Confirmed Crash Bug (July 13, 2026)
Monday, July 13, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Ten testers, and a confirmed crash Up to ten testers now, two short of…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Polymatrix on My Phone (July 12, 2026)
Sunday, July 12, 2026 (afternoon into the night) Get Polymatrix on Google Play Waking up to the game Today I woke up at about 4:50…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | A Version That Hides the Record Button Completely (July 12, 2026)
Sunday, July 12, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play A new version before sleep Before sleep last night I had the screen recorder…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Starting the Nutrition Database (July 12, 2026)
July 12, 2026. Late night until 4:30 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Cataloging meals I opened up the BeStreak project and asked Claude AI…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Seven Testers and a Confirmed Coin Exploit (July 12, 2026)
Sunday, July 12, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Seven testers, and a real vulnerability Up to seven closed testers, five short of…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Music That Follows Your Fingers, and the First APK (July 11, 2026)
Saturday, July 11, 2026 (early morning) Get Polymatrix on Google Play Thirty minutes of usage left At 6:30 a.m. I had thirty minutes of usage…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | A Test Purchase, Smarter BMR, and Why This App Is Easy to Code (July 11, 2026)
July 11, 2026. 4:00 p.m. until 6:30 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Checking what is live I wanted to check whether the ads and…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Anti-Cheat Testing Finds a Sandbox Coin Leak (July 11, 2026)
Saturday, July 11, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Level editor cleanup: v358 to v367 A long stretch of level-editor debugging: fixed a…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | First Outside Testers Recruited (July 10, 2026)
Friday, July 10, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play A live in-page configurator Built a new platform configurator that pops out directly on…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Polymatrix Gets Its Name and 100 Glass Chambers (July 10, 2026)
Friday, July 10, 2026 (into the late night) Get Polymatrix on Google Play Burning usage on a Friday It was Friday, and I had two…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Six More Features, a Debug Panel and Blood Pressure (July 10, 2026)
July 10, 2026. 11:00 p.m. until 8:25 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play What is left to build I loaded my diary and the latest…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Two Builds From Now On, and a Website Plan (July 9, 2026)
July 9, 2026. After 2:00 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play One change, two files I created a new rule for my instructions. From now…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | A Project Tracker and a Real-World Playtest (July 9, 2026)
Thursday, July 9, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play A project tracker, built from scratch Built a genuinely useful side tool tonight: a…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Version 5 and the Two-Finger Swirl (July 8, 2026)
Wednesday, July 8, 2026 Get Polymatrix on Google Play A game without a name Lance showed me the new level he was building, and after…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Debugging by Video and the First Trailer (July 8, 2026)
Wednesday, July 8, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Mapping the coin economy Had Claude generate a full flow chart and a 12-scenario…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | A Fable 5 Experiment Becomes a New Game (July 7, 2026)
Tuesday, July 7, 2026 (late night into the early morning) Get Polymatrix on Google Play An idea in the shower When I finished at the…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | 39 Help Pages and Claude Playtests the Game (July 7, 2026)
Tuesday, July 7, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play 39 pages of help articles, built overnight Checked in on the Cowork task from…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Looking for Twelve Testers (July 7, 2026)
July 7, 2026. Afternoon and late night. Get BeStreak on Google Play A hiatus The BeStreak app is in hiatus at the moment because it…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | AdSense Rejection and an SEO Tutorial Site (July 6, 2026)
Monday, July 6, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play AdSense rejection, and why Google AdSense rejected the Floor Is Lava website tonight; policy…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Submitted for Closed Testing, Plus Drop Sets (July 6, 2026)
July 6, 2026. Afternoon until 12:30 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Showing it at home In the afternoon I showed the app to someone…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | RevenueCat, a Test Purchase and a Usage Dashboard (July 5, 2026)
July 5, 2026. Afternoon until 2:10 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play A mess of screens I picked up where I left off, creating products…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Twenty Minutes of Floor Is Lava on Video (July 5, 2026)
Sunday, July 5, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play The test recording I took a break to record video for Floor Is Lava…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | A Real Recorded Playtest Session (July 5, 2026)
Sunday, July 5, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Focusing on one game at a time Consciously decided to stop context-switching between Floor…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Closed Testing Live, Recruiting Testers (July 4, 2026)
Saturday, July 4, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Closed testing, screenshotted Set up closed testing properly; added myself as a tester via…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Analytics, Subscriptions and a Photo Cap Idea From the Treadmill (July 4, 2026)
July 4, 2026. Afternoon until 5:00 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Watching the caps I played around with the shop and all the different…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | The One-Pixel Record Button (July 4, 2026)
Saturday, July 4, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Disabling the screenshot button I had already created a version of the app bundle…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Guest Login and Submitted to Closed Testing (July 3, 2026)
Friday, July 3, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Let people play without an account A genuinely important UX fix started today: Floor…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Into Google Play Console, and Forty Four Screenshots (July 3, 2026)
July 3, 2026. 4:30 a.m. until 4:30 a.m. the next day. Get BeStreak on Google Play Debugging sign-in with alerts I woke at 4:30 a.m….
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Custom Muscles, a Signed Bundle and Sign In With Google (July 2, 2026)
July 2, 2026. Morning until 10:10 p.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Version 237 I worked on two features this morning. First, when I throw…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | 99% Complete, Waiting on Ad Approval (July 1, 2026)
Wednesday, July 1, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play 99% complete, waiting on ads A short status entry while most of the day’s…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Ads Go In: AdMob, a Second Domain and Background Themes (July 1, 2026)
July 1, 2026. 11:40 a.m. until after 1:00 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play The domain name mix-up Around 11:40 a.m. I purchased the dot…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Hiding the Buttons While Recording (July 1, 2026)
Wednesday, July 1, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Working on the overlay Alongside the other app I was building, I worked on…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Real Payments Tested End to End (June 29, 2026)
Monday, June 29, 2026: approx. afternoon to past midnight Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Showing a friend: “It’s pretty good” Demoed the game…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | A Logo That Would Not Behave, and Version 207 (June 29, 2026)
June 29, 2026. 2:00 a.m. to 4:15 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Logo trouble I got home around 2 a.m. and had the idea…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | The Buttons Showed Up in the Video (June 29, 2026)
Monday, June 29, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Recording Lance playing We turned my phone on, Lance picked the game, and I…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Filling Out the Google Play Store Listing (June 28, 2026)
Sunday, June 28, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Filling out the shop Steady admin progress on the Google Play Console listing: three…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | PB Tracker Becomes BeStreak (June 28, 2026)
June 28, 2026. Afternoon and late evening. Get BeStreak on Google Play The new name I rebranded the PB Tracker to be called BeStreak. It…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | A Geometry Dash Channel for Lance (June 28, 2026)
Sunday, June 28, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Putting the recorder on his phone I told Lance, “Let me go get the…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | The 12-Tester, 14-Day Path to Google Play Release (June 27, 2026)
Saturday, June 27, 2026; approx. afternoon to 9:30 p.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Showing a friend the pipeline Walked a friend through…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Next Step: Google Play and a Name of Its Own (June 27, 2026)
June 27, 2026. Evening, and after midnight. Get BeStreak on Google Play Where it stands The PB Tracker app is right up there in the…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Showing a Friend What AI Built (June 27, 2026)
Saturday, June 27, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play “Have you ever used a screen recorder?” Towards the end of my time with…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Play Store Screenshots and Mode-Switch Bug Fix (June 26, 2026)
Friday, June 26, 2026; approx. evening to 1:05 a.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Screenshots for the Play Store listing Spent the evening…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | Grouped Settings and a Round Save Button (June 25, 2026)
Thursday, June 25, 2026 Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play Paying for more Claude At 1:05 a.m. I bought the Claude AI Max plan….
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | A Roadmap, a Domain, and a Serious Bug Caught (June 25, 2026)
Thursday, June 25, 2026; approx. 1:45 a.m. to 2:50 a.m. the next night Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play A roadmap and a Gantt…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | A New Death Screen and Layered Map Backgrounds (June 24, 2026)
Wednesday, June 24, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play A restless day, but a good death screen Not every session is a burst…
Chaos Screen Recorder: Developer Diary | I Built a Screen Recorder in One Day (June 24, 2026)
Wednesday, June 24, 2026 (into the early morning) Get Chaos Screen Recorder on Google Play A recorder for Lance’s games I tested the screen recorder…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Why Analytics Matter for Launch (June 23, 2026)
Tuesday, June 23, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Analytics as the missing piece Realised Google Analytics makes publishing worthwhile beyond just having…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Analytics, Ads and Native Sign-In Setup (June 22, 2026)
Monday, June 22, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Four setup tasks toward launch A documentation-and-configuration day, listing out what’s left before launch…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Playtesting Feedback and Teleport Bug Fixes (June 21, 2026)
Sunday, June 21, 2026; approx. 8:15 p.m. to 3:35 a.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play His mom plays the game: and finds a…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | The Game Already Has Name Recognition (June 20, 2026)
Saturday, June 20, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play “Floor is Lava!” A small but telling moment showing the game already has some…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Twenty Two Exercises by Voice, and One Stuck Recording (June 18, 2026)
June 18, 2026. Evening at the gym. Get BeStreak on Google Play The calendar keeps me honest When I came into the gym I looked…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | A Night Off From the Update Queue (June 17, 2026)
Wednesday, June 17, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Choosing what not to touch A short, deliberate note rather than a build session….
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Practically Complete, Heading to Play Console (June 16, 2026)
Tuesday, June 16, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Practically complete A short check-in: the game is now practically complete, sitting in Play…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Recording Audio Alongside Speech to Text (June 16, 2026)
June 16, 2026. Late night into the next morning. Get BeStreak on Google Play The idea I had a new idea for an audio recorder…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Redesigning the Power-Up Buttons (June 15, 2026)
Monday, June 15, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Redesigning the power-up buttons Uploaded the newest build to Play Console, then turned to…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | A Whole Session Without the Voice Recorder (June 15, 2026)
June 15, 2026. 1:20 a.m., after the gym. Get BeStreak on Google Play Confidence in the app I just completed my gym session. It’s interesting:…