Mandy Dumps Keith For Rory – Mad Chaos: March 21, 1996
First diary entry for March 21, 1996. Keith Gets Dumped, Power of Mind, Typing Speed Tests, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – World’s Longest Online Diary.
Stealing Gnomes From People’s Front Yards – Mad Chaos: October 3, 1996
Diary entry for October 3, 1996. Stealing Gnomes From People’s Houses, Recording Session With Kofi, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – Longest Online Diary
Bike Ride with Brother – Mad Chaos: August 16, 1996
First diary entry for August 16, 1996. Riding with Brother, Muscle Magazines, Solarium Preparation, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – Longest Online Diary
Questioned by Cops Over Lance Graves – Mad Chaos: May 13, 1996
Diary entry for May 13, 1996. Carey and Keith Break Up, Roughing Up Lance Graves, Confronted by Cops and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – Longest Online Diary.
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…
Preparing For Another Séance – Mad Chaos: December 23, 1996
Second diary entry for December 23, 1996. Christmas Shopping, Latest Gym Plan, Planning Next Séance, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – Longest Online Diary
Thursday Night Hanging Out At Macarthur Square – Mad Chaos: November 28, 1996
Look for work in CES, support Keith at job interview, Macarthur Square shopping, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – The World’s Largest Online Diary.
The Sexiest Lingerie Catalogue Arrives – Mad Chaos: October 29, 1997
Second diary entry for October 29, 1997. Lingerie Book Arrives, Manpower, Bad Girls, Call Lyssa, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – Longest Online Diary
Turning My Sights On Sama – Mad Chaos: April 2, 1997
First diary entry for April 2, 1997. Chasing Sama, Escape Nightclub, Chilling at Celina’s House, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – Longest Online Diary.
Riding My Bike at 60 km/h – Mad Chaos: August 3, 1996
First diary entry for August 3, 1996. Seeing My Crush, Riding Bike at 60km/h, Swimming with Tatton, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – Longest Online Diary
Clothes Shopping for my New Image – Mad Chaos: August 11, 1996
First diary entry for August 11, 1996. Woodbine Sports Stores, New Fashion Image, More Shopping, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – The Longest Online Diary
Almost Fighting Percival – Mad Chaos: July 7, 1996
Diary entry for July 7, 1996. Leaving My Friend Group, Almost Fighting Percival, Madlyn Or Aubree, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – Longest Online Diary
Lyssa Buys Her Year 12 Formal Dress – Mad Chaos: November 19, 1997
Diary entry for November 19, 1997. Need For Speed II, Discuss Formal With Lyssa, Express Love To Lyssa, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – Longest Online Diary
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Balancing Power-Ups With the Platform Configurator (May 7, 2026)
Thursday, May 7, 2026; approx. morning to 11:45 p.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Balancing the power-ups by spreadsheet logic Fixed the teleport…
Lunch With Lyssa In Sydney – Mad Chaos: March 5, 1998
Diary entry for March 5, 1998. Job Search, Sydney Shopping, Discuss Relationship With Lyssa, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – Longest Online Diary
Kathryn’s Birthday & Food Rationing – Mad Chaos: August 18, 1996
Diary entry for August 18, 1996. Playing Gridiron, Food and Supplements, Kathryn’s Birthday, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – World’s Longest Online Diary
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | The Bad Guy Enemy and an Online Leaderboard (May 4, 2026)
Monday, May 4, 2026; approx. 11:30 a.m. to past midnight Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play The bad guy Today’s headline feature: a recurring…
Tod’s Car Gets Broken Into – Mad Chaos: December 22, 1996
First diary entry for December 22, 1996. End Of Year Coming, Fights At Chevys, Tod’s Car Gets Burgled, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – Longest Online Diary
Introduced To My Brother’s Girlfriend – Mad Chaos: September 6, 1996
Diary entry for September 6, 1996. Preparing For Sydney, 3 Microphone Mix Deck, Brother’s Girlfriend, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – Longest Online Diary
Floor Is Lava | Developer Diary: Day 3 | Ice Platforms and the First GitHub Push (April 30, 2026)
Thursday, April 30, 2026; approx. 1:57 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Playing it back Between transcription work I sat…
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…
Accomplishing Weight Goals – Mad Chaos: August 19, 1996
Diary entry for August 19, 1996. Olympus Gym Routine, Accomplishing Weight Goals, Boxing, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – World’s Longest Online Diary
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…
Struggling with Depression – Mad Chaos: July 11, 1996
Diary entry for July 11, 1996. Alison Cancels Plans, Drive Home With Celeste, Feeling Depressed, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – Longest Online Diary
Floor Is Lava | Developer Diary: Day 1 | Lance’s Idea Becomes a Game (April 28, 2026)
Tuesday, April 28, 2026; approx. 4:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Lance’s idea The afternoon started with paper. Lance…
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…
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 | 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…
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 | 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…
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…
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:…
At A Relationship Crossroads – Mad Chaos: March 12, 1998
Diary entry for March 12, 1998. Lunch With Lyssa, Shopping, Touring SAE, Stale Relationship, and more. Diary of a Mad Chaos – Longest Online Diary
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Building Timer Mode (May 13, 2026)
Wednesday, May 13, 2026; approx. 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Turning Lance’s idea into Timer Mode Lance’s Time…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Drawing a Line Under Development (May 8, 2026)
Friday, May 8, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play A line drawn under development A short but important entry; the first time I…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Mobile Ads Go Live (June 3, 2026)
Wednesday, June 3, 2026; approx. 9:15 a.m. to 1:40 a.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Ads land on mobile, desktop lags behind Published…
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…
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…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Fixing the Watch-Ad Coin Bug, Version 100 (May 5, 2026)
Tuesday, May 5, 2026; approx. 4:30 p.m. to 12:10 a.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play The Firebase piggy bank bug A bug that…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Testing Space Mode, Version 209 (June 4, 2026)
Thursday, June 4, 2026; approx. midday to 1:50 a.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Lance’s portal idea Shown the new space section, Lance…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | A Toast to a Stable Build (May 20, 2026)
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play A toast to a stable build A short, reflective entry marking a real milestone:…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Fixing the Duplicate Animation Bug (June 6, 2026)
Saturday, June 6, 2026; approx. 8:30 p.m. to past 2:00 a.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play The duplicate-animation mystery A genuinely maddening bug…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | First Steps Into Google Play Console (June 2, 2026)
Tuesday, June 2, 2026; approx. GP waiting room to 1:20 a.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play The lava ship level: story mode’s finale…
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…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | A Day of Small Pieces (May 28, 2026)
Thursday, May 28, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play A day of small pieces A planning-heavy day rather than a building one. The…
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…
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 | Premium Skins and the Path to Google Play (May 27, 2026)
Wednesday, May 27, 2026; approx. 9:15 a.m. to 11:32 p.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Premium skins Morning session added premium groundwork: 20…
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 | Setting the Ad Philosophy (May 14, 2026)
Thursday, May 14, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Showing the game to a friend Demoed Floor Is Lava; music on, power-ups and…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | First APK Build and Ghost Race Multiplayer (June 1, 2026)
Monday, June 1, 2026; approx. 9:10 a.m. to past 10:00 p.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Building the first APK Up to now…
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…
Floor Is Lava | Developer Diary: Day 2 | Multiplayer Modes and Bug Fixes (April 29, 2026)
Wednesday, April 29, 2026; approx. 8:40 a.m. to 11:05 p.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Showing Lance the finished game This morning, around…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Humming a Copyrighted Melody (May 29, 2026)
Friday, May 29, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Humming into cavern mode music An attempt at an original theme for cavern mode…
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…
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…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Three Games Move to Firebase (May 30, 2026)
Saturday, May 30, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Three games on Firebase A quick confirmation entry: War Chest Vastaria became the third…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Lance’s Train Track Mode Idea (May 6, 2026)
Wednesday, May 6, 2026; approx. 10:15 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Morning bug pass Working on the bad guy’s…
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 | 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…
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 | 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…
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…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Moving to Firebase Hosting (May 26, 2026)
Tuesday, May 26, 2026; approx. 12:29 p.m. to 1:15 a.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Ambient background art Added a more animated background…
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…
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 | 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…
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 | 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 | Building Episode End Animations (June 8, 2026)
Monday, June 8, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play End animations, episode by episode Working steadily through the end-of-episode animations in Claude Design:…
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 | Wiring In the Last Story Mode Animations (June 14, 2026)
Sunday, June 14, 2026; approx. 7:20 p.m. to past 2:00 a.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Wiring in the last animations A relatively…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | The Vertical Platform Section and Mine Train (May 24, 2026)
Sunday, May 24, 2026; approx. 11:00 p.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play The Vertical Platform section After nearly two weeks away from new…
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…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Building Parachute-Down Mode (May 31, 2026)
Sunday, May 31, 2026; approx. 10:40 p.m. to 1:55 a.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play The parachute-down mode, built in two hours With…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Not a One-Pass Developer (June 13, 2026)
Saturday, June 13, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Not a one-pass developer A reflective entry, prompted by watching online creators brag about…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | A Twenty Minute Gym App Becomes a Phone App (March 16, 2026)
March 16, 2026. Evening, at a cafe and then at the gym. Get BeStreak on Google Play Turning a web page into an app The…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Logins, Email Codes and the First Thought of Other Users (April 16, 2026)
April 16, 2026. Morning. Get BeStreak on Google Play Why it needed users I worked once again on the Personal Best Tracker app, the PB…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Building the Horizontal Platformer and Cavern Mode (May 25, 2026)
Monday, May 25, 2026; approx. 12:10 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play A horizontal platformer, recycled from what already exists…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | An Old Build Catches Up With Me (May 16, 2026)
Saturday, May 16, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Playing side by side with Lance An old-build bug turned up during a quiet…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Pinning Up the App Icons (May 17, 2026)
Sunday, May 17, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Printed icons on the window pane A small, physical piece of housekeeping: sitting down…
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:…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | The Floor Is Lava Dance (June 11, 2026)
Thursday, June 11, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play The Floor Is Lava dance A lighter entry; real-world play built around the game…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | A Real-World Playtest at McDonald’s (May 9, 2026)
Saturday, May 9, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Four games, one stable A stocktake across everything I’m building: Sky Finder mostly built,…
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…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | The Personal Best Tracker Is Born (April 15, 2026)
April 15, 2026. About 9:30 p.m. to after midnight. Get BeStreak on Google Play Three improvements Tonight I worked on the Personal Best Tracker app….
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | All 51 Story Mode Animations Complete (June 7, 2026)
Sunday, June 7, 2026; approx. evening to 3:00 a.m. Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play All 51 sprites, all 51 start animations Cropped and…
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…
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…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Reusing the Login and Database Code (May 21, 2026)
Thursday, May 21, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Floor Is Lava as a reference module Floor Is Lava’s own code became a…
Unbuttoning My Shirt for a Bum (Part 2) – Mad Chaos: April 11, 1999
Jett’s birthday night drags through a letdown at Eros Theatre, a nightclub door and a parking spot defended by a line of grinning mates.
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…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | One Long Prompt: Sessions, Calendar, BMI and BMR (May 8, 2026)
May 8, 2026. Morning to late evening. Get BeStreak on Google Play A comprehensive prompt It took me until 11:30 a.m. to write out the…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Moving to Firebase and the Black Screen Bug (May 7, 2026)
May 7, 2026. Afternoon until midnight. Get BeStreak on Google Play The best candidate for Google Play I figured I’ve got a few games and…
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.,…
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….
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Swipe, Voice Notes and My First APK (May 10, 2026)
May 10, 2026. 9:20 p.m. into the early hours. Get BeStreak on Google Play Two features I wanted From 9:20 p.m. I was back working…
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…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Coding Without Claude (May 15, 2026)
May 15, 2026. Evening. Get BeStreak on Google Play Handing over the reins I gave DeepSeek and ChatGPT the reins so they could go through…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | A Stable Build at Six in the Morning (May 9, 2026)
May 9, 2026. 3:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m., then evening. Get BeStreak on Google Play Three sub-tabs In the last three hours I worked on…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 | 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 | 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…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | A Failed Import and a Missing Chest (May 11, 2026)
May 11, 2026. Morning. Get BeStreak on Google Play The JSON that would not load I started working on the PB Tracker app. I tried…
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 | 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 | 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….
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…
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 | Six Bugs, Four Fixed (June 14, 2026)
June 14, 2026. Afternoon to 7:20 p.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play The list I opened up the PB Tracker prompt window and listed the…
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…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Twelve Bugs, Three Batches (May 18, 2026)
May 18, 2026. Morning until 2:00 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Fix one, break one In the morning I was still butting my head…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 | 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 | 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…
A Knight Armed With Words (Part 2) – Mad Chaos: January 15, 1999
Tony explains his knight sonnet, traces how his poetry grew since July, and ends with a lost molar and a sweet phone moment.
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…
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…