Linkblog/2025/02/27

Karl’s cooked up a Odin + Sokol + Hot Reload template, very very nice.

I’m thinking about taking this and making a similar template for SDL3 GPU, would be nice to have it in my project.

Spotted on Bluesky.

I have cited a few games as inspiration for Balatro in the past, but I wanted to talk about one in particular that hasn’t been mentioned much that arguably is the most important.

I think if I had some kind of Balatro vision board, solitaire (Klondike) would be right in the middle of it with a big red circle around it. You can probably see some of the similarities between my game and the classic solo card game. I wanted my game to have the same vibe.

LocalThunk has a website he’s writing longer form prose on!

Some great points on taking something you know people already know and love, and just remixing it into a game.

Tailwind config is optional now (still works with one! less stuff = less maintenance, good thing)

React Router’s API did not change between v6 and v7, just added alternatives (i’m still using the v5 api on v7 lmao)

React itself has a truly absurd, obsessive level of back compat. Next.js does as well. Never had issues with apps of almost any size when bumping those deps.

Even more “bleeding edge” tools like React Query and tRPC usually provide code mods when they make meaningful changes to their APIs.

This is such a non-issue - the ONLY “victim” is people who make tutorials and educational materials. Net win for everyone else.

The tweet in question honestly doesn’t really matter, but I resonate heavily with the idea that the amount of backwards compatibility and hesitance to make unreasonable changes is super high in the React community, people just want to be able to npm install without pinning to a previous version and not have to change or reconsider a line of code.

New Astro just dropped.

“Experimental responsive image support in Markdown” looks very cool, I could use that in this site.

EA? Open sourcing games they could instead just resell?

Somebody pinch me…

OpenAI playing catch-up to Anthropic, lets see if this one is truly .5 more than 4 / 4o…