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The Hybrid Engine: Rust Performance, Python Agility
The Hybrid Engine: Rust Performance, Python Agility The problem with DeFi trading bots is speed. The problem with fast code is that it’s expensive to change. A pure-Rust bot wins the race to the block — compiled, deterministic, fast. When the market shifts and your strategy needs to change, you recompile. Overnight. While your edge…
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The Insight Lens: Building Chrome Tools for Contact Center Teams
The Insight Lens: Building Chrome Tools for Contact Center Teams Most workplace software was built for someone else’s workflow. I work in high-volume digital marketing. The tools we use — Convoso, Telesero, various CRMs — are built for general audiences, which means they’re never quite right for any specific team’s actual process. Managers get report…
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From Genetics to Tactics: How a Breeding System Became a Squad Game
From Genetics to Tactics: How a Breeding System Became a Squad Game SlimeGarden had a good idea: crash-land an astronaut on a strange planet, have them breed and dispatch slimes, watch the genetic loop produce something you didn’t design. The mechanics were there. The world wasn’t quite right. So it evolved. OperatorGame is what SlimeGarden…
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Why I Put a Genetic System in a Turtle Racing Game
Why I Put a Genetic System in a Turtle Racing Game The NEAT algorithm that taught a paddle to play Pong is the same algorithm that maps genetic traits. Someone pointed that out and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. TurboShells started as a question: what if the turtle’s body came from its genome? Not…
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Teaching Pong to Play Itself: My First Neural Network Experiment
Teaching Pong to Play Itself: My First Neural Network Experiment Pong is the right choice for a first experiment because it has almost no variables. Two paddles. One ball. If you can’t teach an AI to play Pong, you can’t teach an AI anything. I used NEAT — NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies. It doesn’t just…
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Solana Arbitrage: What I Learned From 400 Trades (And $4 in Losses)
I built a real trading bot, ran 400 live trades, and lost . The software worked. The economics didn’\”t. Here’\”s the full breakdown.
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Building rpgCore: Cross-Language Architecture for Multi-Genre Games
How I wired Python, C#, and Rust into a single game engine using ECS architecture and socket IPC — and why 31 passing tests made the difference.
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Automating Most of My Job: I Didn’t Want to Babysit a Dialer Forever
I inherited a mess of spreadsheets and manual data entry. Then I built a pipeline that saved 642 hours in the first year. Here’\”s exactly how.