Build log, guides, and the occasional pickleball news roundup.
Four majors, a rolling 52-week table, and a composite ranking that weights doubles at 50 percent. What the new World Pickleball Rankings measure, and what they quietly stopped measuring.
Forty-three courts across Orange County and LA, what separates a good open-play session from a bad one, and why the posted hours are the one thing you should never trust without calling.
If you get beaten to balls you should reach, the problem usually isn't foot speed — it's that you were flat-footed at contact. What the split step is, when to time it, and why it feels slower before it feels faster.
Eleven of our paddle reviews shipped with a visible banner telling readers to verify the specs before publishing. Twelve TODO markers rendered as con bullets. Here's the audit, the corrections, and the build guard that makes it impossible to repeat.
Supabase Realtime was down for roughly three weeks and every monitor we had stayed green, because each one had been built in response to a different past incident. What the union of incident-shaped probes doesn't cover.
The 2026-27 PPA season opened in Cary with Hunter Johnson's ninth singles title, a Johnson-family upset of Ben Johns and Anna Leigh Waters in mixed, and the first tournament run under the new World Pickleball Rankings.
How Pickleloonies' in-progress prepaid court-fee wallet derives every balance from an append-only ledger instead of a stored number — and the trigger-ordering bug that almost shipped.
A chronic waitlist and RSVPs that close in ninety seconds mean your weekly session has outgrown itself. Here's how to split it — by time, by tier, or by day — without it feeling like exclusion.
How to hit a reset shot in pickleball — the grip, footwork, and above-shoulder adjustments that keep a hard speed-up from becoming an easy putaway for your opponent.
A mid-prep progress check-in ahead of my August tournament — what's changed since my 3.5 loss, what stuck immediately, and what's still shaky.
What stacking is, why doubles teams use it to keep their forehand in the middle, whether it's legal, and how to signal it without tipping off your opponents.
Beginners aren't the etiquette problem — silence is. A practical list of norms a pod host can set before session so new players feel welcome instead of ignored.
US pickleball participation is up 479% since 2020 and still accelerating. Here's what the 2026 growth data actually means if you run a weekly pod.
Major League Pickleball's mid-2026 reset: group play is back, Owl AI is calling lines, and the trade deadline is about to reshuffle every roster.
Two of pickleball's most fun (and risky) plays — the Erne and the shake-and-bake. When they work, when they don't.
What it actually takes to bring an existing Next.js app to iOS and Android — the plan, the costs, and an honest timeline.
Pickleball is huge in North America, padel is huge in Europe and Latin America. Who's winning the global paddle-sport war in 2026?
A practical guide to charging your pickleball crew for court fees, balls, and snacks without making it weird.
The actual USA Pickleball rule on non-volley zone violations, plus the 4 edge cases that cause 90% of rec-court arguments.
Mexico's pickleball scene is booming with North American retirees. Where it's happening, why, and what it means for travel.
A walkthrough of how Pickleloonies models session RSVPs and guest invites, the mistakes I made, and how the schema looks now.
Step-by-step rules for running a 12-player, 3-court round robin pickleball pod, including rotation, scoring, and tiebreakers.
How serve and return strategy differs between men's doubles and mixed doubles — and how to adjust your game.
How pickleball is exploding across Japan, what's driving the growth, and where to play in Tokyo and Osaka.
The best public and semi-private pickleball courts in Orange County, ranked by surface, lights, and how busy they get.
Dinking is the rec player's leak. Here's how to fix grip, footwork, and target zones to win the kitchen at 3.0–3.5.
How Pickleloonies' /demo route lets visitors try the full app — RSVPs, chat, payments — with zero backend writes.
India's pickleball scene exploded — here's where it came from, who's funding it, and what it means for the sport globally.
How to pick a pickleball paddle in 2026 — weight, core, face, grip, and the real differences between $80 and $250.
How to hit a consistent third shot drop in pickleball — grip, contact point, arc, and three drills to groove it.
A monthly recap of what shipped on Pickleloonies in May 2026 — features, fixes, the outage, and what got cut.
Major League Pickleball's 2026 season and why the team format is finally working — drama, rivalries, and the players who define it.
An honest postmortem of my first 3.5 pickleball tournament. What I prepared for, what surprised me, and what I'd change.
What it's like to show up to Irvine Great Park's pickleball courts on a Saturday morning — wait times, surface, and tips.
The lightweight system my Tuesday pod has used for two years. Copy it whether you use Pickleloonies or not.
How my Tuesday pickleball pod actually played this week — bracket results, one rules protest, and the new guest dynamic.
My Tuesday pickleball pod was being run out of a Google Sheet. It worked for nine months. Then it stopped working — badly.
A breakdown of the anatomy of a typical pro men's doubles final, using composite rally analysis from the 2026 US Open weekend.
A pickleball fan's preview of the 2026 PPA Tour season — calendar, format changes, and the players to follow.
Where the pro pickleball landscape stands in 2026 — PPA, MLP, UPA, and what it means for fans.
Every meaningful change to the 2026 USA Pickleball rulebook, what it affects, and how to play under the new rules.