Build log, guides, and the occasional pickleball news roundup.
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.
What it actually takes to bring an existing Next.js app to iOS and Android — the plan, the costs, and an honest timeline.
A walkthrough of how Pickleloonies models session RSVPs and guest invites, the mistakes I made, and how the schema looks now.
How Pickleloonies' /demo route lets visitors try the full app — RSVPs, chat, payments — with zero backend writes.
A monthly recap of what shipped on Pickleloonies in May 2026 — features, fixes, the outage, and what got cut.
My Tuesday pickleball pod was being run out of a Google Sheet. It worked for nine months. Then it stopped working — badly.