Build log, guides, and the occasional pickleball news roundup.
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.
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.