Dev blog

How a childhood love turns into a game — decisions, detours and building blocks, documented in the open.

25 October 2026

Full Throttle into a Dead End

The heart of my TV game rewarded, of all things, boredom. The concept lab let me fix that faster than ever before – so fast that at some point I no longer noticed where the journey was actually going.

Reports of Its Death Are Exaggerated

Agents write the code, test it and review it. Does that make the SDLC dead? My one-man project suggests otherwise: it's not the handovers that disappear, it's the waiting in between. And what gets handed over changes.

The Dark Factory

Working with my agent runs smoothly – and yet I feel blocked, because during the implementation I'm just watching. How the wish for more efficiency turned into a factory that writes its own story on the merge request.

The Great Docs Restructuring

For a whole weekend I rearranged documentation that had long been correct in substance — not a new line, not a new feature. And then I measured whether it actually helps the agent.

Team-building with AI

Working with an AI agent isn't just about handing out tasks. As a team, it takes clear rules, good documentation, and a shared workflow.

A Memory with a Shelf Life

Out of curiosity I once watched where my tokens go. What first looked like a rip-off turns out to be a story about my partner's forgetful memory — and about when calling it a day gets really expensive.

From the high-rise to the match day

Part two of the dev blog: why the heart of MadTV can't simply be copied into a browser game — and how borrowing from hattrick.org turns it into something that carries over months.

Why I'm finally building Televism

The kickoff to the dev blog: how a childhood love and fifteen years of a postponed plan turn into a game after all — with a coding assistant as the secret engine.