Thumb & Pylon: I Vibe-Coded a Tower Defense Game, and Here Is the Bill
How I built Thumb & Pylon, a tower defense and idle clicker for iOS and Android, in about 30 days with Claude Code. The tech, the stats, and the real cost.
I share what I learn.
Former Google Developer Expert for the Web, 10k+ followers across platforms, talks given across Europe, and years of articles on software engineering.
Vibe Coding: Where I Stand
Vibe coding is not reckless AI assistance: it’s intentional prompting paired with rigorous testing.
Claude Code Review
Claude Code: From skepticism to daily driver: what changed my mind.
Antigravity IDE Review
Google’s Antigravity IDE: A powerful AI-native code editor with VS Code foundations.
OpenClaw Review
OpenClaw: Building AI agents with open-source simplicity and control.
Cursor IDE Review
A deep dive into Cursor, the AI-first code editor that’s reshaping how developers write code.
Case study: isitblackfridayyet.app: #4 Enabling Dark mode
Now that the dark mode is widely supported by browsers, learn how to enable it on your web pages.
Use GitHub actions at your own risk
Malicious code can be inserted into any GitHub action, even those which are tagged.
Case study: isitblackfridayyet.app: #3 Creating Cron based images with Firebase functions and Puppeteer
In this post, we are going to learn how to set up Firebase to generate an image via Puppeteer on a daily basis.
Case study: isitblackfridayyet.app: #2 Deploying StencilJS apps with Github actions and Firebase hosting.
Now that we have a production ready Progressive Web App, let’s learn how to build it on Github Actions and deploy it via Firebase CLI.
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