Sustainable Indie Game Development: Shipping Without Burning Out
A practical guide to sustainable indie game development, covering workload, milestones, money, motivation, community pressure, post-launch support, and long-term creative health.
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Indie Game Development Reality Check: What Solo Developers Should Know Before Starting
A practical reality check for solo and small-team indie game developers, covering scope, time, money, production risk, marketing, and the discipline required to actually ship.
Introducing Plumego — A Standard-Library-First Go HTTP Toolkit
Plumego is a small, explicit, standard-library-first Go HTTP toolkit designed for maintainable services, ordinary net/http compatibility, and agent-friendly engineering workflows.
A Practical Tech Stack for Indie Developers — Simple, Reliable, and Built to Ship
A practical guide to choosing a calm, maintainable, and production-ready tech stack for indie developers building web tools, SaaS products, browser extensions, APIs, and small digital products.
Introducing Birdor JSON Lens — A Calm and Practical JSON Viewer for Developers
Birdor JSON Lens is a developer-friendly Chrome extension for viewing, formatting, validating, comparing, and inspecting JSON from web pages, selected text, pasted snippets, and local files.
Plumego and Explicit Systems: An Engineering Philosophy
A deep engineering essay on the philosophy behind Plumego. This article explores why explicit systems outperform implicit ones in long-lived software, how hidden abstractions accumulate technical debt, and why Plumego is intentionally designed as a framework that forces clarity, ownership, and architectural responsibility.
Building a Real Service with Plumego: From HTTP Entry to Domain Logic
A deep, end-to-end walkthrough of building a real-world backend service with Plumego. This article traces a request from HTTP entry, through routing, middleware, context, use cases, domain logic, and infrastructure, explaining architectural decisions and trade-offs along the way.
Choosing Plumego: A Framework Decision Guide for Serious Go Teams
A comprehensive, in-depth decision guide for evaluating Plumego as a Go framework. This article examines architectural trade-offs, team maturity, system lifecycle, operational concerns, and long-term maintainability to help serious Go teams decide when Plumego is the right choice.
Plumego Advanced Guide: Designing Explicit, Scalable Go Services
An advanced, in-depth guide to Plumego. This tutorial explores real-world architecture patterns, middleware composition, context design, lifecycle management, observability, and building production-grade Go services with Plumego.