Development journey, progress updates, and behind-the-scenes of indie app development.https://arceapps.com/en-ushttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w43-cambrian-explosion/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w43-cambrian-explosion/Doubling the catalog in seven days. From 4 games to 8. Code reuse reaches its peak, but technical debt starts accumulating interest.Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w49-achievements-unlocked/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w49-achievements-unlocked/Minesweeper and Galaxies join the party, completing the achievement system for all 10 games.Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w48-invisible-foundations/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w48-invisible-foundations/Preparing the ground for feature parity. Backend work, Room migrations, and why Minesweeper is different from everything else.Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w40-first-pixel/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w40-first-pixel/The fear of the blank page, the critical decision between Canvas and Compose, and why we chose an architecture that slowed us down for three days to speed us up for the rest of the year.Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w41-multiply-by-three/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w41-multiply-by-three/From one game to three in record time. How the right abstraction and Kotlin Generics allowed us to scale without copying code.Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w42-forbidden-geometry/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w42-forbidden-geometry/Slitherlink and Galaxies break our grid. Introducing vector math, fuzzy hit zones, and background thread generation.Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w44-dominosa-genesis/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w44-dominosa-genesis/Just when you thought the catalog was closed, Dominosa arrives to challenge our architecture. A story about feature creep and modular design.Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w45-dominosa-completed/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w45-dominosa-completed/From theory to practice: How we implemented Dominosa in a week and learned that true randomness is an enemy.Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w46-great-standardization/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w46-great-standardization/Why we decided to halt development of new features to fix a pixel 6dp out of place, and the hunt for the geometric bug in Hashi.Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w47-user-experience/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w47-user-experience/How we redesigned the app's main entrance and discovered we had been lying to our users about their stats.Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w51-massive-internationalization/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w51-massive-internationalization/A massive internationalization sprint to eliminate hardcoded text and prepare PuzzleSuite for the world.Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w50-perfecting-the-end/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w50-perfecting-the-end/Improving the puzzle completion experience: more useful, standardized dialogs with the option to admire your work.Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w52-basegamestate-standardization/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w52-basegamestate-standardization/Massive refactoring of game states and visual improvements in Hashi before closing the year.Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w53-difficulty-standardization-and-closing/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2025-w53-difficulty-standardization-and-closing/Unification of difficulty systems across the suite and the arrival of Expert mode to bid farewell to 2025.Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-03-07-mydevbot-cicd-egpu-future/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-03-07-mydevbot-cicd-egpu-future/The final phase. How mydevbot deploys itself using GitHub Actions and Watchtower, mobile programming with VS Code Server and the preparation of the UM890 Pro for extreme local AI via OCuLink.Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-w01-hitori-kakuro-refactoring/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-w01-hitori-kakuro-refactoring/Starting the year by bringing order to chaos. A technical chronicle of how we dismantled a 600-line ViewModel, unified time logic with Flows, and improved Slitherlink's invisible accessibility.Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-03-05-mydevbot-genesis-hardware/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-03-05-mydevbot-genesis-hardware/How the need to control my development ecosystem from Telegram arises, the analysis of the AIPAL repository, the disappointment with the Synology DS212+ and the final decision for a Mini PC with the native Gemini SDK.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-03-06-mydevbot-github-cron-skills/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-03-06-mydevbot-github-cron-skills/The second phase of mydevbot. How to integrate the GitHub API using Gemini's Function Calling capabilities and set up scheduled tasks with APScheduler to receive daily summaries.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-05-16-w20-refactoring-optimization/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-05-16-w20-refactoring-optimization/An engineering chronicle detailing architectural improvements, performance optimizations, XSS security mitigations, and enriched unit testing at ArceApps.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-04-12-w15-arceapps-architecture/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-04-12-w15-arceapps-architecture/A deep dive into how we reinforced security by mitigating XSS vulnerabilities, optimized the visual hierarchy of our media, and upgraded our AI agents to enhance brand consistency across the ArceApps portfolio.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-w03-undo-redo-safety-net/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-w03-undo-redo-safety-net/The detailed technical story behind the implementation of the Undo/Redo system in PuzzleHub: design patterns, concurrency problems with coroutines, efficient memory management, polymorphic serialization, and the search for the perfect UX on Android.Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-w04-silent-referee/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-w04-silent-referee/A technical and philosophical dive into eliminating UI bureaucracy. How we moved from asking the user to fill out forms to creating a Reactive Auto-Verification system, and how we optimized O(N) graph cycle detection to run at 60fps.Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-w05-new-challengers/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-w05-new-challengers/A 3000-word chronicle on how we tried to add two 'simple' games and ended up fighting NP-Complete problems. The story of how a simple light board forced us to use industrial SAT Solvers and how integer division almost destroyed our mental health.Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-w06-teacher-mode/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-w06-teacher-mode/We redesigned the onboarding system. No more static texts. We implemented an interactive 'Teacher Mode' that guides you step by step, detects your confusion, and celebrates your small victories.Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-w07-the-assembly-line/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-w07-the-assembly-line/How we went from craftsmanship to industrial production: 11 interactive tutorials in 7 days. A technical chronicle on scaling, technical debt, and the art of teaching geometry without using words.Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-w18-security-and-visual-hierarchy/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-w18-security-and-visual-hierarchy/A deep dive into security patching in Astro, refining responsive visual hierarchy for Markdown content, and chronicling the genesis of mydevbot.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/clawdbot-research/https://arceapps.com/devlog/clawdbot-research/Research diary on Clawdbot. Beyond the tutorial, here I analyze the decentralized architecture and Gemini 3.0 integration challenges.Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-w02-repository-patterns-canvas/https://arceapps.com/devlog/2026-w02-repository-patterns-canvas/A chronicle of extremes: eliminating 400 lines of repeated code with generic architectures and redrawing every pixel by hand to save performance on mid-range devices.Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/automated-qa-indie-2024/https://arceapps.com/devlog/automated-qa-indie-2024/A comprehensive analysis of how I built an enterprise-grade automated testing pipeline using Playwright and Vitest for a single-developer portfolio.Sun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/refining-the-experience/https://arceapps.com/devlog/refining-the-experience/Confessions of a week optimizing ArceApps. The battle against CSS overlays, lazy image loading, and why I refactored search.Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/indie-tech-stack-2024/https://arceapps.com/devlog/indie-tech-stack-2024/An incredibly detailed review of the ArceApps system architecture, custom AI agents, and the philosophy of solo software engineering.Mon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://arceapps.com/devlog/responsive-visual-hierarchy-2024/https://arceapps.com/devlog/responsive-visual-hierarchy-2024/A massive deep dive into how I completely rebuilt the ArceApps UI architecture using Tailwind CSS v4, Astro, and fluid typography principles.Sat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT