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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 05/10/2026

Fuck it, I'm building my own mobile Steam client with voice chat.

App screenshot showing steam voice chat working on iOS.

Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 22/08/2026

I'll be around at Gamescom next week from Monday to Thursday as a trade visitor, so if you are around and want to meet - do let me know :)

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 20/08/2026

Tested new Bun version for Vaporlens deploy to see if it's notably better. Seems like basically only in installing deps 😅 A bit whelming.

Tables comparing Node and Bun for Vaporlens deploy. bun installs ~2.5x faster and the image is ~200MB smaller, but serving is ~20% slower per request in every route tested. Worth it for CI iteration speed, not for production throughput.

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 19/08/2026

I tried Qwen3.8-27B for vaporlens.app locally. It works way too good. Now I'm pondering if I should assemble a home LLM server for vaporlens lol. Full writeup: www.patreon.com/vaporlens/po...

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 11/08/2026

We did another game analytics thingy 👀

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 05/08/2026

DeepSeek's newer flash model benchmarks better than the old one across the board. I swapped it in Vaporlens and it came out costing more and running slower on every step. Spent a week figuring out why. Write-up: codezen.dev/blog/2026-08...

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The one-line model upgrade that took a week

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 17/07/2026

Got Claude Max 20x from @anthropic.com as part of their OSS program to improve Exofame. Huge thanks!

Screenshot of gift of Claude Max 20x message.

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 28/06/2026

ggex-bench is finally finished and open source: github.com/vaporlens/gg... It’s a benchmark for testing how well LLMs can extract structured RDF/Turtle knowledge graphs from game review articles, then score those outputs against hand-authored gold graphs.

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GitHub - vaporlens/ggex-bench: LLM knowledge graph extraction benchmark for game review text.

LLM knowledge graph extraction benchmark for game review text. - vaporlens/ggex-bench

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 28/06/2026

Vaporlens hit another milestone - 1.2M unique users per month! 🥳

Chart showing 1.2M unique visitors in 30 days to vaporlens website

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 11/06/2026

Oh, that's neat! Also migrated - was very easy. Super cool!

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 11/06/2026

Today I've learned that supabase deploys their instances as single AMI on EC2. So you DB version and everything else is baked into that single AMI and the only way to update - is to update everything 🤦‍♂️

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 06/06/2026

Schema shape matters a lot for LLM extraction. While working on ggex-bench, I found that schemas closer to how LLMs naturally summarize reviews produce better and cheaper knowledge graphs. Don't make the model fight the output format. Full writeup: codezen.dev/blog/2026-06...

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Making ggex-bench schemas less awkward for LLMs

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 05/06/2026

We did a thing on games and analytics. It's quite neat 👀

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 05/06/2026

Migrated Vaporlens from Mistral to Deepseek and Qwen embed. Holy shit those are cheap man.

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Vite @vite.dev · 04/06/2026

Today, VoidZero joins Cloudflare. Vite remains MIT, vendor-neutral, and stewarded by the same wider team. The same goes for Vitest, Rolldown, and Oxc. Cloudflare is also committing $1M to an OSS fund to support independent development in the Vite ecosystem.

vite.dev

Cloudflare supports Vite's mission

The VoidZero team is joining Cloudflare. Vite remains MIT, vendor-neutral and stewarded by the same wider team.

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 30/05/2026

You can track what's popular on Steam by requests coming to Vaporlens :D Entries starting with /api/ in top chart below (requests in past 24h): 1. Drift86 (free giveaway) 2. Mina the Hollower (new) 4. 007 First Light (new) 5. Task Bar Hero (new)

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 08/05/2026

Supabase support has to be one of the worst supports I've ever used. It's second week already and they still can't figure out why their own database is crashing. And they keep pointing at things that don't make sense according to their own metrics. Like dude 🤦‍♂️

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 07/05/2026

Super fun new benchmark for LLMs that is testing if they can build existing apps from scratch without internet (spoiler: non of them can finish even one so far). programbench.com

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ProgramBench

ProgramBench evaluates whether language models can rebuild programs from scratch.

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 07/05/2026

The more I think about Vaporlens direction, the more it feels like going knowledge graph would be the most interesting thing to do. It just opens up so much cool possibilities 🤔

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 15/04/2026

Ah, yes, truly the gaming search I've been looking for.

Screenshot of a search form with label "Emotions" and two dropdowns set to "Has" and "Depression"

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…

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Matteo Collina @nodeland.dev · 16/03/2026

We're announcing two things: node:vfs, a Virtual File System landing in Node.js core (PR #61478, ~14,000 lines across 66 files) @platformatic/vfs, a userland package you can use today on Node.js 22+ blog.platformatic.dev/why-nodejs-n...

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Why Node.js Needs a Virtual File System

Node.js now has a virtual filesystem. Learn why VFS matters for testing, sandboxing, Single Executable Apps, and running generated code directly in me

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VoidZero @voidzero.dev · 13/03/2026

Announcing Vite+ Alpha. Now open source. To make JavaScript developers more productive than ever before. A single binary that: ◆ Unifies your frontend toolchain ◆ Manages your runtime & pkg manager ◆ Caching & monorepo support Works with every framework and meta framework in the Vite ecosystem.

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Announcing Vite+ Alpha

Introducing Vite+, an open-source CLI that unifies your runtime, package manager, and frontend toolchain into one fast, simple development experience.

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Vite @vite.dev · 12/03/2026

⚡️ Vite 8.0 is here! The most significant architectural change since Vite 2. ⏬ Powered by @rolldown.rs bringing faster production builds and more consistency 🛤️ New features such as tsconfig paths and emitDecoratorMetadata support vite.dev/blog/announc...

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Vite 8.0 is out!

Vite 8 Release Announcement

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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 16/02/2026

Today was the day I've finally deleted Windows from my PC for good. I've switched to Kubuntu ~summer last year and I think I've booted windows exactly once. It's been surprisingly solid for both dev work (which is not that surprising), but also for gaming (that DID surprise me quite a bit tbh).

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 13/02/2026

This is an absolutely fascinating writeup. I had to build diff-edit for LLM myself and it was an absolute pain to make it work reliably. This is very neat. Me likey a lot! blog.can.ac/2026/02/12/t...

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I Improved 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed.

Cross-posted from X / @_can1357 In fact only the edit tool changed. That’s it. 0x0: The Wrong Question The conversation right now is almost entirely about …

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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 12/02/2026

This is a really nice new Cloudflare feature: on-the-fly markdown conversion. Tools like Claude Code send an "Accept: text/markdown" header when making web requests. If you enable this it, it will send these agents a markdown version of your page instead of the full HTML. Really good for docs.

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Introducing Markdown for Agents

Cloudflare's network supports real-time content conversion to markdown at the source.

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Angelia 🌺 @imangelia.blacksky.app · 12/02/2026

"Vibe coding is the GeoCities of the AI era" 😂 I dig it!

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 09/02/2026

Just discovered that one of react-router recent updates absolutely broke google indexing. *Sigh* Should've migrated from it when they announced yet another round of breaking changes 🙃

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Deno @deno.land · 03/02/2026

Introducing Deno Sandbox ⭐ Instant Linux microVMs ⭐ TypeScript and Python (!) SDKs + REST API ⭐ Secure against prompt injection attacks deno.com/blog/introdu...

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Introducing Deno Sandbox | Deno

Instant Linux microVMs with defense-in-depth security for running untrusted code.

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 01/02/2026

I've noticed that I've been writing less and less code (by hand) over the past ~6 months. It went from me writing most of it while occasionally letting agent create something extremely specific, to me just telling agent what to write, reading output and asking for tweaks/refactors.

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 25/01/2026

I built a "Predatory Game Detector" for Steam. Turns out, AI thinks "This game is a gem" means it has mtx 🤦‍♂️ Here is the "JSON trick" I used to force a lazy LLM to catch the actual scams across 150000 reviews. 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/i-buil... #gamedev #indiedev #gametech

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I built a "Predatory Game Detector" (and tricked a lazy AI to make it work) | Vaporlens

Get more from Vaporlens on Patreon

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 16/01/2026

I upgraded Vaporlens to Mistral embeddings and accidentally broke game discovery. Turns out, the "smarter" context window approach actually made recommendations worse. Here is how I fixed it with simple math: www.patreon.com/posts/148373... #gamedev #indiedev #gametech

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How I Broke (and Fixed) Game Discovery on Vaporlens: A Devlog | Vaporlens

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dan @danabra.mov · 11/01/2026

this is probably the best articulation i’ve seen for what’s happening now in programming as well as the distractions in the discourse

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 09/01/2026

I start appreciating Torvalds' take on AI even more after seeing stuff like this. *sigh* Ah, internet

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 04/01/2026

This is now my favorite take on AI tools. Source: daringfireball.net/2025/12/slop...

Text: "I wrote just a few months ago that I firmly believe generative Al tools not only can be, but already are, used to create genuine art. My problem with Al slop isn't the Al, it's the slop. Whatever “standard digital tools” Keith Thomson used to create this, the result is a turd."

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 19/12/2025

Vapolens blew up and now I'm getting death threat emails re: LLM usage. Ah, internet 😅

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 18/12/2025

Vaporlens somehow blew up, so I'm trying to serve ~300k requests/day from a ~7 euro/mo server. This has been an.. experience lol 😅

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 16/12/2025

After 6 years I finally got around to finalizing and releasing Exoframe v7 😅

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 15/12/2025

npm deprecated access tokens, you now can only generate read-write token for 90 days - which means my old workflows no longer work. And if I want to use "trusted publisher" via OIDC - I can only have one workflow per package. Guess that means fuck me, I need to rewrite all my prepublish workflows? 🤦

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 14/12/2025

Vaporlens got added into Augmented Steam extension with ~500k users install base yesterday. This is what traffic looks like 😅

Traffic charts for Vaporlens showing sharp rise on last day

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

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Tim @tim.codezen.dev · 05/12/2025

In today's episode of "insane safety filters in LLMs" - google's voice generation refuses to generate a phrase like "Five minus five is zero. Fifteen minus five is ten." because "015" might resemble a PII. I kid you not, holy shit.

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