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Notes on building a game in 27 hours

Let Them Bee is an incremental game I built for the DTJ36 jam in 27 hours: 29 commits, 10,743 lines of TypeScript, two runtime dependencies, and Claude Opus 5 on low reasoning effort as my only assistant. Where the time went, and why installing ESLint halfway through the jam was a good idea.

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Why did my seven-page blog take 12 minutes to deploy?

My static Astro blog took 12 minutes to build and deploy. The culprits: satori-html parsing 320 KB data URIs quadratically, AVIF encodings thrown away with every CI runner, and an upload that re-sent unchanged files. Three fixes, a few lines each.

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