Big business news for my startup: “Frontdoor Benefits Receives $2.1 Million Investment to Improve Access to SNAP and Public Assistance Programs”. My cofounder Charlotte also added some details on our blog too. Big milestone, and onto the next milestone and so forth.

We went to a Golden State Valkyries basketball game last week. It was a lot of fun, and a nice seat was the cost of a substantially-less-nice seat to see the Golden State Warriors. We bought sweatshirts, so that means we’re going back.

On sports, since my last Recently we also went to two Giants games and a Warriors game (whomp whomp).

Of random technical trivia, I discovered a cause of flaky tests: Turbo-Rails debounces broadcast refreshes and it’s possible for them to slip out of test transactions and cause chaos. I have reported it.

Also, my prior-colleague Issy wrote a nice thing and mentioned me.

I finished reading Martha Well’s reissued The Emilie Adventures, which for all her books held my attention the least. I also read Brittany Newell’s Soft Core which was very good. I’m now reading The Future of Another Timeline.

For nonfiction, I (re-) read the updated edition of The Strategy is Delivery. And now I’m greatly enjoying Rouse’s Game Design: Theory and Practice (2nd Edition) which I found because it was referenced in the Digital Antiquarian’s history of the Sierra studio.

I beat the game Yoku’s Island Express, which was a delightful experience on my desired theme of nice metroidvania (recommendations please). I also just started Season 2 of Playdate, which was a reason to find and charge it. On the theme of small handhelds, I ordered an Adafruit USB C Resistor Fixer (say that 5 times fast) for the RGB30 that was collecting dust until I discovered some Pico 8 games I’d like to play.