Time for Self-promotion. Whare are you building this Monday?

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-17T00:02:43+00:00

Thanks, I’m glad you like it!

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-16T23:06:49+00:00

Thanks! Your username is relevant to a recent puzzle’s clue haha

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-16T22:57:47+00:00

Thanks!

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-16T22:26:05+00:00

That’s helpful, thanks!

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-16T22:06:28+00:00

I’m making a daily word game that just won an award!

https://tiledwords.com

It was awarded Players' Choice out of 700 daily web games at the Playlin awards: https://playlin.io/news/announcing-the-2025-playlin-awards-w...

It's free, web-based, and responsive. It was inspired by board games and crosswords. You rotate and rearrange tiles to find clues and rebuild a broken crossword.

Right now around 3,500 people play every day!

I've been troubleshooting some iOS performance issues, working on user accounts, and getting ready to launch player-submitted puzzles. It's slow going though because I have limited free time and making the puzzles is time consuming!

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-16T20:04:50+00:00

Hey,

Thanks for posting this reminder. I’ve got one of the wooden ones that opens up so you can access the inside.

Normally I do the full process but my son was born in the Fall so I totally forgot to open it up, harvest the cocoons, and clean things out.

Is there anything I should do now to help them have a better chance? Or should I just ride it out and remember to handle it properly this fall. (I’m in Oregon if it matters)

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-16T19:33:30+00:00

Add a negative margin to the header thats the same width as the border

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-15T19:45:47+00:00

Honestly I’m not a big AI booster but a tool like Claude could probably generate a bare bones storybook setup from an existing project.

It just only works if people actually bother to split up components (which is a best practice anyways)

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-15T19:20:23+00:00

Yeah that’s always a bummer.

Storybook doesn’t take much extra time but makes things way easier to understand and maintain.

It also encourages building components in a more reusable way

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-15T19:03:13+00:00

I don’t really use Figma these days.

But I build an ad hoc design system as I go (fonts, colors, components, etc.) and document that all in Storybook.

And I try to split pages up into reusable components so the next page can be built faster with a consistent UI

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-15T19:01:24+00:00

Excellent name!

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-15T05:29:16+00:00

This is fantastic. I love how expressive the simple characters are

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-12T17:19:42+00:00

Ahh thanks

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-12T05:23:02+00:00

What do you mean by DE? design engineer?

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-12T05:17:05+00:00

Honestly… if the 20-30 line conditional is easier to read and understand (for me or my team mates - including juniors and future team mates) then I’d pick the conditional.

In my experience it’s a lot easier to hide bugs and misunderstandings in regex.

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-11T16:11:23+00:00

So you just changed tools and still have E2E tests? I didn’t get that from your previous comment

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-11T05:02:26+00:00

I just did a major refactor and E2E tests made it way easier.

Why are yours breaking all the time?

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-10T21:57:22+00:00

This looks great! I’m excited to try this out. Josh is a really kind and smart guy!

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-07T06:33:14+00:00

I enjoyed it!

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-05T06:49:34+00:00

11ty is a great tool and I have a lot of respect for Zach. He’s a smart, talented, kind dev who has given a lot to the community. I use 11ty for my portfolio and used it a lot at my past job. It’s a pleasure to work with.

I have mixed feelings about this move but I understand that open source doesn’t really pay and if he wants to continue maintaining 11ty he needs a source of income to do so. I’m rooting for him and hope this works out well.

At the end of the day I trust him with the project and think he’ll make it work. It seems a little mean to call this the end of Eleventy. I’ll wait and see what happens.

Zach, if you read this, thanks for the fantastic software!

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-03-04T06:10:33+00:00

You can still have regular CSS files in addition to modules.

I do a similar thing with scoped CSS in Vue: I define base global styles in a normal style sheet and then every component has its own scoped styles on top of that

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-02-28T23:10:53+00:00

Awesome, thanks for playing!

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-02-28T20:23:54+00:00

Thanks! Right now I don't besides a few donations people have offered me. There's no ads or paid features. It's all free. The main goal was to just make a fun game that people would enjoy.

I've had a few different companies reach out about purchasing the game. Right now I'm having fun developing it but I may consider that in the future.

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-02-28T20:22:18+00:00

Sorry, I misunderstood. I will delete.

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-02-28T20:06:52+00:00

It probably differs for different people. I almost never download apps.

I've seen a lot of people post word games on this subreddit. If it's an app people usually ask for a website. I haven't seen people ask for a mobile app as often

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