Joshua Kac — Writing https://solutions.ironcoffee.com/blog Notes on shipping software — mobile, backend, games and the things that went wrong. en-us Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:49:58 GMT The Lab: testing Beyond25 against itself https://solutions.ironcoffee.com/blog/beyond25-lab https://solutions.ironcoffee.com/blog/beyond25-lab Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT I built an admin-only lab that lets me swap the model behind every single step of Beyond25 and run five configurations head to head. It has paid for itself several times over. Rebuilding EV Nova, the game that ate my childhood https://solutions.ironcoffee.com/blog/rebuilding-ev-nova https://solutions.ironcoffee.com/blog/rebuilding-ev-nova Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT I'm rebuilding EV Nova from scratch in Swift because I loved it as a kid and it barely runs anymore. It's still rough, and I'm fine saying so.