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Mark Janzer

@mjanzer

Indie hacker. Building Chess Ascent, LLM flashcards, and LOL Pro Elo. Software engineer who likes shipping things and writing about it.

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You’re A Terrible Game Designer I have been struggling to get myself to play the piano recently. With some experience and a degree in music education, you think it would be easier. The piece that I want to play is a ridiculous rendi...

Your habits aren't failing because you lack discipline. They're failing because you're a bad game designer.

New post: markjanzer.com/2026/03/06/y...

06.03.2026 19:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you find yourself using orchestration in your own projects? I have yet to make the jump from running multiple agents in parallel (on separate tasks) to orchestrated workflows. Perhaps I don't trust it enough write large systems that would be maintainable.

05.03.2026 22:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh wow I've never heard of that! Seems very wise, thanks for sharing!

05.03.2026 22:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Don’t change your life over a burrito I was in the shower one morning and I thought, β€œI’ve got to negotiate a 30 hour workweek with my job”, and I felt a familiar knot of dissatisfaction. It was not a new thought, nor a new feeling. I had...

Wrote a blog post about how your body manufactures fake existential crises. It's called 'Don't change your life over a burrito.' markjanzer.com/2026/02/19/d...

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