Dev Log 07.08.2026: Win Rate Tables, a Trackpad Betrayal, and Endgame (Again)

Random Thoughts from a Restless Mind

Category: Dev Logs

Published On: July 8, 2026

🤓 The Technical: Meeting-heavy day at the day job - a kickoff, a one-on-one, and a backlog grooming session that mercifully rescheduled itself. Two new tickets landed, so I ran my usual pipeline: analyze, prompt, hand off to Claude, and review while sitting in meetings. On my own stuff, Accumulated Knowledge got a new performance-over-time section on profile pages - a month-by-month table of your win rate for both matches and games. It respects the page's global filters (dates, format, even a specific deck) and adds its own presets: last 90 days, last year, or an arbitrary range with a calendar picker. Next up is porting the mixed-content "punch out" pattern over from They Said It! - public pages load a cacheable public shell, then pull private content in dynamically via Turbo frame. Small win now, but it's the kind of thing you're glad you did if a CDN ever enters the picture. Also finished cataloging my Eldritch Moon cards during a meeting. Kaladesh is next, and Kaladesh is enormous.

😎 The Atmosphere: An Endgame rewatch, followed by a reaction video, followed by falling down every Marvel lore rabbit hole there is - Soul Stone metaphysics, whether Cap could always lift Mjolnir, what "On-Set Rocket" means in the credits. Capped off with a thunderstorm rolling in late, windows cracked so I could hear it.

🐶 The Coworker: Hubert opened the day feeling betrayed that I left the couch, then got his revenge by falling asleep in my lap the moment I sat back down - one arm hooked around my leg, pinning me in place with no food or edible... uh, edible food within reach. Classic power move from a guy fresh off his ninth birthday.

😡 The Rant: I tried to click and drag to copy one line from my terminal today, and macOS decided that what I actually wanted was a "Look Up" popup defining a single word for me. Four times. Text selection - the most basic IO interaction a computer has - broken by a feature I never asked for, shipped enabled by default. If you're going to build stuff like that, fine, but ship it off. Let the people who want it turn it on. I build my software the way I'd want to use it, and days like this remind me why.

🙂🙂🙂 The Smiles: Locked in Saturday plans with my best friend - I sent a message, got an enthusiastic reply back within two minutes, and it made the whole evening lighter. That plus a snoring Frenchie anchored to my leg during a thunderstorm. Hard to beat.