Richard Solomou

🦔 Product Engineer @PostHog 🗓 Streaming Wed + Sat, 7pm CET / 10am PT 🔴

[Richard Solomou @richardsolomou]

nobody warned me a model going away would feel like withdrawal. fable is back and im weirdly emotional about how much im shipping 😅

[Richard Solomou @richardsolomou]

we're so back

[PostHog @posthog]

Fable 5, now in PostHog Code (again)

[Richard Solomou @richardsolomou]

wait, @posthog just found a bug in my own game i didn't know existed: sign-ups had been silently broken for 5 days.

it noticed from the data, diagnosed the exact cause, and opened the fix as a PR. i didn't even ask it to look. wtf.

catch me live thursday 7pm cet / 10am pt 🦔
🔴 https://t.co/lBtNmsosgx

[Richard Solomou @richardsolomou]

I wrote more code than ever this year and typed less of it than ever. I haven't quite made peace with that yet tbh.

[Richard Solomou @richardsolomou]

I no longer know how to estimate work. The distance between "the agent one-shots it" and "I lose a day untangling what it produced" is now wider than the task itself.

[Richard Solomou @richardsolomou]

fun fact: github won't run pull_request workflows on a PR that has a merge conflict. they don't fail - they just never run, and nothing in the UI tells you why

[Richard Solomou @richardsolomou]

last night @posthog code built a full combat system into my multiplayer game: health bars, death, respawn, and throwing objects as ranged weapons.

the first ranged weapon it gave me was a hedgehog 🦔 you throw the hedgehog. i did not ask for this and i will not be changing it.

🔴 https://t.co/fXIJGuoQhH

[Richard Solomou @richardsolomou]

working at @posthog be like

[Richard Solomou @richardsolomou]

multiplayer game stream 3, by the numbers:
- 50 PRs merged across the project
- 1 click-to-move pathfinder, one-shot in ~10 min
- 387 sound files @posthog code downloaded when i asked for "some" audio
- 1 emergent game where viewers trap hedgehogs in boulder pens
- 0 idea what the game is anymore

catch me live saturday 7pm cet / 10am pt 🦔
🔴 vod: https://t.co/42URRRo2cR

[Richard Solomou @richardsolomou]

@spacetimedb @posthog haha already had one for capture 😄 just added flag eval via procedure too - remote eval over ctx.http, returned straight to the caller, no sidecar.

both paths side by side now ❤️ https://t.co/BRkD1yOaBi

[Richard Solomou @richardsolomou]

set out to build an MMO. 6.5 hrs later i have a field of hedgehogs wandering around a cave and honestly i'm not mad about it.

this week @posthog code rewrote the backend to @spacetimedb, then added pixel terrain, grid movement, pushable boulders, discord login + the hogs.

what is the game now? unclear. it's great though.

stream 2 of many. round 3 thursday 🦔
🔴 vod: https://t.co/zD2rzWX1RH

[Richard Solomou @richardsolomou]

liked it enough that i shipped an official posthog example for spacetimedb the same week 😄 js + node, all keyed on the spacetimedb identity so events stitch to one person.

the fun puzzle was backend capture - reducers are sandboxed so no network, so i did it with a node sidecar that subscribes to the db. live for your users now:

https://t.co/wdPxnuTstp

happy to walk your team through it if it's useful 🙌

[Richard Solomou @richardsolomou]

spent 4.5 hrs starting to answer a dumb question, live: how much of a real multiplayer game can @posthog's own products actually power?

went from a bare domain to the first real bits of a game with @posthog code. analytics wired up so far - flags, error tracking, AI observability still to come. long way to go.

best ideas came from chat, not me:
🎯 session replays as kill cams
🚩 flags for difficulty levels
🧪 a/b testing procedural loot

stream 1 of many. round 2 soon 🦔
🔴 vod: https://t.co/5aqsWbPpNv

[Richard Solomou @richardsolomou]

tomorrow, 10am PST / 7pm CET: building a multiplayer browser game, live & from scratch, with @posthog code + as much of @posthog 🦔 as i can get away with (analytics, flags, error tracking, AI observability). come hang out!
🔴 twitch + youtube @ richardsolomou https://t.co/AjrVXs5tU0

[Richard Solomou @richardsolomou]

@posthog Get hyped https://t.co/jhfsxMEuBE

[Richard Solomou @richardsolomou]

Oh we're commited now 🦔🚀