Hey Coders! Have you ever played a strategy game like HexVeil and wondered, "How does the computer know the Knight has 15 HP?" or "How does it know where to draw the characters?" Today, we are going to crack open the engine behind HexVeil we (at The Mad Bottter) call...
Another year begins, another orbit complete. The nacelles are stable, the consoles are humming, and the view-screen is full of familiar patterns repeating themselves — just at a slightly different scale. If 2025 was about correcting course, 2026 looks like a year of...
Captain’s Log, Stardate 2025.12: We’ve completed another orbit. The nacelles are glowing, the cloud bills are astronomical, and the spreadsheets are still trying to take over the bridge. It’s time for the 2025 Year-End Retrospective. For the developers, IT Directors,...
It's probably happened to most Rails devs working on an app of any scale - the app seems a little sluggish on certain screens and you see a bunch of these in your logs: <code>SELECT * FROM ... SELECT * FROM ......
I’ve been building a lot of stuff with LLMs lately, and if there's one thing I've learned, it's that sending data to these models feels like paying Life Points. Every API call, every piece of data, every token... it all adds up. We all know and love JSON. It's the...
Dredger-IoT brings Ruby to the edge—an open-source, lightweight framework for collecting and transmitting industrial and environmental data from embedded systems like Raspberry Pi. Built by The Mad Botter, it’s the perfect edge companion to Alice’s Snowflake-ready pipelines.
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Hi! I’m Mike! I’m a software engineer who codes at The Mad Botter INC. You might know me from Coder Radio or The Mike Dominick Show. Drop me a line if you’re interested in having some custom mobile or web development done.
