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Sideline Engineering
Sideline EngineeringAug 31, 2026
Rebuilding player development in a PC sports sim
Making sports sims even more realistic.
game development
Text Game Testing
Text Game TestingAug 19, 2026
Baseline Jefferson
Numbers, notes and bad lineup opinions from around JHSAA tennis
Text Game Testing
Text Game TestingAug 18, 2026
After decades of debate, JHSAA changes the way Jefferson plays tennis
Association approves 3-singles, 4-doubles format for regular season; distinctive 1-and-4 State format will remain
Text Game Testing
Text Game TestingAug 17, 2026
Play To Clinch: August 14th Update Playthrough
Even though I build a college tennis sim, what I really ever wanted was a high school tennis sim but college tennis is what happened because all of the basketball PC sims made it an easier mental model to develop. The biggest college adaptation is the format. College rosters are among the smallest of any sport and I thought without the real world contraints, why not expand it? So now it's different. D1: 10 SINGLES / 5 DOUBLES (for 1 point) = 11 points D2 & D3: 8 SINGLES / 3 DOUBLES = 11 points D...
Ron Bronson
Ron BronsonAug 12, 2026
VarsityApex
A decentralized data platform for high school sports, built on ATProto. Ingests Hy-Tek printouts, spreadsheets, and scorebooks, normalizes and resolves identity across them, and distributes standardized records up through school, league, state, and national levels.
Sideline Engineering
Sideline EngineeringAug 9, 2026
Introducing ApexVarsity
High school sports, messy data and a unique (demo) everyday use for the ATProtocol
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game development
Sideline Engineering
Sideline EngineeringJul 31, 2026
Expanding The Court
Per-division dual formats, full-fidelity outcomes, and a rebuilt stat model
game development
Sideline Engineering
Sideline EngineeringJul 24, 2026
Developer Notes 7.24.26
Adding a test-score rating and giving Division 4 its own recruiting budget
game development
Text Game Testing
Text Game TestingJul 23, 2026
Play To Clinch Ep. 4 Playthrough
More updates
Text Game Testing
Text Game TestingJul 14, 2026
Play To Clinch Tennis Ep. 3 Playthrough
I made a few improvements to the tennis sim that are all just clerical or UI improvements. The national tournaments are now seeded where the Top 16 teams are placed regardless of division. i I also added an archive for past singles/doubles national champions since previously, you could only see the past year's results and they got erased upon a new season. I did this because my last sim was taking over a Monmouth (IL) program that blew through D3 en route to a national title, but then everyone l...
Making Public Work
Making Public WorkJul 14, 2026
Hiring the Right Shape of Designer
Why AI makes service design more valuable, not less
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service designcivic tech
Text Game Testing
Text Game TestingJul 10, 2026
Playthrough #2
Okay so it's fall portal time and I need to decide who I want to bolster in the D1 ranks. It would be easier to bring a bunch of 50+ STR players, take over a doormat D1 program and start running up wins and make NCAA tournaments, but I think that'd just be a race towards figuring out the deal to crack into the upper echelons of things, which will be a fun challenge when I get there. What I'd like to do first, at least for a season or two, is become a dominant conference power first. The trick to...