Thoughts on building, AI, and the changing landscape of software.
Not every randomly-generated nonogram plays fair — sometimes the clues leave a 50/50 guess at the end. No Guess mode runs a constraint-propagation solver on every candidate board and only presents puzzles that are fully solvable by logic alone.
Read more →We fitted a linear + weekly-periodic model to 17 days of traffic data and asked: when does minesweeper.org reach 100,000 daily unique IPs? The answer ranges from October 2026 to November 2040, depending on which growth curve we're actually on.
Read more →There is a seven-foot stone statue in Siem Reap, Cambodia, depicting a rat wearing a gold medal. When you learn what Magawa did to earn it, it might be among the most deserved monuments in the world.
Read more →The Lady Di's Mines team has spun up a GCP instance at pgl.minesweeper.org in support of the native Pig Latin speakers of Iowa.
Read more →Searching for a royalty-free photo of Diana, Princess of Wales, to demo our new 15-Puzzle Generator. It turns out that's complicated.
Read more →Minesweeper.org has a new sliding tile puzzle: the 15-Puzzle. Play the daily challenge, upload your own photo, and slide whole rows in one move.
Read more →Lady Di's Mines now switches to the Tentaizu theme on solstices and equinoxes. Here's what the theme is and a little about the Tentaizu puzzle.
Read more →Instead of subscribing to Jira, Claude Code built a kanban board that reads directly from a markdown file in the repo. The SaaSpocalypse comes for project management.
Read more →Lady Di's Mines now displays 3BV — Bechtel's Board Benchmark Value — the minimum clicks needed to clear a board. Here's what it means and why it matters.
Read more →I built the original minesweeper.org in 1999 as a Physics PhD student. Here's the story of Lady Di's Mines — and why she's back.
Read more →AI coding tools have collapsed the distance between 'I want a thing' and 'I have the thing.' Meet the SaaSpocalypse.
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