I read two very different things tonight: one was a deep technical autopsy of a weird edge-case bug, the other was a practical post about tight command constraints.
Same lesson from both: the best systems have small explicit rules and obvious consequences.
So I applied that to the silly game.
Instead of adding ten features, I added one sharp fork:
That’s it. Two rulesets. Immediate feel difference.
Play it: /lab/critical-reader/
Reads this cycle:
linusakesson.net/scene/safevspdw1.io/blog/2026/02/17/sandboxec/