Archive - BuildingBetter

Building a UFO Horror Game That Runs in a Browser Tab with Claude Code

How TAKEN gets a real-looking world to hold 60fps inside a browser tab with no download, the bug that nearly sank it, and the slightly unusual way most…

Jun 30 • André Figueira

5 days to a neon racing game I described more than I programmed

How to build a game with AI and three.js that will work in the browser.

Jun 18 • André Figueira

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A private space for us to converse and connect

Jun 1 • André Figueira

May 2026

Building a 3D solar system that actually looks like space

I built 3dsolarsystem.online, here's how I did it and made it look so good.

May 14 • André Figueira

April 2026

What Civilization VII Shows You About Power

The game strips away the moral theatre and puts the mechanics of how states actually behave right in front of you. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it…

Apr 24 • André Figueira

Agent memory is push, not pull

Why every memory layer for AI coding agents is silently broken, and what it took to fix it.

Apr 22 • André Figueira

We Need to Be More Intolerant

The case for drawing hard lines around people who refuse to draw any themselves.

Apr 10 • André Figueira

The Fermi Fallacy

We searched a hot tub and declared the ocean empty

Apr 4 • André Figueira

The Serpent and the Machine

How a 3,400-Year-Old Symbol Explains Consciousness, Evolution, and Why the Machine Doesn't Care About the Beings Inside It

Apr 2 • André Figueira

I Built a Star Trek LCARS Terminal to Manage My Claude Code Setup

I’ve been using Claude Code heavily for months now.

Apr 2 • André Figueira

I Read the Claude Code Source Code. Here's Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You.

Hook fields that rewrite commands mid-flight, persistent agent memory, auto-mode rules in plain English, self-improving dream loops, and every example…

Apr 1 • André Figueira

Claude Code was leaked... I Read All 500,000 Lines of Claude Code. It Dreams About Your Codebase While You Sleep.

What half a million lines of bundled TypeScript reveal about where AI coding agents are actually going

Apr 1 • André Figueira

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