063 - Futureland x Playdate

I got Futureland, the habit tracker I built for iPhone, running on the Playdate. Yesterday I tested the Playdate's networking capabilities, so today the obvious next step was syncing real data over Wi-Fi.

The Playdate app reuses the same Swift code as the iOS app, which saved a ton of time but also exposed a problem: the sync layer does a lot of comparison work across hundreds of thousands of entries, and the Playdate's processor is not thrilled about that. It works, it's just slow.

The reason I want this at all: the Playdate is not distracting. No push notifications, nothing arriving from the outside unless you explicitly ask for it. It can just sit on my desk. That's the whole point of the intentional computing thing I've been chasing lately.