Poker strategy, Texas poker news, and engineering deep dives.
A practical, from-the-ground-up guide to protecting company data on personal phones: MAM vs MDM, device compliance, Android work profiles, Conditional Access, and the problems we solved along the way.
Every poker variant is playable, the platform has its own look and feel, a team is forming, and a private alpha is weeks away. June 2026 progress on salty.poker.
Two provisional patent applications filed with the USPTO. Priority dates locked in. What we filed, what 'patent pending' means, and why it matters for players.
We tore the interface down and started over. One persistent workspace, tables as tiles, a single GPU context for the whole page. Built to hold 16 live tables in one window.
The platform works end-to-end. Here's what it took to get there -- and why the testing phase looks the same regardless of who wrote the code.
The routes were fixed. The data format was corrected. Every change was saved. Refreshed the browser. Nothing changed. Here's what was actually going on.
The table view loaded. The canvas rendered. The table existed. But every request to the server returned nothing. Here's how we found it.
Twenty-two AI build sessions in ten days produced a working platform. Here's what happened the week after -- the part that doesn't make the changelog.
The Lodge raid exposed what happens when poker operates without a compliance foundation. Here's how salty.poker is being built with that lesson in mind.
The Lodge and TCH Social made Austin a world-class poker destination together. Losing one doesn't make the other better — it makes the whole ecosystem smaller.
Texas Penal Code § 47.04, a 21-year-old AG opinion written for bar poker nights, and why the legal framework hasn't caught up to what Texas poker actually looks like today.
The Lodge Card Club is closed. What happens to the players, the dealers, the tournament circuit, and the Austin poker economy?
A factual summary of the March 2026 TABC raid on The Lodge Card Club in Round Rock, Texas — timeline, allegations, aftermath, and what comes next.
Salty Poker Network is building an accessible online poker platform — color blindness support, keyboard navigation, custom mapping, and configurable UI for every player.
How salty.poker is building bot detection and fair play enforcement from day one — behavioral analytics, step-up challenges, device risk scoring, and rapid enforcement.
How salty.poker is being built using spec-driven development and agentic AI — over 100 pages of specification before a single line of production code.
Monday night's Hijack outage was a reminder of why salty.poker is being built with resilience at every layer.
Building a poker platform from scratch with AI assistance. What happens when you ask AI to document your Terraform strategy and it builds the whole thing instead.
Announcing the Salty Poker Network, a new real-money online poker platform built for Texas poker players. No rake, just a fair tick-fee model.
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