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LocalThunk
Personal blog · localthunk.com/bloggameswriting
LocalThunk is a personal blog at localthunk.com about games and writing. Since 2025, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The Balatro Timeline”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this developer blog for the history of Balatro: it was started in vacation time and tweaked heavily, and its soundtrack was commissioned on Fiverr. Comments cite it as a source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Balatro Timeline3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-07
- I'm Slow2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-12
What Hacker News says?
Balatro was started in vacation time and underwent a ton of tweaking: https://localthunk.com/blog/balatro-timeline-3aarh So if it had to be written in C, probably neither of those would have happened.
Comment linking /blog/balatro-timeline-3aarh
on “The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority”Submitted Solitaire as a story · 463 points
HN discussionReminds me of indie hit Balatro's soundtrack being commissioned on Fiverr: >This month I contacted Luis Clemente on the freelance website Fiverr and he delivered an absolutely amazing soundtrack for Joker Poker. Really knocked it out of the park. I was very nervous about this because it was (at the time) the only money I had spent or planned to spend on the game. (from https://localthunk.com/blog/balatro-timeline-3a…
Comment linking /blog/balatro-timeline-3aarh
on “The Minecraft game score unexpectedly became big business for its composer”Submitted The Balatro Timeline as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSubmitted Balatro 1.1 update delayed: "I'm slow" as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm Slow as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing Cards (Balatro) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bad Grades as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
