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  1. APEX 1.11.6 — WARBORN, VANGUARD, and Prestige Overhaul

    1.11.6 completes the three-faction covenant system, adds a large batch of new prestige upgrades, and rebalances existing shard costs and tiers.

    apex devlog
  2. APEX 1.7.18 — Factions, Obliterate, and Traitor Overhaul

    1.7.18 adds the NEXUS faction covenant system, the Obliterate blastwave mechanic, major traitor system changes, and a stack of smaller improvements.

    apex devlog
  3. APEX Update: Prestige, Traitors, and Five New Enemy Types

    The first major content update to APEX adds an Ascension system, enemy pets (Traitors), five new enemy types, five new late-game upgrades, and a reworked boss encounter.

    apex gamedev update
  4. APEX 1.0: a browser tower defense game

    APEX is a zero-dependency, browser-based tower defense game. One tower, endless waves, thirteen upgrade categories, six fire modes, and procedural Web Audio sound — all in vanilla JS with no install required.

    APEX Release Game Vanilla JS Canvas
  5. Announcing CommitCraft: AI commit messages that never leave your machine

    CommitCraft is a VS Code extension that generates conventional commit messages from your staged diff using a local AI model. No API keys, no internet, no subscription.

    CommitCraft Release VS Code Local AI Developer Tooling
  6. Why I built CommitCraft offline-first

    Most AI dev tools phone home. CommitCraft doesn't. Here's the reasoning behind that constraint and what it forced me to get right.

    CommitCraft Local AI Developer Tooling