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Solitaire Alone Together recently hit the front page of Hacker News and it's delightful. I remember playing Solitaire a lot as a kid on the family computer, but I was terrible. Now that I'm older, it's a lot of fun, and quite addicting! I found myself drifting back to it time and again while working, as it's the perfect fidget game to play while I'm in a meeting: it doesn't require lots of focus, I'm not tempted to check Slack which causes me to tune out, and I can pause anytime. Unfortunately, Zscaler now recognizes it as a gaming website and it's blocked on my work laptop. Bummer. Then I wondered: how simple would it be to make an Android version of the game? Solitaire is a well-trod system. Let me try making my own version with Claude Opus 5.5: Create a Solitaire game for the Android. Make it so that it's got all the convenience features, including a draw one and a draw three mode. Make sure that it has an undo button. Make sure the visual design is appealing and usable with one…

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