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Notes from the table — what shipped, what changed, and the occasional hand worth talking about.

  • 24 August 2026

    Everything we have published that was wrong

    Seven false claims we shipped, what each one said, how long it served, how we found it, and the test that now fails if it comes back. One of them is still wrong.

  • 20 August 2026

    Verify today’s deal yourself

    Everyone playing the Daily gets the same shuffle. Here are the six steps that produce it, a snippet that runs anywhere, and one day’s deck to check yourself against.

  • 4 August 2026

    Two devices, two chip counts

    Pip now has an optional account that carries your progress to a second device. The interesting part isn’t the sign-in, it’s what happens when both devices have been played.

  • 26 July 2026

    Pip, for readers who aren’t people

    Every content page now answers Accept: text/markdown with its plain text version — a free-plan build of what Cloudflare offers as Markdown for Agents, in about ninety lines.

  • 25 July 2026

    Launch week: what shipped

    A new card back, four more hand nicknames, a quicker freeroll, and three strangers in the credits — everything that changed in Pip’s first days in the open.

  • 25 July 2026

    Pip is live, and it’s open source

    Single-player Texas Hold’em with no account needed, no ads, and no real money — now live at playpip.io, with the whole codebase in the open.

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