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Weekly recaps of Bokdle, and notes on how it's built. Follow along with the RSS feed.

News · 16 October 2026How Bokdle startedA WhatsApp group, a love of sports trivia and a Raspberry Pi with room to spare. How a daily Springbok guessing game went from an idea to bokdle.com in a weekend.Behind the scenes · 16 October 2026How we made the Bokdle leaderboard load 10× fasterThe leaderboard used to take up to 2.2 seconds to load. Here's why, and how keeping the boards in memory got it down to a tenth of a second.