John Seong https://johnseong.ca/blog Tech Lead | AI Systems en-us sandole97@gmail.com (John Seong) sandole97@gmail.com (John Seong) Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://johnseong.ca/blog/CatanAssistant Reverse Engineering Colonist.io to Build a Catan Decision Engine https://johnseong.ca/blog/CatanAssistant One evening building a real-time Settlers of Catan assistant - a FastAPI search engine on top of catanatron, a Manifest V3 extension that taps the Colonist.io WebSocket, and the MessagePack protocol I had to decode to connect the two. What worked on the first live game, what broke, and why I am not training a neural net yet. Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT sandole97@gmail.com (John Seong) aigame-aichrome-extensionreverse-engineeringpython