Maciej Binkowski

I have a massive forehead. Father of three. Husband. Game designer.
Helped create Dead Island and Dying Light. Worked on a few others lost to history.

[Maciej Binkowski @Matt_Binkowski]

@tobi I didn't know you're a gamer Tobi

[Maciej Binkowski @Matt_Binkowski]

@thsottiaux Any news on when Dots will be available in EU?

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@Perpetualmaniac That was fast :D good stuff man!

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@11bitstudios @TmInstantDefeat This looks pretty fun!

[Maciej Binkowski @Matt_Binkowski]

@faustianwigger You can have a fully custom shell made for Win11 over weekend. I know because I made one, with tiling windows, app launcher and fully customizable taskbar with widgets like in Omarchy. It's surprisingly fast. Go build it.

[Maciej Binkowski @Matt_Binkowski]

@bradgessler Software engineers get verified against reality fast because code works or it doesn’t. Mathematicians spent decades in pure abstraction with much slower feedback loops, so they could maintain a stronger sense of unique genius. AI is a sudden, brutal reality check.

[DHH @dhh]

Most domestic recycling efforts are empirically retarded, counterproductive, and require you don't value your time. Their real function is to fill the God-shaped hole, sized for penance, prayer, and sacrifice, in people's souls. https://t.co/T77DAx1eve

[Joshua Warren @JoshuaSWarren]

Apple says you need a Mac to build iPhone apps.

Today I built one on Omarchy Linux, submitted it to the App Store, installed it on my iPhone over USB, and stopped it at a breakpoint in the debugger.

No Mac anywhere.

It's all open source:
https://t.co/ETOnP3n3X3

[Maciej Binkowski @Matt_Binkowski]

It can derive the keys, decrypt the downloaded book, and feed it into the reader. The remaining part of Kindle software is a “codebook” which is only roughly 1 MB of lookup tables, plus constants in the generated source.

2/2

[Maciej Binkowski @Matt_Binkowski]

The real wild part.
Prometheus decoder carried a small chunk of Kindle’s compiled code. When it needed to unlock a book, it executed that chunk. Now I have a prototype that performs those calculations using Python source reconstructed from the binary.

1/2

[Maciej Binkowski @Matt_Binkowski]

This is wild.
Peak working set:
• Prometheus: 340 MB
• Kindle: 847 MB

Startup: ~0.6s vs ~3s.

Fixed a few UX issues tonight.
Still plenty of little things to do.

[Maciej Binkowski @Matt_Binkowski]

@RaymondIbrahim5 Fantastic news!

[Maciej Binkowski @Matt_Binkowski]

@philkellr Yes. This will sound ridiculous but just stare at an empty wall. No phone. No X. No Nothing.

[Maciej Binkowski @Matt_Binkowski]

@dhh That's why I left programming at a huge corporation and moved into games. I think you have to care about what you're building and be genuinely excited by it to make something other people can care about.

[Maciej Binkowski @Matt_Binkowski]

Aaaand I now have my very own custom kindle reader.
It looks and controls exactly the way I wanted.
And it performs super smoothly.

It's time to start using it now and iron any kinks along the way.

I'll share it once I feel it's good enough.

My god this is so much fun.

[Maciej Binkowski @Matt_Binkowski]

@dangreenheck Very nice!

[Maciej Binkowski @Matt_Binkowski]

@jankeesvw Beautiful!

[Maciej Binkowski @Matt_Binkowski]

I built a few tools for myself with agents and they fly.
Computers are ridiculously fast.
Apparently a lot of software is just human slop.
Over-engineered, under-optimized, drowning in unnecessary abstractions, copy-pasted patterns, and half-understood dependencies.

[Maciej Binkowski @Matt_Binkowski]

@mad_maired 🤣

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Looks like HBO will make a banger again

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

There are now reports from Shelekhov in Siberia about men walking in the city in hazmat suits.

The hospital is quarantined and the pharmacies in the city of ran out of antibiotics.

The 28-year-old laboratory technician Darya Shipilova died on Friday at hospital in the city after accidentally breaking a test sample with Yersinia pestis at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute and contracting pneumonic plague.

Her laboratory was a Biosafety Level 3 lab