Max Starka

Front-end Development and UI Design.
And a bit of anime, manga, video games and game making (especially VFX).

[Max Starka @MaxStalker]

This is the thing that brought me joy for the last week and a half. It was so fun to work on design and implementation of this one 😊

I would highly appreciate the feedback 🙇‍♂️

[kazerabu @kazerabu]

Good day, everyone!
Today, we are happy to present you digipi - your personal pocketable piano! It sports only single octave, but have 3 different voices.

We also included some simple songs you can try.

Play to your heart contents at ♥🎶
https://t.co/Y7nB2XPzIt

[Danny Manus @DannyManus]

You're tellin me in 24 hrs, the NVidia CEO steps down in a spy scandal, all of Microsoft & Outlook goes down globally, a building collapses in NYC, a Tanker sinks a River cruise ship in New Orleans and now the FAA has grounded ALL flights across the country?! WTF is going on??

[Lachlan Heywood @lachie_h]

i could not hear this without needing to pay homage to the og

[Eduardo Cartre @edcartre]

NES a capella.

[Indie Game Joe @IndieGameJoe]

This action game feels like a 1980s Jackie Chan film set in Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City

- Fight gangs with punches, kicks and combos
- Cross rooftops and find hidden passages
- Spare enemies or eliminate them

Game is The 9th Dragon. Would you play this?

[Max Starka @MaxStalker]

@TheCinesthetic

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

Built a physical simulation of a record player with WebGL2 and Web Audio. It's *shockingly* accurate: https://t.co/MBNaTfKoai.

Instead of playing a song, it works by converting it into the physical shape of a groove. Then a simulated stylus rides those walls 384,000 times a second, and you hear the voltage that motion would induce in a cartridge.

So the crackle, the pops, the wow/flutter, the dull inner grooves are natural byproducts of the simulation. You can also "DJ" the record.

(The converted songs are in the public domain or CC-licensed. Code is linked for you to remix and re-deploy.)

[Max Starka @MaxStalker]

@pikuma

[Alpha Beta Gamer @gameralphabeta]

You accidentally wore a parasitic gauntlet and now you have a Samurai Unicorn stand!

Australian cyberpunk survival horror game, Samurai Unicorn

Wishlist on Steam! https://t.co/52ifaeRs7f

1 hour gameplay video: https://t.co/8w2tsVTGqR

by indie game dev @SamUni_PS1

[yung algo @yungalgorithm]

check out pr #24 i opened to convert musicxml notation into notes so ppl can do fun arrangements and performances from musicxml files

[Owen Carey @owenthcarey]

Me explaining how my app works after vibe coding the entire thing.

[INK @0xInk_]

New account to follow, guys 🧃

super original content and a really interesting style.
He’s going to make great stuff

[Max Starka @MaxStalker]

@AlexAvduevsky Мортал комбат? 🤔
https://t.co/waAWEs7CHS

[Max Starka @MaxStalker]

@AlexAvduevsky @NuTochno – Дерзишь!

[Max Starka @MaxStalker]

@WesleyP91308 @yongfook Any customers? :)

[Max Starka @MaxStalker]

@remnantsofpast Interesting fact, this bit and pretty much whole casino scene is a homage to "Indecent Proposal" also staring Woody Harrelson:

https://t.co/CuBfGQeyxJ

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: Assume good things are still ahead. You are not behind. You are not too late. You are not disqualified by your past. One new season can change the entire story. Keep showing up with belief. The best chapters are often written after the hardest ones.

[Mads Hagbarth Damsbo @xads]

So.. 1024 paths per pixel, up to 8 bounces, no denoiser, no rt cores used. 60 fps at 1080p on an RTX 3080. Stumbled upon this 2003 path-tracing paper while researching the lens flares for Higx Optics. It is for most intends and purposes useless for what i needed but just had to try it in action. One of those fun rabbit holes Claude let you explore.

[Ayush Soni @ayushsoni_io]

design slop indicators

- tags
- italicized words
- instrument serif, negative kerning
- over the top detailed UI
- dividers
- multiple color shades and opacities
- containers with borders
- diagrams. the more detailed, the worse
- code breadcrumbs
- section numbering

[Victor @echo_vick]

Just a few years ago, management could comfortably wait out a two-week sprint to get a feature shipped.

Today, there’s growing impatience when a feature takes more than 24 hours to deliver. 🥲

The pressure on software engineers right now is crazy, and I don’t think we’re talking about it enough.

I can barely get two sentences into explaining my implementation plan before someone interrupts with:

“Just give it to Claude to do!”

“Sir, we need to think about…”

“That’s what Claude is there for. Let it do the heavy lifting!”

A task gets assigned, and barely 10 minutes later:

“Why is it taking so long? Aren’t you using Claude properly? This should take a minute or two!”

Somehow, the existence of AI has created this assumption that software engineering is now just a matter of writing a prompt and watching features magically appear.

Nobody wants to hear about architecture, edge cases, testing, security, or the implications of a poorly thought-out implementation.

Just ship it. And ship it NOW.

AI has become both a blessing and a curse.

Something I genuinely expected to reduce my workload has instead increased it. The productivity gains are real, but so are the expectations that come with them.

We’ve made development faster, but somehow, we’ve also made every delivery feel slower.

And that’s the irony nobody seems to be talking about.

Omo mehn, I’m just exhausted, might as well just resign, but it seems it’s the same everywhere😪