Maxim Krizhanovski

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[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

Over the weekend I’ve started a game - chess with upgradable pieces. It’s incredible how easy is to start things with the help of AI. Even more incredible is how much of that is possible thanks to open source. Still early days, but would love your feedback https://t.co/Fyu3rMjvqn

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

#TIL ambigram

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

“productivity is now outrunning comprehension” - a great article on the dopamine effect of AI and why productivity is not translated into value:
https://t.co/k6fQfqlGbO

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

One under appreciated effect of the #Al for coding: it makes engineering work more resilient to interruptions. The gap between meetings is enough to craft instruction for the AI, and when you lose context due to interruption -
you can read it back from what you wrote to the agent

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

If you have tried https://t.co/Fyu3rMjvqn and found the computer too weak / doing random, illogical moves… well the logs were saying that it fails to execute the search and fallbacks to a random move, but I wasn’t watching the logs 😅 Anyway, it’s fixed now

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

@growthrapidly $CRSP

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

Intermittent errors (e.g. network and 5xx) are noise in the error tracker. They belong to the metrics. Ideally you want to know if a service you depend is down, and more importantly - to detect if a given request consistently fails while other requests to same service succeed.

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

#TIL AI agents provide hooks that you can use to run scripts after specific events (e.g. instead of asking the agent to run tests you just run them or even check the coverage of the changes and feed back to the agent)
https://t.co/CKfF3LFBep

[Christoph Rumpel 🤠 @christophrumpel]

I can only repeat myself:

Even if AI writes the code… 🤓
Even if AI helps with the design… 👨‍🎨

Creating a good application is still hard work.
AI can assist, but you still have to make the decisions, review the work, and shape the final product.

This will not go away.

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

@general_abn My father as a kid, but… I discovered the love to chess after watching queen gambit

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

@Lordweb111 The Queen only appeared in chess in 1500s, before that a much weaker piece (the ferz) that moved only one square diagonally was standing next to the king

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

@TVanWelsenes Building a chess rpg game where you earn material to build new pieces, and pieces gain experience and get upgrades. Early prototype at https://t.co/3mkxRT76Ac

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

So I did a #chess based game in which you start with only 3 pawns, controlling territory gives you material points to build more pieces, capturing pieces gives experience which allows upgrades, and captured pieces can be rebuild again

play online at https://t.co/jX0AIELwtS

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

10 GitHub repos that quietly run my daily life and save me $2,000 a year in 2026.

Bookmark this list.

1. Paperless-ngx
Every receipt, invoice, contract, and tax document scanned, OCR'd, and tagged automatically. The most-cited "non-negotiable" self-hosted tool of 2026. Replaces Adobe Scan + Evernote at $15/month.
Repo → https://t.co/wW6mA7Zb2p

2. Karakeep
Saves every link, screenshot, article, and PDF I'll ever want again. AI auto-tags everything. Mozilla just killed Pocket. This took its place. Replaces Raindrop Pro + Pocket at $15/month.
Repo → https://t.co/IZ96g5duzC

3. Vaultwarden
Every password I'll ever need, on every device, encrypted. Replaces 1Password Family at $10/month.
Repo → https://t.co/lwESQjTyr9

4. Anytype
My notes, tasks, knowledge base, all local, all encrypted. Notion is $10 billion. Anytype is mine. Replaces Notion Plus + Roam at $20/month.
Repo → https://t.co/3pZnRBeSeR

5. AdGuard Home
Blocks ads on every device on my home network. Phones, TVs, tablets, laptops. Replaces NextDNS Premium at $20/month.
Repo → https://t.co/nmoF3k4D5b

6. Syncthing
Syncs files across every device I own, peer-to-peer. No cloud, no subscription, no Dropbox account. Replaces Dropbox 2TB at $15/month.
Repo → https://t.co/Z1UzrFejaw

7. Home Assistant
Lights, doors, thermostat, security cameras — all on one dashboard. Replaces SmartThings Pro + Alexa Plus at $25/month.
Repo → https://t.co/71S8Bq1Hmq

8. Audiobookshelf
Audiobooks and podcasts on every device. Beautiful apps. Mine forever. Replaces Audible + premium podcasts at $30/month.
Repo → https://t.co/MhwerkVSrK

9. Stirling-PDF
Every PDF operation in one place. Merge, split, OCR, compress, sign, redact. Replaces Adobe Acrobat Pro at $20/month.
Repo → https://t.co/cox9pHE4zp

10. Bitwarden Send
Encrypted file sharing with expiration timers. Replaces WeTransfer Pro + Dropbox Transfer at $20/month.
Repo → https://t.co/XCZ2JtWqWQ

Save this. Share it with the person in your life still paying $190 a month for what's been free this whole time.

100% free. 100% open source.

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

So Claude Code ported chessv from C# to TypeScript so you can play 85 #chess variants in a browser
Enjoy https://t.co/tPi6ti2Q7r

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

#chess people, how do you play puzzles? I see a chess puzzle picture, I’d like to recreate the board and have powerful AI play the other side so I can verify I’m forcing checkmate (especially useful with longer plays). Does such thing exist?

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

I’m porting an old open source desktop application to a web app, using Claude Code. We should modernise as much software as possible while access to AI is cheap

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

@daicandev I’m vibe coding chess variants - mostly ones in which pieces get new moves. Launched the first two at https://t.co/3mkxRT76Ac

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

Cannibal #chess turned out to be a quite fun game. Each capture changes the capturing piece (into the captured one, regardless whether that’s an upgrade or downgrade) and changes the balance. You can play it online at https://t.co/1XRq4iV92k

[Maxim Krizhanovski @Darhazer]

@ThankGod1903 Change the game until you find one at which you’re winning ;)