Max Pekarsky 🇺🇦

How you know it's time to take a break

Been a little while, but I made some great progress on the next iteration of typerfast.com (personalized typing exercises) this weekend. I'm typing at work today, and my fingers are way more confident because I really drilled my weaknesses. Big updates are coming!

For over a decade -- probably forever -- Reddit has had the worst error pages on the web. I get the joke, haha - but blaming users for your 500s is not cool. Snoo is sad because of something I did? Actually, no, you get the F.

2025 vibes npr.org/2025/10/24/g...

Sold 2 typerfast.com memberships in the last week - what a pick-me-up, and great motivation to keep improving the app!

It baffles me that companies ask for sexual orientation on your application. I get that this is intended to combat discrimination, but the fact that it's in any way part of the hiring conversation feels outlandish.

If you're looking for something cool to code to this morning... soundcloud.com/robot-heart/...

today in amazing portfolios ja.mt @ja.mt

www.nytimes.com/1975/07/17/a...

ai is wild

lil covert marketing this morning

In the process of building typerfast.com, i've discovered the worst typo of all time. No, I'm not going to tell you what it is. But I hope typerfast can train me out of it.

Seriously, how are we okay with this?

working on mistake identification for my typing trainer when AI suddenly gets real wise

on today's silly bugs - can't believe this book has been selling since 1745 when the hottest startups were in the ColonialTech and ElectroTech.

Sometimes AI says pretty profound, surprisingly insightful things, thanks of course to the smart people who first wrote this.

typerfast.com, my adaptive typing trainer, has come a long way since I started working on it 3 months ago, thanks to great feedback from paying users. Now there are varied targeted exercises, a much better UI, and expanded analytics. I hope you give it a look!

Made an OpenAI API mistake yesterday that cost me 27 cents. Not a huge deal, but definitely the most costly bug I've had to pay for!

If you've ever heard "you know what they say about [Place], if you don't like the weather, just wait 5 minutes", it's not [Place]. They say that everywhere.

What I Learned From My First Round of User Tests www.tinylogger.com/max/J7eIWxp3...

I've been working on Typerfast.com full-time (get better at typing), while TinyLogger.com (write consistently) is functional. Without too much effort, TinyLogger has been gaining users one by one. It's an amazing feeling. Long-term I'm hoping one app will feed into the other.

In today's edition of Absolutely Useless Notifications Nobody Ever Needs, we have this gem from LinkedIn.

Them: "I can't tell what I'm typing" Me:

Here's why I built/love tinylogger.com - so that I can always pull up this page, jot down an outline, and come back to turn this into a full-fledged blog post in a week.

In what world does this make any sense to the average user?

Can someone explain to me how we just had a huge debate about TikTok, but people are going to be sharing their deepest fears and thoughts with DeepSeek (literally called... that) and nobody's ringing any alarm bells?

to Max reviewing this tomorrow... I'm so sorry.

Twice today I've had to turn to (free) Claude because (paid) ChatGPT is down, or something.

Got an email from a user that absolutely made my day. Building small products is a lonely, quiet affair most days, and feedback like this is incredibly motivational. TinyLogger has been growing slowly but surely over the last few months, even without all the great features I still plan to build.

We deserve a better web than this.

One thing I noticed about coding is that I avoid hard tasks and procrastinate with little design tweaks. (Like washing dishes instead of the hard thing you have to do.) So now I give myself one small design tweak to get into the code, then I get into the hard thing.

Be careful what you wish for, because it might come true.

Over the last six months, I listened to 17 of the best-rated albums of all time. I don't have a bite-sized thread for you - instead, I worked hard on a long-form piece about it. Here's what I learned about great music, and how to make it: www.tinylogger.com/max/hovToqSv...

I wish I could be 33 for another year.

Cursor autocomplete feels snappier, and much smarter than VSCode with Copilot, right? Am I missing something? Cursor, like, reads my mind on simple imports, updates in multiple places, etc.

I’m prototyping these 3D printed constellation cards where on one side you see a modern representation of it and the back has a historical one. I love how the matching stars line up and you can compare what’s the same vs not…but this means that one side is mirrored. Will that be too confusing? 🤔

i am going to do my best to get even dumber while i'm there

This is your yearly reminder that Hawkeye is a great Christmas show.

A show with Roy Kent and The Janitor in the same universe just feels so weird

If you're wondering whether you're missing anything on Twitter, I just looked, and nah, you're not missing anything at all.

One of the biggest differences I feel working on typerfast.com is that the architecture (ts/react/vite/express) feels a lot more sustainable. I'm not afraid that any lil change might screw up the app. It took me multiple projects to get to this point. Going to write more about it soon.

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Yes, I wanted to write more, so I built a blogging platform, and now I write on it more. Yes, I wanted to type faster, so I built a typing trainer, and now I'm starting to type faster. If nothing else, I get to benefit from my own tools, and I'm more motivated when I build it.

Always leave them wanting more

It absolutely baffles me that many of my friends still have their venmo transactions set to public, or that that's still an option at all. Settings --> Private

i know everyone’s tired of talking meta level but i’m really happy that i finally was able to cut over to posting just here. twitter felt pretty addictive even this spring and summer. but as our app got less wonky and we added features like quotes, it reached the good enough level for me personally