Doom Crawlers
An online multiplayer card game.
Blog / RCKT
Blog of Alex Petcoglo, a creative developer.
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Sloppy YouTube engineers
YouTube is requiring verification for a 10+ year account side-channel.
Another tiny game
I made a pipes/network puzzle game.
Fedora the explorer
The most stable Linux distribution out there, based on my experience.
Bandcamp + Subsonic
Bandcamp adds the Subsonic protocol support.
Progress on my shit, 16/07/26
Status of my shit as of 16 July 2026.
Progress on my shit, 10/07/26
Status of my shit as of 10 July 2026.
AI life enshittification
Poorly thought usage of the AI tools makes life worse.
Progress on my shit, 17/06/26
Status of my shit as of 17 June 2026.
Low-effort everything
AI shows how much people are stupid and lazy.
Progress on my shit, 26/05/26
Status of my shit as of 26 May 2026.
Lazy ass motherfuckers
Businesses just don't give a fuck, they simply want more money.
Progress on my shit, 21/05/26
Status of my shit as of 21 May 2026.
Progress on my shit, 14/05/26
Status of my shit as of 14 May 2026.
TypeScript function overload
Weird TypeScript ways.
Government doesn't care
Government is not your friend.
Good manners
Hypocrisy is everywhere in this world.
AI PRs
Weird experience with AI-generated or assisted PRs
Progress on my shit, 28/04/26
Status of my shit as of 28 April 2026.
Progress on my shit, 16/04/26
Status of my shit as of 16 April 2026.
Progress on my shit, 15/04/26
Status of my shit as of 15 April 2026.
Duolingo followings
Weird Duolingo socialisation.
LinkedIn is a place where people post fake stuff and others pretend to like it a lot.
My bicycle
My bike that I built.
Progress on my shit, 07/04/26
Status of my shit as of 7 April 2026.
Avalanche of AI shit projects
The problem with lazy, low-quality AI-generated things that is mostly ignored.
Nice internet radio stations
A couple of online radio stations I've been listening to for a long time.
I don't get this
Frustrating communication experiences.
Starting my own shit
After more than a year of rejections, I decided to try out doing my own shit instead.
Pine tree
I planted a pine tree and it's growing.
Stress
Stress affects your life.
Job application experience
Fuck you.
WarioWare Inc.
A wonderfully silly game.
Murphy's Law
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Text Fragments
So-so experience with the text fragments.
Open source bad UX
Frequently open source tools have a very bad UX.
HP Dev One touchpad
Finally, my HP Dev One touchpad is working fine.
Audio API WTF moment
The shit devs have to deal with.
Audio visualiser
A small experiment visualising audio context on canvas.
Nice laptop
A short story about MacBook Pro 2015.
Brian Eno
Music for Airports is a great piece of art.
Paint images with CSS
A very convenient way to paint images via CSS.
AbortController
Amazing interface to abort requests or event listeners.
Linux is moving forward
My Bluetooth headphones with a mic now work fine on Linux.
Linux USB transfer speed fix
A way to make copying files to a USB drive predictable on Linux.
List virualisation
Fixed a massive lag in ANALOG analytics.
AI tools management
Prompting an AI agent is the same as micro-managing junior devs.
Three.js code optimisations
Properly optimising Three.js code is hard.
Silly Three.js material hack
I used double-sided material instead of adding caps to the TubeGeometry.
Splash page update
The development iteration of the splash page update.