Max Leiter

An interactive emoji search demo runs here in the web version of this post.

If you're wondering about this post's title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_U,_Next There's been a lot of talk about custom / personal software and LLMs lately.

I like running software on devices that aren't "supposed" to run it.

After Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat".

My terminal background color changes based on the current directory.

Six years ago, while I should have been studying for finals, I patched and compiled X11 (and all its dependencies) to run on a jailbroken iPad.

Learn how we built v0 to be an effective AI coding agent through careful system design and iteration.

Last year my roommate and I found an old original iMac G3 outside our apartment building.

I redesigned maxleiter.com this week.

I've been "lucky" to work with a lot of different LLMs over the past few years (there is, in fact, a reason we made the AI SDK).

I like to try new technology. 75% of what I buy is something I use once or twice then sell or give away (or keep in a drawer and forget about.

I had a (maybe slightly overqualified) computer science teacher back in highschool, Mr.

If you aren't familiar with the extent of the Minecraft modding scene, it's big.

I hate unrecognizable URLs.

Introducing the v0 composite model family.

I recommend swapping out `max` to basically anything else

I recently made a jsonb column in a postgres database and it took me a bit to figure out how to update a single value without overwriting the entire field.

Edit: A better title would've been "commit every day that you work".

This is my workflow for opening a project in VS Code: Open an empty window of VS Code Hit cmd+O Navigate to my `~/Documents/...` directory Hit enter In my opinion, that's a few too many steps.

As of late 2024/early 2025, I recommend using the great repomix tool: https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix I've been messing with gemini-1.5-pro with the 1 million token context window for a while now and found this script very useful for grabbing entire…

Loading wasm on the Vercel Edge runtime is easy.

SWR is a great library for data fetching in React.

I like using Slack bots for things like alerts and notifications and have needed this snippet enough to leave it here.

Stream React Components from LLMs to deliver richer user experiences.

An interoperable, streaming-enabled, edge-ready software development kit for AI apps built with React and Svelte.

Someone recently reported that the font-size in some of my code blocks on my build-your-own Next.js blog post was too large.

Describing Nintype is a challenge.

I've been tinkering with this website and the Next.js 13 App Router for a while now, and it's been a great experience, especially in the last few months.

We've made some improvements to the accessibility of our Next.js site.

I recently published a small npm package containing a Vue library.

Please read This post was written for the (now stable) beta Next.js middleware.

Below is a short list I wrote up for people who are comfortable building websites (with any technology) but want to improve their work, whether that be in terms of loading speeds, software quality, or accessibility.

* hackers: users of hacker news Yesterday, when I probably should have been doing something productive, I instead asked hacker news users for links to their personal sites.

View this post on Drift I've wanted a Gist alternative for years, but it wasn't until I saw this tweet I decided to sit down and build it: "What is the absolute closest thing to GitHub Gist that can be self-hosted?

One of the most common questions I'm asked by my computer science friends and students is how they can contribute to an open-source project.

Today, the open-source maintainer Marak intentionally bricked two popular JavaScript libraries (with ~25 total million weekly downloads) in such a way that they broke dependents software.

I received my Framework Laptop DIY edition a few days ago and have been setting it up software-wise.

A couple of a weeks ago I picked up a Surface Pro 7 (i3 1.2 mhz) at a Black Friday sale.

New edge dev infrastructure.

Please read This work has been picked back up recently, with KDE, GNOME, Wayland, and more.