https://karakabakov.com/ Notes on building for the web — 3D and WebGL, React and React Native, design systems, and leading engineering teams. en gorgekara@gmail.com (Gjorge Karakabakov) https://karakabakov.com/posts/cleat-mac-launcher/ https://karakabakov.com/posts/cleat-mac-launcher/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cleat is a native Mac launcher: apps, files, clipboard history, window snapping, sums, timers and a local assistant from one keystroke. $49 once, no account, no analytics. cleat macos launcher swift swiftui productivity https://karakabakov.com/posts/sunflower/ https://karakabakov.com/posts/sunflower/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT System Settings says System Data and stops there, so I had Claude build a free Mac disk analyser that names what is inside it and never guesses at a byte. sunflower macos swift claude xcode https://karakabakov.com/posts/openmontage-trailer/ https://karakabakov.com/posts/openmontage-trailer/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT OpenMontage runs video production as an agent-driven pipeline: research, script, scene plan, assets, edit. A thirty-second Cadence trailer for $6.13. openmontage cadence claude video remotion https://karakabakov.com/posts/cadence/ https://karakabakov.com/posts/cadence/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Notes in two apps, a habit tracker a month, trips planned anywhere. I described the app I wanted, Claude built it, and thirty trackers now live in one place. cadence claude macos ios productivity https://karakabakov.com/posts/warpath/ https://karakabakov.com/posts/warpath/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A medieval Peggle in Phaser and Matter: 48 boards drawn as pictures, a spacing guarantee the tests hold to, and an aim preview running the real solver headless. games typescript phaser matter.js gamedev https://karakabakov.com/posts/sleep-timer-macos/ https://karakabakov.com/posts/sleep-timer-macos/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT macOS quietly dropped its sleep timer in Ventura. Here is what replaced it, why the Terminal fix falls short, and the free menu bar app that brings it back. sleep-timer macos swift swiftui claude https://karakabakov.com/posts/halworth-xp/ https://karakabakov.com/posts/halworth-xp/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Halworth XP is a browser horror game set entirely in an IT support desk: thirty shifts, 75 tickets, four endings, and a help article that lies to you. it support horror games react typescript game design https://karakabakov.com/posts/island-doodle-adventure/ https://karakabakov.com/posts/island-doodle-adventure/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A real-time draw-and-guess party game on a 3D island: React Three Fiber, Firebase Realtime Database, server-authoritative rules and costly cold starts. three.js react firebase typescript games https://karakabakov.com/posts/the-cooler/ https://karakabakov.com/posts/the-cooler/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A roguelike deckbuilder scoring every three-in-a-row as a three-card poker hand, built in Phaser and TypeScript and tuned by a headless balance harness. games typescript phaser gamedev https://karakabakov.com/posts/claude-code-without-burning-tokens/ https://karakabakov.com/posts/claude-code-without-burning-tokens/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Opus to plan, Sonnet to build, Haiku for the errands — plus effort levels, context hygiene, and a skills tutorial. The dials that actually move the bill. claude-code ai workflow tooling https://karakabakov.com/posts/baby-care-dads-on-duty/ https://karakabakov.com/posts/baby-care-dads-on-duty/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT An isometric three.js browser game with a procedurally generated house, co-op multiplayer and a global leaderboard, shipped with no bundler and no build step. three.js javascript webgl games pwa firebase https://karakabakov.com/posts/eleven-years-of-javascript/ https://karakabakov.com/posts/eleven-years-of-javascript/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT jQuery, Backbone, Require.js, CoffeeScript, AngularJS, Angular, React, React Native, Next and Astro. What each era solved, and which lessons were worth keeping. javascript react career frontend https://karakabakov.com/posts/company-wide-ui-library/ https://karakabakov.com/posts/company-wide-ui-library/ Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Building a shared component library is mostly not a component problem. Standards, Storybook, an 80% coverage floor, and the adoption work nobody budgets for. react design-systems storybook testing typescript https://karakabakov.com/posts/using-pocketbase-as-backend/ https://karakabakov.com/posts/using-pocketbase-as-backend/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT PocketBase packs an embedded SQLite database, realtime subscriptions, auth, an admin dashboard and a REST API into one Go binary. How to use it as your backend. pocketbase sass go