Max Novem

@maxnovem

Comic artist, elder punk, greybeard programmer. Do good recklessly, make art, fight fascism, and pet dogs. Just trying to survive The Horrors like everyone else. my site: maxnovem.art

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Max Novem@maxnovem· 12d

Progress on my gallery app for cataloging your art and source files. It auto-generates previews of everything (including Procreate, PSD, Affinity, and CLIP), has search, tagging, organization into projects, and doesn't touch or need to duplicate your source files. Runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Max Novem@maxnovem· Jun 24

Wanna see something truly terrible? #makeaterriblecomicday2026 They all flew back to Sirius, we're on our own.

Comic.
Panel 1: A person looking terrified, "The dogs..."
Panel 2: "They're gone. They left. ALL of them."

Max Novem@maxnovem· Jun 24

It's all lies. #makeaterriblecomicday2026

Comic. L
Panel 1: A person holding a phone, "It's 'terrible comic day'"
Panel 2: "And NONE of these are 'terrible'"

Max Novem@maxnovem· Apr 15

lyrics

Bill collector called today (Shove!)
IRS is on my pay (Shove!)
My boss says I should comb my hair (Shove!)
My father thinks that I'm nowhere

Get out of my way or I might shove
Get out of my way or I'm gonna shove

Landlord doesn't like my dog (Shove!)
My eyes are burning from the smog (Shove!)
The neighbors say I jam too loud (Shove!)
America thinks it should be proud, ugh!

Get out of my way or I might shove
Get out of my way or I'm gonna shove

Some guy just pinched my ass (Shove!)
Drunken bums ain't go no class (Shove!)
The club says we won't get paid (Shove!)
It's been months since I've been laid

Get out of my way

Max Novem@maxnovem· Apr 14

A movie couple that would definitely have a podcast. You know exactly what it would be about, too.

Keith David and Roddy Piper, screenshot from They Live

Max Novem@maxnovem· Apr 3

Hey - wanna buy some art you can wear? shop.maxnovem.art

Max Novem@maxnovem· Apr 2

Block this babbling dumbfuckery before it tries to follow you too. AI images all over next to word salad pseudo-science and circular reasoning. They/it seem to be spamming other platforms as well.

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 31

sketch of a cartoon creature, pointing down (to the quoted skeet), saying "This right here"

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 30

Wanna buy some art you can wear? I have these 3 moody dorks on shirts for a limited run. Here's my store link. shop.maxnovem.art

Screenshot: three drawings of moody figures, walking. Black and white, on dark fabric. A rabbit in a hoodie, smoking. An elf-fairy with wings. And a nondescript mammal.

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 25

I flip between that and "come for me, Gmork!" about 3 times an hour.

Stills from Neverending Story where Atreyu tells Gmork he's going to whoop his ass.

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 23

Last night's game building: I added the ability to pull objects instead of just pushing and shooting them.

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 20

Oh, that's easy:

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 18

And then there was the helicopter truck from The Highwayman with Sam Jones. Flash fucking Gordon, with a helicopter truck.

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 18

train doodles

A couple of cartoon heads, furry animal creatures

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 17

👀 🤷

Two eyeballs are talking, while facing different directions. The first says "What are you doing over there?" The second says, "None of your strabismus."

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 17

Worth a read: The two worlds of programming: why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-two...

When developers say that LLMs make them more productive, you need to keep in mind that this is what they’re automating: dysfunction, tampering as a design strategy, superstition-driven coding, and software whose quality genuinely doesn’t matter, all in an environment where rigour is completely absent.

They are right. LLMs make work that doesn’t matter easier – it’s all monopolies, subscriptions, VCs, and lock-in anyway – in an industry that doesn’t care, where the only thing that’s measured is some bullshit productivity measure that’s completely disconnected from outcomes.

Those who are most vocal today about the dysfunctions of LLM-coding were already warning about the dysfunctions of the software industry well before the “AI” bubble began. The issues that plague the industry predate this particular bubble and many in software have been concerned about them for years.

Equally, most of the people who today are the most vocal about the benefits of LLM-coding were bullish about software development before the bubble. They didn’t see anything wrong with the earlier state of affairs so they don’t see anything wrong with magnifying that dysfunction tenfold.

There is nothing either group can say to the other to shift their opinion because the disagreement is down to a fundamental difference in worldview.

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 17

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 16

Life goals.

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 16

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 15

Getting really close to a test release of my app. It creates a catalog of your source files (even across multiple folders & cloud drives) so that you can see them all in one place, organize them, quickly open them in your art app, export preview images, and more.

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 15

Welp, time to call the USC quantum physics department.

A still from the movie Prince of Darkness, showing the "relic" - an ancient cylinder filled with a swirling, glowing liquid.

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 13

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 12

Oh yeah? Well, I was around for Death Knife 500, so...

drawing of a alien-monster kid with big oversized headphones, watching something on a small phone-sized device. A voice off-panel is saying "What are you watching?" The kid replies, "Death Knife 20k. You wouldn't understand it."

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 11

If you see this, post a robot.

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 11

Let's see your workspace guardians.

Photo of a tiny D&D kobold figure and an all black Lego spaceman on top of a monitor.

Photo of two small metal Star Wars snowtrooper figurines, a metal female Zabrak figurine, a Lego stormtrooper helmet, and two Han Solo action figures from Empire Strikes Back on top of a monitor.

Two plastic ape figurines from the original Planet of the Apes beside a monster in the shape of a hand, on top of a monitor.

A small black and white image of The Phantom from the original film, in a faux gold picture frame against a gray wall.

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 10

Happy Tuesday. I checked, and we're all still neck deep in The Horrors. Hope you find a good way through it this week. Art helps. Here are some space dorks.

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 10

Artshare? Artshare! Hi! I draw comics, among other things. Usually space stuff because space is rad. 🫸💥🫷@mattnelsonart.bsky.social @beyondperil.bsky.social @dsoart.com @admancomics.bsky.social @brendanalbetski.bsky.social @davidbuist.bsky.social @sketchbrooks.bsky.social

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 9

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

The goblin Blix, from Legend (1985). Black as midnight, black as pitch, blacker than the foulest witch.

Max Novem@maxnovem· Mar 9

I'm building something. I try to keep my art files organized, but they still wind up in multiple folders within folders, and I can never quickly preview them all in one place to find something without digging. And previews don't show in Finder for all file types. So, I'm making this: