Oleksandr Shemberko ·

A web demo of a live-dealer table where the dealer is a video avatar: 163 commits in a month. Ran five lip-sync models side by side instead of picking one from the docs — rejected the photo-driven ones on measured head movement, settled on VEED Lipsync 2.0 and Sync Labs, and later regenerated the whole library on HeyGen — and judged every take by a pixel-difference metric in the mouth area rather than by eye. Dealer footage from Kling and Veo, voices from ElevenLabs and a local TTS, replies through OpenRouter; a speech queue with priorities that never cuts a line off, and game logic decoupled from video timing so a stalled clip cannot stall a round.

370 merged pull requests and the second-largest commit count in the repository. In the bot: the captcha and the captcha quiz at the door, warns, bans and mutes with their menus, broadcasts, role-play commands, and the game layer — duels, the in-chat market, skins with drops, a shop, sales and moderation, achievements and ranks. On the web: the admin on Vue 3 + TypeScript over a JSON API, with ActionCable notifications and Telegram sign-in, and the Mini App’s move to React 19 together with its premium shop.

The customer’s own posts from end to end — creation, editing, scheduled and postponed publishing, per-channel settings, premium emoji, captions too long for Telegram — and the ad-reservation service with its archive and the content-plan view. Then the premium tier: payment menus, the free/premium split and the notifications around a subscription. Started the Ruby userbots on TDLib — opened the pull request that brought them in, which Danyil then carried to the end — and patched the tdlib-ruby fork they run on. Reviewed 105 of his colleagues’ pull requests.

The /qx command with ready-made author quotes and the API path the second product calls, per-user quote settings, AI-picked backgrounds and the admin /stat. In 2026, a Chromium renderer that draws a quote as a Telegram bubble — still an open pull request.

Thirteen merged pull requests: slug history on FriendlyId, so a renamed post keeps its old URL, the home-page tag filter on Tom Select with pagination in a Turbo Frame, similar posts, the after_party task that regenerated every photo format, and the policy for confirming users in the admin.