Max Glenister

UX Design, UI Design & Front-end Development. Technically a cyborg.

Keep Android Open

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

Withnail's Coat & I

He may have had tailoring from Hawkes of Savile Row, but Withnail’s coat has a more complicated history.

Drags & Drops at the Heart of a Mac - Quibbletown by Keren

There’s a beauty in how the Mac commits to “the desktop and files” metaphor. I think it’s admirable how ever since the earliest days of the Human Interface Guidelines, direct manipulation has been a core benefit of the operating systems: You Can Just Move Things Around. I want to explore how its been a phenomenal success, and where it has drifted off course. There’s some aspects of this direct manipulation mentality that throw people off: The lack of snapping to grid on the desktop can feel chaotic if you’re new to the OS and are used to anywhere from 2-5...

Your boundary is at hue 176, bluer than 75% of the population. For you, turquoise is green.

Is my blue your blue?

Test your color perception with this interactive test.

Quarkdown | Markdown with superpowers

Quarkdown is a modern, open-source, Markdown-based typesetting system for creating papers, presentations, knowledge bases and static websites.

IconKitchen

Cook up app icons for any platform

A Field Guide to Bugs - Stephen Diehl

Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future

I've just happened across https://unsung.aresluna.org/ by @[email protected] and it's excellent.

Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality

Game Boy Hero II by The Great Foohachi

For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)

Rotating Sandwiches

that's it

5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens (Maurycy's blog)

tico - Custom Emulation Frontend for Nintendo Switch

The first custom emulation frontend for Nintendo Switch. Experience retro gaming with modern performance and stunning visuals.

A wild new blog post appears!: https://blog.omgmog.net/post/finding-the-small-web-in-a-loud-internet/

Also just launched a new blog design, so hopefully that's all working 😅

Finding the Small Web in a Loud Internet — Max Glenister

My daily reading is deliberate at this point. I’ve settled on a small set of tools that surface the kind of internet I actually want, rather than whatever’s ...

Fontspots: Eurostile

In addition to the film-specific typographic deconstructions on this site, I’m keeping track of all the times I spot classic sci-fi fonts in movies. What better way to start than with perenni…

This gave me huge VSauce Michael vibes. Very interesting none the less! £$

Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared

The nice thing about Win32 is that it does not try to talk you out of any of this. It just gives you the messages, the handles, the drawing APIs, and enough rope to ...

Nucleus Nouns

Consider the “nouns” that live inside an app of your choice:

Replied to a post on burgeonlab.com :

Thanks for the share!

120+ Icons and Counting | Jakub Steiner

How the GNOME Design Team's app-icon-requests project has boosted app icon quality across the Linux desktop, and how you can help.

MeetingBar - Simplify Meetings on macOS with One-Click Access

MeetingBar is a macOS menu bar app that lets you view and join upcoming meetings across 50+ services, including Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and more. Stay organized and join meetings with a single click, without switching between apps.

I love it when I get a #LEGO order from #BrickLink in the post. This time I wonder if the seller was curious what I'm intending to build with 100 white 1x4 blocks, 3 horse saddles and a shark.