Max Glenister

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

I took the German or Autistic diagnostic and scored Neither. I am apparently the control group.

Am I German or Autistic?

A rigorous diagnostic. 15 questions. One uncomfortable truth.

New blog post: Pulling Google Takeout straight to a NAS

Pulling Google Takeout straight to a NAS — Max Glenister

I’ve been having a bit of a think about data I’ve left entirely in someone else’s hands. Specifically Google Photos, which has photos going back to 2011 and no local copy anywhere. I’m not going anywhere dramatic with it, but having a backup I actually control felt overdue.

Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) running natively on the Nintendo Wii

Middle-earth — Interactive Map

https://musicforprogramming.net/

https://wretched.computer/post/crazytaxi

Replied to a post on thenewleafjournal.com :

@[email protected] Thanks for the detailed and thoughtful review Nicholas! I may yet revisit the project and look at adding some of those small UX enhancements.

heerich.js

Tiny engine for 3D voxel scenes rendered to SVG — boolean ops, oblique/perspective cameras, zero dependencies.

CSS is DOOMed!

Every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div — DOOM rendered entirely in CSS. Using 3D transforms, CSS math functions, @property, clip-path, anchor positioning, and SVG filters to build a fully playable 3D first-person shooter in the browser without Canvas or WebGL.

cssDOOM

DOOM rendered entirely in CSS. Every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms.

GitHub - resumex/doom-over-dns: Play Doom entirely from DNS records. (PowerShell 7+)

Play Doom entirely from DNS records. (PowerShell 7+) - resumex/doom-over-dns

DockLock stops your Dock from jumping monitors every time your cursor grazes the bottom of the screen.

DockLock — Keep Your Dock Hidden

Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity)

Watch someone backspace 40 characters instead of pressing CTRL+W, and you’ll understand why this list exists. A collection of shell tricks-grouped by what works everywhere and what’s Bash/Zsh-speci...

The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon

Due to some lucky circumstances, I recently had the chance to appear in one of the biggest German gaming podcasts, Stay Forever, to talk about the technology of RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999). It was …

IS IT A PINT?

An independent study measuring whether American bars actually pour a full pint. Most 'pint' glasses hold only 14 oz. Data, methods, and the Pint Patrol app.

Glasses Cleaning Simulator 👓🧽

If you wear glasses, you’ll appreciate the stunning realism of this interactive experience.

New blog post: I turned my DevTerm into a Game Boy Camera and Printer

I turned my DevTerm into a Game Boy Camera and Printer — Max Glenister

The Game Boy Camera was brilliant and stupid in equal measure, a 128x112 pixel sensor bolted on top of a cartridge, printing to thermal paper on a Game Boy Printer the size of a brick. I got both for Christmas when I was 12 and somehow spent hours with them. The minigames are absurd, the image quality is aggressively awful, and the whole thing looks like a prop from a cheap sci-fi film. I loved it.

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Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons With This One Simple Trick - 512 Pixels

I really dislike Apple’s choice to clutter macOS Tahoe’s menus with icons. It makes menus hard to scan, and a bunch of the icons Apple has chosen make no sense and are inconsistent between system applications. Steve Troughton-Smith is my hero for finding a Terminal command to disable them: Here’s one for the icons-in-menus haters […]

Q3A in the browser