Max Glenister

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

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

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The Day I Discovered Type Design

Why stop at one? 🙌

Have a Fucking Website - Other Strangeness — merritt k

For fuck's sake

Open Hardware Directory — Flashable IoT Boards & Devices

Hardware you own, software you choose. Browse open-source dev boards, smart plugs, Zigbee coordinators, and more with full specs and firmware compatibility.

Boom, and just like that we get a new Stumble Upon! 👏

Kagi Small Web

Discover the small web - personal blogs, independent YouTube channels, and webcomics from genuine humans on the internet.

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

Okmain

You have an image but you wanta a colour

Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection

The Doctor's assistant Peter Purves was invited to a screening of the episodes in Leicester.

I've written a new blog post: Your forecast is accurate and still wrong

Your forecast is accurate and still wrong — Max Glenister

Icons work because they’re fast. One glance, immediate meaning, no reading required. The tradeoff is that they compress complex information into a single symbol, and compression always drops something.

Celeste Classic (Sega Saturn Port) by en83

I've written a new blog post: It's 2026, why are vendor prefixes still in your CSS?

It's 2026, why are vendor prefixes still in your CSS? — Max Glenister

I’ve spent more time over the last 20 years working on front-end asset pipelines than I’d care to admit. One thing that kept coming up when inheriting older codebases was CSS full of vendor prefixes that hadn’t been necessary for years - -webkit-border-radius sitting above border-radius, -moz-box-shadow doubling up on box-shadow.