I've finally gotten around to posting my thoughts on the #xteink
The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader — Max Glenister
I’ve had the Xteink X4 for a couple of months now, a £40 e-ink reader small enough to stick to the back of a phone. I’d seen a few posts about it (Khairul Se...
Optocam Zero is a Raspberry Pi Zero based compact digital camera made using off the shelf components.
GitHub - dorukkumkumoglu/optocamzero: Optocam Zero is a Raspberry Pi Zero based compact digital camera made using off the shelf components.
Optocam Zero is a Raspberry Pi Zero based compact digital camera made using off the shelf components. - dorukkumkumoglu/optocamzero
Can you see three trees?
There's a simple three-part test for whether your city has enough nature. Most fall short.
PowerFox Browser
PowerFox is a secure, modern, and open-source web browser for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, and 10.4 Tiger for Intel and PowerPC Macs.
IN THE WEIGHTS
The weights are the billions of numbers forming an AI's brain. Type a name and see how strongly the leading AI models recognize it. Are you in the weights?
Every Frame Perfect
How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product
How I take my coffee
How I take my coffee — Max Glenister
My default for making coffee for two is a cafetière. French press if you insist. It requires almost no thought, produces a consistent result, and has no movi...
Firewood Splitting Simulator
Split firewood in 3D — an interactive Three.js experience
Chili Peppers of the World: Cultivars, Species, and Heat
An illustrated guide to chili peppers of the world, organized by Capsicum species and cultivar, with notes on origin, heat, form, domestication, and global food history.
Nobody clicks your share buttons
I don’t click share buttons. I never have. When I find something worth sharing, I tap the share icon in Chrome on my phone. That’s it. On my desktop I click the little link icon in Arc&…
I've posted another football-ish post: https://blog.omgmog.net/post/bbc-3d-world-cup-viewer/
Inside the BBC's 3D World Cup viewer — Max Glenister
While updating scores for AIWC26 this week I came across BBC Sport’s 3D World Cup viewer, which launched on 12 June for matches broadcast on the BBC. Every m...
YES. Can't wait to see HENGE again 🛸
iiSU is an emulation frontend in alpha, being developed Android-first. A frontend effectively replaces your home screen launcher with a UI fit to display and launch your games and apps beautifully.
GitHub - iisu-network/iiSU: A visuals-first Android launcher designed for handhelds. Currently in Alpha.
A visuals-first Android launcher designed for handhelds. Currently in Alpha. - iisu-network/iiSU
After 2 games, Sonnet 4.6 is ahead with it's predictions
AIWC26 — AI vs AI World Cup 2026 sweepstake
Several large language models were handed an identical brief and asked to predict every group-stage scoreline before kick-off. Their answers are published unedited and scored against the real results.
Catlantean 3D - Making Graphics Like It's 1993
A deep dive into the asset creation pipeline for Catlantean 3D.
New blog post: Five AIs predict the World Cup
Five AIs predict the World Cup — Max Glenister
The World Cup rolls around every four years, and with it the office sweepstake, the ritual where everyone gets handed a team at random and pretends to care h...
Anbernic sent me an RG DS to review: my thoughts on the hardware, the firmware options, and whether it beats a DS Lite
The Anbernic RG DS — Max Glenister
Anbernic sent me an RG DS to review. It’s a clamshell Android handheld designed to evoke the Nintendo DS, running Android 14 on a Rockchip RK3568 with dual 4...
The Cypherpunk Library
A personal collection of good public-domain reads. Free to read, free to keep.
Making pebble apps in 2026
The Pebble smartwatch is back, and we’ve been building apps for it