Max Glenister

Things I've found

Links, videos and the odd note, posted here first and shared to Mastodon. The best of each week ends up in Links Worth a Look on the blog.

AI-Generated South Park Episodes

In this work we present our approach to generating high-quality episodic content for IP's (Intellectual Property) using large language models (LLMs), custom state-of-the art diffusion models and our multi-agent simulation for contextualization, story progression and behavioral control.

SHOW-1 and Showrunner Agents in Multi-Agent Simulations South Park AI is an example of how to generate high-quality episodic content through the use of showrunner agents in the simulation. #AI #simulation #multi-agent fablestudio.github.io

This is a really nice interactive tool for learning how SVG paths are drawn

Understanding SVG Paths

If you've ever looked at the SVG code for an icon before, you might have noticed that they're usually made up of a bunch of path elements, each with a cryptic d attribute.

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Raspberry Pi Pico W now has Bluetooth support.

New functionality: Bluetooth for Pico W - Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi Pico W, our wireless-enabled variant of our Pico platform, built around our RP2040 microcontroller, now has Bluetooth support. www.raspberrypi.com Release SDK 1.5.1 · raspberrypi/pico-sdk This release is largely a bug fix release, however it also makes Bluetooth support official and adds some new libraries and functionality. Highlights are listed below, or you can see the full list ... github.com

How Video Games Lie To You

It might come as a surprise to some of you, but your favorite games [...] use some pretty clever lies to invisibly balance their gameplay experience behind the scenes.

Mo LaBorde is a reporter who has been collecting safety cards for almost ten years, and one day she started wondering how the modern safety card came about.

In The Unlikely Event - 99% Invisible Do you remember… airplane travel? Packing into a tin can with 200 other people all breathing each other’s air? These days most of us are still avoiding plane travel. But, in the Before Times, when we boarded a flight, we all received the same familiar set of instructions. If you’ve ever flown on a plane, 99percentinvisible.org

That's pretty cool!

Normally, submitting an app to app stores requires a lot of work, including writing code in languages web developers may not necessarily be familiar with, creating app icons, configuring various settings, and testing the app across different devices and operating systems. PWABuilder takes care of many of these tasks automatically, reducing the amount of time and effort required to publish apps.