New blog post: What's the most popular number in Hacker News titles?
What's the most popular number in Hacker News titles? — Max Glenister
Two consecutive titles on the HN front page yesterday had a 6 in them. This means nothing. But it’s the sort of nothing that lodges in your brain until you d...
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How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing | jola.dev
Hack the text output of Claude Code to make life a little bit sillier.
Hacker Fables
The satirical cyberpunk novella to read while your AI agent completes Jira tickets.
An 8086 CPU, chipset, 640 KB RAM, floppy, keyboard and VGA screen in one .css file.
This is a vibe https://jivx.com/densha
densha — study Japanese in a living voxel Tokyo
Ride the Yamanote line through a voxel Tokyo synced to Japan's real clock, weather, and seasons. A lofi bed plays while N5 sentences are read aloud and drift by as subtitles — an ambient Japanese study room you just press play into.
GitHub - cabeen/zen-mode
Contribute to cabeen/zen-mode development by creating an account on GitHub.
Recap of things I've shared this past week https://blog.omgmog.net/lwal/week-28/
Retro game archives, MechCommander bug fixes, and a live train map — Max Glenister
Lots of links shared on social.omgmog.net between 6 and 12 July, from old handheld games to a live map of Britain’s railways.
They're hositng a summit to talk about weather icons! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1ly34z81qeo
Also I wrote previously on this https://blog.omgmog.net/post/your-forecast-is-accurate-and-still-wrong/
Chester Zoo summit aims to tackle 'misleading' weather apps
The zoo says rain icons lead some would-be visitors to believe the whole day will be a "washout".
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.
New blog post about progress bars and AI
The progress of progress bars — Max Glenister
I was waiting for Claude to answer a token-heavy question at work the other day, the little “Thinking…” label flickering into “Wibbling…” and then “Moseying…...
Electronic Plastic: a museum of handheld and tabletop games from the 1970s and 1980s
Electronic Plastic: with pics & details to more than 900 handheld and tabletop games from the 70s and 80s.
analog.watch
Read 3 analog clocks as fast as you can!
GitHub - SildurFX/Switchdeck: Steam ARM64 for the Nintendo Switch 1 (L4T)
Steam ARM64 for the Nintendo Switch 1 (L4T). Contribute to SildurFX/Switchdeck development by creating an account on GitHub.
Old icons
Inspired by Paul Kafasis and Apple's 50th anniversary.
A new post about CSS view transitions, and hooking them up on my blog: https://blog.omgmog.net/post/how-im-using-css-view-transitions-on-this-blog/
How I'm using CSS View Transitions on this blog — Max Glenister
In the old days of the web, animating between pages meant faking it with jQuery. Then came pjax, which used pushState to swap in fetched content and fake a f...
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R.E.L.I.V.E.
An Open-Source Abe's Oddysee / Abe's Exoddus engine.