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.

Peter Howell of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop demonstrates how he reimagined Ron Grainer's classic Doctor Who theme [using] modern polyphonic analogue synthesisers like the Yamaha CS-80, an ARP Odyssey Mk3 and a Roland Jupiter-4, a vocoder and an old, malfunctioning phase shifter unit he found in the back of the Workshop.

One of many default browser styles that I always change!

All browsers add an 8px margin on the body element – it’s part of the w3c-recommended default stylesheet which browsers generally use as a starting point for their own ‘user agent’ styles. But why 8px? Where does that come from?

Nifty.

MacintoshPi is a small project that allows running full-screen versions of Apple's Mac OS 7, Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 with sound, active Internet connection and modem emulation under Raspberry Pi.

GitHub - jaromaz/MacintoshPi: A small project that allows running full-screen versions of Apple's Mac OS 7, Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 with sound, active online connection and modem emulation under Raspberry Pi. A small project that allows running full-screen versions of Apple's Mac OS 7, Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 with sound, active online connection and modem emulation under Raspberry Pi. - GitHub - jarom... github.com MacintoshPi – Mac OS 7/8/9 for Raspberry Pi – Jaromaz jm.iq.pl

Replied to a post on www.miriamsuzanne.com

Yes getting it all up and running is challenging, but when it works it feels like magic and the enthusiasm of the community makes it worth it!

We have the technology to implement a slow social network of personal sites. I’m excited to keep playing with that code. But proving the concept is not the same as actually making it easy & accessible in a way that can replace platforms.

Miriam Eric Suzanne » Am I on the IndieWeb Yet? I haven’t signed to any major web labels. www.miriamsuzanne.com

For my own reference, to find/replace the linked mastodon post for a post on Known in MySQL:

update entities set contents = replace(contents, 'old-post-id', 'new-post-id');

I might want to add the mastodon link to the post edit UI to be a bit more robust...

That little Sega CD add-on is the cutest thing ever.

メガドラタワーミニ2 | メガドライブミニ2 | セガ 令和初のゲーム機として話題を呼んだミニハードの決定版「メガドライブミニ」が、内容を一新して「メガドライブミニ２」として復活！　「メガドライブ2」を再現した新デザインでさらなる小型化を実現しつつ、中身はさらにパワーアップしました。 sega.jp Sega, still doing what Nintendon’t, announces a tiny Sega CD retro console Announcement is Japan-only for now, console is coming in October. arstechnica.com

I love everything about this. 😍

Electronic Catan LCD Tiles: A collection of hexagon tiles that magnetically snap together to create a Settlers of Catan board of any shape or size. Each tile features a large round LCD and a custom magnetic pogo connector on each edge. Linking up a bunch of tiles creates a position-aware partial mesh network.