Max Glenister

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

Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared

The nice thing about Win32 is that it does not try to talk you out of any of this. It just gives you the messages, the handles, the drawing APIs, and enough rope to ...

Nucleus Nouns

Consider the “nouns” that live inside an app of your choice:

120+ Icons and Counting | Jakub Steiner

How the GNOME Design Team's app-icon-requests project has boosted app icon quality across the Linux desktop, and how you can help.

MeetingBar - Simplify Meetings on macOS with One-Click Access

MeetingBar is a macOS menu bar app that lets you view and join upcoming meetings across 50+ services, including Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and more. Stay organized and join meetings with a single click, without switching between apps.

I love it when I get a #LEGO order from #BrickLink in the post. This time I wonder if the seller was curious what I'm intending to build with 100 white 1x4 blocks, 3 horse saddles and a shark.

Three decades of Dark Castle games, ready to play with Mini vMac

https://darkcastle.co.uk/

Play HAUNT, the irreverent 1970's text adventure game

Installing every* Firefox extension

Oh, you use Firefox? Name every extension.

Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming

I took the German or Autistic diagnostic and scored Neither. I am apparently the control group.

Am I German or Autistic?

A rigorous diagnostic. 15 questions. One uncomfortable truth.

Max Glenisterpublished this 10 April 2026

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@omgmog Interesting. I’m “probably autistic, not necessarily German.”

Jan Boddez, Apr 10 2026 via indieweb.social

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New blog post: Pulling Google Takeout straight to a NAS

Pulling Google Takeout straight to a NAS — Max Glenister

I’ve been having a bit of a think about data I’ve left entirely in someone else’s hands. Specifically Google Photos, which has photos going back to 2011 and no local copy anywhere. I’m not going anywhere dramatic with it, but having a backup I actually control felt overdue.

Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) running natively on the Nintendo Wii

Middle-earth — Interactive Map

https://musicforprogramming.net/

https://wretched.computer/post/crazytaxi

heerich.js

Tiny engine for 3D voxel scenes rendered to SVG — boolean ops, oblique/perspective cameras, zero dependencies.

CSS is DOOMed!

Every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div — DOOM rendered entirely in CSS. Using 3D transforms, CSS math functions, @property, clip-path, anchor positioning, and SVG filters to build a fully playable 3D first-person shooter in the browser without Canvas or WebGL.