Max Glenister

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

Webbased image editor, modeled after the legendary Deluxe Paint with a focus on retro Amiga file formats: read and write Amiga icon files and IFF ILBM images

DPaint JS

GitHub - steffest/DPaint-js: Webbased image editor, modeled after the legendary Deluxe Paint with a focus on retro Amiga file formats: read and write Amiga icon files and IFF ILBM images

Webbased image editor, modeled after the legendary Deluxe Paint with a focus on retro Amiga file formats: read and write Amiga icon files and IFF ILBM images - steffest/DPaint-js

GitHub - tldev/posturr: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch. Uses Vision framework for real-time posture detection.

A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch. Uses Vision framework for real-time posture detection. - tldev/posturr

Why can't I read this picture book? — Max Glenister

I’ve spent the last five years reading picture books with my kids at bedtime. Hundreds of them - and I’m still going, even as my eldest moves on to chapter books. One thing has consistently driven me mad: I often can’t read the words.

EmuDevz

A game about building emulators!

Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018 - 2026

Just under eight years ago, we here at Emojipedia hypothesized that 2018 would be a year of emoji design convergence. Today, we look back at the major emoji updates made since early 2018, covering both design convergence and purposeful design divergence.

The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button

Radio buttons are built into web browsers. Why are we using a UI library that wraps another UI library that rebuilds radio buttons from scratch? Why does rendering a radio button require multiple dependencies and several kilobytes of JavaScript? How did we make a built-in browser control so complicated?

Puppet tests from Fantastic Mr Fox

Installing Android on the Nintendo Switch — Max Glenister

A banned Switch sitting on a shelf is prime hardware for Android. Turns out the Tegra X1 that powered Breath of the Wild runs a full Android OS surprisingly well.

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.

beats

A web-based drum machine inspired by Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators. Create, save, and share beats with 16-step sequencing and multiple instruments.

Just the Browser - Just the Browser

Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers.

GitHub - SparkLinkStudios/portal-but-its-osha-compliant: Portal, but it's OSHA Compliant. Mod for Portal 1.

Portal, but it's OSHA Compliant. Mod for Portal 1. - SparkLinkStudios/portal-but-its-osha-compliant

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The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – no.heger

As a result of reading https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites/ by @[email protected] I've added .txt format to my posts on my blog.

Moving to GitHub Actions (and adding .txt posts) — Max Glenister

This year I moved the blog from GitHub Pages’ built-in Jekyll to a GitHub Actions workflow, then added .txt URL support for posts. Inspired by Terence Eden’s blog post about text-only websites.

A small collection of text-only websites

A couple of years ago, I started serving my blog posts as plain text. Add .txt to the end of any URl and get a deliciously lo-fi, UTF-8, mono[chrome|space] alternative. Here's this post in plain text - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites.txt Obviously a webpage without links is like a fish without a bicycle, but the joy of the web is that there are no…

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature - Blog

Read about the new ebooks Standard Ebooks is releasing for Public Domain Day 2026!

Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting

An experiment in javascript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table

I've been over this with my 6-year-old lately, and the golden line is definitely

Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile has lost a wheel and the Joker got away

Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy

Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…

Interactive Fluid Typography — Electric Magic Factory

How to build responsive typography with fluid units and typed arithmetic in CSS.