Max Glenister

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

Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole | Bytemash

A deep dive into local-first architecture, triggered by wondering why Linear feels so fast. Looking at the technical implementation, exploring tools like Jazz and Electric SQL, and explaining why my next app might not need API endpoints.

Some great points! I'd also add the suggestion of reading: Staff Engineer (Will Larson), The Staff Engineer's Path (Tanya Reilly) and The Manager's Path (Camille Fournier)

And also add that it's okay to decide to not be a manager after trying it out for a bit 💪

So You're A Manager Now.

Advice for first-time managers from someone who learned it the hard way, cleaned it up, and passed it on.

Optician Sans – Free font based on historical optotypes

Optician Sans is a free font based on the historical Snellen and Sloan eye charts and optotypes used by opticians world wide for centuries.

The HTML Hobbyist

Learning HTML to build your website, fanzine, or personal site.

copyparty: turn almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads/downloads using any web browser

GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps

Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps - 9001/copyparty

Reading QR codes without a computer!

Ship of Harkinian

More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work

Are We Trek Yet?

A comprehensive guide to the tech that Star Trek suggested and that builders are making a reality.

Game Genie Retrospective: The Best NES Accessory Ever Was Unlicensed

For an unlicensed game accessory, the Game Genie sure casts a long shadow. It reshaped the games we already owned—and had a profound effect on copyright law.

There oughta be a bullet time video booth.

For my cousin’s wedding I did not make a photo booth but a video booth. - With an array of DSLRs to create a bullet time effect. Click the image to see the video on youtube.com. Since this is a very visual project, you should really watch the video. This blog post contains the same info with more details, but those details are probably only relevant if you really want to recreate this project, which is not an easy thing to do.

New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes

Can optical illusions take you outside the human color gamut?

MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today

MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today

40 years later and the art people painstaking made in MacPaint on their little Macs still amazes me.

LisaGUI

A Lisa-themed Graphical User Interface

neat!

SVGs that feel like GIFs

The moving image below is only 49Kb and has an incredibly high resolution. It's similar to a GIF but instead of showing moving images, it shows moving SVGs!

macOS Icon History — Basic Apple Guy

Documenting the evolution of macOS system icons over the past several decades.

ambient.garden is an experiment that started with the question: can a composition be organized in space rather than time? Can it be experienced in space by the listener? To explore this concept, all the sounds and graphics were entirely generated from open source code. The sounds of ambient.garden were assembled and grown into a music album, A Walk Through the Ambient Garden, also open source.