New blog post: What's the most popular number in Hacker News titles?
Max Glenister
2026
July
An 8086 CPU, chipset, 640 KB RAM, floppy, keyboard and VGA screen in one .css file.
This is a vibe https://jivx.com/densha
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.
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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".
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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.
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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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