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

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Max Glenister

Open Source Game Clones

Open-source or source-available remakes of great old games in one place

https://osgameclones.com

Max Glenister

Max Glenister

PHONK is a coding playground for new and old Android devices.

Create scripts rapidly from your phone or using the remote Web Editor on your computer using Javascript. The API is simple and extensive. GUI, audio, graphics, Bluetooth BLE, Arduino, OSC, MIDI, and much more.

https://phonk.app https://github.com/victordiaz/PHONK

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Cramming 'Papers, Please' Onto Phones

https://dukope.com/devlogs/papers-please/mobile/

Max Glenister

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZuf0LIU-2A

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So, here’s a bit of a mystery: Why does TeamViewer – the popular remote desktop program – install a font it doesn’t use on your computer?

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/teamviewer-font-privacy.html

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Where Browsers Come From The economics around browsers, and what we should think about as we move forward.

https://bkardell.com/blog/WhereBrowsersComeFrom.html

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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?

https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2022/07/04/body-margin-8px/

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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.

https://github.com/jaromaz/MacintoshPi https://jm.iq.pl/macintoshpi-mac-os-7-8-and-9-for-raspberry-pi/

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Defensive CSS Practical CSS and design tips that helps in building future-proof user interfaces.

https://defensivecss.dev

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A small tool (rsspls) to generate RSS feeds from web pages that lack them. It runs on BSD, Linux, macOS, and more.

https://github.com/wezm/rsspls

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🙈 I do not need more tech. I do not need more tech!

Pocket Reform is a 7 inch mini laptop from MNT Research. We condensed the best features of MNT Reform into a smaller, lighter, and more affordable device while adding some new exciting details.

https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2022-06-20-introducing-mnt-pocket-reform.html

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What would a Chromium-only Web look like?

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2022/06/22/chromium-only

Max Glenister

Max Glenister

🥳 though I can't help feeling uncomfortable by how smooth Clarus is.

Did you know that with macOS Ventura, Clarus the Dogcow has at long last returned home?

https://shadowfacts.net/2022/clarus/

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Game Design Mimetics (Or, What Happened To Game Design?)

https://blog.kylekukshtel.com/game-design-mimetics

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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...

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Love the pixel art on this. The technical side of things is super interesting too!

https://atrailtale.com

Discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31701026

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New episodes of Airquotes the Podcast Airquotes from the May 2022 are up!

https://remotehack.space/live/

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Hamburger Footer: Reaching the Bottom of Infinite Scroll https://prototypr.io/post/hamburger-footers-in-headers-infinite-scroll-techniques

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10 Surprising Things You Didn't Know About HTTP https://webdevguild.com/blog/10-things-http/

Max Glenister

More than you ever wanted to know about font loading on the web https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/high-performance-web-font-loading/

Max Glenister

How classic Sierra game graphics worked (and an attempt to upscale them) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sclZDCjUVvI https://github.com/eviltrout/agi-upscale

Max Glenister

Max Glenister

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.

https://coliniuliano.ca/projects/catan-tiles/