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/

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

That little Sega CD add-on is the cutest thing ever.

https://sega.jp/mdmini2/mdtowermini2.html https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/06/adorable-japan-only-sega-mega-drive-mini-2-faithfully-recreat...

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/

I make web stuff all day every day. This is refreshing! 👏

Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival? https://thoughts.melonking.net/guides/introduction-to-the-web-revival-1-what-is-the-web-revival

📅 Tomorrow it's #RemoteHack from 9:30 AM BST

🫂 Join in from wherever you are! 👉http://remotehack.space

📢 There might be new periodic Airquotes The Podcast Airquotes recordings: https://remotehack.space/live/

📣 A new blog post: Using a Raspberry Pi to Host a local Visual Studio Code Server

https://blog.omgmog.net/post/raspberry-pi-local-dev-vscode-remote/

The forgotten benefits of “low tech” user interfaces https://uxdesign.cc/the-forgotten-benefits-of-low-tech-user-interfaces-57fdbb6ac83

Man, 90s appliance UIs were a ride!

About the Dual MN 8010, the remarkable retro stereo set you've never heard of, that has a GUI (Graphical User Interface).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckiZf9X8GrY

The Nightmare Of Getting DOOM Running On A Serious Business Machine ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzhCGSE7KKw

"Using alt text properly" (2013) https://www.a11yproject.com/posts/alt-text/

"When should alt text be blank?" (2012) https://osric.com/chris/accidental-developer/2012/01/when-should-alt-text-be-blank/

Well this DALL-E 2 is insane! Going to have to be even more critical/sceptical when consuming content...

"My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test"

https://www.mattbell.us/my-fake-dall-e-2-vacation-photos-passed-the-turing-test/

This is a great build log for converting a garage to a habitable workshop space.

Feeling bad that I've not done anything close to this with my garage yet!

https://michd.me/blog/diy-garage-to-workshop-conversion/

Portal64: A demake of portal for the Nintendo 64

https://github.com/lambertjamesd/portal64

These are some great a11y tips, and great explanations/examples too!

https://hidde.blog/common-a11y-issues/ https://hidde.blog/more-common-a11y-issues/

See also: https://www.a11yproject.com/checklist/

Tomb Raider Reflection Effect: How it works

https://www.tombraiderforums.com/showthread.php?t=226585

I've been using a couple of these tools for a while now with Windows 10. Great to see such a detailed overview of the whole suite!

PowerToys - 11 awesome features Microsoft won’t add to Windows: https://www.fourth-wall.co.uk/post/powertoys-11-awesome-features-microsoft-won-t-add-to-windows

"Building like it's 1984: Scrollbars in web applications" https://height.app/blog/scrollbars-in-web-applications

Great use of CSS variables to set inheritable aspect ratio styles!

"Building a combined CSS-aspect-ratio-grid" https://9elements.com/blog/combined-aspect-ratio-grid/

Giving this a go, as I'm already using Hyper-V with some guest OS' on this machine I had to fiddle with the Virtualbox settings to get the installer going, but it seems to be working‼

"Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox for Windows, Linux, and macOS" https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox

⌚ Lots of information about 7 segment displays, and some alternative designs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTB5XhjbgZA

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Q1K3 – An homage to Quake in 13kb of JavaScript

Play it: https://phoboslab.org/q1k3/ Making of: https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-of

Starting a bunch of these sounds at once beats white noise, hands down!

http://savethesounds.info

I suppose as a Jekyll/Github Pages user I've grown used to the levels of redundancy afforded by using the platform, and it's pretty neat for my development process to be so transparent (if anybody is bothered to look!)

If you're using Github and have a good number of followers, you also get a bit of syndication for free in the form of your commits showing up on your followers' timelines.

The only downside I've found is that I tend to have multiple drafts, on multiple clones of my blog repository across multiple machines, and I tend to lose stuff if I don't finish writing and publish in a timely manner!

https://tomcritchlow.com/2022/04/27/triple-entry-blogging/

Looking forward to trying this!

It's time to renew #3DS #emulation https://mikage.app/time-to-renew-3ds-emulation/