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

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Max Glenister

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.

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LisaGUI
A Lisa-themed Graphical User Interface

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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!

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macOS Icon History — Basic Apple Guy
Documenting the evolution of macOS system icons over the past several decades.

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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.

ambient.garden
An Algorithmic Audio Landscape
GitHub - pac-dev/AmbientGarden: An Algorithmic Audio Landscape
An Algorithmic Audio Landscape. Contribute to pac-dev/AmbientGarden development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub - pac-dev/AmbientGardenAlbum: An Open Source Music Album
An Open Source Music Album. Contribute to pac-dev/AmbientGardenAlbum development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Inky Frame — Simon Cooksey Blog
Simon's Blog, with personal projects and some academic musings.

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Balatro for the Nintendo E-Reader
What if the best game of 2024 came out on an old, obscure and weird platform?

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How Close to Black Mirror Are We?
Black Mirror episodes, technology analysis, and real-world progress. See which dystopian futures are becoming reality.

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Foam is a personal knowledge management and sharing system inspired by Roam Research, built on Visual Studio Code.

Foam
A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode

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Odyssey—Interactive Video
A research preview of AI video you can both watch and interact with in real-time.

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Why the Original Macintosh Had a Screen Resolution of 512×342, and not 512×384 as One Might Expect

Why the Original Macintosh Had a Screen Resolution of 512x342, and not 512x384 as One Might Expect - 512 Pixels
Many classic Macs came with — or supported — displays running at 512×384 pixels, but many compact Macs, ranging from the original 1984 machine up through 1991’s Macintosh Classic II had built-in CRTs running at 512×342 pixels. That covers all black-and-white compact Macs with a 9-inch screen. The later Color Classic and Color Classic II […]

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CSS Minecraft
A Minecraft clone made with pure HTML & CSS – no JavaScript.

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Max Glenister

Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)
Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make games

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90s.dev: A retro-inspired web platform that combines modern web technologies with a nostalgic 1990s aesthetic, offering developers a collaborative environment to build, share, and run browser-based game development tools and applications.

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About Asteroids, Atari's biggest arcade hit

About Asteroids, Atari's biggest arcade hit
After the breakout success of Space Invaders in 1978, Atari was no longer the hot game maker.

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Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64

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RPG in a Box lets you create games and other interactive experiences in a fun and simple way

Home | RPG in a Box
Bring your stories and ideas to life! RPG in a Box lets you create games and other interactive experiences in a fun and simple way!

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Plain Vanilla: An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques. No tools, no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Plain Vanilla
An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques.

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Mac Themes Garden is dedicated to showcasing schemes made for Kaleidoscope and celebrating the customization and expressiveness it enabled on Classic Mac OS.

Mac Themes Garden
Mac Themes Garden is dedicated to showcasing schemes made for Kaleidoscope and celebrating the customization and expressiveness it enabled on Classic Mac OS.

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Clippy lets you run a variety of large language models (LLMs) locally on your computer while sticking with a user interface of the 1990s.