Max Glenister

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

Following up to my earlier post (https://social.omgmog.net/2023/fiddling-around-with-a-convoluted-method-of ) I've got a less convoluted method of handling switching audio output devices from a macro keypad now.

I'm now using Hammerspoon https://www.hammerspoon.org/ -- a powerful tool that lets you define all sorts of automation using Lua. This is my script for switching audio output devices: https://gist.github.com/omgmog/8c2139c9270431b7cddd93a947c9018c

I'm also now using a cheap 3-key macro pad from Aliexpress (rather than the Pimoroni RGB Keypad as I couldn't think of a good use for the rest of the keys!) that I've got bound to F12/F13/F14 keys.

https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software

https://sunsetglow.net/posts/frontend-build-systems.html

This is a book about building applications using hypermedia systems. Hypermedia systems might seem like a strange phrase: how is hypermedia a system? Isn’t hypermedia just a way to link documents together?

https://hypermedia.systems/

https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2024/06/20/a-rant-about-front-end-development/

This is great! http://axio.ms//projects/2024/06/16/MicroMac.html

Now... what would it take to fit this inside something like the little Macintosh 128k brick set I built the other week?

https://social.omgmog.net/2024/jaki-maker-pop-personal-computer-se-1984

A novel use of font ligatures

Sans Bullshit Sans. The font that replaces every buzzword by a Comic Sans-styled censorship bar

https://www.sansbullshitsans.com/

Slash pages are common pages you can add to your website, usually with a standard, root-level slug like /now, /about, or /uses. They tend to describe the individual behind the site and are distinguishing characteristics of the IndieWeb.

https://slashpages.net/

The VR Design Paradox

https://youtu.be/Fhlw88_Beu4

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/05/10/emoji-history-the-missing-years/

Fiddling around with a convoluted method of setting up macro keys on Mac OS. I'm using the old faithful Pimoroni RGB Keypad with a Pico, some basic CircuitPython keyboard stuff, and these two nifty apps:

switchaudio-osx: CLI utility to switch audio source https://github.com/deweller/switchaudio-osx icanhazshortcut: shortcut manager to bind any keyboard combo to any command https://github.com/deseven/icanhazshortcut

Anyway it's working nicely for me right now! So far I've got headphone/speaker output toggles and volume control sorted. Just 12 more keys to assign 🤔

A good explainer and diagrams of how UTF-8 works with emoji

https://sethmlarson.dev/utf-8

History, data and alcohol. Super interesting!

When did people stop being drunk all the time?

https://lefineder.substack.com/p/when-did-people-stop-being-drunk

AI-Generated South Park Episodes

In this work we present our approach to generating high-quality episodic content for IP's (Intellectual Property) using large language models (LLMs), custom state-of-the art diffusion models and our multi-agent simulation for contextualization, story progression and behavioral control.

https://fablestudio.github.io/showrunner-agents/

This is a really nice interactive tool for learning how SVG paths are drawn

Understanding SVG Paths

If you've ever looked at the SVG code for an icon before, you might have noticed that they're usually made up of a bunch of path elements, each with a cryptic d attribute.

https://www.nan.fyi/svg-paths