Max Glenister

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

An 8086 CPU, chipset, 640 KB RAM, floppy, keyboard and VGA screen in one .css file.

CSS-DOS

densha — study Japanese in a living voxel Tokyo

Ride the Yamanote line through a voxel Tokyo synced to Japan's real clock, weather, and seasons. A lofi bed plays while N5 sentences are read aloud and drift by as subtitles — an ambient Japanese study room you just press play into.

GitHub - cabeen/zen-mode

Contribute to cabeen/zen-mode development by creating an account on GitHub.

Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels – SHELLZINE

The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed

The Proportional Web

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.

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".

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.

New blog post about progress bars and AI

The progress of progress bars — Max Glenister

I was waiting for Claude to answer a token-heavy question at work the other day, the little “Thinking…” label flickering into “Wibbling…” and then “Moseying…...