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Max Glenister

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Max Glenister is an interface designer and senior full-stack developer from Oxfordshire. He writes mostly about front-end development and technology.

Frontend / CSS / browsersWeb developmentDev tools / editors / IDEsRetro computing

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2026 65

  1. PHP2Shell and the case for building boring sites
  2. Batman on the Sega, Switch games on iPhone, and Local Wikipedia
  3. The original iPhone in a browser, PS2 games on WebGPU, and 68k Mac ports
  4. Halo on Android, a C64 keyboard font, and every lighthouse in the world
  5. Baking webmentions into the buildV.H. Belvadi mentioned Baking webmentions into the build, Oct 10, 2026
  6. Chasing build speed on Jekyll 4
  7. Ten years since Cardboctober, a brutalist sandbox game, and a Pebble-y emoji font
  8. Cardboctober, ten years on
  9. An AI plays Pokémon, the science of Monkey Island grog, and a koi pond to stare at
  10. Steam Frame, gravity-well asteroids, and an e-ink bird feeder
  11. O cursor, where art thou?
  12. Unlicensed game discs, Shattered Pixel Dungeon's v4.0.0, and dithering from scratch
  13. Antiquated CSS and why we needed it
  14. An Amiga game ported to Godot, a Playstation 2 house, HyperCard on the web, and Ganon's Kamen Rider origin
  15. How I'm using CSS View Transitions on this blognews.tuxmachines.org mentioned How I'm using CSS View Transitions on this blog, Sep 06, 2026
  16. Android's 24 hour sideloading wall
  17. A ringing website, a headache word game, and flying toasters
  18. Pulling Google Takeout straight to a NAS3r1k0n commented on Pulling Google Takeout straight to a NAS, Aug 29, 2026
  19. Migrating from Pixel 7a to Pixel 11
  20. Tea weather
  21. A macOS desktop fly, Mario Kart's real cars, and Susan Kare's icons
  22. Enriching webmentions from third-party platformsYash Garg mentioned Enriching webmentions from third-party platforms, Aug 23, 2026
  23. DONKEY.BAS turns 45, Worms turns 30, and Manhattan's hardest-working font
  24. The Hidizs AP30 Music Boy
  25. N64 homebrew, dithered QR codes, and Quake's 30th anniversary
  26. Half-Life on Mac OS 9, a GammaOS handheld release, and shipping VR without Unity
  27. Michael Jackson's hand in the Sonic 3 soundtrack, and Comic Chat's return
  28. Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs
  29. Sega CD engineering deep-dives, a share-menu upgrade, and a daily word game
  30. What's the most popular number in Hacker News titles?
  31. Progress of progress bars
  32. Why I'm using a low-profile keyboard (for now)
  33. Every Kickstarter project I've backed
  34. How the five ais actually did
  35. Making gimp feel less like punishment
  36. The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
  37. Tailscale exit node vm
  38. Sending webmentions on deploy
  39. How i take my coffee
  40. Bbc 3d world cup viewer
  41. Five ais predict the world cup
  42. The Anbernic RG DS
  43. Merge commits are just noise
  44. Finding the Small Web in a Loud Internet
  45. Over under interview
  46. I turned my DevTerm into a Game Boy Camera and Printer
  47. Your forecast is accurate and still wrong
  48. It's 2026, why are vendor prefixes still in your CSS?
  49. Ds pico flashcart
  50. Reducing github action commit noise
  51. Building a Home NAS from Mostly Spare Parts
  52. Ai screening ai
  53. Blurs, shaders, and Tahoe's window saga continues
  54. Archive Archaeology
  55. Using emoji to bypass FRP on a decade-old tablet
  56. Using split view in chrome
  57. Downgrading the oneplus 7 pro for lineageos
  58. Linyuvo ks42 wireless joycons
  59. Plugins instead of patches
  60. Bigme b6 color e ink tablet
  61. Why can't I read this picture book?
  62. Android on the nintendo switch
  63. Emoji only chat
  64. Moving to GitHub Actions (and adding .txt posts)
  65. Building a Balatro-lite game with vanilla web tech

2025 3

  1. Mangmi firmware updates ota
  2. Review mangmi air x
  3. Better macos audio switching

2023 3

  1. Pico 8 cartridge label for gpi
  2. Saying goodbye to dingoonity
  3. The movies i watched in 2022

2022 6

  1. Raspberry pi local dev vscode remote
  2. A bit of a bodge to make massive emoji
  3. Installing chrome os on a late 2009 macbook
  4. Adding support for Webmentions
  5. DevTerm Stuff
  6. The inevitable oculus quest post

2021 6

  1. Adding an internal speaker to the Pocket CHIP
  2. Pocket chip global volume control
  3. Gameshell stuff
  4. The Raspberry Pi Pico and the Pimoroni Pico RGB Keypad
  5. CHIP Stuff
  6. Using orca with fluidsynth on pocket chip

2020 2

  1. Using chromebook lenovo ideapad duet in 2020
  2. Peanut arduboy kit

2019 5

  1. Installing ubuntu on macbookpro 8 2
  2. Pico8 on the raspberrypi with gamehat
  3. Simple state system
  4. Outline
  5. Menu system

2018 18

  1. Notes android avd
  2. Custom font
  3. A foray into home automation
  4. Dialog system
  5. Pocketsprite laptop mount
  6. Extra keys v2
  7. Extra keys v1
  8. Printer mods 2
  9. Shower bracket
  10. New filament orange
  11. An amp v2
  12. Tong spacer
  13. An audio amp
  14. 3d printing a new remote control
  15. New filament
  16. Whats in the box
  17. Printer mods 1
  18. Recycled parts

2017 21

  1. Merry grootmas
  2. Is this art
  3. Birthday spidey
  4. Xenomorph gift and box
  5. Brackets from scratch
  6. Garden bin hinge pin
  7. Pug llama hodor
  8. I am groot
  9. Print in place elephant
  10. Dialing in
  11. It begins
  12. Deepoon dpvr e3 virtual reality headset
  13. Vpn connection indication windows
  14. Mini review virtoba s1 daydream vr controller
  15. Enabling google daydream on oneplus 3t
  16. Workflow for discovering new vr content
  17. A laptop that fits in your pocket the gpd pocket
  18. Children of time book review
  19. The inevitable htc vive post
  20. Useful bash aliases for vps
  21. Well that has been a crazy couple of months

2016 36

  1. Cardboctober 31
  2. Cardboctober 30
  3. Cardboctober 29
  4. Cardboctober 28
  5. Cardboctober 27
  6. Cardboctober 26
  7. Cardboctober 25
  8. Cardboctober 24
  9. Cardboctober 23
  10. Cardboctober 22
  11. Cardboctober 21
  12. Cardboctober 20
  13. Cardboctober 19
  14. Cardboctober 18
  15. Cardboctober 17
  16. Cardboctober 16
  17. Cardboctober 15
  18. Cardboctober 14
  19. Cardboctober 13
  20. Cardboctober 12
  21. Cardboctober 11
  22. Cardboctober 10
  23. Cardboctober 09
  24. Cardboctober 08
  25. Cardboctober 07
  26. Cardboctober 06
  27. Cardboctober 05
  28. Cardboctober 04
  29. Cardboctober 03
  30. Cardboctober 02
  31. Cardboctober 01
  32. Cardboctober
  33. Chuwi vi10 plus review
  34. Upgrading to el capitan with an old installer
  35. Summer of hacks game dev day
  36. Getting to know for each and while in sass

2015 16

  1. Talk jsoxford 20 minutes into the future
  2. Downgrading nexus 5 from android marshmallow to lollipop
  3. Ux in virtual reality
  4. Review the gpd xd portable android console
  5. In which i find a better imgur screenshot uploading application
  6. On being spammed for being interested
  7. Getting notified when a process is using 100 cpu on mac os x
  8. Jekyll antipatterns
  9. Launching sketch toolbox from inside sketch
  10. Extract the first image from a post in jekyll
  11. Creating an icon font
  12. My face and words in print
  13. Review the revo k101 plus
  14. Maintaining updates for a bunch of wordpress sites with google spreadsheets
  15. Vivaldi another contender to the array of webkit derived browsers
  16. Creating material design shadows in photoshop

2014 20

  1. So you want to organise a hack day
  2. Better link underlines with sass
  3. Review of the tronsmart mars g01 game pad
  4. Finally a review of the gpd g5a android handheld
  5. Sushack 2
  6. Jquery conference 2014
  7. Why your reasons for no longer using a css pre processor are wrong
  8. Some approaches for creating diagonal section separators for your website
  9. Max glenister uses this
  10. Making suspend on lid close work with arch linux on the hp chromebook 11
  11. Using zed editor with arch linux arm on your chromebook
  12. Compressing pdf from your mac or linux terminal with ghostscript
  13. Using jekyll redirect from with github pages
  14. Jekyll for dummies
  15. Video installing arch linux arm on the hp chromebook 11
  16. More portable android gaming with the gpd g7
  17. Installing arch linux arm on the hp chromebook 11
  18. Getting started with using sass in your existing website
  19. On the subject of pixel perfect psd to html css
  20. So ive got all these raspberry pi acessories now what

2013 21

  1. Portable android gaming with the jxd 7800b
  2. Hands on with the hp chromebook 11
  3. Sushack 1 building the foundations of the oxford flood network stack
  4. Migrating from outlook pst to mbox and then uploading to an imap mail server
  5. Gamification of life with the fitbit flex
  6. Adventures in imap migrating mail to atmail
  7. Making postgres work nicely on osx mountain lion
  8. Adding support for more tag to jekyll without plugins
  9. Awesome bash arrays
  10. On second thought
  11. Converting svg to png online and in your terminal
  12. Chrome add to trello extension
  13. Removing the blackberry desktop software for mac without having to re download a 70mb installer from blackberry
  14. Googles relaunched hangouts wow
  15. So ive got a raspberry pi now what
  16. Meta post about making this blog responsive and not using px
  17. Jquery uk 2013 a tale of beer colourful cakes and no wifi
  18. Fluid video embeds for your responsive website
  19. These tabs they are a changin
  20. Factory reset nokia n900 from a mac
  21. Testing responsive layouts with the rwd bookmarklet

2012 23

  1. The woes of trailing commas in ie
  2. Ubuntu native on the nexus 7
  3. A simple stacked paper sheets effect with css3
  4. Installing mysql on os x mountain lion
  5. Finally a post about the nexus 7
  6. Making html5 input placeholder text behave in safari
  7. Getting to grips with git log
  8. Saving your css changes in the google chrome inspector
  9. Dynamic location based desktop on your mac with satellite eyes
  10. Android on your tv with the mele a2000
  11. Dealing with crappy memory management in os x
  12. Using jquery to create a custom thumbnail for an embedded video
  13. A possible solution to bad interpreter operation not permitted error on mac os x lion
  14. High fidelity in low fidelity emails
  15. On scrolling
  16. Video integration with jekyll
  17. Moving away from twitter bootstrap
  18. Upgrading my macbook pro
  19. Updates to my install all firefox bash script for mac os x
  20. Jquery uk conference 2012
  21. Adding more post metadata to jekyll with yaml
  22. On migrating from tumblr to jekyll bootstrap
  23. Synchronising your sublime text 2 preferences with dropbox

2011 15

  1. Prev next to left right arrow key bind userscript
  2. Bash script to install all major versions of firefox on osx
  3. Trying coffeescript
  4. Notched indicate if notch has replied
  5. Imgur url changer and pics comment link subreddit remover aka reddit link stuff
  6. Google plus userstyle for reddit
  7. Reddit open imgur links in new window or tab
  8. Reddit imgur to filmot url changer
  9. My solution to the javascript challenge 070311
  10. Javascript function to group repeated values of an array with totals
  11. Js challenge 070311
  12. Building javascript arrays from html using regular
  13. Review the smashing book 2
  14. Grooveshark view modes userscript
  15. Redesigning and relaunching dingoonity

2010 10

  1. Wills kate unofficial commemorative mug
  2. A simple solution for a jquery animation loop memory leak
  3. Using greasemonkey scripts with google chrome
  4. Waka waka pacman moleskine and some objective c
  5. Minecraft and cinnamon coffee
  6. Minecraft player skins
  7. Upgrading mac os x snow leopard on the dell inspiron
  8. My first half week with kindle
  9. Installing mac os x snow leopard on the dell inspiron
  10. Using jquery to supply and clear default input values

2009 3

  1. Ive been busy
  2. Installing os x snow leopard on the dell inspiron 1525
  3. Creating the moanlog search form with css

2007 4

  1. R4ds panda theme
  2. R4ds vista theme
  3. R4ds tango theme
  4. R4ds bone theme

2006 24

  1. Ds lite
  2. Site changes
  3. Human foobar buttons
  4. Heart rating icons for foobar
  5. My foobar setup
  6. College
  7. Grey media icons
  8. Absent
  9. Harmless fun
  10. Icecons
  11. Finally working on a new design
  12. New columns ui config
  13. New foobar buttons
  14. Mog blue icons
  15. Foobar2000 tutorial
  16. Site updates
  17. Css tabs ala mog
  18. Silk utorrent icon
  19. No hue icons
  20. Pixel level detail
  21. Lego usb stick
  22. With a lack of better words
  23. Pointless software
  24. The great return

2005 2

  1. Mmmm dark
  2. Do or do not

2004 34

  1. Wow thats great
  2. Humbug christmas break and assignments
  3. December
  4. While the crowbar gets rusty
  5. Well this sucks
  6. No no dont do that
  7. Eugh im bored
  8. Pizza and icecream
  9. Css xhtml and faking jet lag
  10. Busy busy
  11. End of summer
  12. The wonders of validation
  13. Out of sync
  14. So the site returns
  15. A few more things
  16. Its here
  17. Pc stuff arrived
  18. Bling bling
  19. Ellipsis
  20. For your convenience
  21. And it begins
  22. Set back
  23. Over the next few weeks
  24. Le sigh
  25. Well then
  26. Voyeurism
  27. Boing
  28. Jeans jeans jeans jeans
  29. Monday aaah monday
  30. Pushes new pc to the side
  31. Well
  32. Two posts in one day
  33. So what
  34. Good news bad news