Where have all the websites gone? It’s Tuesday morning. The year is 2009. You’re just waking up after a long and boozy New Year’s Eve with friends. Your head rings, and your mouth is the type of dry that makes you question your adulthood. You feel something scratch against your arm. Did you take a lover last night?...

Back in the golden age of blogs I started multiple sites on Wordpress.com but they had hometown-specific names and every time I moved I felt obligated to start a new one. Then social media happened and everyone stopped, but these days social media doesn't seem to be cutting it and the blogs are coming back. Many...

My dad, Ingolf Max, has a Wikipedia entry. (German only.) That’s it. That’s the story. And as good a reason as any to tell the Internet that I am proud of my parents. Not for making it onto Wikipedia, but for leading a life of curiosity.

I’ve been nerd sniped. A few weeks ago, Raymond Camden posted about An Image Dialog Web Component and I read that article, added some discussion about how you’d style it, then promptly stopped thinking about it… consciously. I think it’s been floating around in the back of my brain because another colleague recently...

Detail of an evergreen bush on 35mm film.

This week, Riot Games announced they are bringing their Vanguard anti-cheat software to League of Legends. Previously introduced with the release of Valorant, Vanguard is a pretty typical kernel-level anti-cheat software, which is to say, a security nightmare. It runs at the highest level of permissions possible on...

Lately, I’ve gotten back into the swing of making Japanese style incense - a nerve-wracking endeavour because you never quite know how the expensive aromatics you’ve spent hours grinding, kneading, and extruding will turn out when you light a stick. Will my latest batch smell like burning tires when it’s properly...