Max Glenister
Max Glenister
Max Glenister
Max Glenister is a software developer from the UK. He writes mostly about software development, video games, niche hardware and technology.
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Everything I shared on social.omgmog.net between 10 and 16 August: two old games having birthdays, a solar eclipse that failed to impress my kids, and a font you’ve definitely seen without knowing it.
I saw the Hidizs AP30 Music Boy on Reddit and got curious enough to reach out to Hidizs to see if they’d send me one to review. It’s a palm-sized DAP that launched on Kickstarter on 23 July 2026, and it’s pitching itself as a companion...
Wasn’t at my computer much this week, but still ended up with a decent batch of links from social.omgmog.net, 3-9 August: some N64 homebrew, Quake’s 30th birthday, and a paper globe you can print and fold.
A retro-computing heavy week over on social.omgmog.net, 27 July to 2 August: Half-Life on Mac OS 9, a new GammaOS handheld firmware build, and a demoscene UI retrospective, alongside the usual scattering of tech and web links.
A short one from social.omgmog.net for 20 to 26 July, spent the week mostly lake-side at Llyn Tegid in Snowdonia rather than online. While I was there I also put out a new post rebuilding my Wordle stats from years of WhatsApp chat logs.
Yes, I’m still playing Wordle in 2026. According to Wordle, I’ve played 1,559 games, I win 99% of the time, my current streak is 107 days and my longest is 278. Four numbers, and they’re mostly correct. What I don’t get is anything...
Another week of links from social.omgmog.net, 13 to 19 July. Two of Fabien Sanglard’s forensic engineering write-ups landed days apart, a new daily word game snuck into the morning coffee routine, and a share-menu tool I didn’t know I...
Two consecutive titles on the HN front page yesterday had a 6 in them. This means nothing. But it’s the sort of nothing that lodges in your brain until you do something about it, so what is the most popular number in Hacker News titles?...
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.
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…”, and I caught myself doing the thing I always do when a spinner takes too...
In the old days of the web, animating between pages meant faking it with jQuery. Then came pjax, which used pushState to swap in fetched content and fake a full navigation without one, still relying on popState to stop the back button...
A few things I shared over on social.omgmog.net between 29 June and 5 July, without much comment at the time, but worth a second look.
For years I was firmly in the mechanical keyboard camp, and specifically a 60% person. No numpad, no function row, no arrow cluster, just the keys I actually used, in a footprint small enough to leave room for the mouse. A handful of...
A few things I shared over on social.omgmog.net between 22 and 28 June, without much comment at the time, but worth a second look.
Between March 2011 and October 2021 I backed 19 Kickstarter projects, spending £386 and $565 across the lot. Here they all are, in order, with what became of each. March 2011 Minecraft: The Story of Mojang $30filmstandalone My first ever...