An uncompromising guide to sleep masks (for side-sleepers)
For many years, I've been on a quest to find the perfect sleep mask. Here's my favorites.
chromakode
Max Goodhart's personal journal and sketchbook.
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Development notes from xkcd's "Machine"
How we designed xkcd's massive rube goldberg machine game in 3 weeks.
Coalesce dev diary: first post
A first attempt at dogfooding my podcast editor by talking about it.
Sharing early work is not a distraction
A quick reflection on the role of sharing work-in-progress.
Astro View Transitions
Notes from kicking the tires of new View Transitions APIs.
Disaster recovery with ZFS and zrepl
My SSD suddenly died. I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS and zrepl.
Development notes from xkcd's "Gravity" and "Escape Speed"
This was one of the most ambitious -- and most delayed -- April Fools comics we've ever shipped.
Shape
In my late teens, I kept a daily art journal. Here's how I built it, and why it remains one of my favorite projects.
The rise of self-hosted apps
Here's a sleeper prediction: a new crop of killer consumer apps are coming: self-hosted PWAs, and they will replace cloud services for many uses.
Practicing urgency
This year, a health scare reordered my priorities. Here's what it taught me about how to make the most of my time.
Synthesizing what my Pulsatile Tinnitus sounds like
In February 2022, I began to hear my heartbeat and other phantom sounds, symptoms of a rare circulatory problem. Using synthesizers, I've recreated what they sound like.
Brain holograms with Blender and Looking Glass
How I made a real world hologram of my own brain scans.