Hello! I'm Max. I help accelerate online storefronts as a development manager at Shopify. Areas of interest include active transportation, minimalism, privacy, and sustainability.
I'm intermittently active on Mastodon and Twitter.
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Blog posts
No JavaScript. Just good old HTTP and HTML working together.
Moving away from Google services, 8 years in (2021-07-28)
Self-hosted LAN-only services FTW!
Using a Canon DSLR as a webcam with Debian/Ubuntu (2021-01-04)
No EOS Webcam Utility on Linux? No problem!
Simplify, batch, and cache.
Monitoring a grain dryer via the Internet (2020-11-08)
Agriculture meets static IPs and cellular APNs.
Turning my smartphone into a boring tool (2020-11-03)
Tools do their job then get out of the way.
Cut through the noise and identify what's important.
I wrote 21 more posts. This blog is also available as RSS and JSON feeds.
Side projects
Digital garden Jekyll template (2020-05-19)
A Jekyll template to start your own digital garden.
Freshreader (2020-03-14)
Read-it-later service with a twist: saved content disappears after 7 days.
Podcast appearances
The Changelog, episode 416 (2020-10-16)
A conversation about Shopify's massive storefront rewrite with Adam and Jerod.
Randomly Typed, episode 26 (2020-03-21)
Chatting with my friend Jean-Samuel about dial-up modems.