Hello! I'm Max.
I'm a software developer based in Canada, working on online storefronts at Shopify. I care about empowering engineering teams and building software that respects people. Areas of interest include digital well-being, privacy, and sustainability.
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Blog posts
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.
Making server response times 4x faster than before.
Two Ruby apps, same code, different output (2020-08-13)
Debugging a weird Ruby string sorting issue with GDB.
I wrote 19 more posts. This blog is also available as RSS and JSON feeds.
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.
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.
Trace (2018-02-01)
Supply chain transparency platform PoC based on the Ethereum blockchain.
JSON Feed Viewer (2017-05-01)
The world's first JSON feed viewer, as seen on Daring Fireball.
Notes 👨💻
These 9 notes are an exploration in digital gardening. They are seeds of what could become full-fledged blog posts, new projects, or experimental initiatives in the future.