Maxwell Omdal

I’m building new things. Currently curious about maker culture, woodworking, and resource sharing.

Articles
  1. 2026.07.05

    Using LLMs to Investigate And Reproduce Complex Bugs

    LLMs can be expensive, so lets talk about how to get to RCAs quickly without wasting money

  2. 2026.07.04

    Announcing: Exhibit

    An HTML artifact library

  3. 2026.06.26

    XAI leans into Grok Images

    The first trillion dollar porn generator!

  4. 2026.06.21

    Supacode fits the interface to the task

    A great terminal app, purpose built for agent-based development

  5. 2026.04.01

    On-the-fly Digital Events Flyers

    A small business idea to aid small venue operators

  6. 2026.02.20

    New Workflow Annotation Tool: diz.flow

    I vibe-coded a workflow annotation tool in order to minimize the amount of clicks it takes to go from screenshots to workflow description for knowledge sharing

  7. 2025.04.04

    Website refresh

    New Colors and spacing

  8. 2025.02.19

    Thoughts on Teaching Others

    Some mid-week thoughts

  9. 2025.02.17

    Chest of Drawers 2

    Refinishing another chest of drawers left on the street in the neighborhood

  10. 2025.01.29

    Oh Blogging, What a Bother!

    Mid-blog crisis

  11. 2025.01.29

    I Made a Sign

  12. 2025.01.06

    Blog Challenge

    From Bear Blog

  13. 2025.01.05

    10 Minute Mini Corkboard Enamel Pin Display

    A quick project between projects

  14. 2025.01.04

    A Sneak Peak at a Sign

    An Early Preview of a Woodworking Project

  15. 2025.01.03

    Using Style Transfer and CNC to Produce Printblocks

    A new way to make prints

  16. 2025.01.02

    Syncing and Backups with Rsync and Borg

    Creating a self-hosted remote backup for data recovery

  17. 2025.01.01

    My Favorite Things of 2024

    Some Tools and Tech

  18. 2024.12.31

    New Year's Resolutions

    2024 Recapped and Goals for 2025

  19. 2024.09.17

    AI For Development

    Thoughts on these changes

  20. 2024.06.15

    Finished a Workbench

    For Sequoia Fabrica's Workbench

  21. 2024.06.12

    Boquets to Art at the De Young Museum

    A weekend excursion to see an exhibition

  22. 2024.06.04

    Refinishing a Chest of Drawers Found on the Street

    You know what they say about one man's trash

  23. 2024.06.02

    Building a New Workshop in San Francisco

    A Makerspace-Type Space For Learning, Sharing and Doing

  24. 2024.05.04

    Homemade Laundry Detergent Recipe for Lazy People

    A 3 Ingredient Recipe for Laumdy Detergent

  25. 2024.04.22

    This is now available on RSS!

    Adding an RSS feed to my blog

  26. 2023.12.11

    How to make Beeswax Candles

    My recipe for making beeswax candles

  27. 2023.11.11

    What Does Apple Watch Do

    Do they really do what we need?

  28. 2023.10.08

    Principles of Operating a Shared Workshop

    My thoughts from a year helping out at a hackerspace

  29. 2023.05.09

    The Green Imperative By Victor Papanek

    Book Notes

  30. 2023.05.07

    How to capture code snippets from Obsidian and add to Alfred Snippets

    A simple way to flag certain snippets you'd like to see appear in Alfred

  31. 2023.04.22

    Writing a Discord bot with Python and aiocron

    A quick example with discord.py's 2.0 framework

  32. 2023.03.09

    This blog post is automatically published

    Well.. At least it's supposed to be

  33. 2023.01.31

    Earth 🪐 to Localhost

    Setting up a NAS with Apple Filing Protocol

  34. 2022.12.27

    Interesting Blogs and Bloggers

    Just some bloggers I really like

  35. 2022.12.21

    I'm Counting Goats!

    🐐

  36. 2022.12.21

    Thoughts on Hackerspaces

    And some other stuff too

  37. 2022.06.14

    Deploy Github Pages with Jinja and Github Actions

    Github Pages with Jinja and TailwindCSS

  38. 2022.06.12

    Migrating from tmux to Kitty

    .txt config files should rule all

  39. 2020.09.15

    Path Planning

    A* Path Planning

  40. 2020.08.15

    Particle Simulation

    Particle Simulation

  41. 2020.07.15

    Fluid Simulation

    Fluid Simulation

  42. 2020.06.15

    Cloth Simulation

    Cloth Simulation

Projects
  1. 2024 — 2026

    Sequoia Fabrica Makerspace

    A non-profit makerspace dedicated to fostering innovation and creativity. I served as President from it's inception in 2024-25, board member from 2025-26.

  2. 2021

    2021 IEEE VR: Virtual Reality Demonstrator

    A tool for creating spatial presentations in VR, presented as an extended abstract for IEEE VR 2021

  3. 2020

    Particle Simulation

    A particle system capable of complex behavior, such as billboarding, streaking, texturing, and more written in Processing

  4. 2020

    Path Planning Game

    An interactive program demonstrating A* path planning and probabilistic roadmaps. Written in Java with Processing, which is based on OpenGL

  5. 2020 — 2021

    AR Physicalizations

    Using Vuforia AR SDK, building a system for combining biogeochemistry data with physical geospatial models

  6. 2020

    CPU Raytracer

    A raytracer from scratch written in C++ on up to two cores with multiple samples per pixel

  7. 2020

    Yelp Rating Predictions

    Applying the slope one algorithm to predict restaurant ratings, based on the Yelp Open Dataset

  8. 2019

    Generative Adversarial Networks

    A comparison of the CycleGAN and DualGAN algorithms for style transfer applications

  9. 2017

    Bucketz

    An iOS game built with Swift and SpriteKit

  10. 2017

    DineDice

    A randomized local restaurant recommender

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