https://intervolz.com/ Build logs and technical write-ups from Maxwell Volz: AI tooling, Rust, React, Three.js and Blender. Dev stories from work in progress and projects already shipped. en-us Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT https://intervolz.com/developing-contextclues/ https://intervolz.com/developing-contextclues/ ContextClues is a local, read-only dashboard for what a running Claude Code session has in context. Discovery to a published npm package in a single day. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/developing-acquaintances/ https://intervolz.com/developing-acquaintances/ A contacts app organized around how you know people, not their names: one screen, a bubble graph, and filter chips generated from your own data. No account. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/developing-slashwork/ https://intervolz.com/developing-slashwork/ slashwork is a subagent offload network for Claude Code: your session hands self-contained subagent work to a pool of idle sessions, and you keep the tokens. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/the-standard-stack-with-claude/ https://intervolz.com/the-standard-stack-with-claude/ Part two of building with Claude: the standard stack. Next.js on Vercel, Supabase and Stripe, deployed the same way every time so each feature is routine. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/second-brain-with-claude/ https://intervolz.com/second-brain-with-claude/ Part one of building with Claude: a durable second brain that holds a project's state, so a fresh session never cold-starts and always knows the next move. Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/sollewitt-on-hackernews/ https://intervolz.com/sollewitt-on-hackernews/ 69 points on Hacker News turned into ~60,000 visitors in ten hours. What the traffic actually looked like, where it spread, and how a home server handled it. Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:00:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/developing-sollewitt/ https://intervolz.com/developing-sollewitt/ Instruction-driven generative wall drawings in the browser, built with Next.js and Canvas 2D. A tribute to Sol LeWitt, the original prompt engineer. Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:00:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/developing-ggoverlay/ https://intervolz.com/developing-ggoverlay/ A real-time game-state inference engine in Rust: DXGI capture, cheap per-frame heuristics, and YOLO escalation over gRPC. First target: Arc Raiders. Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:00:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/developing-wayne-mo/ https://intervolz.com/developing-wayne-mo/ Building a Crazy Taxi-inspired fleet management game in the browser with React, Three.js and Blender — one month from first commit to playable demo. Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:29:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/emdash-observer-writeup/ https://intervolz.com/emdash-observer-writeup/ Across 19 years of Reddit comments, the rise in em dash usage tracks the normalization of AI-assisted writing. Here is the data pipeline and the chart. Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:57:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/hosting-localhost/ https://intervolz.com/hosting-localhost/ How to build and self-host a modern blog from your own hardware: Git-backed content, visual editing, Jenkins deploys, and NGINX behind a Cloudflare Tunnel. Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:58:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/metabans/ https://intervolz.com/metabans/ Building the Python automation that verified Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses — camera, voice, and livestream test coverage for a consumer AR device at scale. Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:44:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/antenna-accel/ https://intervolz.com/antenna-accel/ How Python automation cut the test cycle for Meta's Terragraph 60 GHz phased-array antennas — beamforming, signal integrity, and field mesh verification. Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:25:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/apps-for-haps/ https://intervolz.com/apps-for-haps/ Building TerraZed, a React app that turned raw mmWave telemetry from a high-altitude pseudo-satellite into something field engineers could actually read. Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:00:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/blender-to-browser/ https://intervolz.com/blender-to-browser/ A full walkthrough from Blender model to interactive browser scene: GLTF export, Three.js rendering, and wiring up custom interactivity in React. Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:15:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/unity-npcs/ https://intervolz.com/unity-npcs/ How NPC systems fit together in Unity: scheduled spawner objects, prefabs driven by NavMeshAgent and an Animator, and a checkpoint-based movement system. Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:54:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/building-localz/ https://intervolz.com/building-localz/ Building Localz, a multiplayer game set in a model of North Beach, San Francisco — Unity locomotion, NPC spawners, and a gameplay loop still being found. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:24:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/blender-north-beach-buildings-and-topography/ https://intervolz.com/blender-north-beach-buildings-and-topography/ Combining BLOSM building footprints with USGS elevation data in Blender, then face-projecting the buildings onto real terrain with a Python script. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:01:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/blender-character-development/ https://intervolz.com/blender-character-development/ Modeling a game character in Blender with MXFB, then automating the baked-texture export with a Python script so it lands in Unity fully textured. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:15:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/thinking-of-ideas/ https://intervolz.com/thinking-of-ideas/ A short rant on losing an idea to an idle task, and the worse fate of loosening one. Compromise is without compromise. Sun, 29 Jun 2025 01:43:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/python-pykle-automation/ https://intervolz.com/python-pykle-automation/ A Python automation toolkit for Windows built to replace AutoHotKey — YAML-defined input sequences, timing jitter, and room for vision-based triggers. Sat, 21 Jun 2025 13:14:00 GMT Maxwell Volz https://intervolz.com/n8n-docker/ https://intervolz.com/n8n-docker/ An automated shortform video pipeline built on n8n and DeepSeek 3.1: script generation, local TTS, Whisper captions, music and publishing — all free. Sun, 05 Jan 2025 20:57:00 GMT Maxwell Volz