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Heracles Papatheodorou • heracl.es

Design technologist, digital maker, and architect based in Athens, Greece. Works in the fields of cultural production, design, media arts, web development, and architecture.

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/consumma

A local-first, multiplayer grocery and task list, as a web app.

/kalendes

An on-device timeline viewer for multiple iCal feeds with built-in sharing and kiosk mode, as a web app.

/staminai

The AI token stamina wheel for Claude. A browser extension.

/detrita

A local-first, single-file kanban board.

/tick

A shortcut-first countdown timer for streams, webinars, or any reverse time-keeping needs.

/valgrind

A local, tracker-free, minimal yet customizable startpage.

/martians

Series of animated GIFs based on “The War of the Worlds” distributed as NFTs.

/twilight

Have just climbed on top of a hill from the east. It’s evening, the sky is orange-red, clear of clouds. It isn’t a tall hill, but its sides are steep and rocky. The top is covered with waist-high blades of green grass.

statements

forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “will,” “may,” “should,” “could”, “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “aims,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” “continue,”

futures

futures futureless, less futures least one, one’s representations one-dimensional representations one-dimensional as if, as if in perspective

/montaziera

A video-editing tool, using ffmpeg, PowerShell, and a CSV spreadsheet.

/onion

An experimental theme for the Hugo static-site generator.

/userstyles

A collection of UserStyle CSS files to modify the appearance of websites.

/lightbox-player

A Bash script for the playback of video files across multiple monitors.

averages

instictive prose calls for n-gram weighted clichés numerical averages

spiderweb

fickle spiderweb on thin cirrus anchored things change things break

/hugo

Static site generators and the modern web.

/html

What a website in the modern web is, what it’s made of.

/geary

How to run the Geary email client on Windows 10.

/tutorials

Vernacular learning and teaching on the internet.

/url

…or laments about the loss of autonomy on the web.

/obsolete

Opinions and thoughts; words and codes; pictures and imprints; everything: obsolete as time flies by.

(untitled)

remembering without a body disembodied bodies of dismembered remembrances

/ubu24h

Algorithmic selection of short films from the Ubuweb collection.

/gamelink

An introduction to media theory for gamers and trainers alike: Video games are not what you see on the screen, but happens beside the screens.

/debtron

A start-up specializing in bespoke Hardware as a Service solutions for government administration.

/jackalope

Interactive app featuring Wikipedia terms related to Hybrid Arts.

/reboot

Getting accustomed to the way things are, is surrendering to the equilibrium. In order to be, we have to produce disturbances.

/prism

A DIY kit for a router at the year 2016.

/leptonychotes

Sound composition for an appartment building’s heating pipes.

/muzine

A prototype of personalized souvenirs for demanding museum goers.

/prosopopoeia

A parable for a Like.

/markdown

A tutorial on the workflow from Markdown texts to beautiful PDFs

/inquisitive

On the homologous nature of design and engineering, and habitual patterns versus the inquisitive nature of design.

/debtron-1.0

An essential apparatus aimed at all accredited, aspiring and industrious politicians and legislators.

/bisense

An apparatus responding to the need of the contemporary human being for affection, feeling of security and comfort.

/graphe

A personal, handwritten font with English, Greek and several obscure glyphs.

/horizons

Competition entry for the Bamiyan Cultural centre.

/matresses

3D modelling and visualization of layered sleep systems for Coco-Mat.

/beep

Experiments with JavaScript and Web Audio on pattern generation.

/stratigraphy

Competition entry for the redesign of Eleftherias Square in Thessaloniki.

/silo

Competition entry for Piraeus Museum of Underwater Antiquities.

/markaz

NTUA diploma thesis, school of Architecture: Markaz – Islamic Center in Eleftherias square, Athens.

/ypogeo

Undergraduate research study, School of Architecture NTUA: The matter of underground architecture and the deeper meaning of the term “underground”.

/livanotis

Competition entry in Athens Benchmark, organized by the Municipality of Athens.

/pawn

Web–browser chess for the Nintendo DS.