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What Is Life?
Reflections on Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s What Is Life?
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
Reflections on Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
Wormy Grotesk
Simulation-based letterforms.
Waiting for omnipotence
On building for tomorrow.
Useful critique
Some thoughts on getting people in a room to evaluate a thing.
Some qualities of critical systems
A critical system exposes how it works, while it works.
The internet was already slop
Maybe we enjoy simple narratives that travel well.
What a prototype can be
A prototype can be an argument.
What is lost to vibes
LLMs and the epistemic gap.
Gorm the Zop
A game designed to frustrate Googlers into building more empathetic products.
Investigation Tool
Enterprise security tool that lets Google Workspace admins investigate and remediate threats.
Delta
Real-time visualization that transformed nytimes.com’s live traffic into an animated map of how the world reads the news.
Kepler
Real-time visualization of New York Times taxonomy.
streamtools
Visual programming environment for processing real-time data streams.
Cascade
Interactive visualization of how New York Times stories propagate through social networks.
Waze Traffic Visualizations
Traffic visualizations created for Waze, a community-sourced turn-by-turn navigation app.
OBSERVATIONS
Generative geometry exploration.
bodyfuck
Gestural programming interpreter for the esoteric programming langauge brainfuck.
codescapes
Software that visualizes its own source code.
memsweeper
An homage to the classic Windows game with the fun addition of EXC_BAD_ACCESS.
Failbase
Analog store of failures, gathered via SMS and voicemail, saved by a thermal printer, archived in wooden drawers.
braids
Generative geometry exploration.
everydatum
Daily visualizations of sensor data.
Tomato Quintet
Visualization and sonification of tomato respiration.
Black Cloud
Climate-concious ARG with a network of real environmental sensors.
The Return of Balance
Physical game of balance and sorting.