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Exploring how to make the web a ℓittle more malleable. 🌀
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Working on an experiment playing in the space left behind if browsers are gone and only web pages remain. Instead of tabs... it installs a new local native app for each URL leaving behind a growing pile of 228mb Electron apps that each load a single web page.

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peoplestech.com

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I've put my foot in mouth to say a few words about a programming environment prototype I'm currently working on (that I'm quite excited about). More to come! youtu.be/AziAhVuiU3Q

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i wrote about the kind of creations that makes me angry and what we're up against in making a technology and a world that centers people

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Scribbling music with @tldraw.com

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“Death, and how tech forgot about mortality” by Michael Kibedi (2024) m.youtube.com/watch?v=9fKs...

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"Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life." by Ellen Ullman (1995) gandt.blogs.brynmawr.edu/files/2009/0...

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"Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life." by Ellen Ullman (1995) gandt.blogs.brynmawr.edu/files/2009/0...

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Love it <3 www.makingsoftware.co

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“A World Without Apps” by Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (2019) m.youtube.com/watch?v=ntau...

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“The Soul of Craftsmanship” (2025) bencornia.com/blog/the-sou...

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A lesson I keep learning in different contexts: don't organize early. Dump it all in a big pile, put it all in one flat folder. Organize only sparingly, and only after things settle.

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“‘Just a Tool’ and Other Fictions” by Natalia Ilyin (2025) www.nataliailyin.net/blog/2025/2/...

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“Algorithms are breaking how we think” m.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

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I wish some parts of software was more like math: once you write it, you don't have to go back to do it again and again. Software that isn't continuously updated, you suspect. Math that is continuously updated, you suspect. prog21.dadgum.com/154.html

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Zoomorphic

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Per @paulrony.bsky.social “Documents have information in them; they're passive. They're acted upon by the dominant all-active application. The application has the interaction in it but no information. You have passive data and an active application…”

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There was this study that squirrels lose 74% of the acorns that they bury. Thinking about how evolution converged on this 74% tax, and the “irrational” instinct that causes squirrels to plant trees for squirrels who will live many hundreds of generations into the future.

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call me ratatouille the way i am using this skinny man's strange body to cook in heretofore inconceivable ways

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Did anyone ever write a little memento/recognition of room-like user interfaces? In my head it‘s nice, interactive, and very fun. Like a videogame where you switch between worlds. Microsoft Bob and Magic Cap are the most popular, but there is a long tail of those in other shells and videogames.

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Journal: The web on mobile Technically, websites can do just about anything that native apps can do. And yet the actual experience of using the web on mobile is worse than ever. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21728

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Stars in the background of the Assembler widget use a shape called "astroid" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroid). Same idea as squircle, but instead of exponent 4, astroid uses 2/3.

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New post: Visual programming is stuck on nodes-and-wires. All the node-and-wires visual languages assume we figured out the function part, and all we have to do is layer visuals on top of languages we already have. What if there was a different way forward?

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