Maggie Appleton

Buying fake William Morris prints on Etsy and other early signs of epistemological collapse

Buying fake William Morris prints on Etsy and other early signs of epistemological collapse

How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars

How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars

Gaining a strange disease and losing my ability to see straight

Gaining a strange disease and losing my ability to see straight

Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is

Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is

How to gather people and create communities in ways that are low-stress and high-payoff

How to gather people and create communities in ways that are low-stress and high-payoff

Designing tentative calendar events to solve complex scheduling problems

Designing tentative calendar events to solve complex scheduling problems

Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web

Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web

Giving people a visible, useful trail of where they've been over the course of an exploratory journey

Giving people a visible, useful trail of where they've been over the course of an exploratory journey

The limbo-like lull in-between Christmas and News Years is my favourite period of the year.

The limbo-like lull in-between Christmas and News Years is my favourite period of the year.

London flipped from sweltering summer back to drizzling grey yesterday.

London flipped from sweltering summer back to drizzling grey yesterday.

Designing with Language Models

Designing with Language Models

Sketchy ideas for interfaces that play with the novel capabilities of language models

Sketchy ideas for interfaces that play with the novel capabilities of language models

The last six months have felt like a disorientating blur.

The last six months have felt like a disorientating blur.

An exploration of the problems and possible futures of flooding the web with generative AI content

An exploration of the problems and possible futures of flooding the web with generative AI content

Shareable, browser-based documents that can compile and run code

Shareable, browser-based documents that can compile and run code

An archive of my high school desktop designs, circa 2009

An archive of my high school desktop designs, circa 2009

Using language models to generate reverse outlines of writing drafts

Using language models to generate reverse outlines of writing drafts

Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content

Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content

On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts

On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts

Command line bars you can quickly summon with a keyboard shortcut

Command line bars you can quickly summon with a keyboard shortcut

It's a weird week.

It's a weird week.

Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes

Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes

People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems

People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems

A new role at an AI research lab working on tools for open-ended reasoning

A new role at an AI research lab working on tools for open-ended reasoning

I've decided to join Ought, a non-profit research lab.

I've decided to join Ought, a non-profit research lab.