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Today I’m releasing ShaderPad.

Occasionally, clumsily, I make music.

I included the following in my application for SFPC: DELETION, PERMANENCE, AND CONSISTENCY===================================== Silicon Valley likes to store data because it entrenches people in their past behaviors.

ICANN is the governing body for the Internet’s domain name system.

I was on the CBC again!

“how can i help?”

annnd the showcase is finished!

The SFPC showcase is this weekend.

with the showcase coming up, i’ve been ignoring this blog to fill my sketchbook with desperate project ideas. it’s been a process. i’ve built a few prototypes to 50% but haven’t been satisfied yet. this evening (less than two days before the showcase) i f…

today in critical theory, we read and discussed a few “manifestos for the internet age”. i’ve got a cold so i called in; when the class broke out to create their own manifestos, i decided to write a “telepresence manifesto” from my sniffly blanket fort. t…

The possibility, vital for life, of unhitching, which consists… in grasping, during the brief intervals in which our species can bring itself to interrupt its hive-like activity, the essence of what it was and continues to be, below the threshold of thoug…

here’s a post that i wrote during my second week here. now that the showcase is coming up, i need to start making a thing. guess i’d better put this up before that starts :) one of my major goals during this program is to not make things. * silence. the s…

hi!

headed back to canada for the weekend to see the AGO’s yayoi kusama exhibit (RAD!)

I made this website in early 2014 to document projects I worked on at Hacker School.

I’m capitalizing words sometimes now.

I’ve decided to post my response to the three questions SFPC asks potential participants.

oh dear, my gifs aren’t animating. i’ll never be famous.

i watched metropolis (1927) tonight at a bar with some friends. despite being nearly a century old, it’s a pertinent commentary on class and technology. the explicit moral is literally spelled out at the end, I guess: there can be no understanding between…

it was silly to write all of this down but i created this blog today and i’m still editing the layout, so i want more words to work with. create a few distinct sounds, for example: cup/table tap cup/table scrape ball/table tap ball/table scrape cup/ball t…

A few months ago I was nominated for a dubious “Developer 30 Under 30” award.

Title lifted from .

I just had a blast playing with Anselm Levskaya’s Escher Sketch project!

I recently joined the developer team at Khan Academy.

An entirely skippable preface (Seriously, we don’t start building it until the third section.)

Today we hiked the Kalalau Trail and swam beneath the cold spray of a waterfall.

There’s something magical about a procedure that just works.

History-sniffing attacks let front-end code peek at other sites you’ve visited.

Someone posted a riddle a few days ago: Three farmers were selling chickens at the local market.

I started writing this in April.

Semiconductors are important.

From page 33 of the Apple II User’s Guide: Sooner or later you will hit the RESET key when you did not intend to.

From Learn C The Hard Way: I’m going to guess that you come from a language for weaklings.

I was recently browsing a beautiful red monochrome1 site.

Guess what?

Today I wanted to see what the average frequency of a song would sound like with no spectrum analysis or separation.

I started a project called Terra a few weeks ago.

A few days ago a fellow Hacker-Schooler proposed Iron Blogger to our batch.