Szymon Kaliski

Play with Putty is a research experiment in collaborative vibe coding — an exploration where multiple people, together with fast LLMs, iterate on multiplayer-first projects in real time: We'll share more about this soon — for now you can sign up for the w…

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Hi, the biggest news of this quarter is that I'm an independent consultant now!

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MirrorState is a Vite plugin and a React library, which in tandem allow for bi-directional state synchronization through JSON files.

An exploration of a prototype-inspired component re-use.

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Workflows at Replit

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200× Faster, Persisted, Multiplayer-Native Shells at Replit

Everyone is healthy and happy, and a bit tired.

Throughout most of 2024 I was a part of the team responsible for building the Early Access version of Replit Agent.

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I built my own static site generator to generate this page (and all the other pages on this website) in the first half of 2024.

Advanced Port Configuration at Replit

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Hi, happy New Year!

New and Improved Console at Replit

Liunon was first documented in my Q4 2023 newsletter — an experiment in building a tool where seeing every step of the graphical thinking does not require additional effort, but is a part of how the tool works.

Hi, hope you had a great summer!

I've spent about three months lazily noodling on the first iteration of a DIY Pen Plotter.

This article documents my learnings from designing and building a DIY Pen Plotter during the summer of 2023.

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Livebook is an interactive notebook for Elixir, enabling everything from exploratory coding, through visualizing data, to building production applications.

SDFSheets is an experimental spreadsheet interface for working with Signed Distance Functions.

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Untangle is a Programmable Ink research project done at Ink&Switch, together with Marcel Goethals, and with engineering help from Mike Kluev.

Solving Problems with Fuzzy Constraints

Hi, the last quarter flew by — I was mostly working on finishing documentations of various projects (which you'll see below), and recovering from a busy summer.

Glide is a no-code platform which allows end-users to build custom applications from spreadsheets.

Reusable Code Components for Glide

Inkbase is another Programmable Ink research project done at Ink&Switch, together with James Lindenbaum and Joshua Horowitz during summer and autumn of 2020.

Programmable Ink

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Hi, thanks everyone for great feedback and discussions on Inkbase and Crosscut — I really enjoy hearing your perspectives on this work, and it's also helpful since chatting with you all forces me to get better at articulating my intuitions.

As I was working on Programmable Ink projects at Ink&Switch, in hopes to record better-looking demos (which never really panned out), I cobbled together some OpenCV to detect four markers glued to a cutting board.

Hi, it's horrific to look at what's happening in Ukraine.

Crosscut is a research project developed at Ink&Switch in the Programmable Ink thread together with Marcel Goethals and Ivan Reese.

Drawing Dynamic Models

Hi everyone, happy New Year!

Cartographist is an experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing.

Hi everyone, what a quarter this was!

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Haze is a four track live granular looper for Norns, optimised for Midi Fighter Twister, but also usable without it.

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FabFungus is a physical installation inspired by questions of digital life and cellular growth.

Liveboard is a library built on top of Protoboard, providing a set of high-level functions for live-coding music and visuals.