Vijith Assar

I’ve arranged Erik Satie’s most famous piano compositions for the mandolin.

The title track from the single greatest accomplishment by the Smashing Pumpkins is a tiny piano ballad that was nominated for a Grammy when it was first released, but now nobody seems to remember it, so I arranged it for solo mandolin.

Over at Wired, I propose that the chaos unfolding in the wake of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter qualifies as a new kind of security risk in which the intrusion mechanism is simply massive amounts of money.

My first gadget review!

Things should have been different before, but maybe they can still be fixed now?

A new Chrome extension which stops the HTML “ping” attribute from tracking your browsing activity.

As my fellowship with the Processing Foundation wound down, I wrote a bit about the process of deriving the guiding principles of p5.js far enough to write useful documentation for it — a dissection manual, if you will. more

Lately I have been on CNN’s election night coverage, in particular interactive data visualizations for the Senate and the House.

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I’ve been doing some work for the ACLU lately, and Fast Company profiled the team in an article that I still cannot believe is titled The ACLU is building a tech dream team.

For Wired, a meandering essay that uses the Meltdown and Spectre exploits to point out problems with how we think about the future: Anything that seeks to reshape the infrastructure built by our past selves should deserve our most aggressive scrutiny, reg…

The Processing Foundation runs a fellowship for people interested in interactive art, and I am part of the 2018 class.

Google recently unveiled a set of proposed upgrades to email.

New York magazine’s tech blog Select All let me go wayyyy overboard explaining why internet application protocols like http:// and ftp:// intrinsically fight for net neutrality even with the FCC does not.

The tools I’ve been building for literate programming, such as lit and the Markdown import plugin for Rollup, are powerful and can help you fit literate programming into a serious application build process.

First, several big updates recently to the original version of lit, my agnostic tool for literate programming.

New on GitHub and npm: I rebuilt the ES5 array methods from JavaScript and made them work with objects/hashmaps.

A new project with Rich Harris and Aliza Aufrichtig: Augmentad Reality is a custom hardware heads-up display which overlays ads on whatever you were looking at anyway.

My new piece for Motherboard unpacks the recent changes to Twitter’s character limits.

Web Safe 2k16 is a strange, beautiful project in which writers sift through their memories of the early internet using a specific color as a prompt.