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Pictured is Duke James playing a set at the Smalltown Society lab before the open mic.

Last October, I blogged about my CNC(ed) Music Factory.

It wasn't until fall of 2025 that I seriously used AI coding tools.

Sketchatone is the first serious AI coding project I've done.

In my last post about WebHID and Drawing Tablets, I talked about experimenting with the Chrome/Edge only API for reading HID (human interface devices) from the browser.

A while back I had an idea for a project that might benefit from a drawing tablet.

One of the smaller experiments I've been wanting to try lately is listening to electromagnetic fields.

I JUST finished a build of a custom case for my Raspberry Pi based music box.

Sigh.

I'm forcing myself to show stuff off more.

I've had a long-standing hobby that I haven't really leaned into since the mid 2000's.

Back when I was making episodes of Web Components from Space, one of my last experiments was using AI to generate code in languages or environments that are just painful to work with.

Whatever the heck this blog post is about, you can tell it's gonna be cool.

Well, well.

One of the things I run at the Sun Gallery is a monthly jam session organized through meetup.com.

As we at the Sun Gallery push our makerspace forward, this is one of the activities I researched and made.

I didn't do much hard digital work on this project.

As a board member of the Sun Gallery, we're always looking for unique ways to make art and promote the gallery.

When we opened our brand new Makerspace at the Sun Gallery, I for sure wanted to make an exhibit!

This is a cross-post of the fourth episode of my spacelab based Web Components learning video series called "Web Components in Space"!

This is a cross-post of the fifth episode of my spacelab based Web Components learning video series called "Web Components in Space"!

This is a cross-post of the third episode of my spacelab based Web Components learning video series called "Web Components in Space"!

This is a cross-post of the second episode of my spacelab based Web Components learning video series called "Web Components in Space"!

This is a cross-post of the first episode of my spacelab based Web Components learning video series called "Web Components in Space"!

It's been a while since I've written a blog post.

This was less of an installation, and more of a popup event!

I’ve been procrastinating on this post.

As someone who makes stuff on the web, there are two things that I've been seeing quite a bit lately: Web Component discussion and CSS debates.

During my time on the Design Lab team at Adobe, there wasn't one year that passed where one of my projects did not make it to the big after-hours stage.

Due out in Summer 2019, Manning Publications is releasing my first book.

This installation was a sound based one!

No, I'm not a "Machine Learning" developer, but I am having fun feeling out what it can do.

Almost two years ago, I made a hefty series of posts on the promise of Web Components.

I haven't written many posts lately, especially tech related.

I believe it was during a session called “Shooting VR for Post” that I found myself identifying heavily with one of the panelists who said something to the effect of “Before VR, my work was a bit mundane.

I was one of a few developers on this project.

With the Oculus store continuing to get some interesting titles while I wait with baited breath over getting my very own Oculus Touch Controllers when they get released, its easy to forget about 360 Video.

Ahhhhh the Hololens.

... and other platformers.

Virtual Reality is very fascinating to me.

Like I said in my last post, the "Dream Deck" is one of several free pieces of content to help you discover what VR is like.

Last Friday, the SFHTML5 Meetup group met to discuss something called "Progressive Web Apps."

Before I launch into this 5-part series of posts, I just want to give a high-level overview of it: I wrote a lot.

This post is the second of five.

One thing I didn't cover in my last post (#2 in the series) about all the pieces that bring Web Components together is actually using ES6!

This article continues my ES6 Web Components series.

In Part 4 of my 5-part write-up, Project Setup and Opinions, I talked about lessons I took away from experimenting with ES6 Web Components.

I'm a big fan of Github's Electron lately.

Wasn't I playing with virtual reality lately?

Update: @garethwatts tells me that we were told that your app doesn't have to be hosted on AWS, only that it must be publicly accessible.