Tiny Subversions

This assistant provides the most important benefits of LLM assistants without the associated environmental costs, privacy risks, and economic brinksmanship.

A cover of Toby Fox's "Third Sanctuary" from the game Deltarune using the in-browser live-coding tool Strudel.

Thoughts on big platforms and the accidental censorship of a 12th century composer.

This tool indexes the full text of all published Fediverse Enhancement Proposals, and then lets you search that text.

A tool that helps people working on ActivityPub interoperability problems.

Big news in my world: I have been hired as a Senior Engineer at the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center!

I am pleased to announce that Erin Kissane and I will be running a project called Fediverse Governance Successes & Gaps, generously funded by the Ford Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund (DIIF).

Can you create a utopia?

A site that is my tweets, preserved on my own server, searchable with nice thread rendering.

I'm interviewed about the difficulty of identifying bot accounts on social media.

I'm interviewed about federated social media and how it's a really exciting time to be making software in this ecosystem.

A brief tutorial for experienced Backgammon players who want to try playing online using Telnet.

My new laptop was overheating.

A site that recommends to you a random sandwich from Wikipedia's list of notable sandwiches.

A generator that makes "What vibes do I give off?"

Do you miss meeting people?

A Twitter username like @jsmith12345678 does not mean the account is a bot or troll.

I'm interviewed about the bot panic on Twitter and in mainstream media, with a bonus side of decentralized social media discussion.

Exhausting a Twitter meme.

A long article about the state of research on Twitter bots and political discourse, featuring my work.