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Almost Everything.
Roughly chronological.

Some live, some archived, some embarrassing in retrospect. We keep them all. It's the record.

  1. 01

    Orbital

    2024–present

    A TypeScript simulation core for agent-based models — in the older NetLogo/MASON sense, not the LLM one. Several of our recent civic tools run on top of it.

  2. 02

    Simulate World

    2022–present

    Part meetup, part open reference — a convening for environmentalists, humanists, hackers, and artists who want to build ecosystem models together.

  3. 03

    FutureOf

    2020–2022

    A DAO-managed conference series. Three editions so far — Micropayments, The Browser, Water — each a single day at human scale.

  4. 04

    HumanScale

    Design thinking for human-scale architecture.

  5. 05

    Lifecards

    2023

    Our own web layout engine. You write a tree of typed card objects in a JavaScript module; the runtime assembles the page at load time. No build step, no HTML authoring, no framework lock-in.

  6. 06

    Sugar

    2020–2023

    A small bet on what social software looks like if it's oriented toward actually being somewhere — together, briefly, in a shared place.

  7. 07

    StarryBot

    2022

    Hold the right token in the right Cosmos wallet; the bot lets you into the right Discord rooms. A small experiment in using on-chain identity to shape social space.

  8. 08

    Lemonopoly

    2012–2013

    Bay Area cities competed for “The Big Lemon” by doing Lemon Challenges — go find a tree, do something lemony, log a Claim. Half game, half community-food-systems intervention.

  9. 09

    Weather Cards

    2022

    Each card is a city's current weather rendered as a whole scene: sky gradient, drifting clouds, sun and moon positions, regional landmarks, seasonal flourishes. A quiet push in the opposite direction from minimalist dashboards.

  10. 10

    InsideMaps

    3D reconstruction of modern interiors.

  11. 11

    Zero Theorem

    2013

    Two small tools for the production of Terry Gilliam's 2013 film: a libcinder-based video sequencer and a custom iOS player that could loop and cross-cut without the black frames normal players insert.

  12. 12

    Luminate

    2016

    Point your phone at a surface and draw glowing 3D tubes in space. A small early bet on AR as a spatial-sketchbook medium.

  13. 13

    LightSuit

    2011

    A full-body LED suit built for Burning Man 2011. An Arduino-driven controller, addressable LEDs sewn through the fabric, patterns that responded to motion and sound.

  14. 14

    WhereCamp

    2008–2014

    An unconference series for geo-enthusiasts, “social place hackers,” artists, activists, and earth scientists — anybody who wanted to know their place.

  15. 15

    ImageWiki

    2008

    A 2008 Ruby/Merb experiment in visual matching and image-as-interface. Shipped as Imawik. Receipts on doing visual search before ML-based image understanding was the default.

  16. 16

    WhereIs

    Disjecta social lifelines.