The full index
Almost Everything.
Roughly chronological.
Some live, some archived, some embarrassing in retrospect. We keep them all. It's the record.
- № 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.
toolsimagents
- № 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.
simcommunitycivic
- № 03
FutureOf
2020–2022
A DAO-managed conference series. Three editions so far — Micropayments, The Browser, Water — each a single day at human scale.
socialcommunity
- № 04
HumanScale
Design thinking for human-scale architecture.
designphilosophy
- № 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.
tooldesignsystems
- № 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.
gameplacesocial
- № 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.
agentscryptotool
- № 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.
gameplacecivic
- № 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.
designdatainfographic
- № 10
InsideMaps
3D reconstruction of modern interiors.
tool3d
- № 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.
toolfilm
- № 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.
ardrawingtool
- № 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.
hardwareplaywearable
- № 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.
placesocialcommunity
- № 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.
toolvisionsystems
- № 16
WhereIs
Disjecta social lifelines.
placesocial