• lately i've been quietly foraging ideas of serendipity and collaboration + podcast.
  • before that I was mostly maintaining the team, before that Lerna/JSCS/ESLint while working at Behance

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Dec 25th, 23
on images and idolatry
Dec 25th, 23
image as metaphor
Jan 18th, 2022
a sense of limits

Projects

Explorations in code, community, and thought

extension: annotation sidebaractive

2025
show bluesky posts as you browse
how far can i get without a backend..
github

qr quiz

2025
play trivia using a barcode scanner (or phone)
fast like a clicker, but uses QR codes
github

vibe searchbrewing

2025
uses embeddings to help you discover related tweets in the community archive
what if we could search for a *feeling*, rather than a literal word
github

book club (dm to try)brewing

2025
a cozy space to discuss PDFs and annotate, promoting an async-like book club
what if each PDF became a shared room, with conversations flowing through its margins?

receipt printersbrewing

2024
send me a message/photo, like a fax (can ask me to try it)
what if we had a network of printers?

riff with friends

2024
exquisite corpse with friends: each person writes a line of a poem and shares the link to the next person
site

boxes

2023
factorio-inspired programming environment on canvas inspired by Paul Shen's work
siteinspiration:conveyor belt programmingpaul's prototype

sound of codeseeking collab

2022
plays video game sounds as you type keywords
what if you could write code that sounds good?
site

text expanderseeking collab

2022
different ways of reading text by exploding/zooming in on a sentence at a time
site

bible karaokepaused

2022
memorize verses using speech recognition + blurring the words
thinking of making an airpods only version of this
site

code equalizer

2022
code itself is en equalizer with lofi girl in the bg
site

localized keywords

2020
site to test writing JavaScript keywords in other languages (via Babel)
what if you could write code in your native language?
site

contributors on githubseeking collab

2016
browser extension highlighting contributor activity on pull requests and issues.
what does it mean to welcome someone into a new community?
githubsite

babel & open source

2015-present
I never expected to be a part of xkcd #2347. Maybe nobody does. Like most maintainers, I became one by accident. Still grateful for the serendipitous and challenging opportunity
it was an ever-increasing rabbit hole into how open source *actually* works, by participating in it. my crash course in community building... realizing I don't want to be a content creator. It's always been less about fixing bugs and more about ecosystem sustainability. the digital commons.
githubsite