Opinionated, long-form narrative writing with an agenda
Loose notes on things I don't entirely understand yet
A catalogue of design patterns gathered from observation and research
Interesting links, papers, and tiny thoughts
Conference talk slides, transcripts, and videos
Podcast episodes I've been a guest on
Books I've read and recommend
Books I like the idea of having read
On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions
Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious understanding of how you are doing it
The failure of drawing materials without mediums and meat
Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content
On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens
A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web
Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
A discipline at the intersection of cultural anthropology and binary logic
Longing for the paleolithic past in the Anthropocene
How to build a digital garden without touching code
A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
A case study showing how I make illustrations for abstract programming concepts
Visualising the cultural narratives around cultured meat
Seventy years ago we dreamed up links that would allow us to create two-way, contextual conversations. Why don't we use them on the web?
The lost permissioning and copyright system of the Web
Data is currently dislocated – our narratives and metaphors around it try to convince us it is immaterial
Everything you need to know about what API's are and how they work
The absolute minimum you need to know about data storage
