@seaofclouds

atmospheric design

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Joined January 2007
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Happy Valentine's Day! Here are a few heart shaped things from 2014-present. #amour #hearts
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps inkandswitch.com/essay/malle…

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users...

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Today is the day! We are pleased to bring you lcl.host ! A gift from us at Anchor. We hope you get amazing use of the free tool to get HTTPS in your local dev environment - completely free!
Today is the day! We are pleased to bring you https://lcl.host ! A gift from us at Anchor. We hope you get amazing use of the free tool to get HTTPS in your local dev environment - completely free!

ALT Today is the day! We are pleased to bring you https://lcl.host ! A gift from us at Anchor. We hope you get amazing use of the free tool to get HTTPS in your local dev environment - completely free!

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Seeking a game designer to try out a tool I've built for making games. DM me!
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Designers do it in layers, why shouldn’t writers? – at Berkeley, CA
Ink & Switch@inkandswitch9 Mar 2023
Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers inkandswitch.com/upwelling/

Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers.

Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a design that gives writers privacy while still offering editors transparency into how a document is...

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🔭 I'm looking for a new long-term role! I believe that there's a ton of untapped potential in computing, and that a lot of it is limited by (broadly understood) interfaces. Background/interests/context here: szymonkaliski.com/newsletter…? Let's chat: [email protected] RT=❤️

Q4 2022

Publications, Appearances, and looking for the Next Thing

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Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints

How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems

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You’re welcome, @ThatKevinSmith, ❤️ and thank you for the third installment we didn’t know we needed. – at Berkeley, CA
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Inkbase: Programmable Ink

What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?

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Seriously @Ticketmaster? Still?
The whole Ink & Switch crew will be at Strangeloop this month, with @szymon_k presenting a new piece on our ongoing Programmable Ink research track. thestrangeloop.com/2022/prog…

Programmable Ink - Strange Loop

Strange Loop is a conference for software developers covering programming langs, databases, distributed systems, security, machine learning, creativity, and more!

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🖖❤️ – at Berkeley, CA
Laughing Squid
@LaughingSquid1 Aug 2022
A Wonderful 'Star Trek' Compilation That Pays Tribute to Nichelle Nichols as Lieutenant Uhura laughingsquid.com/nichelle-n…

A Wonderful 'Star Trek' Compilation That Pays Tribute to Nichelle Nichols as Lieutenant Uhura

John DiMarco compiled footage from "Star Trek", the first six films, and "The Animated Series" to pay loving respect to Nichelle Nichols.

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Wondering which future is more likely 1) someone builds a train mostly filled with classist rich people wielding axes and ignorance. #Snowpiercer 2) we discover that all of that already happened and we are in #thematrix – at Berkeley, CA
Context Climate@ContextClimate28 Jul 2022
☀️ Could "dimming the sun" help turn down global heating? 🌡 It might sound like science fiction, but some are exploring solar geoengineering tech to stop temperatures rising. ⭕️ They say it's relatively cheap and simple - while others warn it could be catastrophic. Why? 🧵
This is the way timeline.com/iceland-womens-…
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Muse 2 is right around the corner! In the meantime, enjoy this lovely diagram by @seaofclouds.
Allume (formerly Muse)@AllumeApp20 May 2022
······ 4 days until 2.0 ······ The creative process begins with raw inputs. And ends with a production output. Muse is for the messy middle: active thinking.
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Finally! 🥯
San Francisco Chronicle
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As more bagel pop-ups open shops in the Bay Area, owners aren’t worried about oversaturation. Instead, they’re excited about cementing a more established, varied scene for the once bagel-scant region. trib.al/NAaWY2m

Overwhelming demand for Bay Area bagels is driving a new wave of expansion

As more bagel pop-ups open shops in the Bay Area, owners aren’t worried about...

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Rémi Forte@rmfrt14 Apr 2022
My new hobby: drawing kittens in spreadsheets.
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Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models inkandswitch.com/crosscut/

Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models

Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.

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How do you make it rain with NFTs? Someone please answer with a gif.
The Muse team is growing! We’re seeking an engineer to help build our local-first sync backend. Relevant skills: Go, CRDTs, websockets, Postgres museapp.com/jobs/local-first…
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