incubating a humane dynamic medium

An embedded scheme interpreter in Rust. Contribute to mattwparas/steel development by creating an account on GitHub.

Nineteen thoughts about “generative artificial intelligence,” spanning a few centuries.

A multimedia sketchbook

Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies card set reimplemented as a dynamic web page.

Working with nature; schools designed for health, well-being & the environment.

This guide explains everything you need to know to build stand-alone photovoltaic systems that can power almost anything you want.

Interactive essay that explains theory of coeffects and lets you type-check and run sample programs.

Interesting site that can adapt its presentation of a dense subject depending on the audience.

A proposal for the next generation of portable documents.

A striking Scottish architectural gem hidden in rural Stirlingshire creates an idyllic home & office.

Our mission is to accelerate the built environment’s transition to zero carbon emissions.

The Local Digital Declaration is a shared commitment to improving local public services, signed by over 300 organisations.

An open map of property rights and obligations across time and space

Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work.

The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

Principles of UI, A Thread:
1. natural mapping
2. visibility of system state
3. discoverability
4. constraints and affordances
5. habits and spatial memory
6. locus of attention
7. no modes
8. fast feedback
9. do not cause harm to a user's data or through inaction allow user data to come to harm
10. prefer undo to confirmation boxes. For actions that can't be undone, force a "cooling off" period of at least 30 seconds.
11. measure using Fitt's, Hick's, GOMS, etc. but always test with real users.

I absolutely adore this idea. It's a great way to visualize where your time is going to go during the year, and when you'll move through different "seasons" in life.

A love letter to Hypercard which lets you create interactive applications which work on the web.

By standing together, we can build a better version of the tech industry.

WikiHouse is a digitally-manufactured building system that makes it simple for anyone to build beautiful, zero-carbon homes.

Lieu is a neighbourhood search engine, a way for personal webrings to increase serendipitous connexions.

Devine's Strange Loop talk from this year, transcribed.

Of the various reusable masks out there, these seem like at least they're designed for humans doing human things, not clearing asbestos.

A board of things, anywhere you want on the screen - thesephist/thingboard: A board of things, anywhere you want on the screen

A minimalist style for personal apps and websites.

When we resort to having other people build tools for us, the tools they build might never quite perfectly fit our workflows, because they’re not built for our individual minds.

I love both the message and the tools. They're consistently and minimalistically designed, tailored for purpose, and have a strong philosophy behind them.

Send gifts to trans youth in need, safely and anonymously!

The Inventaire project has two cores working in synergy: this page is about the open data project

A kindle <=5.16.2.1.1 jailbreak.

The Malleable Systems Collective catalogs and experiments with malleable software and systems that reset the balance of power in computing

A lightweight, responsive web e-book template.

• https://wiki.ndpi.io/hypha/prusa

The Land Register of Scotland is our main register, recording ownership of land and property in Scotland.

An argument for checking everything into version control — source, toolchains, dependencies, etc. This is sympathetic to "Cold Blooded Software".

• https://wiki.ndpi.io/hypha/cold_blooded_software

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Joseph Bennett Charles Huettner EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Matt Harrigan Dave Newberg ANIMATION Joseph Bennett Charles Huettner Caleb…

A guide to accessible and simple website design recommended by a person on Merveilles.

ArcGIS map showing areas of woodland that have "ancient" origins, according to the Ancient Woodland Inventory.