Category: Software π¨βπ»
I was at one point a product manager. I have lots of opinions about how software should be built and how it should ‘make you feel’.
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Passive Quantified Systems
I think there could be a lot more done representing my phone use beyond lame bubbles falling down every-time I unlock my phone.
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Rooms As UX Metaphor | 2045
The Interactive Fiction metaphor of ‘rooms’ as applied to chat room UX.
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Abstract Objects | 2040
Coding python, pythagorean cult visualisation exercises, code loops, empirically felt variations in experience, and psychedelic technology criticism.
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Do You Remember MSN? | 2028
From 2020 looking back, my memories of MSN Messenger feel like one long slow motion panic attack.
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Animal Crossing Is The Place For Taste | 2019
Grammars of Virtual Worlds and the demonstration of taste within the constraints of the toy box that is Animal Crossing
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Make No Distinction | 2004
Slack is the open plan office of the software world.
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Landscapes Like Mixtapes | 2003
I want to say to a friend halfway around the world who’s with me in a simulation: Come with me, I made you a sunrise. Watch.
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Colonising the Clouds
THIS ESSAY WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED TO MEDIUM.COM JULY 2014. AS OF JAN 2020 IT HAD RECEIVED 12.5K VIEWS. JAY SPRINGETT IS A SOLARPUNK, THEORIST AND STRATEGIST FOR HYBRID ENVIRONMENTS. HIS CONCERNS ARE WITH CULTURE, HUMANS AND TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT. HE IS CURRENTLY WRITING HIS FIRST PUBLIC BOOK: LAND AS PLATFORM. JAY WRITES ONLINE UNDER THE HANDLE @THEJAYMO In…
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auto-tune the muse
comparing auto-tune to instagram is problematic for me as the two are associated with different mediums and the two are not completly analogous. so we can only really speak in aesthetic subjective terms. by ragesoss (own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via wikimedia commons there is an important difference between the way an instagram filter is applied…