building software to encourage networked human creativity – beginner’s mind
MPLS, MN
Joined March 2007
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a symbol like quotation marks but for politely indicating you’ve pasted in the response of an llm verbatim
tinkering with a webgpu drawing engine inspired by storyboarder’s brush shaders
the guts are done, very fast to iterate on weirdo experiments now
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I have an agent maintaining interfacemuseum.com/ - this stuff is definitely due for a comeback.
we are all neophytes but some of us have had our identities recreated before, i guess those are the elders in this situation?
e.g.: engineers compulsively comparing workflows: communitas, an initiation cohort without a ritual leader
prompt files, agent configs,
"here's my setup" posts circulating as sacra, which double as status display and advertising
liminality: “the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete”
likely enduring legacy of nolan’s odyssey is that the story now has a modern shared visual language in our collective memory. referring to odyssean situations or themes by analogy now paints a cinematic image in the listener’s head.
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Ableton Extensions will let you code your own tools and actions for Live. Read our detailed, hands-on guide to what this means; public beta is out now from @Ableton.
cdm.link/ableton-extensions-…
ALT Flappy Bird game with animated bird and green pipes and blue background, collecting MIDI notes, shown in Ableton Live 12 beta.
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My last #39c3 talk made it to @hackaday!
I talked about how we recreated the Roland JP-8000 by reverse engineering the custom silicon it used and emulating all the chips.
hackaday.com/2025/12/29/39c3…
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I've just shipped Aeriform, an interactive ambient techno experiment built with Google DeepMind's Lyria RealTime model. @GoogleMagenta
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New case study, end-to-end, showing a project done Shape Up style in a real-world team.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Framing/Shaping terminology and assumptions
02:47 - What is Shape Up
03:38 - Basecamp vs. more typical real-world teams
Case study:
04:49 - A simple kanban for framing/shaping checkpoints
05:11 - A candidate from top leadership with unanswered questions
06:55 - Framing the problem/outcome with an SME
10:34 - Why I need to shape before jumping forward
11:35 - Shaping session with a senior engineer
15:29 - Back to framing with the SME
17:42 - Shaping session with the senior engineer and SME
19:19 - Writing it up for kickoff
20:57 - Kickoff with the team
21:30 - Mapping out vertical slices (scopes)
23:54 - Wiring first, high fidelity last
25:17 - The launch brief
26:01 - Reflection: Roles involved, progressively getting warmer
26:28 - Reflection: Long stretches of autonomy and spiky live sessions
27:53 - Misunderstanding about pitches. Shaping one thing per time box.
29:12 - Questions, Shaping in Real Life Series
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Kids deserve better screentime
So we built Spark: world-class puppeteers + AI performing a character who actually knows your family
Real humans ensuring real connection. Think Sesame Street meets the future
First 20 Portals shipping this month
Interviewing the next 200 families now
