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connecting the dots cursor edition

class 2 of building benches on the web! great discussion of @kissane.myatproto.social 's www.wrecka.ge/against-the-... and how we can build social spaces that are accessible and open but avoid context collapse to preserve intimacy and safety

day in the life of a cursor

(re-)introducing ✨ Emoji Stats for Bluesky ✨ now 100% backfilled!! (and capable of historical analytics down to the hour) technical details and war story below emojistats.at

my government stream debut! (computing shrines coming to a park near you in the fall!)

veryyyyy sick

this month is the 3-year anniversary of playhtml.fun ! now powers thousands of tiny social spaces with active playing, making, & sharing every day realtime, persistent interactivity in a few lines of code, no server needed! fighting for a more alive, inhabited public internet

class 1 of building benches on the web done 🥺 cant believe we will have 50 ppl making new weird social spaces on top of playhtml

new milestone!! 3000 people browsing together on we were online

i am stacking rocks

marking off AI slop / seo spam pages experimenting with collective action on the whole internet

woah this is cool

me & rock

some poems from the past few months on playhtml.fun/fridge

excited to see how this develops…

almost at any moment of the day there is someone browsing on wewere.online now 900+ people across 25 timezones..

ATmessages - dm the firehose now with support for quoted posts, attribution (so ppl dont think you're a bot), and sound (very annoying)

all the links of bluesky hah.spencer.place/linkstream

Tfw you’re conjuring love online

the firehose if it was just people DMing you (now you can reply to them!) hah.spencer.place/messages

ok i finally made this available to use! try it out and lmk what you think.. it's weirdly intimate? but im pretty sure ppl think im a bot when i reply right after they post hah.spencer.place/messages

Orbital Studies Issue № 0: Ways of Seeing the Living World is available for order now. Featuring writing from Michael Levin on minds ingressing from a Platonic realm, @philipcball.bsky.social on the return of purpose & meaning to biology, @spencer.place on intimate computing shrines. And many more.

omg someone made a huge trail like 50 full page scrolls down in the fridge poetry wall playhtml.fun/fridge

turning wikipedia into a shared space!

over 400 people contributing their browsing data now!

our machines crave connection

good domain i found today www.actionstakenunderthefictitiousnamewaleadbeshtystudiosinc.com

announcing Marc Andreessen Egg Game - a game where you draw on eggs to make them look like Marc marc-egg.eieio.games

will be in london next week & then paris the week after any recs / mutuals who wanna meet up?

omg ran into someone on my website chat

cursors browsing the internet this morning.. up to 42 people all contributing to this portrait :)

such an exciting future for the web

every click from 20+ people browsing the internet last night

how many alsos can you use in a row challenge

Dare I say... rewilding?

I wrote about the lack of benches / public infrastructure on the web and how we can change that www.elysian.press/p/the-intern... would love more ideas & thoughts if you take a read!

first time trying this live chat on my website (only shows up when I'm home!) fun to immediately have someone use it i'll be on for the next 10 or so reviewing some previous projects.. feel free to join me :) spencer.place

wow yes pls let's not make this a pattern.. here's another way this could have unfolded in the spirit of learning: "hey yall im making a AT Proto directory for apps! i'd love some nice images for this, help me out? <tag a bunch of the popular apps> <share WIP screenshot w/o AI-gen images>"

what if we brought back net cafes as "phone cafes" where the phones all share communal social media accounts (the alg shaped by all the people who use it) and you go to scroll these collective feeds together

final entry in my dispatch to china! encountering chinese creative shock... here's the opening line: "“My livelihood is not your hobby,” said the Chinese ceramics master to our friend seeking to apprentice." news.spencer.place/p/chinese-cr...

idk i hope playhtml.fun

excited to share lichen.page, a cms for static site generators, built on atproto there are also a number of other strange things about it. I would describe it as a sort of software as research, but you can also use it, and curious what people make of it

working on making playhtml.fun easy for beginners to HTML/CSS/JS to make live web elements (ex: a guestbook with real-time reactions, a shared lamp that turns on for everyone, collab sticky notes on a corkboard) if this is exciting, id love your feedback on a few API designs! reply and i can dm

Join us for Building Benches for the Web, a class where students will learn to code digital third spaces using presence and participation as our core building materials. ▬ W/ @spencer.place & Munus Shih Apply by 04/27: sfpc.study/sessions/sum...

sorry everyone i gave meta the idea

all my cursor movements on 04/17 (sound on!) make ur own internet self-portrait at wewere.online !

this is much harder than i thought (yes the replies are sending on bluesky. yes it feels weird to reply to people who have no idea who i am)

jk i spun up an internal tool to move the dots around to make my animation i love this age of working with computers

repeatedly changing tiny numbers in my code so i can recreate this drawing 😭😭😭