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 😭😭😭

only took me 2 years..

i was debating this maybe yall can help me decide. rn u can respond but it doesn’t go anywhere (i want to encourage responding to simulate being overwhelmed w vitality) but should your response actually get posted as a reply? or just go into the void

the firehose if everyone was just DMing you

teaching an online class this summer at @sfpc.study with @munusshih.bsky.social on making third spaces (live & persistent) to hang out on the web come make websites with us! sfpc.study/sessions/sum...

vignette from “build a garden” party lmk if you have suggestions for what to grow in sf!

My project for the last year, Orbital Studies Issue № 0 is available now! Orbital Studies is a literary science magazine. We publish writing and art in service of a more beautiful scientific culture. Includes work from @philipcball.bsky.social, @spencer.place, Michael Levin... orbitalstudies.com

wewere.online sending out beta to folks next monday!

what did i miss / what’s the origin of the bsky is dying discourse

host a shrine in your neighborhood!! shrine.computer/stewards

i love when projects will take me to random websites ive never seen before

everywhere i moved my cursor today (NOW WITH SOUND!!) (dont tell anyone but bluesky is the first to see this)

made a weird device to draw graffiti on wifi networks in public

atmosphere conf fomo

#090A05

i work for the internet

this is an interesting evolution bsky.app/profile/dhol... i guess you can separate website state into stuff that is always there (my lamp being on) that would be stored in my PDS vs something people add to (a guestbook) where each entry could be from a diff PDS

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wrote about this and more reflections on this alternate internet of Chinese apps & design news.spencer.place/p/the-chines...

A trillion webpages, saved. 🌐 To mark the milestone, Internet Archive x @GrayArea.Org commissioned new net.art created from within the Archive’s vast collections. Ex. “alive internet theory” by @spencerchang.me Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/internet-arc... 🧵 1️⃣/3️⃣ #Wayback1T

thoughts on this branding?

just learned every major chinese app has its own custom markup language fork of HTML for writing websites: AXML & ACSS, WXML & WXSS, TTML & TTSS.. crazy how the web is just built on a completely different foundation there & websites dont really exist

more experiments w my browsing data

ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players ssh snakes.run to join!

wrote about my time in china news.spencer.place/p/chinese-pe...

ok hear me out... what if...

i keep seeing all these cursors from visitors on my website but i wanted a way to welcome them to my digital home now we can wave, dance, and spin with each other when im around!