i made a pillow for our phones - turns on do not disturb when you lay your phone on top

i used millions of files from @archive.org to make a website where you can watch how the internet evolved scroll through home videos and news stories, unedited selfies and collaged memes, all merged in one timeline alivetheory.net

i have decided white is too clean for the brand vibe - we must go with texture & contrast. beauty in the imperfection

do yall like white or gray

hosting a playhtml get-together in SF at the new TIAT space sunday afternoon! come make internet playgrounds, communal games, & tiny social spaces & build on open-source register luma.com/w4n90met here!

thank you jolie for this thoughtful & generous conversation!! in it: how we can steward digital spaces & technology broadly, making things for your community, & how these interact with the most discussed tech of today, LLMs substack.com/home/post/p-...

ok the mobile view is kinda cool too.. it kinda feels like tiktok but you are traveling through the content from the history of the internet which somehow makes me feel more reverent towards it?

Server Charms are tiny, portable microcontroller setups made with recycled vape batteries. They create their own Wi-Fi network, inviting curious people to connect with their devices where a captive portal opens, leading to small webpages. codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...

making a project about the history of the internet and having fun with different slider designs from different eras

ok what are the odds we can co-opt AI into meaning "alive internet" rather than "artificial intelligence"

excited to share a new piece here & honored to finally make something in dedication to the Archive’s monumental work :) come to the opening if youre around!

babys first mold

sharing a screenshot from the other app only because there are still a few people thinking whimsically about the web there! what do yall think? what other kinds of communal interactions could we have on the web that make it feel alive & inhabited?

testing a mini-zine that unfolds into instructions to send with internetsculptures.com

The past few years have been extremely challenging & my heart always feels heavy. @aphid.org constantly reminds me to find as many pockets of joy. Loving this gorgeous sculpture made by @spencer.place that sits at an altar space in our home. When I need a pick-me-up, I seek a fortune from it.

i have decided to become shameless

thanks to my new sponsor from this piece 🥺🧡

wrote about "alive internet theory" or why the bots won't win news.spencer.place/p/alive-inte...

inspired to write a piece about this any other moments you've encountered that attest to this?

revisiting this piece i wrote almost two years ago(!) & thinking about it in context to this gentle affirmation of existence as social interaction news.spencer.place/p/ti-09-the-...

when you hear "tiny internets" what kind of logo do you imagine conveys that i think i want a tiny outstretched hand cursor incorporated but not sure what else to include

ok go off goat (hollis frampton to the MoMA in 1970 after they asked to do a retrospective of her work, "all for love and honor and no money is included at all") source www.jubilee-art.org/wp-content/u...

love this writeup & distinction between flavors of social media.. i think all the social media i have ever made (& what im after w playhtml) is about this gentle exchange of “i am here!” we call out into the void and a stranger answers. how magical is that

alive internet theory

we want to publish your poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essays, graphic storytelling, and experiments that utilize the web as a medium! send your pitch to [email protected] for the next issue of the html review thehtml.review/about

wrote about one of my favorite art pieces news.spencer.place/p/the-visitors

just released this! i now have a shared network of lamps between playhtml.fun and my personal website spencer.place should i make a lamp webring next? each person has a different lamp on their website & they are all connected..

added a rain maker to playhtml.fun

this is the kind of internet i want! where are the #indieweb enthusiasts? anyone want to try some of these ideas with playhtml.fun

early new feature in playhtml enabling shared elements across pages and domains! really excited for what kinds of interesting collective interactions this allows for and how it connects people across websites

i am making some funny little guys inspired by ancient chinese artifact fragments

yes yes yes the web will become communal

has anyone tried storing website state in at proto (perhaps directly to the website owner's PDS?) how exactly would this work to allow other visitors to the site to "write" to my PDS in a secure way? some proxy server that translates well-formatted API into authenticated PDS writes?

tiny experiments

@omar.website good afternoon!

one of my favorite parts of my website is scrolling down to the very bottom and seeing all the people on it at that moment (color matches each cursor color, which are shared / visible to everyone)

In June I gave a talk about my search for perpetual energy, why I call myself both an artist and an engineer, how combining useless technology and useful art led me to interesting propositions and even more interesting questions. if interested give it a watch here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-2t...

thank you jay / bluesky for reposting my project from 9mo ago that i just said publicly i would be accountable for shipping this week no pressure :)

randomly came across this again and realized i didn't launch it oops here's my public accountability post to publish it end of this week

latest newsletter on Turrell's Skyspace, curation, and learning to highlight parts rather than capturing the whole (also ft. new custom domain) news.spencer.place/p/pinhole

mood today

added a timeline preview / progress which shows the actual colors at each time... why is time so fun to play with playhtml.fun/experiments/5

good orange

exploring this space is interesting coming from wanting to support auth for playhtml.fun financial-level security is not needed bc the stakes are way lower (permission for moving an element on your page, moderating guestbook entries, etc.) so hard to know the line for what is “good enough”

auth on the web is hard huh

fun update to my @colors.bsky.social bot posting colors to include some descriptive alt text for the colors! thanks to feedback from the community 🧡

thank you mr redwood for existing

good progress team

shared random spinner weeeee making more fun examples with playhtml.fun

latest experiment - a website where you color in each minute of the day together have fun playhtml.fun/experiments/5/