📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

Two weeks of real-world use on Firehose, my email triage prototype. • 572 emails automatically labeled • 77% coverage (confident labels) • 98.2% accuracy on confident ✨

come join us again @feelingof.london for demos and good vibes! 😌💚

the application (app) model of software can, should, and must be abolished.

#LocalFirst devroom at #FOSDEM will be live at 09:00 CET ! For those who are not with us in Brussels to attend 8 hours of the best speakers lineup ever, there is a live stream. You can interact with the speakers during Q&A sessions by using Matrix. See you in a bit. live stream: openlocalfirst.org

every time i moved & clicked in my browser today

It’s called ‘vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting

Here's a little spatial / tangible tool I made to explore an algorithm with my hands and eyes. I saw an error diffusion matrix on wikipedia and it looked vaguely like a circle, so I built this board game-inspired tool to feel out just how spatial it actually was. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vZc...

From "Democrats should abandon trans rights" to "I want to have sex with a computer." Wake up, honey, it's the worst takes of the year.

🧵 Could Bitchat have 5x the range and 100x the throughput for the same power expenditure? I explored how Wi-Fi Aware could improve the reliability and throughput of Bitchat and mobile ad-hoc networks in the absence of internet connectivity. #bitchat 👇

🚀🚀🚀 I'm doin' a signal boost! I just met Vanessa, an early-career dev with great energy looking for work! Interested in games and webdev, and working on a PS1-style game in her spare time. (Contact info is on her website) 👀 queenofsquiggles.codeberg.page

We have a shiny new website courtesy of @spiralganglion.com and @seaofclouds.com 🙌 🚀 Check it out: automerge.org

It's that time again: ✨we’re hiring✨ We're looking for a @godotengine.org IDE Engineer to help us build the next generation of collaboration tools inside the engine itself! More detail here: inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-ide-engineer (Remote role 🌍🌎🌏)

12 exciting live-programming projects will be presented at LIVE this year. It's free, online, and coming up soon! Sat 9/27: Videos premiere Sat 10/4: Q & A and discussion over Zoom Details on projects are up already at liveprog.org; more schedule & links coming soon. Hope to see ya there!

hi hello my husband recently accepted a job in Victoria, BC so we are hoping to immigrate to Canada before the year is over soooo i will be leaving my in-office IT job and be out of work again. shares and job leads welcome!

The Ink & Switch team is coming through London and we're having a social to share some recent news and research from the lab, and catch up with people in London interested in local first, malleable software, and other similar areas of making better computing. Aug 16th, 6pm in London

Do you write TypeScript? Enjoy Automerge? Love building both tools and community? You might be a great fit for our ✨new✨ Automerge TypeScript Maintainer role! www.inkandswitch.com/jobs/automer... (Remote role, 🇬🇧 UK-based preferred but not required)

Completed another trip around the sun this week. With gratitude, something to share: Creative work is hilariously unintuitive to the adult mind. We are like beavers, blocking flow at the first sound of running water with dams made of any debris around. Here are reminders I hold close: (1/2)

This is the platonic ideal of sniffing

One week until MONDAY, JULY 21st, which I call "LIVE Workshop Christmas". (It's Christmas for me and the PC, cuz we get to look at all the cool stuff you submit! I guess for you it's more like "the submission deadline".) liveprog.org

Automerge 3 is here: the heart transplant is complete! Huge improvements in memory usage and (in most cases) correspondingly big performance improvements too. Backwards compatible on disk and the network so there's no reason not to upgrade today: automerge.org/blog/automer...

A few different Ink & Switch projects have used Ohm…here's the latest one. From @alexwarth.bsky.social (co-creator of Ohm) and @geoffreylitt.com (who made Wildcard, one of our all-time favourite Ohm-powered projects)

BTW: I'm slowly assembling a LIVE Primer to help folk submitting to LIVE (& others) get the lay of the land. Please take a look and let me know what's missing, what sucks, what's rad, etc. live-workshop.github.io/primer/

New longform @inkandswitch.com essay! 📜 Malleable Software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps by me, @joshuahhh.com, @pvh.ca and @seaofclouds.com inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea... It's about why people need agency over their software tools, and how to make that happen.

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...

After 4 years of work, I'm incredibly excited to introduce LiveStore, the next-gen data layer I'm building for Overtone. It's based on reactive SQLite and has a built-in sync engine. Give it a try - would love your feedback!

Computational Public Space. A talk about a values-driven approach to integrating computation into cities. (40 min) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PixP...

What if you didn't need git to collaborate on games? We've been prototyping a new approach to collaboration in Godot: live and async collaborative editing, with branches and diffs, built right into the editor. We're looking for people to test out an early version, see link in next post:

Great talk by @pvh.ca on how @inkandswitch.com goes about doing impactful research youtu.be/w7DVlI_Ztq8?...

Here's a cut of some of my interactive and visual work from the past year. I'm looking for work! I'm looking for remote work developing, prototyping and/or researching on editors, custom interactive things, or visualizations. I mostly work in JS/TS. Let me know if you know something pls ty :)

It doesn’t matter if they’re “coming for you next.” Even if your position and your privilege will ALWAYS protect you and everyone you love, it is your job as a conscious human being to fight for justice. That’s just the way it fucking is. You don’t get to abdicate that responsibility.

people find their own use for tools

This is the logo for a new Ink & Switch research track. What are your guesses for the name of this research area?

Photoshop for text. In our #CHI2025 paper “Textoshop”, we explore how interactions inspired by drawing software can help edit text. We consider words as pixels, sentences as regions, and tones as colours. #HCI #NLProc #LLMs #AI Thread 🧵 (1/10)

any Canadian game dev studios hiring rn just curious haha

Turns out the secret to loving junk mail: Buying a paper shredder. Now every promotional flyer becomes a satisfying destruction ritual. Making things more fun is an underrated strategy.

Excited to announce the official launch of our online book, WebAssembly from the Ground Up! 🎉 It's the book we wish we'd had 3 years ago. No messing with tools and frameworks. It's a hands-on guide to the core of Wasm: the instruction set and module format. Link below. 👇

🌱 Inspiration: How the Clay layout algorithm works https://youtu.be/by9lQvpvMIc?si=ltSrPIZ0q9h3oJO_

Canvas program history

my husband was supposed to speak at a Perinatal conference on trans healthcare in April. he got a call yesterday that they had to cancel his talk bc the state threatened to pull their funding if they included any trans content in the conference

What if a spreadsheet cell could hold multiple values at the same time? That's the idea behind Ambsheets, a project I've been working on w/ @geoffreylitt.com at @inkandswitch.com. It's a new spreadsheet that makes it easier for you to explore many possibilities simultaneously. 1/2

We just launched tldraw computer

@joshuahhh.com and I invite you to explore our experimental visual programming environment (which takes place in a dungeon) Features - dissolve the bounds of decision and explore all possibilities at once - use sigillic incantations, delve into recursive caverns vezwork.github.io/drostes-lair-post

At @inkandswitch.com we are starting a new project to research better version control tools for making games. One hypothesis: collaborating on a game should initially be as simple as working on a Google Doc, with concepts like branching introduced gradually as needed.

☎️ AI Hotline: pick up the phone, talk to your AI assistant www.youtube.com/shorts/Vwz3r...

Ink & Switch is embarking on a new project to explore how our universal version control research might apply to building games in Godot, for both experienced and new developers. We'll start sharing lab notes as the project ramps up, but if you're familiar with the Godot IDE, we'd love to talk.

The @inkandswitch.com team is looking to hire a C++ engineer who has worked on the Godot game engine IDE, researching new approaches to collaborative game development. Read the full job posting here www.notion.so/inkandswitch...