current
2022–present
- Tonk: unified system for all your small software
from 2022–2025, Tonk operated as an applied cryptography lab and was active in the autonomous worlds scene.
designing sociotechnical systems
more technical: 2015–2021
- Airbnb: design technologies; intelligent design systems
- Deco Software: open-source React Native IDE
more social: 2018–2022
- Willow Common Studio: neighborhood art and design collective
- Won't 2 Can't: risograph printed comic books (parts 1 & 2), collaboration with Hi-Bred via Cold Cube Press
- Zine Machine: open access 3d-printed hand press
- Gestalte: circular and humanist industrial design studio
prior work
early 2010s
- Yahoo: scalable machine learning engineer (CIKM '16, SIGIR '16)
- Neustar UltraDNS: distributed systems engineering
- Beckman Institute: data analytics, signal processing
writing
- End of the Internet: After the death of the first internet, lots of tiny new internets will grow up in its place.
talks & appearances
- Ink & Switch Event: vibe coding, the IDE as slot machine
- AI Tinkerers Prague: building malleable LLM software
- Zero Knowledge Podcast: local-first with grjte and goblin oats
- Autonomous Worlds Assembly: world secrets & mystery digital physics workshop
external reading
- Dynamicland
- Malleable Software
- Power of Simplicity
- Plurality philosophy in an incredibly oversized nutshell
- The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
- Against The Coasean Singularity
- Hayek's Revenge
- Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr
- pastagang plans
- Library of Agnes (with links to other libraries)