Met him through the Interact Fellowship in summer 2023. Very cool programming dude. Seems to basically fallen off the face of the earth: his Twitter no longer exists, his website is extremely barren, and he hasn’t committed on GitHub in at least a year. Hope he’s doing alright.

see: https://github.com/maxkrieger

Yet another Twitter designer. Actual gig is at Linear. Cool ideas, but no one’s moved to implement them, unfortunately.

Project Mage is a quest for seamless structural editing, a decent GUI toolkit, and, overall, an environment where interactivity, flexibility and power are valued very highly. A few applications are on the roadmap, notably the ones providing for note-taking, computational notebook capabilities, project-info tracking, decentralized version control, and an IDE for Common Lisp.

I totally forgot about this project. Not much has happened since I started following it in 2024. Likely will die of over-ambition, even though much of its ideas are sorely needed.

I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and a core member of the interdisciplinary Designing for People research cluster. […]

I use my background in computer science and mathematics to craft novel interactive technologies driven by sensors, machine learning and computer vision. These technologies range from improving touchscreen input, to novel motion tracking systems, on-world projected interfaces, and much more.

A very classic kind of HCI professor.

A Twitter HCI person. I don’t remember why he was in my RSS feed. Perhaps Andy Matuschak?

I’m a software engineer at Tyba, open-source maintainer, amateur musician, recovering entrepreneur, and father of two. In my copious free time I work on Biff (Clojure web framework) and Yakread (reading app).

Had a lot of really interesting ideas on unbundling social media while Twitter was going through the shitter. Unfortunately, a lot of his business bets on said ideas didn’t work out the way he wanted, but still an impressive designer and engineer, nonetheless.

see: https://obryant.dev/unbundling-social-media/

Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here’s why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that efficiently: explainer docs, quizzes, micro-worlds, and shared spaces.

see: https://backstitch.dev/ via: https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-018/

What lets the same algorithm work across all three domains is that they share two key properties:

1. Closure under negation and intersection — so the difference between two candidates is itself expressible.
2. Sampling from that difference — so the system can show the user concrete cases where the candidates disagree.

I built a custom feed for Bluesky that trains a model on my past interactions. Here’s what I learned about RecSys and social media feeds generally.

Hype.

let’s talk

Very beautiful hypermedia desktop environment powered by Patchwork. At the same time, I’m a bit disturbed by how involved LLMs have become in the I&S process.

Structured data. Not too much. Mostly text.

PANE is a live, functional programming environment built around data-visibility. In PANE, all intermediate values are visible by default, and you construct a program by acting on these concrete values.

MIT engineers designed an ultrasound wristband that precisely tracks a wearer’s hand movements in real time and communicates the information to a robot or a virtual environment.

Get this shit in VRChat, pls; thank you :)

alternative interfaces for creating and editing images and text

Formats over apps.

Holy shit, have I been sleeping on the AT Protocol. This shit is interesting as hell!

Very interesting browser prototype.

Spreadsheets are particularly useful for thinking through financial models, budgets, or any situation that involves considering lots of possible scenarios. Instead of laboriously redoing a bunch of math, you can quickly ask “what if?” questions and see the effects.

Very nice work by Litt and the Ink and Switch crew. Wondering if there’s a way to combine Ambsheets v1 and v2 to have both a nice interactive grid and clear formulas when you need them.

80% of the people only need 20% of the features.