Orion Reed
@OrionReedOne
advocating widespread dissatisfaction with computing. Bsky @orionreed.com
Unit had already incorporated Solid and Electric physics in its design, and now Liquid Selection comes fitting right in.
I enjoyed making the sketches for this post, they're just custom html elements I chucked straight into the markdown. This post was low stakes, just describing a thing I did. Next time will be spicier.
QR data transfer protocols orionreed.com/posts/qrtp/
anyone know of a good way to subscribe to specific researchers, RSS-style? Something that's not tied to a specific journal...
this just solved 80% of a problem I’ve been struggling with for months! thank you @furafuku
What the world needs is more morphological closing: one of the best tricks for organically smooth unions with clean, tightly-connected boundaries. Not only does it avoid the need for isosurface extraction, but it also works with arbitrary geometries, not just circles.
What if browsers shipped with servers? You could open *folders* of html/css/js, open local files with HTTPS, update your ‘software’ via filesystem APIs when online… shifting agency toward users and creating new possibilities for authorship and distribution…
"The reason software isn't better is because it takes a lifetime to understand how much of a mess we've made of things, and by the time you get there, you will have contributed significantly to the problem."
Entity-Component Systems for SaaS, my short impromptu talk at #lambdaconf2025 Link to slides below.
this protocol is now just 80 lines of code.
A tiny protocol to stream data over QR codes in both directions at once. Each device confirms receipt of the previous chunk, so it handles interruptions smoothly. Made this for webRTC signalling and other things as part of the Folk Canvas project with @chrisshank23
This work and thread is great, got me thinking!
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)