Tag: Craft
Thinking About Folk Traditions
Like a lot of people, I'm a bit wary of AI. Which has caused me to be greatly wary of the future. Which has pushed me into thinking about folk traditions.
Bead Soup
First posted on Blogger 01/04/26. More fun with beads.
When Wristers Attack!
First posted on Blogger 11/03/26. I discovered an issue with my phone wristers.
Cyberdeck Week: What I Love About Them
The trend of cyberdecks may feel a bit eye-rolly for anyone judging the power of the computer*. Maybe that's not what it's about. Maybe the cyberdeck is a modern folk craft. It stems from a mix of older practices* and modern folklore*. Like a lot of folk crafting, there's no need to make your own. Yet we do.
What I Did This Summer.
This was originally posted on Blogger on 14/09/25, it's image heavy if that's a concern.
It’s a focus problem
Just because you can build more now, doesn’t mean you should.
The Digital Joiner
Drawing Parallels between the Arts and Crafts movement and modern day AI
Re: The Joy of Building Slow
Apps attract the audience they deserve. Apps built with care attract users who care.
The Unfinished Instruction
On Gaudí, the Sagrada Família, and what happens when the architect dies a century before the building is done.
Introducing my big blue suitcase
Five years ago when I moved across the country, I stuffed all of my zines into this big suitcase and there they have lived ever since. It’s powder blue, with a disgusting soiled fabric lined interior, except on the bottom where I once hot glued a bunch of electronics- back when I used it to house an instrument I built to make noise. I got it from the Salvation Army in Hadley MA. Since moving to LA the suitcase lived mostly in my van, and then when my van died it lived in the warehouse at the lab...
You Are The Driver (The AI Is Just Typing)
I've been using AI coding agents daily for a few months, and the thing that shifted my thinking was a simple reframe: LLMs automate typing, not thinking. The craft is still yours.
Code and Cloth
Reject the arena, return to the loom.
Code and Cloth
Reject the arena, return to the loom.
Passion Plays
Lego Fortnite proposera un mode multijoueur en écran partagé
Lancé en décembre 2023, Lego Fortnite a fait grand bruit ! Le jeu propose en effet de survivre jusqu’à quatre joueurs sur un même serveur dans l’univers Lego, personnages et base compris. Le tout étant jouable gratuitement, pour respecter le modèle économique de Fortnite. Il y a cependant une petite ombre au tableau : impossible de jouer ensemble sur un même écran ! A l’heure actuelle, c’est chacun sur sa console, ce qui peut vite poser des soucis logistiques lorsqu’on veut partager le jeu en famille… Un inconvénient qui devrait bientôt être de l’histoire ancienne. Le 24 septembre dernier, lors du […]
Crab Cakes
Classic crab cakes made with canned crab, eggs, mayo and seasonings. Form into patties and sauté in butter until golden brown on both sides.
Crab Cakes
Classic crab cakes made with canned crab, eggs, mayo and seasonings. Form into patties and sauté in butter until golden brown on both sides.
It's about the curry
Leather Notebooks
For about a year I became really interested in making notebooks with scrap leather. I created dozens of notebooks in a variety of styles using different techniques over the span of many months. Some were sold, others were kept for my personal use.