nice to revisit an idea I experimented with 4 years ago - in a position where i can actually do something meaningful ?

riding the internet subway to recent links people have visited..

not bad

i learned a new person

wow pretty crazy if this is right

i get an error on loading :( also curious about the llm moderation setup

hi! are you creative, technical, or love telling stories? i'm hiring an assistant / apprentice to help me this fall with my projects designing it as the thing i would've wanted 4 years ago when i started mixing art, software, and sculpture learn more spencer.place/help-2026/

connecting the dots cursor edition

class 2 of building benches on the web! great discussion of @kissane.myatproto.social 's www.wrecka.ge/against-the-... and how we can build social spaces that are accessible and open but avoid context collapse to preserve intimacy and safety

day in the life of a cursor

my government stream debut! (computing shrines coming to a park near you in the fall!)

this month is the 3-year anniversary of playhtml.fun ! now powers thousands of tiny social spaces with active playing, making, & sharing every day realtime, persistent interactivity in a few lines of code, no server needed! fighting for a more alive, inhabited public internet

class 1 of building benches on the web done 🥺 cant believe we will have 50 ppl making new weird social spaces on top of playhtml

new milestone!! 3000 people browsing together on we were online

i am stacking rocks

marking off AI slop / seo spam pages experimenting with collective action on the whole internet

me & rock

some poems from the past few months on playhtml.fun/fridge

almost at any moment of the day there is someone browsing on wewere.online now 900+ people across 25 timezones..

ATmessages - dm the firehose now with support for quoted posts, attribution (so ppl dont think you're a bot), and sound (very annoying)

all the links of bluesky hah.spencer.place/linkstream

the firehose if it was just people DMing you (now you can reply to them!) hah.spencer.place/messages

omg someone made a huge trail like 50 full page scrolls down in the fridge poetry wall playhtml.fun/fridge

over 400 people contributing their browsing data now!

our machines crave connection

omg ran into someone on my website chat

cursors browsing the internet this morning.. up to 42 people all contributing to this portrait :)

every click from 20+ people browsing the internet last night

I wrote about the lack of benches / public infrastructure on the web and how we can change that www.elysian.press/p/the-intern... would love more ideas & thoughts if you take a read!

first time trying this live chat on my website (only shows up when I'm home!) fun to immediately have someone use it i'll be on for the next 10 or so reviewing some previous projects.. feel free to join me :) spencer.place