Sketches

Growing Wild Gardens from The Nature of Code

Expanding on Daniel Shiffman’s The Nature of Code with an interactive playground for real data.

Creative Coding seeding

CivicSpark AI

AI-enabled chat interface for Tulsa City Council. RAG over agendas, minutes, and budgets, plus topic alerts and district email drafting.

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Digital Brain: Local RAG + Regenerable Wiki

Local-first personal knowledge stack: Obsidian vault → Postgres/pgvector → Ollama embeddings and chat → entity graph → Karpathy-style regenerable wiki, plus a daily brief.

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Multi-Agent EDU Stack

Eight-stage multi-agent educational stack for sourcing, vetting, and scaffolding AI curriculum under high content decay, plus Level-3 behavior telemetry. Implementation repo in active development.

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Lessons from Community Organizing

Passion Project – a presentation

Migrant labor Community organizing Footprints growing

OuLiPo Variations

Playful variations on the N+7 machine.

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Migrant Sex Workers Detained by ICE

Article published in TruthOut, featured by DemocracyNow.

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Zong! Magnetic Poetry

Interactive magnetic poetry editor inspired by M. NourbeSe Philip’s ‘Zong!’ - a p5.js concrete poetry tool for rearranging words and creating visual poems.

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Reverse Erasure

Interactive erasure poetry tool that lets you create new meaning by removing text from existing poems.

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Snow Poem in July

Interactive concrete poetry exploring elemental transformations through CSS animations and HTML5 interactions

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Virginia Woolf & Animating Erasure

How to achieve the New Yorker blackout scrolling effect - recreating scroll-triggered erasure poetry for web interfaces

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