Sketches

Experiments at different development stages

Growing Wild Gardens from The Nature of Code

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

Data Art seeding

CivicSpark AI

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

Civic Tech growing

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.

Data Art growing

Lessons from Community Organizing

Passion Project – a presentation

Community Organizing growing

OuLiPo Variations

Playful variations on the N+7 machine.

Computational Poetry seeding

Migrant Sex Workers Detained by ICE

Article published in TruthOut, featured by DemocracyNow.

Community Organizing growing

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.

Computational Poetry blooming

Reverse Erasure

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

Computational Poetry blooming

Snow Poem in July

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

Computational Poetry blooming

Virginia Woolf & Animating Erasure

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

Computational Poetry seeding