Maggie makes visual essays about programming, design, and anthropology.

Designer, anthropologist, and mediocre developer
Currently design engineering at

The Garden

A digital garden is a collection of imperfect notes, essays, and ideas growing slowly over time. Learn more

Essays

Opinionated, longform narrative writing with an agenda

Notes

Loose, unopinionated notes on things I don’t entirely understand yet.

Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh

Leaving Elicit

Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers

Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History

On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars

The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays

Spinning Worlds, Seasickness, and Dealing with Vestibular Neuritis

A Collection of Design Engineers

Gathering Structures

Speculative Calendar Events

Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots

Neologisms

Patterns

Design patterns gathered from my own observations and research.

Ambient Co-presence

Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web

Pattern10 months ago

Computational Notebooks

Shareable, browser-based documents that can compile and run code

Patternover 1 year ago

Command K Bars

Command line bars you can quickly summon with a keyboard shortcut

Patternalmost 2 years ago

Folk Interfaces

People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems

Patternabout 2 years ago

Daily Notes Pages

Daily notes as a frictionless default input for personal knowledge management systems

Patternover 2 years ago

Assumed Audiences

Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations

Patternalmost 3 years ago

Epistemic Disclosure

Providing clear metadata on the epistemic validity of content

Patternalmost 3 years ago

Algorithmic Transparency

Algorithms that make their reasoning visible

Patternalmost 3 years ago

Library

Books I’ve read and books I like the idea of having read.

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Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

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Annals of a Former World

Annals of a Former World

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Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent

Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent

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Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

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The Weirdest People in the World

The Weirdest People in the World

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The Empathy Diaries

The Empathy Diaries

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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking