Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious understanding of how you are doing it
Hanselminutes
A collection of interesting words that have recently been coined
Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content
On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web
On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens
A few favourite books from the field of digital anthropology
The Stack Overflow Podcast
A collection of laws named for specific people in the field of programming
A collection of observations on the rise of soft, sparkly, baby pink aesthetics among developers
The introduction to my thesis on the Quantified Self movement and the culture of self-tracking
A discipline at the intersection of cultural anthropology and binary logic
Longing for the paleolithic past in the Anthropocene
Why there is nothing natural about the idea of 'nature'
Mary Douglas defined dirt as matter out of place – the crossing of boundaries
Hope in Source
How to offend everyone with boundary-crossing steak and nuggets
Developer self-expression through coloured switches, keystroke actuation, and LED light displays
Visualising the cultural narratives around cultured meat
Data is currently dislocated – our narratives and metaphors around it try to convince us it is immaterial
Notes on the history of cyborgs and why the idea still holds historical weight in Western narratives
Illustrated notes on the idea of Gift Economies and cultural historys of economic exchange
RoamFM
Notes from my podcast episode Open Source and Gift Economies on Maintainers Anonymous
