#software

68 items tagged software.

• A Pattern Language — 253 patterns for building places people love — and, quietly, the ancestor of every 'design pattern' in software.
• 3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes
• Deep Thinking — Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
• Mirror Worlds — or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox
• Who Owns the Future?
• Social Trust Graphs — Trust is not a score. It's a graph — directional, contextual, decaying — and most systems flatten it into a number and lose everything that mattered.
• Helping People See Better — Simulation and modeling as prosthetics for intuition — tools that let a person feel the shape of a system they could never hold in their head.
• Augmented Ecologies — Twenty metres down at Jessie Beazley Reef, Tubbataha — on reefs, attention, and what an augmented ecology might mean. Images © Andrea Marshall.
• SIMTIME — A long design document for a simulation-time system. Nearly 20,000 words, left as written.
• Writing a Social Content Engine with RDF — Building a social content engine on RDF, in 2004 — semantic web thinking well before it was fashionable.
• Notes, June 2007 — A long essay from mid-2007.
• Place Finding — On finding, naming and sharing places.
• Artificial Life — Some Thoughts — Thinking about artificial life, written in 1996.
• Artificial Life: Biochemical Life and Limits — On biochemical life and its limits. March 1995 — the earliest surviving piece.
• Elevator Pitch — Building a robot hotel in 90 days — integrating several robot types, driving an elevator over a reverse-engineered protocol, and running guest requests through SMS.
• Building the Metaverse — There are a variety of views on what the metaverse is and who its audiences are. An attempt to sort them out.
• Principles of Art, Math and NFTs — How artists are using public ledgers as an extension of their practice.
• Flowers, Fruit and Fishes — Parameter space explorations of the world — three interactive parametric visualisers celebrating natural forms that resist entropy.
• Conversational Interfaces and the Future of Code — Where conversational interfaces leave the practice of writing code — with the orbital-puppet stack as the worked example.
• New New California Water Atlas — Rebuilding the California Water Atlas — making a state's water legible again.
• TalKinG tO cLoD — Wandering the desert and talking to claude.ai — two weeks of my life during the AI revolution.
• The Web and Our Future — What will the web be like in ten years?
• The Future of Computation — Computation is a macro-trend that we have trouble seeing.
• Emergence of the Web — The text-only, no-code web.
• Preconditions for the Web — Is the web a necessary invention?
• DWeb Camp Cascadia 2026 — An amazing community. Four days on Salt Spring Island with the decentralised-web crowd.
• AWE EU 2022 — Spoke at Augmented World Expo Europe.
• AWE USA 2022 — Spoke at Augmented World Expo USA, and gave the X-Verse keynote.
• AWE 2020 — Talked about web monetization and social signalling — delivered via Mozilla Hubs.
• ARE 2012 — Augmented Reality Event, presenting as Dekko.
• ARDevCamp — An augmented-reality developer unconference I co-founded. Undated here until a source surfaces.
• Teaching Ethereum at PNCA — Taught Ethereum programming at PNCA in Portland — a fun class.
• Notes on Pathfinder
• Cognitive Objects
• Citybot
• Everything I build is event-driven now
• Conversational interfaces are asset browsers
• Speaker — AWE EU 2022 — Speaker profile for Augmented World Expo Europe.
• The X-Verse — AWE keynote — A keynote at Augmented World Expo on where the spatial web goes next.
• Speaker — AWE USA 2022 — Speaker profile for Augmented World Expo USA.
• Augmented Reality's Influence on the Future of the Web — A long interview on the Design Reality podcast about AR and where the web is heading.
• Web Monetization and Social Signaling — AWE 2020 — A talk at Augmented World Expo 2020 on web monetization and social signalling, given via Mozilla Hubs.
• ARE2012 — Seeing Value with Augmented Reality — An earlier Augmented World Expo talk, given while at Dekko — on where the value actually is in augmented reality.
• Design Fiction: Anselm Hook, “Slowcode” — Bruce Sterling's Beyond the Beyond covering Slowcode — writing less, slower, and meaning it.
• Augmented Reality Musings — Notes on augmented reality, picked up by WIRED.
• Interviewed by Tish Shute — A long-form interview on augmented reality, the browser, and the shape of a spatial web.
• Uses This — The what-do-you-use interview: hardware, software, and the dream setup.
• Projects — Things built, over the years — 3D and visual communication, geo-place apps, crypto experiments, and the organizing tools underneath. Some are live, some are history.
• Orbital Foundation — A late-binding, data-driven toolchain — an event bus, declarative 3D, and a manifest pattern where a whole app is a list of files.
• Zero Theorem — A 3D visual communication / performance system — puppetry and real-time worlds.
• Divesight — Tools for seeing underwater — logging, identifying, and remembering what the reef showed you.
• Digital Puppets — Embodied virtual agents with visemes and gestures — presence without the uncanny valley.
• Blox — Tell stories in 3D by editing an ordinary text file — objects, relationships, and what they do over time, played back as an interactive 3D experience.
• ARPersist — Persistent AR in the browser, using ARKit to hold centimetre-accurate anchors across sessions and devices.
• ATerrain — A 3D geographic rendering component for A-Frame, built on Cesium data.
• LLM Embodied Puppet — In-Browser — An embodied puppet driven by an in-browser LLM and in-browser speech.
• LLM-Driven Puppet — Conversation Test — A modelling puppet engaging in conversation.
• Embodied Agent Information Ambassador — An early test of an embodied agent as a guide.
• Hubs + ATerrain + Stellar — Playing with three systems at once.
• Playing with Pose Animator — Pose estimation experiments.
• Example of Ground Detection — AR ground-plane detection.
• ARPersist — Single Player — A quick example of ARPersist in single-player mode.
• ARPersist — Detailed Walkthrough — A fuller walkthrough, January 2019.
• Anselm at BIL — Simulate World — Conference talk.
• Luminate 0.3 — Preview — An early preview of Luminate.
• Augmented Ecologies — Intelligent agents at the Augmented World Expo. Dated by the video upload.
• Web Monetization and Social Signaling — The social nature of money, for Mozilla — delivered inside Mozilla Hubs at AWE 2020.
• Dance Dance Brainy — Gestural interfaces, playfully — an earlier talk, on O'Reilly's channel. Dated by the video upload.