Hmmm... I am dreaming big this year...

a tool-maker at websim, max is building the “Fisher Price” universe of developer tools for the most creative – and crazy – generation alive today: the kids.

An interactive artefact made for max 's Handheld class, where we explored CSS slider properties.

I'm releasing a new latent space explorer 🧭🎨 — a creative tool for generating and evolving images. It's tree-based and designed for creative flow and open-ended discovery, using image mixing, branching, and editing. You can try it out now on ArtBreeder!

knowing and loving trans people enriches my world immeasurably

New research project: Lluminate - an evolutionary algorithm that helps LLMs break free from generating predictable, similar outputs. Combining evolutionary principles with creative thinking strategies can illuminate the space of possibilities. joelsimon.net/lluminate

🌋 After years of being an internet recluse, I’m now bursting with announcements: 1. Castle • castle.xyz has been my full focus for >5 years now, and I’m proud to share we recently closed a $15M round led by Khosla Ventures to keep pursuing the dream of HyperCard, Flash, MarioPaint et al

Honestly the most fun and gratifying project I have ever been part of - we're hiring for someone with dev tool chops to make things far out on the pareto frontier of fun + powerful careers.on.websim.ai

Building my own tools kyndinfo.notion.site/Building-my-ow… (Repost/Crosspost) #p5js #math #physics #code #art

Join us on August 13 for Localhost! 🦠 Peter Whidden will present Mote, an interactive ecosystem simulation with hundreds of thousands of organisms. His custom GPU physics engine models many simple behaviors at a massive scale, producing fascinating emergent phenomena. RSVP⬇️

◎ ↞ peacock ↠ ◎ claude sonnet 4, vibe coded in websim (with a single prompt!)

The video on Mote is up! Finally someone's using the GPU for what it should be used for: zillions of squirming simulated life forms in miraculously self-regulating ecosystems. Exploding membranes. Herds of tiny herbivores and encroaching fungi. Smells.