Aresluna

Writing

• A hacker’s guide to bending the universe
  If you’re going to conquer the world, you can’t let a broken CRT monitor stand in your way 2016
• What I learned about languages just by looking at a Turkish typewriter
  There might not be a dozen of typewriters laying around you, but every computer you use is a virtual typewriter museum and a travel agent at once. 2015
• In the footsteps of Robert Moses
  Roadtripping across the bridges, highways, and parks of America’s most controversial urban planner 2012
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Talks

• Charles Babbage’s mouse pointer
  A tour of those early user interfaces one never hears about, from Charles Babbage’s 19th-century Difference Engine, to an ancient PC with an attached mouse and no idea what to do with it. Webstock, 2017 30 minutes
• The curious life and the prolonged death of IBM AN/FSQ-7
  An Ignite talk about the most intense computer you’ve never heard of 2015 5 minutes
• The secrets of Google Pac-Man
  A fun game show that talks about the original Pac-Man and its Google reincarnation Google I/O, 2011 1¼ hours
• My speaking history…

Creative projects

• Alternatywy 4
  I edited, translated, and subtitled the 1980s Polish TV show. 2015
• One hundred and thirty-seven seconds
  I translated Stanisław Lem’s sci-fi story from Polish into English. 2015
• Streetmix
  I worked on this urban design tool during my Code for America fellowship. 2013
• The rectangle behind you
  A series of articles on slides as software and exercises in creativity 2014–15

Photo essays

• Type in your hand
  A subjective guide through fascinating places in California where you can experience typography without pixels 2015
• Seesaws for giants
  Chasing Chicago’s movable bridges 2014
• Artificial, pt. 3
  The geometric allure of San Francisco’s Embarcadero Center 2014
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Little tools

• Add chrome
  A convenient web tool to add browser chrome to your screenshots 2016
• Twitter export image fill
  A tool to back up all the images in your tweets locally 2016
• Spaces
  All the typographic spaces you can copy and paste! 2014