Henry's Zoo

Sauntercast

a walking podcast

taking Hope in Source on the road, archiving my walks

are.na search

find are.na channels by url

qr quiz

play trivia using a barcode scanner (or phone)

fast like a clicker, but uses QR codes

vibe search

uses embeddings to help you discover related tweets in the community archive

what if we could search for a *feeling*, rather than a literal word

riff with friends

exquisite corpse with friends: each person writes a line of a poem and shares the link to the next person

boxes

factorio-inspired programming environment on canvas inspired by Paul Shen's work

sound of code

plays video game sounds as you type keywords

what if you could write code that sounds good?

text expander

different ways of reading text by exploding/zooming in on a sentence at a time

code equalizer

code itself is en equalizer with lofi girl in the bg

localized keywords

site to test writing JavaScript keywords in other languages (via Babel)

what if you could write code in your native language?

contributors on github

browser extension highlighting contributor activity on pull requests and issues.

what does it mean to welcome someone into a new community?

babel & open source

I never expected to be a part of xkcd #2347. Maybe nobody does. Like most maintainers, I became one by accident. Still grateful for the serendipitous and challenging opportunity

it was an ever-increasing rabbit hole into how open source *actually* works, by participating in it. my crash course in community building... realizing I don't want to be a content creator. It's always been less about fixing bugs and more about ecosystem sustainability. the digital commons.