Orion Reed
orionreed.com
Orion Reed
@orionreed.com
advocating widespread dissatisfaction with computing.
July 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I enjoyed making the sketches for this post, they're just custom html elements I chucked straight into the markdown.

This post was low stakes, just describing a thing I did. Next time will be spicier.
July 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
most sane typescript type
July 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Here’s a multimodal protocol that uses QR codes to stream data and audio to “backchannel” acknowledgement of received chunks. About 1-2KB/s

Multimodality helps when there’s an asymmetry, like here where you need to aim the phone camera.
March 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Another low-tech and very local-first webRTC signalling approach for folk canvas with @chrisshank.com, this time over sound via ggwave (using MFSK)

folk.systems/canvas/netwo... (careful of volume)
March 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A tiny protocol to stream data over QR codes in both directions at once. Each device confirms receipt of the previous chunk, so it handles interruptions smoothly. Made this for webRTC signalling and other things as part of the Folk Canvas project with @chrisshank.com
March 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
What if hypertext were zoomable? Then you could zoom forever, in circles... I made this the other day and came up with a data structure that allows the coordinate origin to move through the graph, to keep memory fixed and avoid floating point precision limits.
folk.systems/canvas/space...
March 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Had a fantastic and surprising hang out with @wintergatan.bsky.social recently seeing Book of Mormon in NYC. Thanks for the great conversations Martin! Hope we get to hang out again sometime.
February 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Alright. Very extended internet holiday over, for real this time. Hey again! I’ve been away, err, working super hard…
February 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Finishing the sound design for short #1 (Well, 4th short). But now we're releasing a short every two weeks. We hope.
March 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM