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samplereality.bsky.social
Mark Sample
@samplereality.bsky.social
Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies at a small liberal arts college.

Digital skulduggery and more
https://www.samplereality.com
One line of code, or the Ruffle browser extension, and you can get William Poundstone's fantastic 2005 Flash piece "Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}" up and running
January 17, 2026 at 11:50 PM
This Taper issue is themed around the idea of midpoints and intersections, and other associations of the number 15. My second piece in the issue (again, under 2Kb!) is a Tarot Card reading in which the Devil card is repeatedly drawn and increasingly corrupted.

taper.badquar.to/15/you_are_c...
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Taper #15 is out. Each issue contains tiny computational poems centered around a theme. The complete code must be under 2Kb. One of my pieces in the issue is an interactive erasure of Shakespeare's Sonnet 15, in which only half the poem can ever be visible at once.

taper.badquar.to/15/sonnet15....
December 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I keep hoping to catch glimpses of the coyotes that I know come around the back yard, but instead I got this little feller.
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM