sam heckle ✨
@smarmy.bsky.social
teaching creative code @ NYU, New School, CUNY Hunter
thinking about soft software, http poetics, and the nice internet. making stuff sometimes too.
https://samheckle.com
thinking about soft software, http poetics, and the nice internet. making stuff sometimes too.
https://samheckle.com
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We're excited to be hosting the next fully-online #ELO2026 @eliterature.bsky.social conference at UCF. As before, we're committed to a low-cost event with an open access archive of recordings and a virtual exhibition open to all. CFP up now: projects.cah.ucf.edu/elo2026/ #dhmakes
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
We're excited to be hosting the next fully-online #ELO2026 @eliterature.bsky.social conference at UCF. As before, we're committed to a low-cost event with an open access archive of recordings and a virtual exhibition open to all. CFP up now: projects.cah.ucf.edu/elo2026/ #dhmakes
i definitely need to update it soon though 🙈
smarmy://now - @smarmy.bsky.social
smarmy.leaflet.pub
Website as ongoing '/now' page with lots of life updates, teaching reflections, media / reading / research notes (great links!) with a thoughtful perspective!
smarmy.leaflet.pub
Website as ongoing '/now' page with lots of life updates, teaching reflections, media / reading / research notes (great links!) with a thoughtful perspective!
smarmy://now
a weekly updated collection of what i am doing /now. link dump and whatnot.
smarmy.leaflet.pub
November 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
i definitely need to update it soon though 🙈
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Shows the thinking, leadership we need from unions representing education workers - all of us. pre-K through highered, wall to wall. Kudos and solidarity with the New School Full-time Faculty union @aaup.org. Know someone who can join? Send this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Shows the thinking, leadership we need from unions representing education workers - all of us. pre-K through highered, wall to wall. Kudos and solidarity with the New School Full-time Faculty union @aaup.org. Know someone who can join? Send this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
loved this post
wrote about my sneaking suspicion that cozy games are one of moloch's creations
blog.bront.rodeo/lotus-farmin...
blog.bront.rodeo/lotus-farmin...
Lotus Farming In Another World
Like many people who live in cities and mostly live on the computer, I fantasize a lot about leaving it all behind and touching grass forever. I try my best to be cognizant of just how much of a fanta...
blog.bront.rodeo
November 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
loved this post
heard some gossip that students were complaining that i don’t let them “vibe code”
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
heard some gossip that students were complaining that i don’t let them “vibe code”
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This is a terrific piece of writing and insight about where we are with the Times, and where the Times is with us.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This is a terrific piece of writing and insight about where we are with the Times, and where the Times is with us.
looking at my spring rosters, i have a lot of returning students 🥹
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
looking at my spring rosters, i have a lot of returning students 🥹
only 👏 write 👏 code 👏 you 👏 understand 👏
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
only 👏 write 👏 code 👏 you 👏 understand 👏
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Recently I've been doing some work for @castle.xyz and for their halloween event I made this path-drawing high score game! You can play it in browser as well as in app, my best score is 28 and the current world record is 35 :O
castle.xyz/d/gy-VNhDdGFvT
castle.xyz/d/gy-VNhDdGFvT
@hawkdanny's deck on Castle
Black Cat Paths!
castle.xyz
October 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Recently I've been doing some work for @castle.xyz and for their halloween event I made this path-drawing high score game! You can play it in browser as well as in app, my best score is 28 and the current world record is 35 :O
castle.xyz/d/gy-VNhDdGFvT
castle.xyz/d/gy-VNhDdGFvT
just uninstalled reddit on my phone! i am going to become a machine!
October 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
just uninstalled reddit on my phone! i am going to become a machine!
i will try my best to check out those new leaflet features before this 🫶
REMINDER! — nyc atproto friends! — hosting a meetup in Brooklyn this Wednesday evening, RSVP here!
🦋🗽🍕🍻🙌✨
We'll do a lil show and tell [twist: share a fave project someone *else* made!], talk ideas for collab & growing the atmosphere…
I'll send another reminder soon to solicit pizza requests :)
🦋🗽🍕🍻🙌✨
We'll do a lil show and tell [twist: share a fave project someone *else* made!], talk ideas for collab & growing the atmosphere…
I'll send another reminder soon to solicit pizza requests :)
brooklyn atproto meetup oct 2025
Let's get together to hang in Brooklyn and talk atproto!
We'll meet at Lowlands, a great neighborhood bar in Gowanus. We'll be there from 5 til probably 7:30 or 8, and we'll order some pizzas.
This ...
smokesignal.events
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
i will try my best to check out those new leaflet features before this 🫶
stopclimbing.org 🤧 sending this to everyone in their 30s living in bk
Stop Climbing!
The People United Against Climbing. Together, we will end this epidemic.
stopclimbing.org
October 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
stopclimbing.org 🤧 sending this to everyone in their 30s living in bk
AI Purity Test
www.aipuritytest.org
October 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
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Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.
decryption vovelles?!
A bit of archival beauty for the evening. Three keys for ciphering & deciphering coded documents from the 18th century, kept in their original cases.
October 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
decryption vovelles?!
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I have a new poem out today at @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social called “#latergram” about social media, growing up on the internet, and the expectations of ~*being online*~
Feature: one poem by Christine Salek — fifth wheel press
Christine Salek is a former high school water polo player living in Wisconsin. Once a WNBA reporter, they’re now content with their library science degree and the lifestyle that entails. Learn more a...
fifthwheelpress.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I have a new poem out today at @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social called “#latergram” about social media, growing up on the internet, and the expectations of ~*being online*~
my friend reminded me that you can check out movies from the library. if you have a game console you have a dvd player!
October 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
my friend reminded me that you can check out movies from the library. if you have a game console you have a dvd player!
blogging regularly....hard.....
October 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
blogging regularly....hard.....
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Building Relationships is now launching Q1 2026
We need a bit more time for the story to breathe, to launch with the best version of the game!
Thank you for all your support thus far, and your patience with the delay 🙏
We need a bit more time for the story to breathe, to launch with the best version of the game!
Thank you for all your support thus far, and your patience with the delay 🙏
October 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Building Relationships is now launching Q1 2026
We need a bit more time for the story to breathe, to launch with the best version of the game!
Thank you for all your support thus far, and your patience with the delay 🙏
We need a bit more time for the story to breathe, to launch with the best version of the game!
Thank you for all your support thus far, and your patience with the delay 🙏
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I have a short piece on smart infrastructure and techno-authoritarianism in Brazil in the new journal Dialogues on Digital Society ✨ Available here: doi.org/10.1177/2976...
If you cannot access it through your library, ping me and I will make sure you get a copy.
If you cannot access it through your library, ping me and I will make sure you get a copy.
October 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I have a short piece on smart infrastructure and techno-authoritarianism in Brazil in the new journal Dialogues on Digital Society ✨ Available here: doi.org/10.1177/2976...
If you cannot access it through your library, ping me and I will make sure you get a copy.
If you cannot access it through your library, ping me and I will make sure you get a copy.
thanks brendan!!
loving these '/now' weeknotes from @smarmy.bsky.social!
smarmy.leaflet.pub
one fun bit re: naming:
> Earlier this summer I gave a talk on topology, or how geographical formations get names. This kind of has extended into broader naming of stuff…
smarmy.leaflet.pub
one fun bit re: naming:
> Earlier this summer I gave a talk on topology, or how geographical formations get names. This kind of has extended into broader naming of stuff…
smarmy://now
a weekly updated collection of what i am doing /now. link dump and whatnot.
smarmy.leaflet.pub
September 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
thanks brendan!!
