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spencer chang

@spencer.place

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artist & engineer, trying to make technology that is playful, care-full, & amplifies people i have a lot of domains 🌐 https://spencer.place 🥠 https://internetsculptures.com ✍️ https://news.spencer.place 🛝 https://playhtml.fun 📱 https://shrine.computer

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shelby wilson @shheeelllbby.bsky.social · 10h

we want to publish your poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essays, graphic storytelling, and experiments that utilize the web as a medium! send your pitch to [email protected] for the next issue of the html review

thehtml.review/about

the html review — about

the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web

thehtml.review

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 10d

omg the internet art one

spencer chang @spencer.place · 10d

wrote about one of my favorite art pieces
news.spencer.place/p/the-visitors

the visitors

an ode to a departing piece of art

news.spencer.place

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 13d

yesss i wanna connect it to actual sensors too! would be so cool to have website behavior interact and derive from physical spaces too

spencer chang @spencer.place · 13d

just released this!

i now have a shared network of lamps between playhtml.fun and my personal website spencer.place

should i make a lamp webring next? each person has a different lamp on their website & they are all connected..

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 13d

added a rain maker to playhtml.fun

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 16d

this is so cool!!

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 19d

yay! ill dm you

spencer chang @spencer.place · 19d

sammie when are we making the new art city x playhtml collab happen

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 19d

this is the kind of internet i want!

where are the #indieweb enthusiasts? anyone want to try some of these ideas with playhtml.fun

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 21d

lmk if u wanna try implementing any of these, happy to help out with it working with the library

playhtml.fun

playhtml

interactive, collaborative html elements with a single attribute

playhtml.fun

spencer chang @spencer.place · 21d

absolutely love all of these and all the kinds of interactions i want to enable!

im imagining a very internet-native form of “stooping” emerge.. leaving out assets and little games for visitors to take and leave on other websites

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 21d

YES EXACTLY!!

spencer chang @spencer.place · 21d

early new feature in playhtml enabling shared elements across pages and domains!

really excited for what kinds of interesting collective interactions this allows for and how it connects people across websites

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 23d

no im interested in having multiple data writers outside of the PDS owner

so for example i have a checkbox on my website where the state is persisted to my PDS. i want everyone to be able to toggle that on/off

just exploring whether website state in PDS makes sense

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 24d

@bnewbold.net / @dholms.xyz ps if yall have any top of head intuitions would love to hear

spencer chang @spencer.place · 24d

i am making some funny little guys inspired by ancient chinese artifact fragments

spencer chang @spencer.place · 24d

yes yes yes

the web will become communal

𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 27d

A region HTML element will reparent shapes when they sufficiently overlap it.

A region HTML element with the sync attribute create shared portals in a canvas.

```html
<folk-region folk-sync folk-shape="x: 100; y: 100; width: 200; height: 150;">
```

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 25d

has anyone tried storing website state in at proto (perhaps directly to the website owner's PDS?)

how exactly would this work to allow other visitors to the site to "write" to my PDS in a secure way? some proxy server that translates well-formatted API into authenticated PDS writes?

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spencer chang @spencer.place · Sep 8

tiny experiments

two tiny bud vases in black stoneware with glaze painted on

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spencer chang @spencer.place · Sep 6

@omar.website good afternoon!

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spencer chang @spencer.place · Sep 5

im aspiring to go get it tomorrow.. if it's still there

spencer chang @spencer.place · Sep 5

omg

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spencer chang @spencer.place · Sep 5

one of my favorite parts of my website is scrolling down to the very bottom and seeing all the people on it at that moment

(color matches each cursor color, which are shared / visible to everyone)

a box that says the number of people with a color for each, time spent on the page, and an energy percentage bar

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spencer chang @spencer.place · Sep 5

In June I gave a talk about my search for perpetual energy, why I call myself both an artist and an engineer, how combining useless technology and useful art led me to interesting propositions and even more interesting questions.

if interested give it a watch here!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-2t...

Spencer Chang: DEMO2025 Art & Code Talks

YouTube video by Spencer Chang

www.youtube.com

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