sean

my ideal future is not one where tech makes everyone go faster but one where everyone has the freedom to slow down

pixel style numbers rolling over from 2025 to 2026

"QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION" constellation diagram from an early Data Communications workbook

QAM constellation

lots of great graphics and diagrams in the materials from an AT&T Data Communications workshop my dad attended to in the 80s. I'll scan more later.

Mato Tipila,
3/8/2026, 9:06:49 PM

matrix style letters with gradient dither pattern applied

Jandek - I Know You Well [US, folk, indie, lo-fi] (1986)

Jandek - I Know You Well [US, folk, indie, lo-fi] (1986)
https://redd.it/nnwmh0
https://youtu.be/maHbR_OZUq8

80s style fake chrome gradients and dithering patterns

View transitions, anchor positioning, ​@scope, focusgroup, invokers, popovers, container queries, grid, relative colors, style-able selects, and more.

The web feels like it’s getting so good at exactly the moment our collective worst practices are getting calcified as the default.

comic style illustration of an old man hiking on a road with backpack and walking stick, near a wooden door entrance to a building

concept sketch I drew of a little wandering dude who ended up looking kind of like a cross between Jerry Garcia and Russel from Up.

I was thinking about a video game I want to exist where you just go on interesting hikes and that's it.

green buggy in a witch hat

witch hat and eyelashes for halloween

raised small bright green car with a planter on the trunk

this thing's been sitting outside that shop for a decade

evening in Brooklyn. a dilapidated customized buggy style car in front of an auto shop. high viz green and yellow paint are peeled, the body is rusting, and a tire is flat. the first amendment is written in chalk on a blank advertisement board.

first amendment

EMS Synthi AKS : VCS3 - Easy Instructional Video YouTube video by Andy Whitmore

in the photo is an EMS Synthi

Richard James (Aphex Twin), unsourced old black and white photograph, shot from above, he is surrounded by stacks of samplers and drum machines and cables

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The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage

When Vektors Attak:
Quartz Composer patch throwback.
www.theestateovcreation.com

Recent Typography animations for a museum installation.
[1 of 5]
www.theestateovcreation.com

nice find. when I saw the original post, the disc front wheel, arm position, and brick wall immediately made me think of bike polo at chrystie street, and I briefly looked for a source photo

capital serif letters "Hello universe" with a Wheeler diagram version of the letter U

finally a realistic city-building sim

my plans are measured in decades

another time I had my luggage searched when I didn't hear the security guy say hello to me, and he took it as disrespect when I didn't respond back.

earliest memory of PHL (in the 80s) when my mom asked an airport staff if we were heading toward the exit and they replied "I'm on my lunch break."

codepen.io/beta

Astro major release cadence making me sweat finishing my portfolio redesign, which I started on v3

(⁠・⁠_⁠・⁠;⁠)

tiled and reflected photo of a rack of synthesizers

synth quilt

similarly

ironically monotypes maliciously managed monopoly drives font needs to indie shops.

I'm more about custom lettering than true font making, but licensing hell is what makes me create my own web fonts for my sites.

graffiti on the brick side of a Manhattan building, 3 stories tall

new york writers are spiderman