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For the past couple of years I've found myself returning to vanilla Javascript to build a variety of media interfaces. Ignoring the networked potential of the internet, I've felt liberated to simply point at local files and enjoy the multi-media power of the browser as rendering engine. In this modality, one composes interfaces through browsers primitives—images, video, and text—interacted with primarily through event handlers. If one can consider this programming, it's primarily because one is still writing code. However, it deviates from traditional notions of programming: abstraction, composition, security, extensibility, or performance. The goal is not to produce a system that runs forever as has historically been the aim of software for the government and, subsequently, large tech behemoths. Instead, it re-centers programming around designing powerful media interactions. This kind of interface design is intimately connected to the materiality of media and, consequently, banks on d

Folk (Browser) Interfaces For the past couple of years I've found myself returning to vanilla Javascript to build a variety of media interfaces. Ignoring the networked potential of the internet, I've felt liberated to simply point at local files and enjoy the multi-media power of the browser as rendering engine. Interfaces for deep compositing and T-SNE'd faces In this modality, one composes interfaces through browsers primitives—images, video, and text—interacted with primarily through event handlers. If one can consider this programming, it's primarily because one is still writing code. Howe

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