I'm researching ways to give people more agency in computing, so they can tweak or create their own tools, even if they don't have programming skills.

I'm currently a senior researcher at the industrial research lab Ink & Switch, leading the Malleable Software research track.

Previously, I completed a PhD at MIT CSAIL in the Software Design Group advised by Daniel Jackson. Before that, I spent five years as an early engineer and designer building the edtech startup Panorama Education (YC S13).

These days, I'm thinking a lot about AI + malleable software: How can LLMs help people make custom software?

📜 essay: Malleable software in the age of LLMs
🎥 talk/demo: Dynamic documents as personal software

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Projects

Experiments

TodoMVC Vis

Visualizing the internal behavior of TodoMVC in Redux

JSON Sheets

A reactive programming environment for building GUIs

ladybug

A Ruby debugger backend for the Chrome Dev Tools UI

Experiments in Dynamicland

Exploring in the dynamic medium

Writing

Codifying a ChatGPT workflow into a malleable GUI

Malleable software in the age of LLMs

ChatGPT as muse, not oracle

Fuzzy API composition: querying NBA stats with GPT-3 + Statmuse + Langchain

For your next side project, make a browser extension

Dynamic documents // LLMs + end-user programming

Bring Your Own Client

How tweet threads cured my writer's block: Twitter as a medium for sketching

Foam: Software as Curation

Climate art, hacking Autodesk, and other funemployment projects

Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software

Adding tail call optimization to a Lisp interpreter in Ruby

ENHANCE!: Upscaling images CSI-style with generative adversarial neural networks

No Redis Needed: building a Postgres-backed recommendation engine for Rails

The Virtual Cafe: a better way to hang out remotely

Building Waze for the Boston subway: my first adventure in civic hacking

2014: A year in review with iPhone pedometer data

Contact me

Please reach out if you're interested in chatting about ideas, or if I might be able to help you in some way. You can contact me via email or on Twitter.