Hi! I'm a PhD student in Computer Science at MIT in the Software Design Group. My goal is to make programming radically more accessible, so that everyone can build and tweak their own software. Recently...

I've been working on Wildcard, a platform that empowers end users to modify web applications through a spreadsheet interface.
I made Cambria, a system for ergonomic data schema compatibility, with the Ink and Switch research lab.
I'm thinking about extension ecosystems, evolvable software, and new OS metaphors for moving beyond siloed applications.

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Published Projects

Smaller Explorations

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

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.