https://sophia.ooo/ Recent content on sophia.ooo Hugo en-US Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/writing/waiting-for-omnipotence/ Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/writing/waiting-for-omnipotence/ On building for tomorrow. https://sophia.ooo/writing/notes-on-useful-critique/ Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/writing/notes-on-useful-critique/ Some notes on getting people in a room to evaluate a thing. https://sophia.ooo/writing/some-qualities-of-critical-systems/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/writing/some-qualities-of-critical-systems/ A critical system exposes how it works, while it works. https://sophia.ooo/writing/the-internet-was-already-slop/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/writing/the-internet-was-already-slop/ Maybe we enjoy simple narratives that travel well. https://sophia.ooo/writing/what-a-prototype-can-be/ Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/writing/what-a-prototype-can-be/ A prototype can be an argument. https://sophia.ooo/writing/what-is-lost-to-vibes/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/writing/what-is-lost-to-vibes/ LLMs and the epistemic gap. https://sophia.ooo/projects/gorm-the-zop/ Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/projects/gorm-the-zop/ A game designed to frustrate Googlers into building more empathetic products. https://sophia.ooo/projects/investigation-tool/ Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/projects/investigation-tool/ Enterprise security tool that lets Google Workspace admins investigate and remediate threats. https://sophia.ooo/projects/delta/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/projects/delta/ Real-time visualization that transformed nytimes.com’s live traffic into an animated map of how the world reads the news. https://sophia.ooo/projects/kepler/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/projects/kepler/ Real-time visualization of New York Times taxonomy. https://sophia.ooo/projects/streamtools/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/projects/streamtools/ Visual programming environment for processing real-time data streams. https://sophia.ooo/projects/cascade/ Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/projects/cascade/ Interactive visualization of how New York Times stories propagate through social networks. https://sophia.ooo/projects/waze-visualizations/ Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/projects/waze-visualizations/ Traffic visualizations created for Waze, a community-sourced turn-by-turn navigation app. https://sophia.ooo/projects/observations/ Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/projects/observations/ Generative geometry exploration. https://sophia.ooo/projects/bodyfuck/ Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/projects/bodyfuck/ Gestural programming interpreter for the esoteric programming langauge brainfuck. https://sophia.ooo/projects/codescapes/ Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/projects/codescapes/ Software that visualizes its own source code. https://sophia.ooo/projects/memsweeper/ Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/projects/memsweeper/ An homage to the classic Windows game with the fun addition of EXC_BAD_ACCESS. https://sophia.ooo/projects/failbase/ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/projects/failbase/ Analog store of failures, gathered via SMS and voicemail, saved by a thermal printer, archived in wooden drawers. https://sophia.ooo/projects/braids/ Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/projects/braids/ Generative geometry exploration. https://sophia.ooo/projects/everydatum/ Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/projects/everydatum/ Daily visualizations of sensor data. https://sophia.ooo/projects/tomato-quintet/ Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/projects/tomato-quintet/ Visualization and sonification of tomato respiration. https://sophia.ooo/projects/blackcloud/ Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/projects/blackcloud/ Climate-concious ARG with a network of real environmental sensors. https://sophia.ooo/projects/return-of-balance/ Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophia.ooo/projects/return-of-balance/ Physical game of balance and sorting.