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October 8, 2026 Musings

Tag Cloud Glory: A sign of vintage web design

A beautiful little relic of vintage web design: words in different sizes, floating around proclaiming what I have been thinking about. Except, of course, the size of the word tells you absolutely nothing about why I wrote about it, what I meant by it, or whether I still think the same thing.

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September 15, 2026 Musings

Spotlit on VIA for the WI’s Eleventy-First Birthday

The WI helped me remember who I am. It showed me what women can do when we come together. Now I want us to bring that collective power to AI so that we don’t repeat the mistakes of technology’s past.

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September 15, 2026 Musings

Deleted by Russell: Dazzled by myself

What I am seeing more and more, is that any given system may seem to work well enough from the institution’s perspective while leaving the person, in this case me, with no idea what has happened to them.

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August 23, 2026 Musings

What Do You Need? From Grassroots AI to HCI Research

A grassroots AI community built around one simple question — “What do you need?” — has led to a full research paper in Interacting with Computers. We all need to be seen and heard. We all matter. The spaces we build outside academia and industry are the real deal. The only deal. They are real life.

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August 18, 2026 Musings

Performative UX: Coding at the Circus in 2026

I am currently coding a small language model (SLM) – basically I am coding some AI to chat to me and use it to demonstrate how AI works – and it should feel fantastic, or it would if all the IDEs were so unnecessarily complicated. UX has ruined coding.

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