2024 was a good year — Web Origami year end project report

I’ve posted a short introduction to the Origami language in the form of a motion comic you can play in your browser: Lessons from the audio/video experiment This comic builds on last month’s experiment to automate the generation of the audio and video for a screencast in which I was searching for a better way to create video content for the Web...

I’ve posted a new Origami intro screencast that covers some of the basics of the Origami language: This screencast doesn’t give a complete introduction yet, but I think the production process I’m using is itself interesting and worth sharing. Videos are a vital form of documentation but: Videos take forever to produce — for me, easily an hour or...

I’d love to find a few new people to try out the Origami programming language for creating websites — maybe you? Maybe you have any of these goals: Are thinking of making a site for a passion project but aren’t sure how Have an existing site you want to move off a platform (WordPress, say) to something you control Want to try rewriting a site to...

I am deeply touched by the warm response to my recent MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia post. It got much more circulation on Mastodon that I usually get, and overnight someone posted it to Hacker News — where it shot to the #1 story. I discovered this after waking up and finding my inbox full of LinkedIn requests. The post stayed...

Today marks two years since I first set up an e-ink display in my mom’s apartment to help her live on her own with amnesia. The display has worked extremely well during those two years, so I’m sharing the basic set-up in case others find it useful for similar situations. Note: unless you have specific experience caring for someone who has amnesia...