Personal

Quotes

“You can take it pretty far on a prayer that’s pale and synthetic
Bending my crowbar with tension that’s telekinetic”
–Waxahatchee - “Crowbar”

“I am full of heavy metals
I am a heavy metal man”
–Cameron Winter - “Cancer of the Skull”

About

Hi! Welcome to my website.
My name is Paul and I am interested in computers and how we interact with them.
In my life, I want to help build computing systems that serve the creative spirit.

This website will serve as my personal Memex for the various projects and art I create. Everything on this site is open source so please feel free to take anything and remix it per the licenses.

What I’m currently up to: /now

Now

Feb 1, 2025

I am working towards bootstrapping a personal computing environment for the creation of art and collaborative computing tools. I am implementing the current form of this environment using the Syndicate actor system.

The most important piece of this work is trying to develop Klee. This project originally started as a basic way to assert things like “red rectangle at x=5 y=5 with a width of 10 and a height of 5” but now it has evolved into a more proper language for describing parametric shapes. I’m extremely excited about this work and I think when I combine it with a basic way of ferrying data to the display server, and a way of adding shaders to the drawing pipeline, it could be a really great creative coding tool. This will also be my first major attempt at an actor-model specific GUI system.