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my website knows what time it is

you’ve played animal crossing right ? right, we all have. you know the feeling then. loading into the game at noon vs midnight /feels/ drastically different. the afternoon is upbeat and bright but when you’ve been grinding at the clock hits midnight… it just immediately hits and slows you down. the game doesn’t have to

Diagonal split screen of a time-themed website and TypeScript code selecting a theme by hour

why i built chroma collection, a design tool based off of art institute of chicago's library

most color palette tools start from nothing, you pick colors in a vacuum. i wanted something that starts from real art. back when i was in my web dev bootcamp at msu, we had a class project where we had to build something using a free, publicly available api. the art institute of chicago came up in my research. their a

Chroma Collection interface with a Renoir painting, five-color palette, and export controls
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why i built fotoflo, a personal photo manager for film photographers

a lot of the beauty in film comes from the unknowns, but one of the unknowns that causes a pain point in my workflow and general enjoyment of film is organizing my files digitally. confusing file names from scans that live in folders that may or may not get dated/labeled. in an effort to try and be more proactive about

FotoFlo interface with a filter sidebar and a grid of rated film photographs

tarkovsky's polaroids

if you look for a meaning, you’ll miss everything that happens~ modern mass culture, aimed at the ‘consumer’, the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people’s souls, wrote tarkovsky, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being~ stal

Bouquet in a glass vase on a sunlit table beside a window, fruit, dishes, and drinking glasses