slvtrs | Sal Saia - Portfolio

Adept
- Play as the agent of consciousness in an unfolding world of metaphysical complexity stew.
Alternate Reality GamePlay the game you wish to see in the world
- A form to build your own pervasive culture games.
Amor Fati
- The more you die the more you live.
Ant Colony Complexity Sim
- Explore emergent behavior of a super structure on the global scale by adjusting simple rules on the local scale.
AmtraklougeRailpass travelogue
- Interactive travelouge of 30 days spent travelling around the United States by rail in September of 2017.
Archetypus
- Organize your contact list by various personality type systems to intuit patterns within your personal network.
Artificial ThrottleFriction, on purpose
- AI chatbot that refuses to make decisions for you or allow you to outsource your critical thinking and creativity.
AuguryAstrological ephemeris & chart explorer
- A full-featured astrological chart and timeline explorer built on a live ephemeris engine. All ten celestial bodies positioned in real time, with aspects, ingresses, conjunctions, and lunar phases calculated and annotated.
- Scroll to travel through time, scrub the timeline, or jump to any event. Tap the center to receive an augury, a synthesized reading of the sky's most significant influences at that moment in time.
- Evolved from SyZyGy.
Aura Viz
- Visualize an abstract sumation of the information that rudimentary facial analysis can glean through your webcam.
BioClock
- Clock based on rhythms of the human body, rather than the planet's movements.
- Pulse, breath, attention, hour, day.
Cartomance-MeSelf-comodifying party-game
- Snap a photo. AI image-processing encodes the image as metadata and flavor-text which is then used to render a Magic The Gathering or tarot card.
- #todo - Generate better party-game rules & effects to make it an actual game
Chat Interfaces
- Q&A
  - OP asks a question. You can lock in a single reply, or ask clarifying questions.
  - The biggest problem in my life at this time was losing information signal in notification noise. And grasping what border-radius was for.
- Cosm
  - Infinitely nested replies with attention-respecting notifications.
  - My first attempt at incorporating recursion into a design.
Cog Cam
- A camera surveillance demo to inspire illegibility.
Cygil Caster
- Use random number generators to craft a unique ASCII sigil from your intention.
- Synchronize with other cpu's across space to enhance the field of influence.
Democratic Wedge
- One simple rule that perpetuates the generative, self-correcting process of democracy.
- A failsafe that prevents the consolidation of power.
Deprecation on Display
- Visualize the patina of software decay.
- Planned obsolescence and infrastructural dependency are forces of software erosion.
- Operating systems and web browsers are a dynamic environment, so apps and websites that are not nurtured will wither and eventually die.
DistragramInsta-parody
- Part UI study, part satire to mock the oppressors.
Distributed Commune
- Technology now allows us to return to self/peer-reliance and disavow mass-market dependence.
- Like a commune but instead of being a physical space it's a distributed organization, essentially a social media platform for favors, mutual aid, and barter.
- The main objective is to challenge market dependence from within society. Stop shopping and starve the beast.
- Alt:
Emoji Tarot
- Originally a half-sarcastic tarot deck that interpreted each card as an emoji.
- Later expanded into a study tool, with several real decks included for reference or reading.
- Mobile-friendly Persona version
  - Simplified UI for quick readings on mobile devices, using the arcana from the deeply Jungian video game series, Persona.
Find My HazardGeolocated memento mori
- A geolocated memento mori: the three catastrophes most likely to arrive where you stand, ranked by a fixed formula over public data.
Find The Others
- Turn your phone into a compass that leads you to another player.
Fireflies Portfolio
- Just another <ul> but with a spinning sky, gentle breeze, and curious fireflies.
Fractal Explorer
GameBoy Color
- An ode to my first UI love <3
- Used as a menu directory to navigate between prototypes.
- #todo include games?
Glitchcraft
- Glitchart, datamoshing, hex-bending, weirdness.
GravitySketch
- 3D drawings in VR
Gugru
- I have no recollection of this project. It seems to be a google-image collage divination tool. Use at your own risk.
Harvest
- Collect the colors and contours of this globe as the orb of your being grows in size and light.
- Once complete, your orb becomes the globe for the next player to harvest.
Hex Code Ritual Mousepad
- A color wheel made of hex codes, rgb values, and binary strings.
- #todo find the original gimp file
Hexagram UI
- Early psychedelic visions of recursion...
Home Ruby Server
- ngrok limits got annoying, so old macbook server ftw
- #todo host a nostr relay?
IllegiblizerDatatrail scrambler
- A chrome extension to bury your datatrail with noise.
- Become anti-predictable.
Keyboard Mapping
- Keychron QMK for powerful hardware-level keyboard programming.
  - Open config JSON
- Karabiner-Elements for powerful software-level keyboard programming.
  - Open config JSON
- #todo add photos of hardware builds
Liquid Democracy
- Don't vote for 1 representative; delegate each vote to a trusted expert.
- Aims to remedy the death of expertise in mass culture.
- https://liquidfeedback.com/en/
- Built as a gamified social media platform for information and vote delegation
- Needs small scale experiments with measurable outcomes.
The Living ArcanaGenerative tarot deck
- Generate a new set of major arcana tarot cards each month to reflect the current zeitgeist and archive history through archetypes.
- December 2025
- November 2025
- October 2025
Living PlotBeat sheet for real life
- A Save the Cat beat sheet mapped onto twelve days of real life. Take notes on what happens, then find the story that was happening to you all along.
MandelbrotTeleological cartography
- A value-mapping application to identify personal purpose and align daily behavior accordingly.
- What does your psyche look like over time? Above time?
Maze Portfolio
- An hostile portfolio that is actively inaccessible, because things are sweeter when you earn them.
- #todo -add content -figure out mobile
Middle Pillar
- A little game where you can explore the dynamic of Service-to-Self versus Service-to-Others.
Movie Streaming Sync
- Watch a movie together when apart.
Mystical Machines
- Just as the technology of tarot allows us to better commune with Spirit, can virtual technologies open even broader channels?
- Gaia Hypothesis, being expressed through humanity via symolic systems, ie. technology: the Noosphere
- Literal cybermage tools, ie. Cybersigil?
Not a Gamenor a story
Nutrition Label for the SoulEQ photo grader
- Snap a photo. AI image-processing encodes the image as metadata and flavor-text which is then used to render a nutritional facts label rating the spiritual quality of scene.
Psiware Buzzwords
- hardware:body, software:mind, psiware:spirit
- Interface for the soul, virtual super ego, symbolic moral compass, existentialist's map through time, gamify the signified.
- Lift the modern cognitive burden from the mind and let us return to a condition of wonder and play.
Psycho-AI-nalysis
- Using a local LM Studio to avoid feeding my subconscious mind into BigData, I've been trying to create a workable Retrieval-Augmented Generative chatbot with intimate knowledge of 15 years worth of dream and therapy journals.
- The results have been laughably bad. Do I need more computational power, or is GAI simply worse at processing subconscious abstraction than my stock meat brain is?
- #todo examples, sourcecode
RedistrictThe gerrymandering game
- Learn by cheating.
Reunion Countdown
- Cheesy, but a cool canvas effect.
Satirical Software Demos
- These make me lol or feel vindicated.
Seam-SpottersFacilitate the numinous
- A pervasive game for seam-spotters: notice where whimsy breaks through the Flattening, then report the sighting to the other witnesses.
SemiojiA Semiotic Emoji Survey
- Symbolic expression is important.
Somatic OuijaA game of embodied emergence
- Instruction manual for a simple movement game that facilitates group emergence.
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts when group flow emerges and the distinction between leader-follower dissolves.
Spiraling Stream of Consciousness
- UX engineers decided that 200ms is the cognitive threshold between a "tap" and a "press" so if you stop typing for more than one fifth of a second then your texteditor will start to slip away.
- Be spontaneous. Write your pages.
- Some of the hand-coded SVG doodles from the learning process:
Skelleman
- An aquatic buddy who lives in screens of any size. Practicing media queries and a pseudo-collision engine.
Spotify Moodlist
- Search your Spotify playlists by mood.
SpontiBeReal POC
- Praise to BeReal
The Story of Magick
- An interactive narrative game exploring the history (and future) of myth and magick.
SyZyGyLayered astro calendar
- Experimental astrological wheel calendar handcrafted on the HTML5 Canvas.
- The different rings re-present different scales of time: the year ☉, the month ☽, the day ↑.
- Click on a level to inspect. Drag and rotate to explore.
- See also: Augury — an evolved version with all ten planets, live aspects, and synthesized daily readings.
Tabletop Conversation Tokens
- Tabletop aids
- Group Conversation
- 1:1 Debate
Tax The Rich
- Redistributing wealth is the central objective.
- The majority stand to gain.
- This simple solution just needs better PR.
- Voluntary Wealth Transference
Teccan
- cybermage geocache offerrings
- read: pokemon go for witches
Text (AI)venture
- Oldschool text adventure with generative AI as your DM.
This Site
Timelapse Flipbook
- Take a photo every 24 hours (designed for an old phone that lives on a tripod)
Timelines
- Reflect on a season of your life: walk beside its people, places, and practices, and sculpt how each thread grew, drifted, or turned.
- Or write a whole branching lifetime — walk another's, deviate wherever you'd like, and share your own.
Tower Perch
- Balance the time you spend making progress on the ground against the time your spend gaining perspective in your tower.
- #todo find screenshots? revive demo? come up with a better name
Travelouger
- travelouger
- UI for friends to build their own travelouge.
Tree Huggers
- Everyone's favorite trees on an 8-bit map.
Vibe CadaverAn exquisite corpse vibesite
- A website with a built-in vibe coding dialogue that can rewrite its contents. Each visitor contributes to the vibe by submitting a prompt.
VR MeditationsWebXR body scan
- A WebXR guided meditation that walks you out of your head and back into your body.
WanderloveGeofence tour guide
- Geofenced audio guide for exploring New York City by bike: cross into a new neighborhood and its DuckDuckGo abstract is read aloud.
- Not pretty on the eyes or ears, but it works!
Wheelin & Dealin
- Social platform for local riders. Geofenced-alerts to facilitate group rides.
- Subscribe to riders to get alerts whenever they ride.
- Subscribe to neighborhoods to get alerts when riders pass through.
Zombie Mouse
- Source code
Political Idea Index
- Working notes on how we might govern ourselves. Four threads, each a list of ideas; the full index lives in Mandelbrot.
- Full political idea index