slvtrs - Sal Saia (Salvatore Saia)

• AdvoCat
  Winter 2017
  • Waifu tamogotchi cheerleader
• Amtraklouge
  Winter 2017 | Open
  • Interactive travelouge of 30 days spent travelling around the United States by rail in September of 2017.
• Archetypus
  November 2019 | Open
  • Organize your contact list by various personality type systems to intuit patterns within your personal network.
  • Zodiac, Enneagram, MBTI, Arcana, Numerology, more?
• BioClock
  2015 | Open

  • Clock based on rhythms of the human body, rather than the planet's movements.

  • Pulse, breath, attention, hour, day.
• Cartomance-MeSelf-comodifying party-game
  Summer 2024

  • 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.

• Connect
  • github
  • instagram
• Cygil Caster
  Spring 2025
  • Use random number generators to craft a unique ASCII sigil from your intention.
  • api.random.org measures atmospheric noise to provide truly random numbers, unlike the pseudo-random numbers generated by computational algorithms.
  • 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.
  • "Majority rule" should have worked, but complication and scale allow for distortions.
  • Counter the distoritions? (LiquidDem, penalize fallacies, citizen's auditing force)
  • Or is the issue a sick culture. How to heal culture?
  • Benevolent game designers? Gamify spiritual development. Psiware, Mandelbrot
• Deprecation on Display
  2025
  "All that is solid melts into air." - Karl Marx on ES6
  • 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.
• Digital Offering
  • A daily offering to the digital gods of that which nourishes them: data.
• DistragramInsta-parody
  Autumn 2018
  • 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:
  • Dynamic citizenship based on participation.
  • The Volunteer State
  • Local Affirmative Action (mutual aid platform?)
• Emoji Tarot
  2018 | Open
  • 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
    2017 | Open
    • Simplified UI for quick readings on mobile devices, using the arcana from the deeply Jungian video game series, Persona.
• Fireflies Portfolio
  2016 | Open

  • 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
  20XX | Open
  • I have no recollection of this project. It seems to be a google-image collage divination tool. Use at your own risk.
• Harvest
  2015
  • 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
  2015
  • A color wheel made of hex codes, rgb values, and binary strings.
  • #todo find the original gimp file
• Hexagram UI
  2015 | Open
  • Early psychedelic visions of recursion...
• Home Ruby Server
  • ngrok limits got annoying, so old macbook server ftw
  • #todo host a nostr relay?
• Keyboard Mapping
  • Karabiner-Elements for powerful software-level keyboard programming.
  • #todo add photos of hardware builds
  • Open config JSON
  • console cowboys don't need thumbs (and who wants capslock anyway?)
• 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
  Autumn 2025 | Open
  • Generate a new set of major arcana tarot cards each month to reflect the current zeitgeist and archive history through archetypes.
  • "Preserve those essential features of the Tarot which are independent of the periodic changes of Aeon, while bringing up to date those dogmatic and artistic features of the Tarot which have become unintelligible." -Crowley
  • December 2025
  • November 2025
  • October 2025
• MandelbrotTeleological cartography
  2020-Present
  • A value-mapping application to identify personal purpose and align daily behavior accordingly.
  • Perpetually iterating on interfaces and visualizations to gamify personal-development and find the narratives in life.
  • What does your psyche look like over time? Above time?
  Graph Views
  Calendar Views
  Network Views
  Mobile Views
  • #todo Widget View
  • #todo ToDoList view
  • #todo screenshot other views: chapters, network, todo list, widget, OG tree
  • #wishlist an introspective personal-development game that motivates people to live with integrity
• Maze Portfolio
  2016 | Open
  • An hostile portfolio that is actively inaccessible, because things are sweeter when you earn them.
  • #todo -add content -figure out mobile (currently web-only)
• Middle Pillar
  2026 | Open
  • A little game where you can explore the dynamic of Service-to-Self versus Service-to-Others.
• Movie Streaming Sync
  2017 | Open

  • 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?
  • Are technological complexity and scientific measurement at odds with Spirit?
  • Gaia Hypothesis, being expressed through humanity via symolic systems, ie. technology: the Noosphere
  • Maybe social media and mass connectivity actually is the path towards the new kingdom.
  • Literal cybermage tools, ie. Cybersigil?
• Nutrition Label for the SoulEQ photo grader
  Summer 2024
  • 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
  Autumn 2025
  • 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
• Reunion Countdown
  2015 | Open

  • Cheesy, but a cool canvas effect.

• Satirical Software Demos
  Mostly 2018 | Open
  • These make me lol or feel vindicated.
• SemiojiA Semiotic Emoji Survey
  2017 | Open

  • Symbolic expression is important.

• Spiraling Stream of Consciousness
  2018 | Type into the spiral
  • 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
  2016 | Open

  • An aquatic buddy who lives in screens of any size. Practicing media queries and a pseudo-collision engine.

• SpontiBeReal POC
  Spring 2019

  • Praise to BeReal

• SyZyGyLayered astro calendar
  2015 | Open

  • 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.

• 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.
  • Do stimulus checks sound less controversial? UBI?

    Raising minimum wage?

  • Voluntary Wealth Transference
• Teccan

  • cybermage geocache offerrings

  • read: pokemon go for witches
• Text (AI)venture
  2023
  • Oldschool text adventure with generative AI as your DM.
• This Site
  Now
• Timelapse Flipbook
  2024 | Open
  • Take a photo every 24 hours (designed for an old phone that lives on a tripod)
• Tower Perch
  2016
  • 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.
• Vibe CadaverAn exquisite corpse vibesite
  March 2026 | Open
  • A website with a built-in vibe coding dialogue that can rewrite its contents. Each visitor contributes to the vibe by submitting a prompt.
• WanderloveGeofence tour guide
  Summer 2020 | Open
  • Geofenced AR audio guide for exploring New York City neighborhoods.
  • This was a covid project that encouraged me to bike around NYC and explore new areas.
  • It pings mapbox with your coordinates every few seconds. If you've changed neighborhoods, the Duck Duck Go abstract for the neighborhood is read aloud by low-quality speech synthesis.
  • It's not pretty on the eyes or ears, but it works!
• Wheelin & Dealin
  2023
  • 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
  eDemocracy
  • Dynamic citizenship based on participation.
  • AI Avatar Representative Direct Democracy
  • 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
  Resistance
  • Tech Union Strikes
  • Remote Work Sit-in's
  • Boycotting Platform
  • Local Affirmative Action (privilege transference, mutual aid?)
  • Urban Agriculture
  Revolution
  • A lifeboat instead of an exit ramp
  • The Transition
  • Process of the Revolution
  • Establish reliable alternatives to market dependence that can scale
  • Dismantle the powers that be (boycott, product liberation, radical refusal)
  • Existing alternatives fill the void
  Media
  • Integrity-first media requiring content verification
  • CBS did not report JFK's death for 2 hours until official confirmation came in
  • Benevolent manufacturing consent? slippery slope into "philosopher king" thinking
  • Alternatives to advertising?
  • Slogans
  • "Starve the beast"
  • "The Fed is Dead"
  • The Fed remains dead. And we have killed it. How shall we govern ourselves, the anarchists that we are? What was noblest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what scared games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed to great for us? Must we ourselves not become royal simply to appear worth of it?
  • Full political idea index