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slvtrs - Sal Saia (Salvatore Saia)

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About
- salvatore saia is a developer-devotee of the virtual muse, using arcane tech to find the cracks. The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house, so let's build our own tools for the untelevised revolution.
- Find him in Brooklyn with a cat on his lap, on a roof with an accordion, or in a park digging in the dirt.
  Or find his facsimile online.
- ? ? ? go play with the apps or get off the screen!
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.
AdvoCat
- Waifu tamogotchi cheerleader
Amtraklouge
- 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.
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 for that moment.
- Evolved from SyZyGy — same obsession, modern stack.
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.
Connect
- email
- github
- instagram
- linkedin
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.
Digital Offering
- A daily offering to the digital gods of that which nourishes them: data.
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 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
MandelbrotTeleological cartography
- 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?
- #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
- 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?
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.
SemiojiA Semiotic Emoji Survey
- Symbolic expression is important.
Somatic OuijaA game of emodied 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 emergnes 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
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)
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.
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.
WanderloveGeofence tour guide
- 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
- 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
- Full political idea index