VILMIBM
WROUGHT
WORKS

I make things.
I have listed them here.
Let me know if you like them.
If you really like them:
I have a patreon.

SAVE SCUM

cut-up poetry generated from video game FAQs, 1800s home ec manuals, and some ritual text. available free on the internet archive.

poetry

BLACKOUT ENGINE

a web tool for doing blackout poetry across sixty million paragraphs extracted from project gutenberg

software

SMUDGE

text mode art for interleaving and burning text files ritualistically.

software

CYBERPUNK PROPHECIES

cut-up poetry generated from cyberpunk novels. available free on the internet archive.

poetry

2023, KYOTO

travelogue about visiting Kyoto in spring 2023.

prose

PROSAIC

cut-up poetry authoring software I used to complete multiple poetry collections. it also powered some twitter bots.

software

THROUGH THE WIRES SHALL COURSE BLOOD

a poetry collection about love, fear, computers, etcetera.

poetry

gh-chat

after being challenged to come up with the worst feature idea possible for the github cli i came up with gh-chat. it's real time chat in your terminal using gist comments as a backend. supports push notifications via email gist comment alerts.

software

MERGE CONFLICT

an ascii art game in the form of a gh extension about the futility of open source

software

THE GITHUB CLI

github.com but in the terminal. I was one of a small team in creating this tool but played a major role in its conception, design, implementation, and maintenance.

software

TILDE TOWN

you gaze upon it. a long running creative computing community accessible only via ssh.

community

I LOOK FOR BONES EVERYWHERE I REST MY GAZE

travelogue about visiting Buenos Aires in autumn 2023.

prose

RANDOMWAITE / @AUTOTAROT

a twitter bot that generated tarot cards using CC-licensed imagery on flickr. generated 3400 cards between 2016-2018. there is source code, a gallery of every card, and the dead bot account.

software

GRAVEYARD THEORY

my music moniker. mostly noise. a mix of ambient, harsh, drone, experimental.

music

VCR PARTY

weekly vcr stream using owncast. i connect my vcr to a computer and stream its output.

community

GH SCREENSAVER

text-mode art that runs "screen savers" in your terminal. originally intended for running while waiting on software builds.

software

ASCIIBOOTH

interactive art installation for parties: a photobooth but it converts your photo to ascii and prints it out on a dot matrix printer. it also published to a web gallery

installation

THE GRIST MELD

HTML collection of old poems

poetry