This year I was a little less prolific than last year (40-ish projects compared to 75-ish projects). But for the most part I did fewer throwaway projects. Oh also one of my 2014 projects is a book I wrote that was a year-long project that took up a lot of my free time in 2014. Also not on this list are some talks that I gave and all that kind of stuff, most notably my How I Won the Lottery talk from XOXO 2014.
Anyway here is the list of things I made:
- Clicker Maker. Generating endless "Cookie Clicker" style games.
- Farewell Letter Generator. Say goodbye to your coworkers in style.
- Corpora. A collection of small corpuses of interesting data for the creation of bots and similar stuff.
- Red Scare Honeypot. Baiting @RedScareBot.
- Fuck, Marry, Kill. A game you can play on Twitter.
- For My Real Friends. Twitter bot for my real friends, real bot for my Twitter friends.
- So Many Jams. A game jam in every pot.
- Automated Amtrak Residency for Writers. What would it be like for an algorithm to be inspired by the rolling countryside?
- Steem Codes. Tweeting Steam codes that almost certainly won't work.
- Auto Charts. Absurd flow charts, delivered daily.
- Miraculous Pics. One of those awful "inspiring pictures" twitter accounts, but even weirder.
- memcached magic. Because memcached is magic.
- Distracted Genie. An old joke in Twitter form.
- Museum Bot. Tweeting stuff from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's open access collection.
- On J. Dilla's "Don't Cry". I broke down a favorite J. Dilla song and built an interactive analysis digging into why it's so good.
- A "Don't Cry" Toy. Generate your own randomized version of J. Dilla's "Don't Cry".
- Fuck Videogames: The Videogame. A videogame version of my essay/talk, Fuck Videogames.
- A WWDC Poem. What if there were a joke about the Swift programming language and clueless hiring managers?
- Scenes from The Wire. Scenes from The Wire, now in Twitter form.
- Brand New Aesthetics. Brand New Aesthetics, now in Twitter form.
- Street View Experiments. Messing around with Google Street View.
- Potato Salad Infinity. Potato salad recipe generator.
- Oscillations. Pleasing(ish) noises.
- My Projects. A Google-Spreadsheet-driven listing of my projects. It's this page you're looking at. Meta.
- Auto Charts with Venn Diagrams. I added Venn diagrams to Auto Charts. Stuff like this.
- Reverse OCR (Twitter). A bot that picks a word, then draws random glyphs until an OCR library detects that word.
- Reverse OCR (Tumblr). Tumblr version of Reverse OCR.
- Jagged Alliance 2. A book about 1999 PC strategy game Jagged Alliance 2. (Also on Amazon.)
- Received Wisdom. Slightly confusing wise sayings.
- Hot New Social Network. If Ello can do it, so can I.
- I'm Here to Say. I'm Darius and I'm here to say / I love taking minor goading as a serious challenge in a major way.
- Hey Gorgeous. A remix of Nick Montfort's "Taroko Gorge" in the grand tradition of TG remixes. Inspired by a work-related stay at a luxury hotel and night club in Miami.
- Dark Winter of Ebola Terror. Inspired by stupidity at The Washington Post.
- Victoria & Amazon. This site finds a random item from the V&A collection of design objects and then searches amazon.co.uk for its closest approximation. The result is an ever-changing diptych of an important design object from the history of the world alongside an everyday modern consumer item. Shown at the Victoria & Albert Museum Friday Late event in London.
- Random Ngrams. Experience apophenia like a modern scholar of language.
- Bot Summit 2014. I organize an annual get together of bot makers. We met on Nov 8, 2014 to discuss the art and craft of bot making. We also recorded the whole thing and put it online.
- Markov the IGF. This toy runs a markov model on the IGF 2015 entrant descriptions. (Apparently Grapefrukt did this last year!)
- Very Old Tweets. Retweeting the first 90 days of twitter, at random.
- gutencorpus. A small NodeJS library that lets you search an offline corpus of popular Project Gutenberg ebooks.
- Content, Forever. Got some time to kill and want to read a meandering essay by an algorithm with a short attention span?
- The Yearly Awards. At the end of 2014, you deserve an award. This is a bot that you can follow and get an award. It is sometimes mean. Sorry.
