Robin’s lab newsletter archive

The lost thread

The speed with which Twitter recedes in your mind will shock you
April 2022

Bad hosts, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the overlay network

Stymied by NAT
February 2022

Notes on Web3

Meager counterweight to the growing hype
November 2021

The slab and the permacomputer

Two directions at once
October 2021

The cutouts

Explaining a chunk of code in a Colab zine
October 2021

Ghost faves in the mystery machine

Nobody knows anything
July 2021

Checkpoints

Always read these comments!
July 2021

Dreams of discord

How could you make a chat room weirder and better?
June 2021

Cloud study

Just a couple of notes on cloud functions
March 2021

A coat check ticket, a magic spell

Minting digital art in a weird new market
February 2021

An app can be a home-cooked meal

I made a messaging app for my family and my family only
February 2020

Expressive temperature

Documenting a machine learning technique
August 2018

Typographical tune-up

Fixing some small problems
January 2016