henry ✷

i’m doing some coding for the ’Net. queer xvx. #IndieWeb, #KindWeb, #WeirdWeb, #CarefulWeb

personal: https://henry.codes
digital stillness: https://stillness.digital
strange websites: https://strange.website
personal sites: https://personalsit.es

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2026-01-11 00:40:03 UTC

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computer, now that it's just you and me, Show Me Less of what these people have made of their one wild and Oliverian life — show me what I might make of mine

2026-01-11 00:39:53 UTC

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show me less of these tired arguments about frameworks and algorithms — computer I gotta see Algerian nights and railroad mornings and Detroit and Santa Fe and Chiang Mai, and Ayutthaya overgrown, for good measure. computer, make my other senses desperate, make them ache and weep to be so surfeited!

2026-01-11 00:39:44 UTC

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computer! quickly, show me old friends & older heartbreaks, and show me jazz musicians flowing hot in each other's veins, and show me old women playing rivalrous games like they're trying to turn themselves to ice. show me stoic midwestern landscapes, and then deep southern ones, lush & buzzing

2026-01-11 00:39:37 UTC

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computer show me the face of someone who just realized they forgot an important date. show me tears, show me stars. show me artworks that took decades to produce, or that took millennia, and show me societies that looked at stars and at dogs and show me underwater horrors I was never meant to see!

2026-01-11 00:39:29 UTC

computer Show Me Less Like This. show me Parisian streets and their denizens, show me futurist art and central american architecture. show me black forests and crystal pools, steady wildlife and bad poetry and confused yellow cabs. computer, show me the agonies of Men in love

2026-01-04 19:34:07 UTC

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you've always been a fearsome adversary but this time you've taken it too far 😤😤😤

2026-01-03 23:50:30 UTC

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you should definitely do it! bait one of your guy who *can* drive friends into it, that's what they're for. we have such great roads in north america you really oughta.

2026-01-03 23:39:00 UTC

alright well that's enough about websites here's my completely internet-less recap of 2025, utterly scuffed year that it was.
https://henry.codes/writing/2025

2026-01-01 19:34:17 UTC

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.
here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

2025-12-09 18:58:23 UTC

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gotta feel like the best version of that interaction is ultimately a play/pause, thoughts?

2025-12-09 18:56:30 UTC

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i'm working on a branch that turns the icon into an oscilloscope when music is playing 👀 — i hear you that the link is annoying tho i'll fix right away 🤍 thanks for checking it out!

2025-12-09 18:52:26 UTC

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🔊 me & Red worked together to pick out a short mixtape of songs that enriched the vibe of the writing, and then built a tiny poetic, text-based-RPG-inspired interface to let users immerse themselves a bit more if they want :)
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/115/691/113/595/018/321/original/cd602fb8ad14c7a8.mp4

2025-12-09 18:51:22 UTC

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🎞️ we used a tiny little fragment shader to transition images — each transition looks up the luminance values of the next image to be shown, and displaces the pixels of the current image by that amount. then we use GSAP ScrollTrigger to manage a progress uniform in the shader and inertial easing
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/115/691/108/543/363/990/original/58029c23d8d93e8c.mp4

2025-12-09 18:50:01 UTC

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the site respects `prefers-color-scheme` and `prefers-reduced-motion` preferences, and works just fine without javascript, as all sites should :)
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/115/691/106/027/396/025/original/e929943a6e77fa11.png
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/115/691/106/217/858/782/original/e01b478ec5c82fe9.png

2025-12-09 18:49:01 UTC

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the site uses @npub1qud…y0rz for merging data, content, and templates, it uses Sass for style, @npub14jr…lk2h for complicated animations, and a little bit of hand-written vanilla js & glsl to handle intersection & ui, audio, and image transitions :)

2025-12-09 17:49:52 UTC

🌧️ hey yeah it’s launch day. had a blast making this website with the inimitable @npub1ay4…3cx6, a Mastodon Account & in many ways a dear friend whose outlook on life inspires me deeply :)
this is a project made with love for the web, strange friendship, and reiselust. i'm excited to share it with y'all 🤍
https://strangersbyspring.com/

2025-06-04 05:53:22 UTC

put some thoughts together on the LLM trend and its implications for labor rights. there's a lot to be said about the lofty claims of pro-LLM technologists, but this presumes their promises of efficiency, etc. are true.
https://henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/

2025-04-17 19:28:11 UTC

"we're using tailwind to solve our CSS problems" very cool i'm using cigarettes to solve my stress problem

2025-03-03 18:53:04 UTC

i got an email from an ex today 🤍
☁️ — https://stillness.digital/posts/2025-02-23/

2025-01-17 00:05:01 UTC

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wait can i ask, do you manually duplicate replies for parity, or do you have some clever syndication step running that understands the posts i made on bsky and here are the same?

2025-01-16 21:35:16 UTC

⛓️ added a links page to my website to celebrate some cool friends and cool websites 🤍 if you think of some other rad ones that oughta go on here why don’t you let me know :)
https://henry.codes/links/

2025-01-07 15:14:08 UTC

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RTs deeply appreciated as i am currently seeking my next full-time role!
if you’d like to know why you ought to work with me, check out hireme.website :) thanks for lookin’ and for lookin’ out.
https://hireme.website/

2025-01-07 14:42:45 UTC

new year, new website :) with thy surest steel gathered to thy side, turn to face these new nightmares, these...True Terrors (of the New Dark Web)
plenty to do but i'm thrilled to publish this 🤍 thanks a lot if you end up taking a look, but hark! go heedfully:
https://henry.codes
scroll with caution & with care!

2024-10-10 00:18:32 UTC

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we've got to make people embarrassed to use this technology lmao. if your boys post AI art you better roast them to the point of genuine embarrassment and shame — it's cringe and not in a chill or endearing way.

2024-10-10 00:16:40 UTC

wired: tears for fears tease new record! first one in at least a few years
tired: AI art cover photo

2024-09-18 16:20:22 UTC

well, my summer off is ending, and with that i’m looking for my next full-time role designing & building websites, design systems, or web apps. lookin' for a mid-to-senior hybrid dev and design role :)
read more: https://hireme.website

2024-09-05 20:45:24 UTC

i cannot stand passive voice in a user interface! "an error was encountered" — and who encountered it, knave? who lowered their eyes from the error like a coward, meekly offering naught but a simpering generic alert to their charge, the user? have some spine