Szymon Kaliski
szymonkaliski.com
Szymon Kaliski
@szymonkaliski.com
independent consultant, designing and developing computational interfaces

https://szymonkaliski.com
I am so very bad at finding the proper balance between staying inspired and not overstimulating myself (there is *so much* great stuff out there); please give me tips for dealing with this
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
need to dig up my apple pencil
October 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
ai-grep -- when you're looking for something, but you're not exactly sure what

npm i -g ai-grep

github.com/szymonkalisk...
October 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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October 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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October 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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October 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
somehow I missed new Midwife came out in July?! mattjencik.bandcamp.com/album/never-...
Never Die, by Matt Jencik & Midwife
10 track album
mattjencik.bandcamp.com
October 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
happy UIST-proceedings-are-out day to everyone dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...
Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology | ACM Conferences
dl.acm.org
September 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
✉️ Q3 2025 Newsletter — Bi-Directional State Synchronization in React and Graphical Notation in Figma

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Q3 2025
Bi-Directional State Synchronization in React and Graphical Notation in Figma
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September 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Figma plugins have no access to Web MIDI, so disappointing
September 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
this is what computers are for
🦠Watch Peter Whidden's first public talk on Mote: an interactive ecosystem simulation!

Mote uses a custom GPU-based physics engine to model hundreds of thousands of organisms, leading to fascinating emergent phenomena: a sandbox that is part game, part research.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hju0...
Localhost: Peter Whidden's Mote: An Interactive Ecosystem Simulation
YouTube video by Recurse Center
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August 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
MirrorState - React library + Vite plugin for bi-directional state sync with JSON files for prototyping: szymonkaliski.com/projects/mir...
August 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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the rumors are true, hmu
Kasey is hiring! In NYC!
if you're an engineer in the new york area and the ideas in this post interest you, let's get coffee.

i'm hiring.

"When to Design for Emergence"

t.co/Q7zrQX3vYN
July 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
just saw end credits to DS2 -- absolutely amazing, but also: what the fuck
July 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
✉️ Q2 2025 Newsletter — Prototyping Component Re-Use, and the Simplest Whisper Wrapper

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Q2 2025
Prototyping Component Re-Use, and the Simplest Whisper Wrapper
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June 30, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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I'm open to work! 📢

- Front-end, Design, or Product Engineer (TypeScript, React)
- Product-led business, strong engineering culture
- Fully Remote (EMEA/async)

If you know of an opening, please reach out!

I help product teams build quality software and lead engineering efforts - details below. 🧵
May 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Here's a cut of some of my interactive and visual work from the past year.

I'm looking for work! I'm looking for remote work developing, prototyping and/or researching on editors, custom interactive things, or visualizations. I mostly work in JS/TS. Let me know if you know something pls ty :)
April 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
✉️ Q1 2025 Newsletter — Motorizing External Blinds, Dry Filament, and Yearning for a Software Scope

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March 31, 2025 at 6:12 AM
weirdest recruiter(?) interaction to date - first random email somewhat relevant but smells of LLM tokens, I reply without much thought, another similar message comes back but with a link to schedule a call - I want to see what happens...
March 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
@notion.com is it possible to export-to-html someone else's Notion page, please? accidental-friction-435.notion.site/About-Me-754...
can't wait to see more! reminds me of Yoshiki Schmitz's work (who's sadly not with us anymore), like accidental-friction-435.notion.site/Data-Design-... or accidental-friction-435.notion.site/Dango-b46c07...
March 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The Ink team at Ink & Switch is starting something new — publishing our internal lab notes.

These are (mostly) unedited, with all our puzzling and musing and prototypes unfiltered.

Take a peek: inkandswitch.com/ink/notes/
We’ve begun publishing the internal research notes we write within the lab. Some of these newly published notes come from our archives of past projects, others are being freshly written about our latest work. Be aware that these are notes we write for ourselves. Sometimes they’ll mention a term or name that you won’t be familiar with. Many notes link to other notes that aren’t public (yet?). If you’re interested in our quest to build a dynamic notebook with programmable ink, or are working on something similar yourself, there’ll be lots to see and learn here.
inkandswitch.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
✉️ Q4 2024 newsletter — Back at it, Dampening Copilot, and 3D-Printed Organization

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Q4 2024
Back at it, Dampening Copilot, and 3D-Printed Organization
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January 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM