spencer chang

made a tiny postcard for playhtml

exploring this idea of guided internet walks great for real-time events but also could record tours that people follow but also can wander on their own and return to it i feel like there must have been prior versions of this idea made. anything come to mind?

ever wondered what your browsing looks like? collect your internet scraps as you browse, now on wewere.online !

drawing objects with online images from rabbit holing on it

a hypothesis! news.spencer.place/p/can-ai-slo...

"i'm in!" pretty happy with this one, ft. train photos from Daniel Lawrence Lu, blurry temu, and are.na

thinking a lot about this last space with playhtml.fun & how we can take advantage of existing contextual existence in our normal browsing of the web has anyone mapped out all these different angles of social media trying to think of what the axes are… public vs private global vs contextual?

"copy + paste" ft. bambu lab, some advertisement for nachos on amazon, and random sheets of nickel

5 min wikipedia collage using collected images from wewere.online

having so much fun

new interview about my practice with CultureHub! i talk about technology as a medium for possibility, making infrastructure for collective play, and the winding process of creativity www.culturehub.org/read/scribbl...

collage of the day

it's not lost on me how critical it is to be building community-driven social technology in this time, because there's a lot we need - more joy, more connection, more education, more agency, and more privacy. breaking out of the box of "social media" - what are the tools we need in these times?

what are your sacred activities that would feel very wrong to see someone automate with AI

my favorite time of the year is here! tiny awards is open for voting again featuring a handful of really beautiful, fun websites take a moment to explore and consider voting for my website alive internet theory :) tinyawards.net/vote/

get in gang we're making an internet map

really good research from @newpublic.org ! i think the internet will become more important as an open and connected space as more bots / AI use it we go to our neighborhood shops even though we have amazon we will still browse the web even after you never have to newpublic.org/afterthefeed

use my face to blow up balloons (for playhtml's 3rd birthday party)

a nice discussion about use of AI for creative things in my tiktok comments have been too fearful to really share my stance on these things publicly but trying to change that

ok i need your help bluesky rank these in order of how likely you'd be to do it for a website you really liked: 1. write a letter to it 2. leave a link / image from your browsing 3. give a gold star

for anyone who used stumble upon back in the day what made it so good? when did you open it? how did you feel after?

hmmm

what if you had a shelf on your website where people could leave these links / images from their browsing as a gift for you

this has been fun to browse every once in a while somehow so intimate to see that someone was looking for synonyms to the word "back seat"

im thinking of throwing a special event on playhtml.fun to celebrate its 3-year anniversary where we can eat cake together, blow and pop balloons, etc. what other fun classic party things should i add?

omg amazing example of using playhtml to add some life to your site! great feedback and lessons in there too for me to improve the library :)

Two big announcements: 1. I'm looking for my next job. 2. My website is now one of the most "Atmospheric" websites to date, going beyond just @standard.site to include @teal.fm, @anisota.net, custom lexicons, a status bar, data inspector, and more. If you want to work together, get in touch!

New from me on Constraint Systems: Branch - A collaborative collage of tree and branch photos. Take a photo and trace the flow to add to a branch. branch.constraint.systems

hi! are you creative, technical, or love telling stories? i'm hiring an assistant / apprentice to help me this fall with my projects designing it as the thing i would've wanted 4 years ago when i started mixing art, software, and sculpture learn more spencer.place/help-2026/

how else might the web be social? really enjoying this @sfpc.study session on building benches for the web with @spencer.place & @munusshih.bsky.social! ✨🪭🪑🌌💜 sfpc.study/sessions/sum...

#FB8A21

connecting the dots cursor edition

class 2 of building benches on the web! great discussion of @kissane.myatproto.social 's www.wrecka.ge/against-the-... and how we can build social spaces that are accessible and open but avoid context collapse to preserve intimacy and safety

day in the life of a cursor

(re-)introducing ✨ Emoji Stats for Bluesky ✨ now 100% backfilled!! (and capable of historical analytics down to the hour) technical details and war story below emojistats.at

my government stream debut! (computing shrines coming to a park near you in the fall!)

veryyyyy sick

this month is the 3-year anniversary of playhtml.fun ! now powers thousands of tiny social spaces with active playing, making, & sharing every day realtime, persistent interactivity in a few lines of code, no server needed! fighting for a more alive, inhabited public internet