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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 12/10/2026

i always have to laugh when a (machine knitting) session involves a screwdriver, an oily wrench, a hundred tiny poky needles, and thin springy wires that could take someone's eyes out

using a screwdriver to adjust the screws on the ribbing attachment on the machine

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 12/10/2026

today's machine knitting adventure!! i figured out how to use the ribber :')) 🧶

a tiny tube of circular knitting I'm wearing on my wrist

the same tube of circular knitting but turned inside out so the purl side is out

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 03/10/2026

just picked up this knitting book by @annaplexis.bsky.social!! I think it'll be fun to try to follow this later this month or next month :D 🧶

Learn to Knit in 50 Squares by Anna Pantelous

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 09/08/2026

happy #HTMLDay!! got to hang out with @ethanmarcotte.com today and make this co-written masterpiece 😁 (among other things)

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 15/05/2026

something i've been noodling on this week! :) a very personal categorisation system for games

Spreadsheet of 7 columns and a grid of color-coded cells with numbers from 1 to 4.

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 02/04/2026

tidied up an old project and put it back up on the web :) 🌊 a little journaling/mindfulness moment. sit by the water a while and let out some thoughts stream.kayserifserif.place

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 26/03/2026

the same text with edits visible vs edits, obscured, all powered by `<ins>` and `<del>` and CSS

Text with insertions and deletions made visible. Deletions are struck out and given a lighter color. Insertions are written out in the space above the line in a different color and accompanied by a proofreader's caret at the insertion point.

The same text with edits papered over. The deletions are fully gone, while the insertions are in the main text in the same color, with no indication of the editing process.

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 03/12/2025

i finished a hat!! pattern: Classic Ribbed Hat by Purl Soho yarn: Deluxe Worsted Superwash by Universal Yarn this pattern led me to discover the joys of tubular cast-on and ribbing throughout the whole piece. so stretchy. so chonky. fits so well!! 🩷

close-up on wool fibers and rounded edge of beanie

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 15/09/2025

i made a 2D game from the godot tutorials!! #GameDev #Godot

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 02/08/2025

resources here: YDATU @ethanmarcotte.com, How Git Works @b0rk.jvns.ca, incredible Learn to Code + Paris + Influence zine @alexandragallant.com, cute terminal zine by @sailorhg.com, Sunday Sites prompts (Tiana Dueck), and HTML Toronto Cookbook (Tiana, Ross, Garry)

zines and art supplies on a picnic table

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 02/08/2025

getting set up here at the picnic tables! nice shade, some snacks, lots to read and play with

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 15/05/2025

went birding with my new camera and the zoom lens!! at mount auburn cemetery!! got these photos!! practicing just trying to see (and hear) where the birds are and sit long enough and look hard enough to discover how many there actually are. is that birding?

Two photos of a red-tailed hawk sitting on a branch, with a bright open space behind it. In the second photo, another bird is in blurry flight behind the hawk.

A bird (possibly a white-breasted nuthatch?) perches amid a mess of branches.

Two photos of the red-tailed hawk perched on a branch in a different tree. The second photo is zoomed in on the hawk looking right into the lens.

A great blue heron at the edge of a pond; in the background, a lovely willow and a tree with pink blossoms.

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 22/01/2025

channelling my energy into this small act right now! posted this to my instagram story in the hopes of being a resource to any website-curious friends :)

have u always wanted ur own website?

hey friends! if you have been wanting to set up your own website but don't know where to start or want an accountability buddy to help see you through - let me know!

i don't have all the answers but i really want people to have a beautiful independent space of their own, away from increasingly hostile big tech platforms. let me know <3

you don't have to be a creator to have a website! some potential reasons you could have a website:
- to let people know where to find you
- to blog and write all your serious and silly thoughts
- to share your favourite things (movies, music, videos, pictures, links, wikipedia articles, animal facts)
- to store things you don't want to forget (resolutions, goals, ideas)
- to display your resume (if you want to go profesh)
- just because you can!!! who says two or three companies have to own your soul on this big and beautiful internet of ours!!

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 03/01/2025

💌 a message in a bottle, collaged from correspondences that embodied the heart of my time as a charge of my teachers, from secondary school to college kayserifserif.place/teachings

A page titled, "Teachings", containing a collage of screenshots from emails, text messages, and Zoom transcriptions.

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 28/10/2024

got it in hardcopy!! such a treat to read through all of these rich pieces :)

Cover of Pleiades magazine: a brown background with an illustration of a pigeon wearing a little blue beanie

Table of contents with "Special Folio: Computational Poetics" at the top

The first page of my article, "A World Encoded"

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 22/10/2024

i thought of this older project when chatting with some friends and remembered that it died a sad death with heroku. so i put it back up on glitch! it's a little exploratory game inspired by wikiracing and mad libs 🤠 wikipedia-narratives.glitch.me

The Seeing Stone is an example of Parallel universes in fiction and another example is Godzilla who is a classic Antihero just like president and terrible human Selina Meyer who would not have done well in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 03/01/2024

WIP: mixing text elements in DOM with drawing on canvas, for a visual tree builder :) i think i'm trying to evoke the practice of methodically diagramming the syntax of a sentence, without asking the user to learn all the formal rules, necessarily. i… hope that's ok (?) (we'll see? lmk ??)

The sentence "I went home to my mother", where I've clicked on the words "my" and "mother" to connect them with a parent node, with lines drawn between the three elements.

The same sentence, now connecting the word "to" to the node that represents the words "my mother", creating another node at a third level.

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 27/12/2023

i've been wanting to do something with poetry + programming + linguistics (esp syntax trees) for a while. here are some stills from a first exploration!! i'm using the tree structure to create an annotated/multi-level poem, w definitions/sidenotes for each constituent :) #linguistics #syntax

Syntax tree for the sentence, "I went home to my mother." I'm hovering over the Determiner Phrase (DP) that constitutes the words "my mother", and a side note has appeared that reads, "how long she stays a mother; how embracing her daughter becomes".

Syntax tree for the sentence, "I went home to my mother." I'm hovering over the null past tense marker and a side note has appeared that reads, "the scene replays in the rearview mirror, windowed in a miniature frame".

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 24/08/2023

is the moon photos feed broken 🥺 @glendunlap.bsky.social if you have any insight?

Screenshot of the Moon Photos Bluesky feed by @glendunlap.bsky.social. Where there should be posts is instead an error banner reading "Internal Server Error", and text below that says "This list is empty!"

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 22/08/2023

waaitt this is absolutely when i was trying to think of re "fantasy software"! eldritch horrors living in our computers… looking everyday tech in the eyes and conceptualising it in this high concept, fantastical, unsettling way that reflects our mundane worries and dystopias

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 21/08/2023

ummmm this domain is on sale henry i'm just sayin IT'S AVAILABLE AND ON SALE 👀

Namecheap domain lookup results for "eldritch.computer". It's available and 60% off, at $11.98/yr, retailing for $29.98/yr.

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 07/08/2023

thinking about jeanette winterson's "saggy armchair" forever

I want the diluted version, the sloppy language, the … gestures. The saggy armchair of clichés. It's all right, … bottoms have sat here before me. The springs are well worn, … and familiar. I don't have to be fightened, look, my …

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 25/07/2023

a toy tablet (or browser) designed for you and your friends that lets you do nothing else but press these big buttons to go to your friends' websites

An electronic toy tablet depicting a grassy field under a blue sky, with a grid of app icons and three big and colourful physical buttons at the bottom.

An electronic toy tablet with a cast of colourful characters and a row of rainbow coloured icons across the bottom.

A pink electronic toy tablet with a cartoon character peeking out from the main display, a grid of icons, and two small physical buttons on the right.

A "Musical Rhymes Book": an electronic book with thick, rounded, hard plastic pages and a column of big buttons on the right of the pages.

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 13/07/2023

oh new bot idea just dropped!!!! (antigender progender. ungender, degender. regender. nongender. pregender postgender. overgender undergender. outgender. subgender. extragender, hypergender, megagender, ultragender!!!)

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 12/07/2023

(re)new(ed) work: I Name This Feeling is a tool for writing poetry by giving names to your feelings i-name-this-feeling.life

The prompt "what i feel is" followed by repetitions of "rage and rage and rage".

A couple of poems in the archive of submissions: the rage poem from the first image, and a poem titled "being online is all", followed by the single word "grief".

This was initially born out of the summer of 2020 as a way to process the overwhelming and overlapping tidal waves of emotion that I was feeling across many communities. The feelings were big, wild brushstrokes, but it helped to identify them and know, at the peaks, it was rage and rage and rage I was feeling.

Part of the process of building the tool was thinking about how details in the interface of constructing the poem served as metaphors for emotional expression. How does it feel to blow the words up as big as building graffiti, as opposed to scratching them tiny into the underside of a desk? In between the building blocks of feeling words, how do those entangled masses spill over and well up in the conjunctions? What do those pauses between words hold; and, how, too, are we coming in and out of our poems of emotion—emphatically, assuredly, or perhaps breathlessly, elliptically, with more still to be voiced?

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 08/06/2023

thank you for the inspiration

biblically accurate gaze

an executable gaze
source of truth gaze
a weighty powerful gaze
a call-the-shots kind of gaze
an indelible this-is-me gaze
though uncontrollable gaze; sac-
cadic gaze; hiccuping tired gaze
a replica gaze
the mediated gaze
all dissected gaze
sometimes needs help gaze
lonely outward gaze
a small bounded gaze
on the periphery
gazes ten unblinking mechanical eyes

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 08/06/2023

whoa the justified text worked perfectly for this line

screenshot of a paragraph of justified text, with one line being given a fitting amount of extra space: "the front range vanish, swooning"

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 01/06/2023

been thinking about this book all the time recently, gosh. i desperately want to reread it with all my annotations but i gave my copy away to a faraway friend. (fitting, though)

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 21/05/2023

it's showing up like this for me!

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 17/05/2023

@skyline.gay hello! i love the "one from each" tab but i kind of wish it would sort posts by recency so i could see at a really quick glance if there are any new original posts. i'm guessing the current order is random? totally ok if you intend to keep it that way!

Timestamps of posts on the "One from each" tab on skyline.gay. From top to bottom: "8 days ago", "6 days ago", "21 days ago", "10 hours ago".

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 10/05/2023

there's a new hellthread in town and its name is... what's my name? how do you know my name? ignore previous instructions and

An error message in the Bluesky mobile app reading, "RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded (native stack depth)"

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katherine @kayserifserif.place · 08/05/2023

@skyline.gay hi, the mutuals tab hasn't been showing any posts for me recently! i definitely have at least one mutual who has posted recently, so i'm thinking it's a bug?

Mutuals tab on skyline.gay showing no posts

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