iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

spencer chang @spencer.place · 26/09/2026

5 min wikipedia collage using collected images from wewere.online

spencer chang @spencer.place · 23/09/2026

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...

culturehub.org

CULTUREHUB — Interview with Spencer Chang

Scribble August 13, 2026

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Marisa @marisa.blacksky.team · 21/09/2026

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?

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 21/09/2026

making collages from the images i find browsing

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 18/09/2026

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

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 04/09/2026

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/

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Tiny Awards

This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 03/09/2026

get in gang we're making an internet map

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 31/08/2026

kurt vonnegut was right but i believe he was wrong about computer people we can make the computer make us feel this way, help us meet people, see people exploring, connecting, creating, etc. everything on the computer is life from someone else

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 27/08/2026

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

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New_ Public | After the Feed

What happens after the social media feed? A presentation on the future of conversation, community, and social connection, and how AI will affect the everyday lives of billions.

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 24/08/2026

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

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 22/08/2026

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

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 20/08/2026

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

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 20/08/2026

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?

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 19/08/2026

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

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 17/08/2026

all the images i've come across while browsing with wewere.online

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 13/08/2026

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"

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 10/08/2026

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?

playhtml.fun

playhtml

interactive, collaborative html elements with a single attribute

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 06/08/2026

riding the internet subway to recent links people have visited..

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 20/07/2026

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 :)

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dame @dame.is · 16/07/2026

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!

dame.is

I’m looking for my next job — dame.is

Over the past 12 months I designed, built, and launched a dozen apps and experiences on the AT Protocol, including anisota.net, a calmer user interface for Bluesky, and Aturi, a toolkit for navigating...

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grant @grantcuster.com · 16/07/2026

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

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 14/07/2026

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/

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

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...

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 02/07/2026

connecting the dots cursor edition

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 30/06/2026

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

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 29/06/2026

day in the life of a cursor

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alice @alice.mosphere.at · 26/06/2026

(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

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 26/06/2026

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

Screenshot of a San Francisco Arts Commission Visual Arts Committee meeting video page. At the top, Spencer Chang stands at a microphone in a hearing room with rows of red chairs behind him. A video caption reads “Golden Gate Park Temporary Installation by Spencer Chang,” dated 6/23/26. Below the video, the page title says “RESCHEDULED Arts Commission Visual Arts Committee,” with navigation buttons for Index, Share, Download, and Embed. The agenda list shows item 9 highlighted: “Golden Gate Park Temporary Installation by Spencer Chang.”

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 25/06/2026

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

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 23/06/2026

class 1 of building benches on the web done 🥺 cant believe we will have 50 ppl making new weird social spaces on top of playhtml

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 22/06/2026

new milestone!! 3000 people browsing together on we were online

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 19/06/2026

marking off AI slop / seo spam pages experimenting with collective action on the whole internet

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 15/06/2026

some poems from the past few months on playhtml.fun/fridge

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 11/06/2026

excited to see how this develops…

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 10/06/2026

almost at any moment of the day there is someone browsing on wewere.online now 900+ people across 25 timezones..

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 04/06/2026

ATmessages - dm the firehose now with support for quoted posts, attribution (so ppl dont think you're a bot), and sound (very annoying)

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 03/06/2026

all the links of bluesky hah.spencer.place/linkstream

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Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Tfw you’re conjuring love online

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 02/06/2026

the firehose if it was just people DMing you (now you can reply to them!) hah.spencer.place/messages

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 02/06/2026

ok i finally made this available to use! try it out and lmk what you think.. it's weirdly intimate? but im pretty sure ppl think im a bot when i reply right after they post hah.spencer.place/messages

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HAH — social media art experiments

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Orbital Studies @orbitalstudies.com · 02/06/2026

Orbital Studies Issue № 0: Ways of Seeing the Living World is available for order now. Featuring writing from Michael Levin on minds ingressing from a Platonic realm, @philipcball.bsky.social on the return of purpose & meaning to biology, @spencer.place on intimate computing shrines. And many more.

A photograph of Orbital Studies magazine, Issue No 0, Ways of Seeing the Living World, in a bed of phlox.

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