Things I made because they were funny, and then finished because they turned out to be interesting. The ones that turned into actual games — Glasshouse, UGA Grad Survivor, Triop — now live together on the Games page; what is left here is the tools and language experiments.
Playful bioinformatics
dna2oiia
Converts DNA sequences into sound using “oiia” phonetics. It is a meme, and it is also a legitimate sonification: mapping four bases onto a phonetic space means you can hear repeats and motifs that are tedious to see in a text file.
bioLOLPython
A biological language interpreter where the sequence analysis speaks in internet slang. Useful for teaching, mostly because students remember an API that insults them.
biosteganography
Turn a bioinformatics file into a PNG — a hackathon joke that turned out to work. It packs a sequence file into the pixels of an image and reads it back out again.
Language experiments
Digital Campfire
A contemplative writing gadget that turns the day’s news headlines into poetic “whispers” and helps you shape a personalized Skinny poem. Less an AI poem generator than a quiet space where strangers sit by the fire and share one line of feeling.
slang-capsule
A structured, multilingual timeline of internet slang, queryable by year, language, and platform. It started as reference material for bioLOLPython and turned into its own dataset problem: slang has no canonical source, so most of the work is deciding what counts as a first attestation.