HeyJaredRe: Pete
I turn data into art. I write reflections about being an entrepreneur and the weird world of building at the intersection of art, tech and data. I also love using old school emoticons:D
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building for an audience of one (opens the original)
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Tomorrow marks four years since my first date with my girlfriend. We were set up on a blind date by a dear friend, and even though we don’t really have an official anniversary, September 29th ends up being one day we choose to celebrate each year.Over the past few years I’ve made her a few gifts. A site that draws a heart for every day we’ve been together, a website where her family and friends can leave her messages on her birthday, an app just for the two of us to message each other, and most
Hands in my pockets (opens the original)
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These past few weeks I’ve spent a lot of time touching running shorts. Hands in the pockets, feeling the fabric, checking which way the zipper runs, deciding whether I want a smaller pocket inside the pocket or one in the waistband.This was all homework from Drew, my apparel manufacturing sherpa in New York City’s Garment District. He’s helping me make my own running short. A friend introduced us, and I asked him how he’d go about designing one.His answer was simple. “I’d go to your favorite bra
Hardware slop is coming (opens the original)
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Last week, after committing to tinkering again, I was messing around with a LilyGo T-QT, which is a tiny tiny computer with a screen the size of a postage stamp.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="453.3333333333333" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_
Time to start tinkering again (opens the original)
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These last few weeks, I’ve been fascinated by a series of works by Adam Fuhrer:It’s a small, elegant series using some cheap (~$15) ESP32s with a screen on them, with the above particular piece using signal strength to determine the screens proximity to each other before having each image morph. I keep looking at them and wondering why I haven’t explored these fun-sized screens for any of my own experiments.Six months ago I would have. I was obsessed with completing an inordinate number of creat
Some Wedding Wisdom (opens the original)
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This past weekend, I flew out to Idaho to celebrate one of my best friends’ weddings in a beautiful, scenic backyard. It was the second wedding in as many weekends, coming off another best friend’s wedding from another part of my life.Weddings, of course, are one of the most joyous occasions, especially when you have the privilege of deeply knowing the bride or groom. Each wedding has its own shape depending on the rich traditions each family brings to the ceremony or the personal flair they put
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