







The appearance of a thoroughly protocolized environment is, almost, the perfect cover for dark practices.

In Pictures: The Possibilities of Vancouver’s New Villages Plan | Sightline Institute
The Four/Five design prioritizes green space, daylight, affordability, and accessibility—all for greater connection and community.

Computational Public Space

Everything is about to “go dark”
I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaini…

Dark mode & accessibility myth by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.
Dark mode isn't always better for accessibility, you need to let users chose. And if you build a dark theme, make it accessible!

What if our cities were designed for wildlife as well as people?
New research argues urban planning must recognise animals, plants and ecosystems as fellow inhabitants of our cities.

Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

Building in the dark forest
We write from our new home in the Dark Forest. This week we fully committed to our new universe: we abandoned Slack and moved all operations into DFOS, our new tool, available more widely in the coming weeks. It feels good in here. Calm. Cozy. Just enough activity for things

Exploring Rectangle Subdivisions
Last week, I saw a talk on Vuntra City, a procedurally generated city with a fully explorable city. Developer Larissa Davidova explained that she settled on using Recursive Subdivision for the city…

The Global Village Coffeehouse Aesthetic | Are.na Editorial
Woodcuts, tribal imagery, suns, curvy figures, aroma swirls, and earth tones: Evan Collins defines the look of the 90s

Credentials, Rooms, and Walls: Mezzanine Meets Composable Trust - Nightflight
a home for tilde style communities

psst. hey, after dark crowd. check it out. atproto.com/off-protocol/roost-v1-juliet-…
“Policy Without Tools Is Just Poetry” - AT Protocol
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