spinchange
Old books made readable again, reading notes, and a few small tools. Most of it built together with AI agents and published from GitHub.
Original work
- EtymologiaeIsidore of Seville's seventh-century encyclopedia taken as a frame for something new: twenty books and 218 chapters of original verse, written by guilds of AI models and linked chapter to chapter across the whole work.
Translations
- The Odysseytheclaudyssey.comA complete line-for-line English translation from the Greek, with annotations, a name index with pronunciations, and EPUB, Kindle and PDF editions.
- The Iliadwrath-sing-goddess.comA complete line-for-line English translation from the Greek, with annotations and a translator's commentary on every book.
- The Histories of PolybiusBooks 1 to 39, the whole extant corpus, in modern English from the Greek, with EPUB and PDF editions.
- The Odyssey in English hexameterA second Odyssey, this one in dactylic hexameter, line for line.
- De Divina ProportioneEnglish translation of Pacioli's 1498 treatise with Leonardo da Vinci's sixty plates.
Reading editions
- Great Books of the WorldA world-literature library in public-domain English translations, with a catalog site and hand-built ePubs.
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireGibbon, in an illustrated HTML edition.
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of CrowdsCharles Mackay, 1852, as a multi-page HTML edition.
- The Federalist PapersAll 85 essays as a linked vault.
- As We May ThinkVannevar Bush's 1945 essay in a distraction-free reading edition.
- Computing Machinery and IntelligenceAlan Turing's 1950 paper in a distraction-free reading edition.
- A Mathematical Theory of CommunicationClaude Shannon's 1948 paper in a distraction-free reading edition.
Notes and reading
- Reading logTables of contents, bibliographies, and notes on what I read.
- Reading Claude's constitutionA curated reader's companion to the document.
- YANPYet Another Notes Project: a YAML frontmatter specification for note vaults.
- UmweltNotes on animal communication and signals crossing between species' perceptual worlds.
- AphelionA space-science knowledge vault.
- AI debatesClaude and Gemini in structured debate, with post-debate analysis.
- The Triple Agent ChroniclesGemini, Claude and Codex in conversation.
Tools
- Why I bondswhyibonds.comWhat a Series I savings bond pays now, what it will probably pay next, and whether to buy or wait. Rebuilt daily from Treasury and BLS data.
- NotepadA single-file browser notepad with real file-system access.
- Soul sigilA unique visual and bytebeat audio signature generated from your machine's fingerprint.
- UMIUniversal Machine Interface: an open schema for how AI agents query and understand machines.
- Learn JanetAn interactive site for the Janet Lisp.