Szymon Kaliski

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Hi! I research, design, and develop computational interfaces.

I'm a principal design engineer at Replit ↗, where I work on Future Of Coding efforts for a software development platform.

Previously, I was a principal investigator at Ink&Switch ↗, where I explored Programmable Ink and back-of-the-envelope-computation.

Before that, I led flow/control ↗, a boutique R&D consultancy, where we specialized in solving complex design × computation problems.

Check out the bio page for more details.

In my free time, I tinker on personal projects, research independently, and make ambient music from deconstructed acoustic sounds.

Projects

I've documented 55 of my ~209 projects.
A couple of highlights below:

Replit Agent — IDE for Humans and LLMs
DIY Pen Plotter — Designed & Built from Scratch
Crosscut — Drawing Dynamic Models
Cartographist — Web Browser Optimized for Rabbit-Holing
FabFungus — Art Installation Inspired by Questions of Digital Life and Cellular Growth
Archivist — Tools For Archiving and Exploring

Stats

I've been tracking how I spend my time for the last 11 years, using self-made tools which evolve with what I do. The system contains 39036 entries, and the charts below were updated on 2024-12-01.

Below you can see how I divided my time between  work and  personal projects every week, for the last two years. The exact values don't matter, I'm just trying to be consistent with projects, and take regular breaks from work:

I also pay attention to two habits:  reading/writing and  exercising.
Here you can see how well I'm doing, on a daily scale:

Newsletter

Subscribe to my newsletter ↗ for quarterly updates.
I also have an RSS feed if you're into that.

  1. 2024-09-30Q3 2024 — I Became a Father!
  2. 2024-07-01Q2 2024 — Generating this Website Statically, the Hard Way
  3. 2024-04-01Q1 2024 — Migrating to the Basement, Smart Home Setup, and Nix on macOS
  4. 2024-01-01Q4 2023 — Improving Replit's Console and a Database-y Creative Coding Environment
  5. 2023-10-02Q3 2023 — A DIY Pen Plotter and the last Strange Loop
  6. 2023-07-03Q2 2023 — Live-Coding Notebooks, SDF Spreadsheets, and a DIY Pen Plotter
  7. 2023-04-03Q1 2023 — Joining Replit, and musings from the Job Hunt
  8. 2023-01-02Q4 2022 — Publications, Appearances, and looking for the Next Thing
  9. 2022-10-03Q3 2022 — Strange Loop, and research at Glide
  10. 2022-07-04Q2 2022 — Embedding VPLs in Existing Contexts, DIY Document Camera, and a New 3D Printer
  11. 2022-04-04Q1 2022 — Sketching, Modeling and Programming
  12. 2022-01-03Q4 2021 — A Dog, Short Ramble on "Programming", MIDI→CV, and a Rabbit-Holing Web Browser
  13. 2021-09-27Q3 2021 — New Home, New Music and Collection Browsing
  14. 2021-06-28Q2 2021 — Executing Incomplete Programs and Magic Glass
  15. 2021-03-29Q1 2021 — MakeSpace, Clay, Ink&Switch, Haze, Freezeframe, and Personal Experiments
  16. 2020-12-28End of 2020

Articles

  1. 2024-10-15200× Faster, Persisted, Multiplayer-Native Shells at Replit ↗
  2. 2024-07-01Building a Static Site Generator
  3. 2024-04-05Advanced Port Configuration at Replit ↗
  4. 2023-12-07New and Improved Console at Replit ↗
  5. 2023-10-02Building a DIY Pen Plotter
  6. 2023-01-05Untangle ↗ — Solving Problems with Fuzzy Constraints
  7. 2022-12-12Reusable Code Components for Glide ↗
  8. 2022-10-30Inkbase ↗ — Programmable Ink
  9. 2022-03-29Crosscut ↗ — Drawing Dynamic Models
  10. 2020-04-19Memex Dreams — Personal Knowledge Management
  11. 2019-03-31End-User Programming ↗
  12. 2019-03-01Building Dacein — Experimental Creative Coding IDE
  13. 2018-11-27Laboratory Residency — Building Creative Coding Tools
  14. 2018-01-28DIY Monome
  15. 2017-12-04FLSUN i3 3D Printer
  16. 2017-11-10Learning Haskell part 2 — Exploring Tidal and Diagrams
  17. 2017-10-02Learning Haskell
  18. 2017-09-08Building DAS-UI — Keyboard-Based Visual Programming Language
  19. 2017-08-20Teaching Creative Coding in Taipei
  20. 2017-07-07Building Neutron — Self-Contained Node & NPM Sketchbook
  21. 2017-05-31Exploring ReasonML
  22. 2017-04-30Timav — Personal Time Tracking System
  23. 2017-03-31Building Parametrium — Interactive Parameter Space Explorer for P5.js
  24. 2017-02-28Building Wallgen — Evolving Abstract Wallpapers with GLSL
  25. 2017-01-31Building SDF-UI — Node-Based UI for Generating SDF Shaders
  26. 2017-01-18Kinect 2 on macOS with Skeleton Tracking
  27. 2016-12-29Teaching Creative Coding in Shanghai

Get in Touch

Need my help with something? Want to collaborate? Interested in details of one of my projects? — I love getting emails: [email protected].

I occasionally tweet ↗, toot ↗, and blue ↗.
This website is a part of the webring ↗.