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user: futurecat
created: 2012-01-03
karma: 417

I make things with code, machines, and paper. Sometimes all three at once.

https://harmonique.one https://shop.harmonique.one https://www.instagram.com/marc.in.space/

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Longer version: I got my start in the late 90s demoscene, as part of a crew called Mandarine. If you don't know what the demoscene is, imagine a bunch of teenagers competing to make computers do beautiful, impossible things in as few kilobytes as possible. It broke my brain in the best way. I never really recovered.

Since then I've spent about two decades working in tech, writing code, building products, and eventually leading engineering and product teams. I've lived in Amsterdam, Paris, Montreal, Berlin. Never quite landing anywhere, always picking up new frequencies along the way.

In 2014 I co-founded POLAAR, an electronic music label for the sounds that live at the edges. Techno, bass music, experimental stuff. The things that happen between genres.

More recently I've fallen deep into generative art and pen plotting. I write code that tells a robotic arm where to drag ink across paper. I also draw by hand, the old fashioned way.

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Tep: A Sinatra-flavoured framework that compiles to a native binary via Spinel
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Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example
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The Agentic Software Development Life Cycle Framework
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The Building Block Economy – Mitchell Hashimoto
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Friendship Recession
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Career-Ops: How I Built My Own AI Job Search Tool
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The Guinndex – Pint Prices Across Ireland
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The Great CSS Expansion
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Purity Spiral
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Every paper published in the Bridges Conference on art and mathematics
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The Bet on Juniors Just Got Better
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Was software a scarce commodity all along?
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Crab Mentality
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