No Hello: Ask the Question First
A light-hearted etiquette guide arguing that chat messages should include the question instead of stopping at “hello.”
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A light-hearted etiquette guide arguing that chat messages should include the question instead of stopping at “hello.”
An interactive reading of “Attention Is All You Need” that lets visitors inspect transformer attention in a browser.
A private Orange County arcade archive documenting six cabinets, four pinball machines, fourteen Sony professional monitors, consoles, signage, guides, and restoration work.
A direct recruitment site for personal assistants supporting a disabled writer in his home in Ube, Japan.
A personal archive of family papers, anthropological field materials, academic records, interviews, notebooks, photographs, audio, and 3D objects.
A sentence-level news review project that checks claims against public evidence instead of issuing verdicts on entire stories.
An independent studio documenting data-driven interactive works, alongside a small collection of AI products.
A browser app that claims to turn a Tesla into a real-time engine and manual-transmission simulator, driven by the car's GPS and controls.
A solo maker’s workshop for iOS apps, baseball writing, AI news, and programs assembled automatically before breakfast.
A free, open-source macOS utility for pixel-exact screenshots, scrolling captures, click-aware recording zooms, on-device text extraction, and genuinely irreversible redaction.
A single-laptop football statistics system that feeds live field charts, coaching views, broadcast graphics, and season totals.
A Long Beach dance party serving soul, funk, Motown, disco, cumbia, and more from original vinyl records every third Friday.
A searchable register of 691 people whose names seem uncannily suited to their professions.
A Finnish top-down taxi game built on real OpenStreetMap roads, living traffic, missions, and road rage.
A large-button talking recorder designed to let someone speak, hear responses, revisit recordings, and send messages to a helper.
A hand-curated music discovery system ranking 807 tracks across 96 genres, with listening links and explanations for every selection.
An irreverent, interactive explainer about the Moon illusion, photography, atmospheric effects, and the Moon’s actual changing distance.
A BYU-and-Provo dating experiment books two strangers into a carefully mediated, twenty-minute public conversation.
A Japanese-English local media site for Las Vegas residents, combining weekly news, deals, events, practical guides, price tracking, directories, and small interactive features.
A detailed digital proposal for an 800–1,500-hectare healthcare, research, education, agriculture, and wellness city in Akure, Nigeria.
A scholar-artist portfolio exploring intelligence, Arabic language, AI, ethnography, engineering, and experimental writing.
A free community map for reporting flood needs, marking inundated areas, coordinating relief convoys, and locating drop-off points across Assam.
A drum-and-bass venue beneath 70 Pine Street built around a 96,000-watt, hand-built analog valve sound system.
Colin Yao’s Chinese-language personal knowledge atlas organizes writing on AI, agents, products, and human–machine interaction.