AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
A hack (actually a paid consulting gig) for Science Commons, to allow research organizations to generate boilerplate license agreements for sharing physical materials
Vaguely is a tool/hack for exploratory data visualization, based on Vega-Lite, "a high-level grammar of interactive graphics". Vaguely is a partial translation of that grammar into a Scratch-like blocks interface, making it easier to experiment with different visualizations.
A dumb hack I did as a teenager (so around 1975), but if I had been more savvy. I could have packaged it as high art perhaps. It has shades of Borges' Library of Babel, and maybe Arthur Ganson's Machine With Concrete
Idea for a hack – it is hard to see who uses a github project. There are two kinds of relations: forks and library includes. The former can (I would think) be accessed via github api and some kind of search done. In fact
hack build a full text for https://wholeearth.info/ which inexplicably doesn't have one. All the text is available at Internet Archive so this is pretty trivial.
I did this as kind of a hack, I thought it would be a goof to have my software running in an art exhibit. Since then I've come to have a lot of respect for actual artists, who have actual artistic goals they are pursuing. I'm not sure if I did.
This hack was a system I built while working in the SRI Bioinformatics Group. A working example of a "knowledge spreadsheet", which just means a spreadsheet-like interface that can do semantic or relational computations.
Enflame is a visual query builder for a scientific graph knowledge base, using a Scratch-like blocks user interface. Developed by me under the auspices of the Parker Institute. hack
A hack that I made with a neighbor, to put our local police blotter in a more convenient framework (he was suffering from problems with car breakins, but that's not a very good reason; this was mostly for the sheer pleasure of hacking).
When I'm not pretentiously writing about the Mysteries of Being, I write software. This is sort of a master page for software I've designed and built. Check the side column for real contents. EntryPoint
incoming
OK I just invented this, it doesn't work yet – the idea is that this tag puts the incoming links section inline.
This page wants to be called both "hacks" (descriptive) and "hack" (to use as a
link/tab from natural text). Roam doesn't let you do that easily, one of its most annoying misfeatures.
I'm also starting to get annoyed at myself for introducing this term as a formal tag. A good hack does not need to call itself one, and I feel like I'm shoehorning all sorts of projects under that label for my own convenience, and doing some damage to its semantics in the process.
However, these all do have something in common, which is that I did them mainly on my own initiative, whether or not they were part of a paying job. That makes them seem like hacks in a nontechnical dimension, simultaneously creating something and getting away with something.