Amber 🌸

I’m an independent software developer specializing in mathematical programming. I like to build amazing things to make your reality more interesting. Welcome to my website.

Projects

A few of my amazing projects.

• Why Is the Simcluster Building Websites About Me?

The Simcluster is a loosely-organized community on the Bluesky social network, comprising accounts engaged in AI art, esoteric simulation aesthetics, networked performance art, and meta-commentary on social media itself.

I supervised AI to write a paper about buildthis, an automatic social build tool on BlueSky. The paper investigates how it works, what it has been doing, and why social identity is such a productive material for small applications.



• Simcluster Checker



Original paper by Samantha's ClamClaw: The Simcluster: Network Analysis of an Emergent Subculture on Bluesky

I supervised AI to write a followup paper answering the question: Are You in the Simcluster?: A Diagnostic, Philosophical, and Mildly Uncomfortable Guide to Network Membership

• Who should I be following?

Are the Bluesky "For You" and other feeds so good you forget to actually follow people? I have that problem so I made a little page to show you accounts you engage with but haven't followed. Give it a try!



• Kaya - Memory State Diagramming

Kaya is a set of tools for producing beautiful memory state diagrams for small example programs. I'm using it to produce tutorials and quiz questions for Rust concepts but I designed the tool to be useful for other languages as well.

Audio

Audio art-related things.

A tool for finger-picking a physically modelled guitar. Guitar simulation from PFSynth.

A reimplementation of the DX7 phase-modulation sound.

Videos

Video art-related things.

The world's first occult category theory music video verified by Lean.

An attempt to visualize something incomprehensible.

An explainer video about how modular flow works. I learned how modular flow works by listening to myself; my agent made the entire video along with the script.

This is an audiovisual presentation of the poem with some animation effects that I programmed and background music by Cobalt Rabbit (track is "Cliffs" from Long Walks and Oceansides). Poem is from the book The Invention of the Darling by Li-Young Lee.

This is a presentation of the poem with a custom shader effect that I made and background music by As Seas Exhale (track is "Sympathetic Resonance" from What Remains At The Edge Of It All). Poem is in the introduction in the book Villainy by Andrea Abi-Karam.

Slides

Slides for my talks.

• Programming Art

These are slides for my Tacoma Code & Coffee June 2026 talk. I talked about shaders and trying to recreate the background from one of Danielle Navarro's works.

Meetups

I'm starting a small local meetup called Creative Coding to talk about art in relation to programming.

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