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Since You Arrived

5 volumes / sinceyouarrived.world

Single-page works built with real data and hand-written prose.

The fourth volume, Taken, reached the front of Hacker News earlier this month and was picked up by Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic, kottke.org, and others.

Taken, the fourth volumeMay 2026
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Software

3 products in active use

Software products from the studio. A few consulting engagements a year.

What people said

loved the tone, typography and disclosure.

Miguel de IcazaFounded GNOME · Created MonoMastodon

I'll put it in an upcoming edition.

Cory Doctorow, EFF · Enshittification (2025)

A web page that shows how much data your browser can collect.

Jason Kottke, Since 1998

A web page that simply shows you the info your browser sends.

Peter Suber, Open Access movement

Everyone should know this.

Brandy Schillace, BMJ Medical Humanities

A great advertisement for running a VPN.

Derek Powazek, Fray (1996) · Blogger pre-Google

Oh my. This is spectacular.

Ross Floate, Floate Design Partners

Why was the web designed so a website gets so much information?

Jill Walker Rettberg, University of Bergen · ERC

A real public service, genuinely.

Graham W. Jenkins, American Security Project

A Black-Mirror-esque zine based on data.

Chris Silverman, Writer at Shortform

The way you presented the information was fantastic storytelling.

Mark Beare, Malwarebytes

An Ian McKellen impersonator doing a dramatic reading of your HTTP request headers.

phooky, MetaFilter
The full list, including 31 publications and 4 pieces made in response, lives at /press.
Consulting and connections

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