Trevor Flowers 🌸🌸 @trevorfsmith@xoxo.zone

I work for a #WiderWeb, a near-future responsive web with:
🌸 3 display modes: flat, portal & immersive
🌸 3 control types: page, overlay & spatial
🌸 new inputs: wands, gestures & voice
🌸 more hugs, fewer thugs

Handy guide: https://trevor.smith.name/publish/exformation/10300/

These images are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/

🌸 Theme 4: Changing from the flat web to the wider web is going to be a huge amount of work, requiring many new skills, technologies, and even new types of collaboration.

🌸 Theme 3: The #widerweb must be built to encourage loving social interactions and also must be prepared to prevent and handle harassment.

🌸 Theme 2: We'll soon be interacting with the web using new input methods like hand gestures, our voices, and tracked wands.

🌸 Theme 1: The web is gaining another dimension, adding 3D and AR/VR to the existing 2D web.

I've kicked off a new repository for open licensed art with four delightful illustrations I commissioned from the excellent Lindsay Goldner at No Fonts Given (https://nofontsgiven.co ). Each image captures one aspect of the #widerweb
https://github.com/Transmutable/open-licensed-art

"First Man" is, in addition to beautiful, an exploration of the untenable position for men, rewarded for being emotionless robots and punished if that facade breaks for even a moment.

Happy WITNESS ME day, y'all.
I see you and you're terrific.

I had to install Facebook on an old device just to watch the Oculus Connect keynote. Lock-in much?

I'm a bit sparkly about the colors and line art that are coming together on https://transmutable.com/ to give that future-imperfect feel. A lot of XR studios flex with sites that look like a lawyer made them, so I'm shooting for humanity and excitement. What do y'all think?

These are the new days of the week:
Money day
Two breakfasts day
WITNESS ME day
Throw a tantrum day
An entire plate of fries day
Read about satellites day
Nobody goes to church day

Are there software devs successfully using Patreon to fund middleware? I'd love to find a community-oriented model for funding PotassiumES at a level where it could become a solid foundation for the wider web.

Today is a big feels day on roughly four fronts. Ooof.

I bought a monthly subscription to a movie theater because I find it deeply relaxing to sit in the back corner of the theater and write lists on my handset while an action movie plays out. Something about the combination of fictional excitement and daydreaming is quite nice.

Oh, hey Seattle.

My XOXO squee level has reached 🎉 10.0 🎉: 20yo Björk on new album day