tiny tools

Some tiny tools that I have made and been involved in making.

• forestscapes - soundscaping software scripts for supercollider and norns
• image explorer - browser-based tools for the visual exploration of image collections
• tiny image composer - turn a handful of images into lower resolution composites
• vclip - command line tool to compile randomly selected video clips from a folder
• zeehaven - convert social media data from zeeschuimer into csv for analysis

My approach to tiny toolmaking has been inspired by:

• research on pluralising critical technical practices
• web-based tools from Digital Methods Initiative and médialab at Sciences Po - which tend to be very simple and have been developed with a spirit of “methodological diversity and epistemological plurality”
• Unix philosophy of “do one thing well”
• Everest Pipkin’s tinytools.directory - an “open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup”
• Exchanges with Tim Cowlishaw on tiny tools as “care-ful software practice”

More links and resources on tiny tool-making can be found here.