Frank Noirot is writing about software, design, ecology, and cities.

Thanks for stopping by my digital garden 🪴! It contains my notes that I think are either polished or interesting enough to publish, along with all of my library books that are available for borrowing, and a selection of projects to which I‘ve gotten to contribute.

Notes41See all

Text highlight as DALL-E 2 prompt

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I've written 20,000 lines of code for Ring of Keys

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Comparing fare schemes in major metro systems

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an ethic of curiosity

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Conservatism appreciates science only for the certainties it can deliver

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dreams can be mutually exclusive

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People are good-ish

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Open source is a corporate goldmine

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markets incentivize hiding costs

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Books55See all

The Power Broker

The Power Broker

by Robert A. Caro

The Will To Change

The Will To Change

by bell hooks

Kafka On The Shore

Kafka On The Shore

by Haruki Murakami

Analogia

Analogia

by George Dyson

The Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto

by Karl Marx & Frederick Engles

Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome

by Wharton, Edith

Photography and Belief

Photography and Belief

by David Levi Strauss

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

Projects8See all

ringofkeys.org

For Ring of Keys as a Lead Developer

🛠 Tools GatsbyJS, DatoCMS, Auth0, SendGrid, Twilio, Stripe, NextJS

Personal Website

For Myself as a Writer + developer

🛠 Tools NextJs, Obsidian, Content Layer, Netlify, GitHub Actions

330 Cars

For Her Cars as a Lead designer & developer

🛠 Tools SvelteKit, Sanity, Netlify

Personal Library Site

For Myself as a Lead Doer & Procrasonator

🛠 Tools 11ty, Google Sheets, Netlify, Svelte

CadHub

For CadHub as a Core contributor

🛠 Tools Figma, RedwoodJS, Prisma, FaunaDB

Shakespeare Searcher

For Her Cars as a Lead designer & developer

🛠 Tools Svelte, MIT Shakespeare, Netlify