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.

Notes34See all

Open source is a corporate goldmine

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markets incentivize hiding costs

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toss out the idea of waste

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Trying out a custom 34-key split keyboard layout

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how I want to take reading notes

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natural hierarchies grow from the bottom up

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"Material Rituals with the Other" reading notes

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Markets will always make the sensible or eco-friendly solution premium

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it's the stuff in between that's important

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Books51See all

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

In Praise of Walking

In Praise of Walking

by Shane O'Mara

Negative Ethnicity

Negative Ethnicity

by Koigi Wa Wamwere

Inclusive Components

Inclusive Components

by Heydon Pickering

Whiplash

Whiplash

by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe

Projects8See all

Personal Website

For Myself as a Writer + developer

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

ringofkeys.org

For Ring of Keys as a Lead Developer

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

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