Arcade W.

I design programs at Hack Club, with a goal to get teenagers to build and ship real software. We call these YSWS ("You Ship, We Ship"), where I've focused on short, themed challenges with a reward on the other end: i.e. ship a project built on randomness and we ship you a custom dice set (Entropy); compose a track in Sonic Pi and it lands on a Bandcamp album (Tape to Tape).Designing one means doing both the incentive design (which is easy) and the infrastructure (harder). For a smaller one, this involves: Astro sites on Cloudflare Pages, GitHub App repo provisioning, Fillout and Vercel APIs, DNS automation, custom review tools, etc.The through-line I try to keep is making computing more fun, and more human. I care about local-first software (CRDTs, data sovereignty, offline-first), mesh networking, and permacomputing, and I volunteer on Folk Computer's projected-AR system. Right now I'm building Lamplight, a note-taking app that squishes Realtalk-style rules together with Datalog (more to come soon!)I keep an open "lab" notebook at arcades.agency/log and /blog On leave from Cornell College (CS & German Studies) for the 2026–27 fellowship year, future education pending.