Colin Sherrill

Senior research data scientist at Google

Off the clock I make small, self-contained things for the web. This site collects them, along with occasional notes.

Data science

text-steganography

A Python library for lossless text steganography and fingerprinting. Design stage; the documents are the project so far.

Undiary

The diary you don’t keep. Speak or type, and the filing happens to it: transcription, tags, a watchlist for project ideas, search. One user so far, on purpose.
undiary.com · source
FOSAIC

Set any picture in stone. Drop in a photo and it comes back a Roman mosaic: irregular tesserae, grout and all, computed entirely in your browser.
fosaic.com

TINDERBOX

A man is burning some things: letters, bills, worse. You decide what the fire gets and what the keepsake box keeps. The fire takes the paper. The paper was never the problem.
tinderbox.colin.sh
Pindifferent

Like Pinterest, but at peace with it. A pixel-faithful parody whose guided tour slowly, gently talks you out of the entire concept.
pindifferent.com
Just Press Right

An award-winning game. Press right, and a man walks right. You will be interrupted. You will be celebrated. Mostly interrupted.
justpressright.com
Alder Box

A quiet interactive story: someone else’s keepsake box, opened one object at a time while an old friend tells you what each one meant.
alderbox.com
What’s the Price of a Stamp?

A different famous website every time you load it, with the current price of a US postage stamp hidden somewhere inside.
whatsthepriceofastamp.com
man.cat

man cat is a real command. The site is what it prints: the manual for the household cat, and one for you, as maintained by the cat kernel team.
man.cat
FISHMASH

FaceMash, except the candidates are fish and several of them are dinner. Ten verdicts, one housing ledger, no appeals.
fishmash.cc
JokeJudge

Jury duty for jokes. Nine cases, two exhibits each. Every verdict you return is quietly entered into evidence, and when your service ends, the court rules on you.
jokejudge.com

A microblog: short posts on what I’m working on, links worth keeping, and the occasional aside. Click a title to expand it.