Elliot.Website

Hi, I'm Elliot. I've recently been doing:

contract work
a research residency at ink & switch

Keep scrolling to see some of my previous work on the web.

Please feel free to contact me by sending an e-letter to vez at duck dot com, or on linkedin.

research Droste's Lair

A promo screenshot of the linked article

2024 - an experimental visual programming environment (which takes place in a dungeon). Made in collaboration with Josh Horowitz.

research Live Programming a Live Programming Environment

2024 - Researched and prepared a paper with Nextjournal to appear at the 2024 LIVE workshop.

creative code Bluefish.js example diagrams

2024 - I programmed a varied collection of example diagrams for Bluefish.js. Diagrams were colored by Catherine Mei.

articles Exploring Spaces

A promo screenshot of the linked articles

2024 onwards - Let's explore some mathematical spaces!

research My 2023 Projects

2023 - In 2023 I took a lot of time off of work to focus on mental and physical health and research. Here's the projects I worked on.

research Polytope

2022 onwards - A research project about combining text and visual programming.

article What is Dev Like at a Canadian Startup?

2022 - An article I wrote about my previous workplace, Opslock.

presentation What if you could see qubits!? 👀

2021 - A talk from PIQUE's 1 year anniversary event.

web Qubit Playground Notebook

2021 - An interactive article that lets you play around with the basics of Quantum Circuits.

web The Akita Project

A screenshot of the landing page of the Akita browser extension.

A screenshot of the content of 'A Web Monetization Story'

2020 to 2021 - A project to help cultivate the open and inclusive online payments community with Sharon Wang. Received $20000 USD funding to work on this as a side project for a year.

web Epistemic Logic Playground

2020 - My final project for non-classical logic. A playground for exploring modal epistemic logic.

web Joyride

A screenshot of the start of the joyride website

A screenshot of the middle of the joyride website

2019 - Development and design in collaboration with Max Kurapov for Joyride.

web All of Her Business

A screenshot of the landing page of all of her business, which features a large picture of Jana Boyko

2019 - Development and design in collaboration with Max Kurapov for All of Her Business.

article Creative Travel

A watercolor painting of a globe with exageratedly-sized buildings on it

The text 'or sit, pause, and listen to your surroundings' and 3 watercolor paintings: one of a montreal city street, one of a city skyline in the rain, and one of a park in the summer.

2019 - An interactive article. Development, design, and watercolor art in collaboration with Max Kurapov.

web 4Birds

A screenshot of the 4birds website landing page

2019 - Development for the 4Birds team at the European Innovation Academy in Lisbon, Portugal.

article Visualizing Process With ES6 Generators

A screenshot of Visualizing Process With ES6 Generators article

2018 - An interactive article. Learn how to use Javascript ES6 Generators creatively.

article Making the World From Scratch

A screenshot of the Making the World From Scratch article

2017 - An interactive article. Follow my process in creating a globe using Javascript.

other CAMP festival CAMPfire hologram

A photo of the CAMP festival venue, with people sitting facing a stage, and featuring the CAMPfire hologram installation in the middle of the room

2016 - An interactive fire installation featured at the center of the CAMP festival in Calgary, Alberta. I developed the hologram software. I used WebGL and the leap motion API. The flame grew as the audience made noise, and shrunk when a hand was above it.