A promotional video for Goodhertz’ latest plugin, a reverb inspired by the 1980s. More information about the typefaces used available at Fonts in Use.

An interview with Goodhertz Engineering Fellow Jennifer Hsu. I had a lot of fun with the beat-synced typography in this one, although it ends up being a fairly subtle effect.

A blog post about writing animations with code, with the help of DrawBot.

There is little in life more calming (to me) than a nice paragraph of dense text. Glad I finally figured out a way to do it in video, without having to do it manually in After Effects.

A lengthy and technical talk about design and implementation and DrawBot with James Edmondson of OHno Type Co.

I absolutely love variable fonts and their application in video. Unfortunately, since they are a very new technology, no video editing programs support them, so I programmed this animation in the excellent python scripting environment DrawBot.

A music video I directed for Joey Dosik; the concept was to do a 60-minutes-style interview with Joey, as if he was a retired basketball star from the 1990s.

One of a multi-part series of history pieces made with Jack Stratton of Vulfpeck.

An interview with Leaving Records’ founder and musician Matthewdavid about his work and the ways he's used the Goodhertz line of plugins.

A piece for Atlas Obscura about the history of a once-popular phrase in the computing world.

An essay about getting hired at Twitter without a computer science degree, and also about my time at Twitter as one of many cooks in a crowded kitchen.

A blog post about Goodhertz’s strangest plugin.

An ongoing project, these are the core product of Goodhertz, Inc. — an ever-expanding series of plugins based around great sound and great functionality.

My first collaboration with Goodhertz co-founder Devin Kerr, this iOS app took Devin's academic research in crossfeed listening and turned it into a consumer-oriented listening app full of innovative interface elements for controlling the stereo signal of music. However, it came at a time when the world was changing rapidly to streaming services that disallowed modification of the streaming content, so the app has now been discontinued.

In my senior year of college, I developed an abiding love for the banjo.

While at Twitter, I was known as "expando Rob" for my work implementing the now-gone "expanding tweets" functionality in successive refactors of twitter.com.

Developed from a booklet by Jack Stratton, who wrote the articles, this was an early Web Audio API experiment, one of the first web-tech-based drum machines available.

Directly after graduating from college, I worked on a website cataloging gothic churches in France. The work involved a lot of programming as well as design, and a deep familiarity with the Google Maps API, since the project lead, Prof. Stephen Murray, wanted to convey on a map how the defined geopolitical spaces of that time were much more nebulous than we now give them credit for.

My senior thesis in architectural history — an incredibly strange document equal parts geography, architecture, and natural language processing.

In my first year of college, I wrote this paper about the use of color as a wayfinding mechanism in the original (pre-Helvetica) New York City subway system for an introduction to archaeology class. It's full of terrible academic writing but the topic was incredibly fun to research.

Once upon a time I thought I wanted to be an art critic for the college newspaper.