Philo's Homepage

Hi, I'm Philomena (Филоме́на)!

Welcome to my homepage!

I'm some sort of witch who takes photos (often on film), writes stories, and occasionally touches computers

Some things I've made and done that I think are cool, in no particular order:

oscilloscope drawings
network stack hackery
OpenTTD mods:
- Brick Industries, a newGRF with severe balance issues that I wrote while sleep-deprived (works only in toyland; I do not recommend playing it)
- Unhinged Massachusetts Town Names, a town name newGRF that Tris and I built based on her town name generator
Long Lines photography
- I've visited a fair number of Bell System Long Lines towers around New York and New England and marked them on the map
phone phreaking CTF challenges
Fiction
- I've written a whole bunch of stories, ranging from microfic to 9,000 word epics, mostly about lesbians, witches, and robots
- as a starting point, I'd recommend this fictional Wikipedia article about Assembly Square or this story of lesbian cyborgs
- if you'd like to read about what inspired me/some suggestions of a reading list, I've written up a rambling mess of one here
a deep dive into photography in the Bell System
reverse-engineering of a MBTA red line indicator with Tris Wilson
a fish that can be used to pay MBTA fares
rotating.boston, a spinning 3D model of Boston City Hall
- I also wrote a blog post about how I made it

Under no circumstances may any material distributed through this website – textual, photographic, or otherwise – be used in any blockchain-related technology, including, but not limited to non-fungible tokens, cryptocurrency, or future innovations in that technological space.

I'm on Mastodon (Taco Bell Labs), BlueSky, and GitHub if you'd like to see more of my projects and bad posts.

I was on Cohost (rip) as @spork and Twitter as @Flaming_Spork, but no longer post on either.

If you'd like to keep up with my writing outside of social media, I have a RSS feed

My very cool friends: