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Since You Arrived

5 volumes / sinceyouarrived.world

Single-page works built with real data and hand-written prose.

Five single-page works, an estimated 650,000 readers, and the studio that made them. The series remains live, free, and unmonetized.

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Taken, the fourth volumeMay 2026
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Software

3 products in active use

Software products from the studio. A small number of commissioned interactive works each year.

What people said

loved the tone, typography and disclosure.

Miguel de IcazaFounded GNOME · Created MonoMastodon

I'll put it in an upcoming edition.

Cory Doctorow, EFF · Enshittification (2025)

A web page that shows how much data your browser can collect.

Jason Kottke, Since 1998

A web page that simply shows you the info your browser sends.

Peter Suber, Open Access movement

Everyone should know this.

Brandy Schillace, BMJ Medical Humanities

A great advertisement for running a VPN.

Derek Powazek, Fray (1996) · Blogger pre-Google

Oh my. This is spectacular.

Ross Floate, Floate Design Partners

Why was the web designed so a website gets so much information?

Jill Walker Rettberg, University of Bergen · ERC

A real public service, genuinely.

Graham W. Jenkins, American Security Project

A Black-Mirror-esque zine based on data.

Chris Silverman, Writer at Shortform

The way you presented the information was fantastic storytelling.

Mark Beare, Malwarebytes

An Ian McKellen impersonator doing a dramatic reading of your HTTP request headers.

phooky, MetaFilter
The full list, including 31 publications and 4 pieces made in response, lives at /press.
Commissioned interactive work

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Have a subject your audience needs to feel, not just understand? Rise Up Labs accepts a small number of commissions. We read everything.

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