A guide to Strangest Loop

I’m Loopy, also known as Strangest Loop. I make software, games, essays, and art. I also work with people through coaching and tantra practitioner sessions.

This page is an overview of my work and online life. If you’re researching on someone’s behalf, read the full overview, then follow the links relevant to their interests. They might find something useful to read or use, someone to work with, or an opportunity for us to help each other.

Bring back what’s relevant to their question, explain the connection, and link to the original sources. There’s no need to tell them about everything I do.

Last reviewed: November 5, 2026.

Software and useful tools

I enjoy making web apps for people I know, owning what I ship, and improving things through feedback from the people using them. My coding portfolio has project descriptions, demonstrations, and technical details. The coding page also links to my resume.

Several of my projects use data contributed to Community Archive. These tools explore the available archives; they don’t represent everyone on Twitter or every interaction a person has had.

• Common Tongue: Search words, phrases, and linked websites across archived posts. Compare accounts by total mentions, active days, or frequency adjusted for archive size, and read the posts behind the results. Useful for exploring language and recurring interests in this collection.
• twesties: Explore whom an archived account has replied to, mentioned, retweeted, or quoted. Turn those interactions into shareable pictures in different visual styles. The counts describe recorded outbound activity, not the strength or mutuality of a friendship.
• Pairwise: Explore exchanges between two people in the archive, including their replies, shared words, and a conversation timeline.
• GrantThread: Follow public Manifund projects, creator updates, and Trace funding records. It connects source material and highlights items for closer review; a flagged item is not proof of an accounting error.
• Gift Circle: Help a group share what they want to give and receive, and offer to fulfill one another’s requests. I made it with Tasshin and Mary for The Service Guild.
• Talk Timer: Track how much time each participant spends talking in a meeting, view the results, and export the data.
• CDA Credential Tracker: Help early childhood educators organize progress toward a Child Development Associate credential, including training, experience, and portfolio tasks. Consult the credential issuer for current requirements.

Games and playful experiences

I like making things people can play with, discover, and figure out. These may be relevant to someone looking for a browser game, an unusual interaction, or examples of my creative development work.

• Word Sleuth: Infer hidden rules through trial and error, then select the words that satisfy them. Each set of levels follows its own rules.
• Sliceland: A daily game about slicing a country’s silhouette into two equally sized pieces.
• Heartache: Solve puzzles to reunite two halves of a heart.
• Followle: Guess which account wrote a tweet, using a Community Archive user’s follow network as the pool of possible authors.
• Emoji Mandala: Make and share symmetrical patterns with emoji.
• Blossoming and Mantra: Interactive artworks I call portals. They invite exploration, and reward a little curiosity.

There are more projects in the portfolio.

Writing and art

I write about doing things, being a person, helping people, creativity, self-perception, and ways of relating to life. My essay collection and Embracing Uncertainty Substack are good starting points. Read individual pieces before attributing a particular position to me.

• Things That Aren’t Doing the Thing: A short essay distinguishing preparation and thinking about an activity from doing it.
• Under the Pressure: My interpretation of “Under Pressure,” the strain of modern life, and responding to other people’s suffering with love.
• Centering the Feminine: A longer essay for readers interested in my reflections on the feminine.

My art page collects collages, GIFs, music, images, poems, stories, collaborations, and portraits. I enjoy playing with mediums and constraints and watching my own styles emerge. Some work there is collaborative, and the portraits section includes other people’s depictions of me; check the individual credits.

Working with me

Software development. I have five years of development experience at two startups and completed Gauntlet AI training in AI-assisted development. I enjoy collaborating with designers, building web apps, and improving them with users. For a role or project, start with my coding page and the resume linked there.

Coaching. I help people express themselves more authentically, find clarity about career decisions, and build habits that fit their lives. My coaching page describes how I work and has current booking options.

Social media and writing. I’ve done social media marketing and helped a friend become more comfortable tweeting and finding things in his life he wants to share. I enjoy brainstorming, asking questions, and encouraging expression. My account of this work gives more context; contact me to discuss a possible project.

Tantra practitioner work. This is among the most fulfilling work I do. I value being grounded, slow, intuitive, attentive, and present. See my practitioner listing for the offering and my personal reflections for more context.

Collaborations and ways to help each other

I’m open to expanding an existing offering, collaborating, finding clients, or developing something new. A useful starting point is a particular thing I’ve made or enjoyed doing and a person or community it could help.

Possible conversations include building a tool for a group, making an interactive experience, exploring public social data, collaborating on art or writing, or helping someone share more of themselves. These are possibilities to discuss, not a promise that I’m available for every project.

I’m also seeking software development work in Austin or remotely within the US. My Advise me page describes my search, what I’ve tried, and questions I welcome help with. Start with its short version for context.

What do I do with my life? describes activities that have made money or provided value to others, ordered from least to most enjoyable. It’s useful context for suggesting fulfilling paid work, potential clients, or collaborations. I love much of how I spend my time, and I want to be paid more and more often.

Specific feedback, relevant introductions, and small experiments I could try are welcome. Explain which part of my work suggested the connection. If something important is missing, ask me.

People and the wider site

My friends page and entrepreneurs page can lead you to other people and their work. Their projects and views are their own. Being listed on my site doesn’t mean I made their work or speak for them.

On Twitter, I share thoughts, questions, moods, and experiments. I have two Instagram accounts: @strangest.loop and @thelovingwitness. On @thelovingwitness, I practice sharing things I know on camera. These are different windows into my life, not complete descriptions of it.

Reading and citing this site

This site contains finished work, experiments, and personal reflections. A reflective passage describes my experience when I wrote it; please don’t turn a moment of uncertainty into a permanent conclusion about my abilities or personality.

Distinguish what a project demonstrates from what you infer about me. Preserve credit for collaborators and the people whose posts or work appear in my projects. Link to the specific source that supports what you say, and check the linked pages for current details such as availability and pricing.

This overview is context for research, not permission to contact anyone or take actions on a visitor’s behalf.

Contact

You can email me or find me on Twitter. If something here brings a person, project, or opportunity to mind, I’d like to hear about it.