Maxwell Santoro
I'm Maxwell. I make things slowly.
Math, code, furniture, illustration, archives, whatever has my attention.
Most of it has never left my desk. This site is where that starts to change.
Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Long timelines. Open source, mostly MIT.
Active Now
Current activity is software-heavy: ries-rs, dotrepo, and GK5 are the things moving in public right now. That's the active edge, not the whole site.
Featured Projects
Selected work
Long Shots
I'm taking swings at a few open problems with prizes attached — Millennium Problems, the EFF prime-number bounties, a few others. Probably won't win. The attempts are the point.
In solemn session
The Hall of Internet Greatness
A personal archive of things I think are worth preserving
The Grand Permanence Medal
For doing more than almost anyone else to ensure the web does not dissolve into rumor.
Internet Archive / Wayback Machine
The single most important institutional memory system on the public web: a vast archive of pages, media, software, and vanished internet history.
The Order of Regional Broadcast Immortality
For preserving the exact moment local news crossed into permanent internet myth.
The Original Crichton Leprechaun News Story
An immortal local-news segment from Mobile, Alabama that became one of the early web's great viral videos.
Writing
Essays, technical notes, and writeups
Claim Your Repo with dotrepo
The shortest maintainer path in dotrepo: start a canonical `.repo`, run the local trust loop, and line it up with the public surface.