Software from Glasgow
Enter01 / Experiments
Two browser experiments look at the same question from opposite ends: how much can grow from a few small rules?
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Life from first principles.
Artificial life running on the GPU. Thousands of particles form membranes, hunters and whole ecosystems, with inherited genomes allowing species to split and drift. The World Composer lets you reshape the habitat while it is alive.
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A galaxy that remembers.
A living galaxy built from a 32-bit seed. Across 1,400 stars, planets form, grow ecologies and civilisations, and remember what happens to them. Zoom from the galaxy to a generated surface while reversible orbital mechanics keep the system honest.
02 / Work
Humbug Labs makes and runs software from Glasgow. The work ranges from hospitality systems to a band site and a map that works on a hillside.
06Exhibits
04Live sites
02Browser experiments
01Glasgow workshop
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Scheduling that solves itself.
Rota software for hospitality teams. Instead of recording a rota someone already worked out, it works the rota out itself, using a constraint solver behind a plain interface. Around that sits the ordinary machinery of a paid product: accounts, billing, attendance, security audits and a written data-rights process.
Open project ↗
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A home for a Glasgow band.
Website for the Glasgow band The Dunts: releases, live dates, the lot. A static site, quick to load, with nothing in the way of the music.
Open project ↗
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Every bothy in Scotland, in your pocket.
A map of Scotland's bothies. It installs like an app, keeps working on a hillside with one bar of signal, and covers the full Mountain Bothies Association network along with the informal shelters.
Open project ↗
06 / Smaller utility
Nine focused tools for restaurant teams, built to work quickly on a phone behind the bar.
03 / Tools
The working parts behind the projects, from the database to the browser. Chosen to be understood, maintained and used in production.
04 / Contact
Tell us what you're working on.