Michael Felix

Goochland, Virginia

I build things, write about stuff, and take pictures of clouds. Currently an AI Product Engineer at Gleam. Previously CTO & Co-Founder of Slope Clinical. LinkedIn ↗

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Slow-Mo Rainbow ↗

Send a rainbow in the mail, one postcard at a time

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Three Kind Words ↗

Three postcards, three weeks, each with one kind word

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Joy in making ›

Simplicity from complexity

Story Sep 2026
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Just get the colonoscopy ›

It's not that bad

Story Jun 2026
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Drizzlepaint ↗

Paint by number, but with glitter, & no ads

Studio Jun 2026
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Shipping good software will always be hard ›

Blood, bones, mortar, and ripping out your own foundation

Story Jun 2026
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Software makes software (that makes software) ›

The new town, the old ways

Story Jun 2026
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The world needs more designers ›

LIVING SOFTWARE with a HEART will always hit DIFFERENT

Story May 2026
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Build with, not for ›

Why software should be designed WITH the people who use it

Story May 2026
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Say you can't (and you never will) ›

Hyped manta for optimal lifestyle entanglement

Story Apr 2026
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Free Association ↗

Creative team warm-up tool for rapid-fire word association exercises

Studio Mar 2026
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Curious, patient, & stubborn ›

The bottleneck moved upstream

Story Mar 2026
Mr. Animation
Mr. Animation ↗

Paper-doll style sprite animation tool

Studio Feb 2026
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Chromadrift ↗

Animated shader backgrounds for Ghostty terminal

Studio Feb 2026
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Quibble ↗

CLI tool for AI-powered adversarial document review

Studio Feb 2026
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TR-3B Simulator ↗

1 player flight simulator, works best on a smartphone

Studio Jan 2026
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Kirby Sky Jumpers ↗

2 player desktop game, built with my kids

Studio Jan 2026
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Alien Abducto-rama ↗

1 player desktop game, built with my kids

Studio Jan 2026
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May your tokens be blessed ›

On burning tokens for joy

Story Jan 2026
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AI is a gift of fire ›

It warmed us, fed us, then burned us alive

Story Jan 2026
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The quiet work of changing your mind ›

Is that hill worth dying on?

Story Aug 2025
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A blog is like a gillnet ›

One way of casting thoughts into the world

Story Jul 2025
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Quality & taste ›

Two things that make you unique

Story Jun 2025
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How I started to run ›

Slow and steady makes things happen

Story Jun 2025
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Domekit ↗

3D-printed connectors for geodesic domes. Kickstarter funded.

Studio Jun 2013
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Velosynth ↗

Control a synthesizer with your bicycle. Kickstarter funded.

Studio Sep 2012

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