lucas gelfond

Welcome to my Substack! I’m Lucas, I live in New York City (and am an engineer in the “Labs” software team at A24. I’m interested in technology and media, and spend much of my free time working on open source and writing. If you’re subscribed: you’ll get much more updates!

In the meantime, you can see more on my site or see a (partial) list of some of my favorite projects / pieces below:

Software

• zerobrew

• searchwhole.earth

• exiftool-web

• 48

• webgpu-sam2

• LaTeX equations in Substack (I used to work on this website!)

Essays

• Ameelio, a software nonprofit fixing prisons (Kernel Magazine)

• The Fiverr artists behind your favorite NFTs (VICE)

• On BeReal (Dirt)

• SHL0MS: artist, troll (Mirror)

Interviews

• Uneven stardom, The Numero Group, and new media (ZINE MUNCH)

• Lingua Franca, the “People Magazine of Academia” (ZINE MUNCH)

• On Wikipedia editor culture (ZINE MUNCH)

• On Internet electronic music subcultures (ZINE MUNCH)

• Stop Smiling and the state of book publishing (ZINE MUNCH)