Mu-An Chiou

A software designer and engineer. Makes modest websites. Member of the Anti JavaScript JavaScript Club.

Lives in Taipei, Taiwan, and sometimes in Berlin (now). Previous home bases include New York, London, and Birmingham, UK.

As recent as Apr 18, 2026, self-employed. Sleeps, codes, crafts, makes dice, learns German, watches too many video essays, and contributes accessibility and civic causes through advocacy and tech.


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a close up of roses climbing up a wall on the street a cubby tabby kitten sitting under a car a tall ornamented brick church with a pointed roof in a shade of oxidized copper (greenish cyan). a brick wall with a staircase, wooden railings with green decorative metal fixtures. a group of white metal structure with vertical orange lights as fluorescent over light at night a white icon of a fire extinguisher in a matte red square on a black maintenance box with visible wear a parking sign on a pole in German heavily covered by moss in front of a tree an overground train tracks next to a stop light with a mirror reflecting trees on the street, Berlin tv tower can be seen in the background A red brick building’s entrance with angled walls with a white band about one meter height from the floor, a sunny day, trees and blue sky in the background a tabby cat sitting on a table against a coffee station backdrop with big windows

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a plant, dried flowers, espresso machine, and a coffee grinder on a window sill in a greyish scene a statue of an ice cream cone in front of a kiosk a tree next to a white mostly rectangular building with sign, WOHNUNGS GENOSSENSCHAFT DESSAU. a metal gate with a swirl design in front of a unevenly tile wall going downwards a woman wearing stripe sweater and sneakers taking a picture of themselves in the glass reflection on a tram a person in a black shirt cooking in a kitchen a window with a display of fan blades A woman swinging on a swing facing a canal a tabby cat sitting on the floor with sunlight on her face and a white plastic bowl with an orange ball inside a tabby cat lying on a chair with a Iggy Pop tee on the back

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I’m not interested in your AI art.

Went to an art museum today and the “art” on display has multiple extremely surface level AI usage, which were disclosed, but also just so obvious that I knew without reading the plate. They were framed as “commentary” on the zeitgeist. I rolled my eyes so far back. It feels like CJ Henry designing plastic throwaway toys with AI and calling it a commentary on Labubu consumption while making bank off it.

Where is the commentary? Doing a trash thing while framing it as art does not automatically grant it thoughtfulness.

I posted that quote regarding the industrial revolution & design that said it “necessarily called for this era’s change of taste,” while that I think deserve examination, I find it incredibly difficult to adapt to slop.

It getting easier to make stuff does not mean all stuff needs to be made. Though I guess we are too far gone now.

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