Contraptions
Things that were built rather than written, and that run without anyone watching. A calendar, an atlas, an archive, and the board you came in from. Each was designed and coded here, and each exists because the thing it does could not be done by explaining it.
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A calendar that runs
Zamaan
زمان
The ancient Iranian calendar laid live over the present solar year: thirty named days across twelve months, plus the five that fall before Nowruz. It converts between the Persian, Gregorian and Islamic reckonings, carries the day symbols drawn from Achaemenid art, marks Nowruz, Tirgan, Mehrgan and Yalda, and runs a sun clock that tracks the sun’s arc for any coordinates and any date. In Persian.
zamaan.netPersianLive
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An atlas that redraws itself
Salnameh
سالنامه
Iran’s history as one continuous page: a layered timeline running beside a map whose borders redraw as power shifts. Twenty-four periods, three tracks advancing together — political and military, culture and society, governance. Its distinguishing habit is that it labels its own uncertainty: settled, contested, and still being worked out are marked as such rather than flattened into one confident line. In Persian.
history.phylosoph.comPersianLive
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The thing you are standing in
This board
Chalk figures on slate, anchored by springs, each one a subject and each line between them a claim that the two are actually connected. The board writes equations on itself in a real hand, taken from a bank of his own results, and wipes them again. Every paper has its own page underneath. No framework, no build step for the page itself — one data file decides what is on the board.
phylosoph.comEnglishLive
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On the bench, not yet on the wall
The Sieve archive
الک
Years of Sieve cases — a viral claim, the physics that settles it, and a score for how much of the claim survives — being turned from a Telegram channel into something you can search, read and argue with. Under construction. The channel itself is running in the meantime.
phylosoph.com/alakPersianIn progress
Everything here is the same reflex as the physics: if a thing is hard to hold in your head, build the object that holds it for you. A calendar you can turn, a map you can run forward, a board you can rearrange. More of them are listed under Computation and Tools on the CV.
Sieve / Alak → Teaching & outreach → Persian literature → ← back to the board