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Niel de la Rouviere: links

Selected records trace Silhouette and the artist’s broader practice across generative art, software, and public technical writing.

14 sources · last updated 2026-07-11

In the AB[500]: Art Blocks

Art Blocks records Silhouette as a Factory collection of 400 unique artworks released on 8 March 2022.

Silhouette collection · 2022

Interviews

The 21 July 2022 Minters & Makers episode features Niel de la Rouviere, 0xphiiil, and Itu in Art Blocks’ weekly artist program.

Minters & Makers interview · 2022

Essays, talks and podcasts

De la Rouviere reflects on receiving part of his salary in bitcoin and his earlier cryptocurrency development.

Getting Paid in Bitcoin essay · 2015

De la Rouviere examines transparency, security, and the possibility of opening a production codebase.

Open Source Our Code Base essay · 2017

His account of Buffer’s Content Suggestions describes an incremental product-development process.

Content Suggestions essay · 2014

His essay on mentoring connects workplace listening practices with personal relationships.

Mentoring and Relationships essay · 2016

Profiles and archives

Raster aggregates Niel de la Rouviere's tokenized works across platforms.

Raster profile · ongoing

Art Blocks maintains a dedicated artist record linking de la Rouviere to Silhouette.

Art Blocks artist record profile · current

OpenSea’s collection-traits record indexes the named generative parameters used by Silhouette.

Silhouette traits project archive · current

Buffer’s team announcement documents de la Rouviere’s South African background and front-end engineering role.

Buffer team profile profile · 2013

Buffer’s author page indexes seven essays by de la Rouviere.

Author archive archive · ongoing

Mozilla archives Quick Maths, a compact calculator extension built by de la Rouviere.

Quick Maths software archive · 2019

Mozilla documents de la Rouviere’s browser extension for monitoring Ethereum transaction fees.

Ethereum Gas Price Extension software archive · 2021

A GitHub Gist preserves technical documentation for de la Rouviere’s HanziJS language-processing toolkit.

HanziJS code archive · 2013

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