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Ivan Reese
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i want to squish code between my fingers
@inkandswitch.com Δ feelingof.com Δ ivanish.ca
For real life?
January 11, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Thrilled to announce that on wed the 28th, @mrogalski.eu will deliver a workshop on Automat, his exquisite programming system that looks like something out of a dream.

Event details and RSVP: luma.com/gh1yz6jk
January 8, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Disappointed to find that the Exploratorium's website doesn't have any explorables on it.

The Computer History Museum website has a browsable catalog that actually feels like a website for a museum.

The Exploratorium ought to have a website that feels like a website for an exploratorium!
Experience the Exploratorium at Pier 15 | Exploratorium
Experience the Exploratorium. Let your curiosity roam free through hundreds of exhibits in our six spacious indoor and outdoor galleries at Pier 15, San Francisco.
www.exploratorium.edu
January 7, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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The AFOLs in the comments seem to really hate this thing, but it's fun to see Lego basically productizing tangible programming research.

alumni.media.mit.edu/~mcnerney/mc...
January 7, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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Tell me who to add to this #ProgrammingLanguages go.bsky.app/KPyf9X8
November 15, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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New on esoteric codes: yayimhere, creator of Karvity and Utral, whose work studies the strange contradictions of minimalist systems

esoteric.codes/blog/yayimhe...
January 5, 2026 at 5:30 PM
cursed knowledge: NeXT logos don't stack
January 5, 2026 at 11:54 AM
It's so good you should pay for it, but so cold you don't have to.

Both of these, because Alan is a cool cat.
Brr! London is chilly overnight, and A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build is FREE because of our ridiculous Pay What The Temperature Is pricing model.
draknek.itch.io/a-good-snowman
Get it before it's hot!
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build by Draknek & Friends, Benjamin Davis
Pay what the temperature is: -0.2°C = FREE!
draknek.itch.io
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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Loved listening to this long, insightful, and entertaining critique of Turing's famous paper. pca.st/episode/d565...
Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing (feat. Felienne Hermans)
pca.st
January 2, 2026 at 11:30 PM
@redblobgames.com year in review, on choosing projects:

"Is it that I want it done?
Is it that I want to be doing it?
Is it that I want to have done it?

There are times I want to have done something, but when I sit down to do it, I don't actually want to."

<3

www.redblobgames.com/blog/2025-12...
What I did in 2025
www.redblobgames.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Here's a little spatial / tangible tool I made to explore an algorithm with my hands and eyes.

I saw an error diffusion matrix on wikipedia and it looked vaguely like a circle, so I built this board game-inspired tool to feel out just how spatial it actually was.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vZc...
December 2025
YouTube video by Feeling of Computing
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January 1, 2026 at 4:42 AM
New Alan Kay talk — 75 Years of Graphical User Interfaces

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS20...
GUIと歩んだ75年 ~私の見てきたユーザーインターフェース~【アラン・ケイ 氏】POST Dev 2025|ニジボックス主催
YouTube video by 株式会社ニジボックス
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December 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This is the best puzzle game I played last year. I played it on my phone — highly recommend it!
December 28, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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you think that's bad? look at the one I got
December 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
"Feeling off Computing" is the patreon bonus for the Feeling of Computing podcast. (Shh: I like it better than the main feed.)

We do an annual "best of the year & future predictions" episode.

We did one this year. It's *insane* — and it's free for all!

www.patreon.com/posts/146699...
All of the False Ones | Feeling of Computing
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December 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It's the ur rule-discovery game. Pure mechanical bewilderment. Don't play it if you speak both Portuguese and German.
ATTENTION BSKY: in celebration of Cinco Paus Day's Eve, please message me if you'd like a free copy of the best game ever made. :)

smestorp.itch.io/cinco-paus

Also TSLOG are doing an amazing series of podcasts on Michael's games:
eggplant.show

PLEASE REPOST! OR RE-SKEET! WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!! :)
Cinco Paus by Michael Brough
Available for Windows, macOS
smestorp.itch.io
December 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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I'm leaving @tldraw.com to enter the world of contracting.

From January, I'll be prototyping contributor tools at @wikipedia.org

My next availability is June!
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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FoC London returns in January! Come along :))
luma.com/qe8iexzs?tk=...
I'm excited to announce that we're bringing back the Future of Coding events in London, with the first happening in January.

@mimireyburn.bsky.social and @chee.party and I will keep these regular under the new and updated name: FEELING OF COMPUTING

luma.com/qe8iexzs
Feeling of Computing London | January 2026 · Luma
Welcome to the 16th edition of the London Feeling of Computing meetup! formerly known as Future of Coding New year, new computer. Can you imagine a world with…
luma.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Very happy to announce I’ve officially joined as a researcher @inkandswitch.com to work on malleable software!

I’ve also been doing lots of quiet work on @folkjs.org with @chrisshank.com and look forward to sharing more of that soon too!
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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I didn’t sign the Resonant Computing Manifesto. This blog post explains why, and what I think it would need to change to meaningfully shift how computing is practiced.
#DesignJustice #MovementTechnology
December 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I wish that, instead of making all our UIs out of glass, we'd instead added a *tiny* bit of motion blur to all our UIs.

When stuff scrolls, and (because of vision persistence, frame blending, pixel transition time, etc) I see multiple sharp copies of the scrolling stuff… that looks and feels bad.
December 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"Apropos of nothing" is now an anti-indicator of the nothingness to which it is apropos.
December 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
If for some reason you want to see how I edit a podcast, here's a stream with commentary: www.twitch.tv/videos/26432...
editing foc AGAIN - spiralganglion on Twitch
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December 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM