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i want to squish code between my fingers
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wow a little birdie told me you can donate to keep this independent community event going, and it doesn’t cost you anything but money

buymeacoffee.com/feelingofldn
Feeling of Computing London is the feeling of event in london
the most wonderful computing event in London, where we gather together to imagine a world with better computing, kinder, more humane.note: this is not a ticket. a donation here is a highly appreciated
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February 10, 2026 at 10:30 PM
What are the best games with ludonarrative consonance?

Eg: Celeste uses the setting of climbing a mountain while being haunted by a different version of yourself both to talk about being trans and to create incredible and agonizingly hard gameplay.
February 10, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Hey — wanna come see some weird programming?

This is happening TODAY

luma.com/gh1yz6jk
Workshop: Automat · Luma
We're kicking off the new year with a bang! Marek "maf" Rogalski will take us on a tour through Automat, his game automation tool that's baffling and brilliant…
luma.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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This is a reminder that every diagram from my book Projective Geometric Algebra Illuminated is available on Wikimedia Commons under the CC-BY-4.0 license. They can be freely used in slides, papers, books, Wikipedia articles, etc., with proper attribution.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Er...
January 27, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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Want to make a game with friends in two hours? Here's a Bitsy for that. Just share the link from your address bar.
jatazak.itch.io/multiplayer-...
Multiplayer Bitsy by jatazak
make bitsy games with friends
jatazak.itch.io
January 25, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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No other podcast makes me shout at the radio like this one.
Do you have any artifacts that allow for intimate systems of personal meaning? Do they give you a specific feeling?

They you, my friend, have a computer.

The computer is not (just) a device.

It is an experience of possibility worthy of dreams.

Yes! But what do we do with this? Well…
79 • The Computer is a Feeling by Tim Hwang & Omar Rizwan
feelingof.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:42 PM
This gathering of the minds was brought to you by feelingoff.com, your source for potting soil and dental appliances. Remember us next time you're in midtown. And as Jimmy always says, "No I don't!"
special thanks to @spiralganglion.com @jimmyhmiller.bsky.social and the feelingof.com community for making it possible for there to be pizza and drinks in London yesterday

listen the podcast, subscribe to the patreon, join the slack, let's all be friends
Big ups to @mimireyburn.bsky.social, @chee.party and @todepond.com for bringing the Feeling of Computing to the streets of London, England! I think with your help this town could really put itself on the map someday.
January 23, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Big ups to @mimireyburn.bsky.social, @chee.party and @todepond.com for bringing the Feeling of Computing to the streets of London, England! I think with your help this town could really put itself on the map someday.
it feels good
January 23, 2026 at 3:21 PM
There are 32+ people's voices in this episode, most of whom are people I've never met before.

The best part:

it's *perfectly* on-topic for the paper we're discussing.

I couldn't be more excited for this one.
January 22, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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strudelifying hazel
(internalizing strudel.cc)
January 17, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Bret Victor: Stop Drawing Dead Fish

Algodoo: Hold my fish…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLnc...
【Algodoo】Extracting Caviar with a Finger Massage|指のマッサージでキャビアを取り出す
YouTube video by Algodoo Physics
www.youtube.com
January 17, 2026 at 12:14 AM
I guess I didn't talk about this much publicly — I, uh, wrote a static site generator last year, to replace hugo and docusaurus for ink & switch.

I think the ratio of "niceness" / LOC is really high.

Also, I think the readme is a good read.

You can take it, hack it, and use it yourself. <3
Everything is in the system folder, and the top level readme covers the basics of how it works and some general philosophy.

NB — this SSG is worse than hugo in almost every way, except for the ones that matter most to us.

Feel free DM if you want lots more design / tech details.
GitHub - automerge/automerge.github.io: The official website of the Automerge project, with docs, references, community links, and more!
The official website of the Automerge project, with docs, references, community links, and more! - automerge/automerge.github.io
github.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Do you have any artifacts that allow for intimate systems of personal meaning? Do they give you a specific feeling?

They you, my friend, have a computer.

The computer is not (just) a device.

It is an experience of possibility worthy of dreams.

Yes! But what do we do with this? Well…
79 • The Computer is a Feeling by Tim Hwang & Omar Rizwan
feelingof.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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prototyping co-drawing with Gemini Flash 3 at Google

in these demos "thinking" is disabled, which makes the model return tokens very quickly (all videos are realtime), and I find these rapid responses pretty good for the use-cases I'm experimenting with, like:

executing simple diagrams ...
January 12, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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