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

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!

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...

Tell me who to add to this #ProgrammingLanguages go.bsky.app/KPyf9X8

New on esoteric codes: yayimhere, creator of Karvity and Utral, whose work studies the strange contradictions of minimalist systems esoteric.codes/blog/yayimhe...

cursed knowledge: NeXT logos don't stack

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.

Loved listening to this long, insightful, and entertaining critique of Turing's famous paper. pca.st/episode/d565...

@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...

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...

New Alan Kay talk — 75 Years of Graphical User Interfaces www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS20...

This is the best puzzle game I played last year. I played it on my phone — highly recommend it!

you think that's bad? look at the one I got

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.

"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...

It's the ur rule-discovery game. Pure mechanical bewilderment. Don't play it if you speak both Portuguese and German.

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!

FoC London returns in January! Come along :)) luma.com/qe8iexzs?tk=...

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!

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

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.

"Apropos of nothing" is now an anti-indicator of the nothingness to which it is apropos.

If for some reason you want to see how I edit a podcast, here's a stream with commentary: www.twitch.tv/videos/26432...

i’m listening

@omar.website hug of death news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4618...

I believe Trump is a self serving authoritarian who's dismantling democracy, trying to make trans people illegal, and wanting to set up concentration camps for immigrants - whereas Jon in February called him "the best President we have had in my entire life".

Additionally, in recent years it has become increasingly clear that Jon’s beliefs/priorities and mine are not aligned. He’s adversarial to people talking about privilege and representation, is dismissive of diversity efforts, has dabbled in covid trutherism, and is pro-MAGA.

That said, I hope the game will get a more nuanced label than “new Jon Blow game”. While the creative vision is his, he didn’t make any of the original games and there are a lot of talented people at Thekla who also deserve credit.

Heyy anyone in my network want to join @khanacademy.org on the Khan Kids team? Fullstack, SE II, remote (US/Canada). It's a super fun team building amazing things for kids, with a strong emphasis on helping under-resourced kids reach their full potential. (RT for reach 🙏)

New zoom warning. Because you can't zoom out once your "scale" gets to "NaN". #automat #gamedev #motiondesign

ALAN DYE IS OUT!! youtube.com/watch?v=kPId...

vr dataglove & software (1989) archive.org/details/logi...

The slickness!

Performant Syntax highlighting with CSS.highlights API and OhmJs How to generate small & performant syntax highlighting for your languages using OhmJs and the new CSS.highlights API www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3jK... Repo: github.com/marianoguerr... Demo: marianoguerra-atik.github.io/ohm-highlight/

if you're in SF and have nothing to do on a thursday, right now, this is rightnow, and there are typewriters, and from the photos is looks like Todd is there, he's great, you should go say "hi Todd"

If local-first aims to reconstruct software without needing the cloud by inverting ideas data ownership, credible exit, reliance of authoritative servers, software longevity, etc. than the co-option that I think is happening is energy of local-first will be funneled towards sync engines...

Let's say I'm ready to learn category theory. Let's say. Where the hell do I even start?

Talk to me about my "1000 FPS is magic" hot take.

I won't be there, but a lot (a lot) of other I&S folks will. If you're in town, get down!

This game has one of the smoothest difficulty curves I've ever felt in a "puzzle sickos" game. I've been stumped for the exactly correct amount of time by every single puzzle. It's a quite the feat. Highest recommendation. (I'm playing on my phone, but I'm sure other platforms would be good too.)

I'm looking to hire someone to help me build KCL! It's a programming lang for 3D design that we're making at Zoo. You'd be working closely with me on the KCL interpreter, the CAD API it calls, and our mechanical engineers. This is a Rust-heavy role. DM me any questions. zoo.dev/jobs/4619187...

There is something truly remarkable about Generative AI. Several years in this revolution, half of the US GDP dumped to make these tools free, and i can't think of a single generated artifact, text, image, sound, video that had a significant cultural impact.

I won't be at this one, but you should be! The SF talk was fun and drew a lovely crowd.

if you didnt see it yesterday we're running a public beta for our windows 95 themed powerpoint factory game in november. you can sign up here: subscribepage.io/C1erpq #gamedev #indiegame

I'm going to be at this too! SF folks, come celebrate weird ways to compute.

🫠 automerge.org The new Automerge website is live!! The biggest (smallest) surprise? How fun it was to build the demo! Automerge is so robust, it withstood all our weird ideas — like using physics-driven particles to literally push changes between docs — and it just worked. Perfectly. Every time.

We have a shiny new website courtesy of @spiralganglion.com and @seaofclouds.com 🙌 🚀 Check it out: automerge.org

so, the core of the dark object system is that every "game object" is made up of a bunch of properties and links. properties are just tables of data keyed by object id, more or less like all ecs systems have now. but links are the really cool bit.

Would love to see this get some traction in gamedev circles. Pass it on!