Alexander Obenauer @alexobenauer

I explore the interfaces with which we think & the future of personal computing. I also make books. alexanderobenauer.com NH Joined May 2008

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4 days ago

Recent additions to the library. Thanks for the recommendations @codexeditor, @pete_millspaugh, @alexwarth, and @Paul_Rony

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a week ago

This year, I’ve been building a user environment that reifies personal computing of the kind I’ve explored for the last several years — something I can fully live in. I'm kicking off a series of lab reports that take a deep dive into this environment's implementation.

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2 weeks ago

Roughly a quarter of the first ten years of Sarah and my marriage was spent on (very) long road trips. This had some interesting effects on how we experienced the passage of time, and the associations of places with times improved my (typically poor) recall of memories from then

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2 weeks ago

Prototyping zines

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3 weeks ago

carpe noctem

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3 weeks ago

I have enjoyed my work at the computer significantly more since starting to bind books daily. Not that I didn’t enjoy it before, but there’s some kind of forced balance that I think I needed.

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a month ago

I have enjoyed my work at the computer significantly more since starting to bind books daily. Not that I didn’t enjoy it before, but there’s some kind of forced balance that I think I needed.

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3 weeks ago

Simply following one's curiosity — even when it seems unproductive to do so — is wildly underestimated as an activity that moves the human race forward. Feynman's spinning plates led to his Nobel prize.

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2 months ago

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a month ago

This week: Making books and watching deer.

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2 months ago

The system Smith went on to describe (for programming by demonstration) in part elicited some fascinating thoughts from Alan Kay:

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2 months ago

There are some interesting answers to this question! Plan 9 had some ideas around distributed user environments and mechanisms for making use of the various computers and other devices from one space: youtube.com/watch?v=N3paky… What are some others?