Feeling of Computing is an online community with a welcoming, cooperative, and revolutionary spirit. We are unified in the belief that the computer is tragically less humane than it could be. There’s a world of possibilities that get more beautiful the further away from the norm you go. We’re here to explore this world together, to discuss ideas about theory and practice, and to champion and support our members’ research and development efforts to reimagine the computer.
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View and subscribe to events from Feeling of Computing on Luma. The London branch of the Feeling of Computing community (formerly Future of Coding). The computer is tragically less humane than it could be. We imagine a kinder, more beautiful computer.
Alexander Obenauer
Exploring new and renewed ideas for how personal computing and the interfaces we think with can better serve people’s lives – expanding opportunity, agency, curiosity, and creativity.
A small matter of programming: perspectives on end user computing
A Small Matter of Programming asks why it has been so d…
Augment
A collection of essays on the future of personal computing — specifically, on the kind we’d like to see more of in the future, and the ideas that might help us get there.
The Interfaces With Which We Think
The concepts in modern operating systems — apps, windows, desktops, notifications, and so on — have so permeated our understanding of personal computing, it’s hard to imagine anything else, let alone believe there could be anything better.
Our interfaces have lost their senses
We programmed them by punching cards, plugging in wires, and flipping switches. Programmers walked among banks of switches and cables, physically choreographing their logic. Being on a computer used to be a full-body experience.
Optimistic Computing
I recently made two new friends: Abhinav Omprakash and Dawn Walker. Abhinav said I’m an optimist and I should write about it. Dawn said I shouldn’t try to coin any new terms. I should know better, but this essay follows Abhinav’s recommendation — and credits Dawn, in the very likely event I should have followed her advice instead. I have been alive for approximately four decades. Each of those decades was witness to its own fun brand of computering.
Basic | The Personal Computing Platform
We build products, tools, and standards to make computers more personal.
Post-app computing
Imagining computing beyond siloed, rigid apps
Liberatory Computing
A community seeking to catalyze discontent with the state of computing by understanding the roles of production, labor, and power in shaping the foundations of digital systems. libcomp.org
User-tailorable systems: pressing the issues with buttons
everest-pipkin.com
Wesley Finck (@wesleyfinck.org)
What is Malleable Software Now | Bryan Min (02-27-2026)
Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies
Agents vs Operating Systems : The War That Could Kill Apps
Phil Agre's Home Page
It was a huge honor to present the opening keynote address at #SIGIR2026 and to talk about the need for IR to resist uncritical adoption of…
We Refuse, We Want, We Commit: Volume 1
Informatics of the Oppressed
On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse
tante (@tante.cc)