The Atmosphere, Explained - Erlend’s notes

Erlend Sogge Heggen (@erlend.sh)

hey so, @roomy.space is now generally available for real-world use! 🥳 make atmospheric group spaces for friends & community, chat in real-time, progressively structure emergent topics into evergreen threads and cultivate enduring knowledge.

ATmosphere Report #147 - Year's end reflections - Connected Places

Some themes I'm watching for 2026: censorship resistance, the politics of interoperable spaces, and who gets to shape how atproto talks about itself.

Mu for democracy - Erlend’s notes

designing for social cohesion

David Hawkins-Weeks (@hawkinsweeks.eurosky.social) - Leaflet

Read and publish on the Atmosphere

Idea Nation | Alexandre Plennevaux 🇧🇪🇪🇺 | Offprint

Visualize (and edit) your Atmosphere account's stored data.

atbbs

Bulletin boards on the Atmosphere.

Ente Space

A private space for sharing everyday moments with friends and family.

About the Atmosphere

I’m writing this from the beautiful UBC campus in Vancouver where ATmosphereConf 2026 is taking place. It’s a gathering of developers, researchers, and entrepreneurs who are passionate about keepin…

Proofs and Prompts

Notes from the common room

Screen As Room: An Architectural Perspective on User Interfaces — Christoph Locher · Interaction Designer

With the use of video games as social spaces being observed for several years and the increased focus put on virtual social spaces due to the scarceness of physical social spaces in the last months, the concept of “spatial interfaces” is once again at the center of discussions. I want to add an alternative perspective to this, looking at the properties of physical spaces as metaphors, rather than models, for interfaces and exploring seven of them in more detail.

Screen As Room: An Architectural Perspective on User Interfaces — Christoph Locher · Interaction Designer

With the use of video games as social spaces being observed for several years and the increased focus put on virtual social spaces due to the scarceness of physical social spaces in the last months, the concept of “spatial interfaces” is once again at the center of discussions. I want to add an alternative perspective to this, looking at the properties of physical spaces as metaphors, rather than models, for interfaces and exploring seven of them in more detail.

Margin - Open Collective

Write on the margins of the internet.