Alexander Obenauer

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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.

Website:

alexanderobenauer.com

Specializations:

Computer Science User Interface Design

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2025-02-01 • computing book reading recommendations publishing author

The author shares two things: starting a publishing company and writing a book about computing. The book explains how modern computing is built from binary and is written for non-technical people. The publishing company aims to pr...

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The blog post discusses two projects: OLLOS, a personal computing environment that organizes things on the dimension of time, and Embark, a project that explores reorganizing personal computing. The post includes an essay with a d...

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The blog post explores the idea of creating an OS made up of all the items in your digital life, and how it can be organized without becoming a mess. It also mentions upcoming experiments and lab notes, as well as a sponsorship fr...

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The author discusses their fascination with observing how people interact with their personal computing devices and shares their latest lab note about messy desktops. They also mention other publications they have released this ye...

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The author has been working on a longer-term research project experimenting with building itemized environments, including WonderOS. They have begun publishing the operator's handbook for WonderOS and are exploring how computer li...

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