This was originally meant as a talk for Fediday 2026 but I got ill and had to cancel my participation. Since everything was prepared, I figured I’d change the talk in to a blog article. Hello, my name is Roel Roscam Abbing. I am a design researcher based in Sweden. I’ve also been a co-administrator of a Mastodon instance since 2018. One thing you might know me from is Low-Tech Magazine’s solar powered site and server, which I helped design and maintain to this day.
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The feeling of fresh air after having been in an art gallery — the feeling of the natural light after being in a room without windows and also a room with many windows, windows through time and to the feeling of home and to impressions of Nature — to the sea and the sky, the Earth and the falling moon. It was not until about half-way through my experience in the art gallery that I visited today that I realised that the space I was in was probably the first art gallery I visited....
I selected ten games to play during the summer back in May, and well, here is how things went in the end!
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Tl;dr: An epic train journey, and back to school focus.For Monday 7th - Sunday 13th September 2026. At work: Engagement coordination project: meeting and continued planning and development. Strategy co-design project: finishing my write ups on my current contract, and waiting for my proposal for follow-up work to be approved officially - but plugging awayRead More »Weeknotes 63 (September 2026)
I am on Pixel Area too! Despite a few caveats, I think it's neat, and perhaps you'll want to join me as well?
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The European Commission has proposed the EU KIDS Act. It is yet another set of Internet/web regulation proposals to examine, for jurisdictional overreach, lack of common sense in terms of material scope, and so on. It is only a proposal currently It is only a legislative proposal at the moment, so it may not become law, and it may not become law...
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My weeknotes from September 8 to 14, 2026. Featuring Ocarina of Time, a BBQ, some coffee and a very long podcast.
if you always wanted to but think it isn't worth telling a speaker you liked their talk, this is your encouragement post to do so.
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This week I was writing a story and noticed something strange: I didn’t give the document a title, but, after saving it, the document had a title that I did not expect. If I don’t have a name for a story yet, or if I am doing free writing, I will often not give a document a title, instead allowing the default behaviour in the tool I use to write, Typora, which is to take the first few words or maybe sentence of the document, or the first line....
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A bit of a story and some thoughts about why there seems to be a stigma against playing videogames in public for some of us!
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I wanted to write about how it seems like the way we talk and engage online with people may focus on the wrong things sometimes