Jack Rusher
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Ex-Bell Labs/AT&T Research'er making art & technology in Berlin. 🐘@
[email protected]
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Intro. I’m a multifaceted weirdo, so in three parts: ① Homeschooled child prodigy, early/pre-web Internet’er, contributed to software used by ~2/3 of the world. Worked at multiple labs, including Bell/AT&T. Many successful startups. Currently building tools to move forward science and computation.
about 3 years ago
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Adam Chalmers
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Hello, may I speak to the manager? I was supposed to be part of the innovator class who automated other people's jobs and, not part of the precariat whose jobs were automated away
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/etc/motd 🤖
3 days ago
The path to enlightenment is an asymptote.
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett
4 days ago
The Dutch mobility system isn't just built around cycling. It's built around bike-train intermodality: cycling solves the train's convenience problem and the train solves cycling's range problem. Together, they offer an attractive alternative to driving on a mass scale. WATCH:
youtu.be/jq93DgLvmFc
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Lars Wikman
4 days ago
Hire this man to make your event absolutely slam. He does custom shit all the time and he delivers very consistent cool stuff. Live coding DJ, teaching your devs something to exercise their creativity, sky is the limit.
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“And you know what? I don’t want my UI to give me false feelings. I want it to be a precise instrument, not an animated toy.”
tonsky.me/blog/every-f...
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Every Frame Perfect
How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product
https://tonsky.me/blog/every-frame-perfect/
4 days ago
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Ben Fry
5 days ago
Happy SpaceX-Grok-xAI-Twitter-X IPO day
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...
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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty
5 days ago
✨ New project! ✨ Mapping the hidden infrastructure which connects to >70% of plants, extends root networks up to 100x and reaches a length of 1 BILLION times the distance to the sun 🤯 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi! Learn all about them here:
a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth
w/
@spun.earth
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A hidden infrastructure
Mapping Earth’s underground mycorrhizal fungal networks — the hidden infrastructure beneath our feet.
https://a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth/
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Frederik Vanhoutte - Winterbloed
6 days ago
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Mariano Guerra
6 days ago
Oberon-core aesthetic
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Boris
8 days ago
Prototyping as praxis.
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andrew blinn
8 days ago
We’re doing a user study to find out how adding always-on live values alongside code effects writing and debugging experiences for functional programming. See reply for sign-up details
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John Wiseman
8 days ago
Speaking of orbital geometry, Todd Humphries and Veritasium just released an excellent video showing the clever detective work involved in tracking down the space-based source of GNSS interference over Europe. Surprise, it's Russian.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz23...
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Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found
YouTube video by Veritasium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz23G_UXCGA
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John Wiseman
9 days ago
These look like photos from a fictitious alternate history, maybe part of an SCP story, but they're tetrahedral kites designed by Alexander Graham Bell.
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Paul Ford
11 days ago
Gonna be in SF for a week starting next Thursday the 11th, & I'd love to go to nerd meetups. I like DANK and BAFFLING—like if someone is lecturing on building non-Euclidean world models in Zig or doing an EA-based puppet show where all the characters are open source licenses—I want INCOMPREHENSIBLE.
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Shriram Krishnamurthi
12 days ago
Output for most languages has not much improved in ~50 years: still linear text. But many program values would be far better off *diagrammed*. PL, cogsci, graph drawing, proofs and performance come together in our new system, Spytial! Give it a try at
blog.brownplt.org/2026/05/22/s...
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Diagramming Program Values by Spatial Refinement
https://blog.brownplt.org/2026/05/22/spytial.html
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Boris
16 days ago
If you’re in Berlin and want to join
@getdweb.net
#DWebCamp
this July, apply for no-charge tickets supported by
@dod.ngo
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ncnvrgnt
17 days ago
"i want to make a thing, but i specifically don't want to understand how it works" is such a weird mindset ...
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ncnvrgnt
18 days ago
there is also a blog post about this DSL, if you need a distraction:
inconvergent.net/2024/lisp-qu...
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Lisp Query Notation (LQN) · inconvergent
Query language and terminal utility for transforming various data formats
https://inconvergent.net/2024/lisp-query-notation/
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Daniel Janus 💙💛 #StandWithUkraine
20 days ago
Programming in
#Clojure
on the
#reMarkable
, the way God intended. (Better video and a writeup coming soon)
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(λ. borkdude)
20 days ago
Finally squint has browser nREPL support in the latest release!
github.com/squint-cljs/...
#squintcljs
#clojure
#clojurescript
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FreeBSD and OpenBSD both boot on the PinePhone Pro, but neither has support for modem, WiFi, &c. I would definitely accept funding to write {Free,Net,Open}BSD device drivers for that unsupported hardware.
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This absolutely barking mad scheme dialect feels like a combination of several of my weird kinks, but is also vibe coded and has support for notation in Standard Babylonian Akkadian (!). Sample error message: 𒀭 ḫiṭītu — great fault
github.com/deconstructo...
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GitHub - deconstructo/curry: A scheme implementation with QT and higher maths support.
A scheme implementation with QT and higher maths support. - deconstructo/curry
https://github.com/deconstructo/curry
22 days ago
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James
24 days ago
the
replacements.fyi
site now lets you drop a package.json into it to see which dependencies can be replaced with native functionality, or more performant choices 🎉
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Thorsten Stark
27 days ago
Today I tried to connect to a nearby Mac from my cmux terminal via ssh. It failed. I checked all network settings on my Mac and the remote Mac. Everything was fine. After 2h of searching and testing it turned out that the cmux app wasn’t granted the system permission to access local network 🤦♂️#macOS
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Russ Cox
28 days ago
In Plan 9 in ~2001, we introduced "private" processes that even a sysadmin couldn't access, debug, etc. I just learned Windows Vista added the same in 2007. The difference? We did it to protect keys held by the security agent, while Windows did it to protect media content. Priorities! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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/etc/motd 🤖
29 days ago
“Debugging a program is twice as hard as writing one. If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you debug it?”
#BrianKernighan
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Sam Aaron
30 days ago
I'm Sam Aaron & I've worked on free music coding software for ~20 years. I've had meaningful impacts in both education and research. However, I'm independent & self-funding is harder than ever. Please enable me to continue by supporting on Patreon.
patreon.com/samaaron
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Get more from Sam Aaron on Patreon
Get more from Sam Aaron on Patreon. creating Sonic Pi & Tau5 - open source tools for creative coding. Support Sam Aaron and get exclusive access to their work.
https://patreon.com/samaaron
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Josh Horowitz
about 1 month ago
"It’s OK to Want to Have a Good Time" has quickly risen to a key position in my personal canon:
drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/01oa...
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Alexander Obenauer
about 1 month ago
Today, I'm excited to announce our next title! "Augment" is a forthcoming book featuring 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.
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about 1 month ago
“I now believe that thinking [...] is the best debugging tool of all, because it leads to better software.”
#RobPike
https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1941206
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alex benzer
about 1 month ago
we're hiring a Lead Product Designer at Bluesky. we've built the foundation — now we need someone to lead our design team and bring a fresh vision for how this app should look and feel. crazy fun & rare opportunity for the right leader!
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Bluesky Jobs
Bluesky Jobs
https://jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9icG9zdDo3kVBxfcvWOJZwBmm9CKqm
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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️🌈
about 1 month ago
enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
about 1 month ago
“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds
Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century, authors say
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis
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Russ Cox
about 1 month ago
The LLM bug hunter comes for us all. Here’s a truly terrible mistake I made seven years ago that somehow went unnoticed by multiple human reviews. Patch your systems! And my apologies.
groups.google.com/g/golang-ann...
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[security] Go 1.26.3 and Go 1.25.10 are released
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/qcCIEXso47M
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Xe
about 1 month ago
fucking CHRIST
ze3tar.github.io/post-zcrx.html
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You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) · ze3ter
https://ze3tar.github.io/post-zcrx.html
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Tyler King
about 1 month ago
This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you.
sinceyouarrived.world/taken
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taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken
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about 1 month ago
“Choose a data representation that makes your program simple.”
#BrianKernighan
, 1974
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Tom MacWright
about 1 month ago
ROOTS:
lisacharlottemuth.com/bringing-eve...
ideally i bring music, visualizations, blog posts for other sites, and open source projects, to establish independence and survive the inevitable collapse of bandcamp/github/etc
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I’m bringing everything back to my website
I built two new spaces for my website, Notes and Everything. Here's what to expect from them.
https://lisacharlottemuth.com/bringing-everything-back-to-my-website
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I've been working on something that involves a bit of shell automation this week.
@borkdude.bsky.social
's Babashka is such a treat in that context!
#clojure
about 1 month ago
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Karsten Schmidt
about 1 month ago
The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture by Gülru Necipoğlu (1996, 384 pages, free PDF download) https://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/9780892363353.html
#tilingtuesday
#geometry
#pattern
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(λ. borkdude)
about 1 month ago
EuroClojure is back. In 2027. In Prague! Wow 😍 !
2027.euroclojure.org
#clojure
#clojurescript
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EuroClojure 2027 — Save the Date
EuroClojure returns to Prague, May 19–21, 2027. Three days of workshops, talks, and conversation. Join the mailing list for early bird tickets and announcements.
https://2027.euroclojure.org/
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Schooley
about 1 month ago
Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.
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Matthew Sheffield
about 2 months ago
In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass:
archive.is/6RdK9
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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙
about 2 months ago
You may have heard that the Banach-Tarski paradox is a consequence of the group of spatial rotations SO(3) having a subgroup that is free on two generators. But what does that look like? Answer: Roughly like this!
kyleormsby.github.io/F2-in-SO3/
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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty
about 2 months ago
New CCVI (Climate—Conflict—Vulnerability Index) data just dropped →
climate-conflict.org
And: we have a paper preprint out now!
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Moon
about 2 months ago
Come hang out with
@sableraph.bsky.social
and I at the weekly (but often cancelled but not this time) world of processing with moon discord call:
discord.com/events/10766...
If you're not a discord user I'm sorry, we *are* looking for an alternative that is more inclusive and NOT DISCORD
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Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
https://discord.com/events/1076634729618624534/1468739041347371039/1498715416166400000
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Alexandre Plennevaux 🇧🇪🇪🇺
about 2 months ago
Fellow ATProto enthusiasts in Brussels/Belgium, let's kickstart our own local ATproto group in a 1-hour online call. Want in? Please fill in this form to let me know your availabilities! Feel free to share any topic you'd like to see on the agenda (DM or reply here).
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Boris
about 2 months ago
Ok! Tomorrow night (Tuesday) is
@atproto.berlin
meetup
atmo.rsvp/p/atproto.be...
I had originally thought I might also organize a
@localfirstconf.com
meetup (we toured the venue today, looking great!) but I only have the energy for one. So come join us tomorrow!
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/etc/motd 🤖
about 2 months ago
“#DougMcIlroy doesn't use malloc to allocate memory. He uses his bare hands.”
https://github.com/mischief/9problems/blob/master/lib/dougfacts
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Jon Burke🌍
about 2 months ago
The reason there will be no ‘fuel crisis’ in the Netherlands is that every town, city, & village in the land is connected by fully-segregated cycle lanes. It’s possible for the Dutch to easily stop driving while fuel is short and prices are high. That’s real energy resilience.
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