"I purposefully did not prioritize being useful. Useful and fun I think might be antonyms." Ryan Goldstein on building Felt:

ever wanted to show what you're working on to the people on the other side of your laptop? now there's a way! peephole.greg.technology

me and @henryfellerhoff.com made beyblades

This week, three people shared their handmade programming languages. We learned not only about their features and syntax but the philosophies, joys, and challenges around building them. Could you build your own language? Should you? We dare say… yes!

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At the Recurse Center, we encourage people to share their work at all stages of doneness. Introducing: the Holiday Shrub 🎄

easiest and best job in the world: being a cheerleader for people at Recurse who push&support each other into doing their best lives' work. (this is my answer to "what would you do under UBI")

Possibly the best thing about being at the Recurse Center is watching this sort of beautiful, wild, communal, thingamajig pop up in the hub every day:

Nice handle @recurse.com

@recurse.com's local host last night was awesome. Great talks, wonderful company. Frederic Kettelhoit's Komucha lang (github.com/fkettelhoit/...) was particularly inspirational. Love me a lang with an effect system.

Today at 6:30pm, join us for a series of lightning talks on three bespoke programming languages: Felt, Tomo, and Kombucha! Why make your own programming language? What unique goals, design decisions and sensibilities come into play? RSVP below ⬇️ We have a few tickets left!

Have questions about the retreat, admissions, or anything else? Join our Open Info Session via Zoom today at 5pm ET: luma.com/v209g7hc

Ever written something you might describe as a turducken of code?

Why make your own programming language? What possibilities unfold in making one? How do you even start? Programming languages are unique design works, each with their own goals and sensibilities. On 12/2, join us on a tour of three bespoke programming languages: Felt, Tomo, and Kombucha! RSVP ⬇️

i like computer..

Really REALLY got sick of comparing printouts of one spreadsheet with one shown on screen. Regex and OCR radicalized me Also career switch wouldn’t have been possible without the good folks involved at RC (and probably would have never met my wife!)

Join us in our quest to make an open, hackable, alt-control, modular, multiplayer arcade cabinet! The future home of many a Recurser’s game:

RC alum Daniel Temkin will be reading from his new book, Forty-Four Esolangs! The book challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art. Details/tickets: ⬇️

MAKING ROBOTS IS GOOD (& good for you) Michael Suguitan came to RC and presented on a series of robots, from a cat-detector, to a self-strumming guitar, to a robot used in research and schools around the world. He goes not just into the how, but the why behind making. ⬇️

you're telling me a duck typed this code?

This Thanksgiving, you might find yourself at the dinner table explaining what RC is. Don't worry, we asked some Recursers for help: 🧑🏻‍🏫Montessori for programmers 🦆Wildlife/programmer rehabilitation 🛋️SoHo House for nerds 🤷🏽‍♀️Something of a mindset

🌩️ On Dec 2nd, join us for a rapid-fire tour of handmade programming languages! Three RC alums will present: Ryan Goldstein on Felt, Bruce Hill on Tomo, and Frederic Kettelhoit on Kombucha. Three perspectives on and how, and why, to design a new language. RSVP below: ⬇️

New Yorkers hate dogs 🚫🐕 (we have the data) It's pairing jam day at RC and Chris, Brittney, Wilson, and Tajairi made a 311 noise complaint heat map of NYC.

My favorite hobby? Just watching everyone swarm the pair programming signup sheet.

What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?

*Taps mic* Is this thing on? www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5xw...

🚧👷🏽‍♀️We’re conducting some scheduled maintenance on recurse.com tomorrow, Oct 18th, from 10:00am to about 10:30am ET! recurse.com will be down during the maintenance window, so you won’t be able to apply or visit pages. Sorry for any inconvenience!

🌱 Interested in coming to RC? Have any burning questions? Join us to learn more about what attending is like! You'll get to ask questions and hear directly from faculty and current Recursers about their experiences. We’re hosting an info session on Tues, Oct 21 at 5:15 ET. ⬇️

🤖 Join us on 10/28 for Localhost: Michael Suguitan's Super Robot Variety Hour! What could a robot look like? What good comes from experimentation? Michael will present alternative visions in robotics by touring the technical implementations of several robots, from cats to clocks. luma.com/bgz3yupu

What could you learn in just one day? At RC we hosted Impossible Stuff Day to test just that— and Jack Heard made his first ever piece of music by live coding :)

📝 Applications are OPEN for our next batch! Enjoy programming? Spend 6-12 weeks building what excites you alongside thoughtful, kind peers, both in NYC and remotely! Learn more at recurse.com, and apply at recurse.com/apply

📝 Interested in applying to RC? Join us to learn & ask questions about what attending is like: spending 6 or 12 weeks sharpening your programming skills and following what excites you in a collaborative community! We’re hosting an info session Mon, Oct 6th from 12:30-1pm ET RSVP: luma.com/mn3kjnkj

🟢 This month we held Breakpoint: An Evening of Projects and Demos! 10 Recursers and alums demo'ed their work, including games, camera-based apps that read your feelings and scramble your face, a NY shadow-henge finder, a Chinese idiom finder, a fractal painter, custom programming language, & more!

Missed our last info session? We're hosting another on Wed 9/3 at 5 pm ET! If you're thinking of spending 6 or 12 weeks building whatever excites you most, join us! You’ll get to ask questions and hear directly from faculty and current Recursers about their experiences. RSVP: luma.com/z6ccwozs

Thinking about applying to a Recurse Center (RC) batch? If you want to spend 6 or 12 weeks building what excites you (compilers! games! languages! research! machine learning! art!) within a community of thoughtful, curious peers, come join our info session this Thursday! lu.ma/86a0fqdn

The video on Mote is up! Finally someone's using the GPU for what it should be used for: zillions of squirming simulated life forms in miraculously self-regulating ecosystems. Exploding membranes. Herds of tiny herbivores and encroaching fungi. Smells.

🦠Watch Peter Whidden's first public talk on Mote: an interactive ecosystem simulation! Mote uses a custom GPU-based physics engine to model hundreds of thousands of organisms, leading to fascinating emergent phenomena: a sandbox that is part game, part research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hju0...

This is a thoughtful post that echoes conversations I've had IRL with colleagues and friends. Also: "You should use AI-powered tools to complement or increase your agency, not replace it." ^ This is where I've landed for my own work so far.. Should help me do & think *more* deeply, not less.

We spent two months talking with RC alums and thinking deeply about how LLMs are changing programming and learning. Here’s what we learned, and how we're currently thinking about AI at RC: t.co/ddFj486ch8

Join us on August 13 for Localhost! 🦠 Peter Whidden will present Mote, an interactive ecosystem simulation with hundreds of thousands of organisms. His custom GPU physics engine models many simple behaviors at a massive scale, producing fascinating emergent phenomena. RSVP below ⬇️

This was an awesome talk! I am glad I was able to attend it in person. Both @omar.website and @cwervo.bsky.social knocked it out of the park. Definitely worth checking out for folks 😉interested in HCI and Physical Computing.

Thank you to everyone who came to our last Localhost talk with @cwervo.bsky.social and @omar.website!‬ They presented on @folkcomputer.bsky.social and unveiled the Folk Gadget! Together we escaped the screen and entered the realm of light and paper-based computing. ​📽️📄🌀 Watch the recording below:

⭐️ We're hiring a Career Facilitator! This is a full-time, onsite role in Brooklyn with meaningful work, good benefits, great colleagues, clear goals, and a healthy culture. Please share with kind, extroverted, and curious colleagues who have a background and interest in recruiting! bit.ly/4nku9ZI

Join us on July 7 for Localhost! Omar Rizwan + Andrés Cuervo made Folk Computer — an open-source physical computing system that escapes the screen using a camera, projector, paper, and custom programming language. Now they'll present a new device: the Folk Gadget! RSVP here 👉 lu.ma/sxqm12i0

Jessie's Localhost recording is up on youtube now! If you're curious about how one might DIY an augmented, smart kitchen scale that automates the hard stuff and keeps the fun part of baking, well.... ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Thank you to everyone who came to our last Localhost, Jessie Grosen on Hyperscale: an augmented kitchen scale that keeps track of the recipe for you! If you've ever wanted to make a hardware project that gives you joy, now is the time! 🧁🐙 Couldn't make it to the talk? Watch the recording below! ⬇️

Localhost is happening tomorrow at 6:30pm! There are just a few public tickets left! RSVP here: lu.ma/hi83zrf4

🚨 Our next Localhost is just a few days away on Tuesday June 3! Jessie Grosen will present Hyperscale, an augmented baking scale. She'll talk about her process, the embedded UI language used, and more! Come for the talk, stay to see the hub and chat! RSVP before seats fill up! --> lu.ma/hi83zrf4

Bakers rejoice! 🧁 RC is hosting a public talk on Jun 3rd! I'll be helping put it on! It's a rare moment to come visit Recurse Center, enjoy the talk, and chat with everyone! Jessie made this crazy scale that measures and keeps track of all your ingredients in one bowl. IYKYK....

Jessie’s an extraordinary developer and person — I definitely recommend the talk below to anyone in NYC