📝 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

Come to RC on June 3rd for Localhost! Jessie Grosen will present Hyperscale! A kitchen scale that tracks you—for good? She’ll speak on her process, reflections, and how to enhance, rather than deskill, the fun of baking. 🧁 Come for the talk, stay to see the hub and chat! RSVP: lu.ma/hi83zrf4

The Karaokalypse has been averted (for now). Here's some beautiful pics from last week's Localhost with @jbrew.bsky.social! Thanks again to our partner company Numeric for hosting 🎤 📸 @psychomugs.bsky.social

10 years ago today. Time to do it again? (Just kidding.) www.recurse.com/blog/77-hack...

Thank you so much to @greg.technology for orchestrating this amazing event! If you didn't make it yesterday, check out some of the pieces from QR art show below!!!

We're hiring an Office & Operations Assistant! It's a full-time, onsite role in Brooklyn with good benefits, great colleagues, and positive impact. Please retweet and share with anyone you think might be a fit! recurse.notion.site/Office-Opera...

something magical is happening ............. SUNDAY MARCH 16 – There will be a Before and an After. QR SHOW ———≥≥≥≥≥≥≥ qrshow.nyc

Tickets are going fast!!

> qr codes that cause laughter/confusion > collections of qr codes found in the wild > devices that generate/consume qr codes > qr codes made out of ...? moss? Submit your own QR creations and fascinations for @greg.technology's qrshow.nyc exhibition next Sunday, March 16th at the Recurse Center!

A coming crisis: karaoke is getting too easy. Our only hope? @jbrew.bsky.social's Weird Algorithm 👽🎤 Prevent the Karaokalypse at Localhost on March 25th. Hosted by www.numeric.io at their Flatiron HQ, we’ll have food, drink, technical deep dives, and maybe even a sing-a-long lu.ma/2d437ret

Aside from the interesting new friends, S-tier programmer memes, and new work opportunities, why would someone want to spend 6–12 weeks at the @recursecenter.bsky.social ? Because it’s one of the most potent environments for growing both your taste and agency as a programmer!

SO uSEFul!!111

Some pics from Tuesday's Localhost! Thanks to everyone who came out ✅

was in the audience for this last night, it's a terrific talk — funny, thought-provoking and has an incredible coda

One Million Applause for One Million Checkboxes 👏✅👏✅👏 Check out @itseieio.bsky.social's brilliant talk on games, connecting strangers, and how some very smart teens subverted his code and touched his heart ❤️‍🔥 youtu.be/j2elKdupD6c

had a bet where i had to pay out $1 for every slide i skipped and i owe zero dollars, i did 217 slides in under an hour let’s gooooo

This is tomorrow!! In-person tix are sold out, but you can still watch on Zoom 📺

You've got mail 📫 Read and write letters for all occasions on Grace's www.openwhen.site

Impossible Day at RC, a chance to try what feels impossible. Sometimes, you accomplish in an hour what you expected to take weeks. Other times... you get your Arduino into a boot loop 🔁 Read about Farid's attempt to compile and flash Rust onto an Arduino 🦀

another silly one that came out of creative coding at the @recursecenter.bsky.social: I (painstakingly) recreated several standardized tests from my childhood. Don't stress! There are no right answers! Fill it any which way you want, get goofy~ check it out: blog.priyamisner.com/projects/sca...

I couldn't find any good games for my password manager. So I made one. 1Crossword connects to your 1Password vault and generates a crossword entirely out of your passwords! The crosswords are fun, simple, and great for sharing on social media when you finish. Enjoy!

Million Pixel Dash // 13.2 seconds 🏃‍♂️⬜️⬜️🟨🟨🟩🟩🟦🟦💨 Inspired by the “million of something” #genuary prompt and the creative coding session at the Recurse Center, I built this silly little scrolling game: give it a try and see if you can beat my time millionpixeldash.com

Whew thought I’d be way faster! Million Pixel Dash // 10.7 seconds 🏃‍♂️⬜️⬜️🟨🟨🟩🟩🟦🟦💨

Ready, set, scroll! How long does it take you to scroll through a million pixels? Find out with @priyamisner.bsky.social's millionpixeldash.com Reply with your times 😁

You can build so much in 12 weeks! Check out everything @gianlucatruda.bsky.social made during his batch 🐙 gianluca.ai/made-at-recu...

Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regular expressions that i search for one at a time inside of vim full writeup over here on my blog: eieio.games/blog/bad-app...

For all the Rustaceans in Winter 2's batch

An abacus for the modern age! @dnsosebee.bsky.social just returned to RC for another batch, but in the interim worked on a very cool Digital Abacus 🧮 humanprogramming.substack.com/p/building-t...

First Localhost of 2025? Check ✅ Come by RC on January 28th for Localhost! See the space, meet Recursers, and hear @itseieio.bsky.social speak on his viral project One Million Checkboxes and his other attempts to make internet strangers play nice 🤝 RSVP here: lu.ma/re1bot0d

I'm headed back to the the Recurse Center! recurse is like a writers retreat for programming. Last time I entered mostly making boring normal online games and left doing things like embedding Flappy Bird inside MacOS finder. It's totally free. consider applying (and come hang out w/ me)!

Ever give such a good presentation that it landed you a job? Check out Code Jam, a tool for facilitating collaborative live coding in p5.js -- Eric's presentation of it at RC led to an interview and an offer at one of our partner companies! ehayes.page/posts/code_j...

It’s so great to see people connect over code! River's implementation of ORCA, written in pure C, is a great example. In ORCA, every letter is an operator. Lowercase letters operate on bang and uppercase letters operate each frame: code as data, data as code, and both as music!