Sean T. Allen
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Pony
2 days ago
Last Week in Pony - I Put Something in Your Drink Edition
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Last Week in Pony - June 28, 2026 - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/06/last-week-in-pony---june-28-2026/
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Pony
3 days ago
Improving Runtime Test Coverage
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Improving Runtime Test Coverage - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/06/improving-runtime-test-coverage/
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I remember the before times...
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GitHub Is a Gift
GitHub has taken a beating lately, but I'm old enough to remember when open source developers scrounged for the machines to test their code. From there, free CI looks like a gift.
https://www.seantallen.com/posts/github-is-a-gift/
7 days ago
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Until now, very few people knew this story.
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The Due Diligence
Hold the line.
https://www.seantallen.com/posts/the-due-diligence/
7 days ago
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Pony
9 days ago
Last Week in Pony - Midnight Rider Edition
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Last Week in Pony - June 21, 2026 - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/06/last-week-in-pony---june-21-2026/
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Pony
10 days ago
Look Ma, I put a compiler in the compiler
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Look Ma, I put a compiler in the compiler - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/06/look-ma-i-put-a-compiler-in-the-compiler/
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Pony
16 days ago
Last Week in Pony - Horse Outside Edition
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Last Week in Pony - June 14, 2026 - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/06/last-week-in-pony---june-14-2026/
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Pony
23 days ago
Last Week in Pony - Uncloudy Day Edition
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Last Week in Pony - June 7, 2026 - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/06/last-week-in-pony---june-7-2026/
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Pony
30 days ago
Last Week in Pony - Black Soul Choir Edition
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Last Week in Pony - May 31, 2026 - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/05/last-week-in-pony---may-31-2026/
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Will Wilson and Me aka "How I end up at
@antithesis.com
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Will Wilson and Me
Simpatico.
https://www.seantallen.com/posts/will-wilson-and-me/
about 1 month ago
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Pony
about 1 month ago
Pony's Errors Stop Unwinding the Stack
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Pony's Errors Stop Unwinding the Stack - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/05/ponys-errors-stop-unwinding-the-stack/
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Pony
about 1 month ago
Round and Round
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Round and Round - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/05/round-and-round/
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Pony
about 1 month ago
Last Week in Pony - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Edition
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Last Week in Pony - May 24, 2026 - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/05/last-week-in-pony---may-24-2026/
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Pony
about 1 month ago
Do you like compilers? Do you like making things fast? Making Finite Recursive Type Aliases Compilation Fast
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Making Finite Recursive Type Aliases Compilation Fast - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/05/making-finite-recursive-type-aliases-compilation-fast/
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If you've worked with me, you know I'm not a fan of the workflow and collaboration cycle that gets built up around "the PR". I finally wrote down a bit of that "for everyone".
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Trunk Based Development — Now More Than Ever
Live on main.
https://www.seantallen.com/posts/trunk-based-development-now-more-than-ever/
about 1 month ago
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I only know one way to get things done and if you work with me, you've heard this before:
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Baby Steps
One step at a time.
https://www.seantallen.com/posts/baby-steps/
about 1 month ago
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Antithesis
about 1 month ago
Consensus protocols like Raft and Paxos are a fundamental building blocks in thousands of modern distributed systems, so implementing consensus is a totally straightforward, drop-in operation by now. Right? Right?
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Pony
about 1 month ago
Inside Pony's Finite Recursive Type Aliases
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Inside Pony's Finite Recursive Type Aliases - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/05/inside-ponys-finite-recursive-type-aliases/
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I was recently having a conversation with Sylvan. It was very similar to many conversations we have. Afterwards, I finally had a bunch of thoughts that had seemed different but "same shaped" for years click in a single shape.
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Spooky Action at a Distance
Boo.
https://www.seantallen.com/posts/spooky-action-at-a-distance/
about 1 month ago
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Pony
about 1 month ago
Last Week in Pony - You Wreck Me Edition
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Last Week in Pony - May 17, 2026 - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/05/last-week-in-pony---may-17-2026/
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A little ditty about writing "with Claude".
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Claude Jankowski
What writing with Claude has in common with co-writing Storm Applied with Janks, and what's not even close to similar.
https://www.seantallen.com/posts/claude-jankowski/
about 1 month ago
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Hi San Francisco, I'm coming to visit.
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Sean T. Allen on Behaviour-Oriented Concurrency · Luma
Main: Sean T. Allen on "When Concurrency Matters: Behaviour-Oriented Concurrency" Abstract: Expressing parallelism and coordination is central for modern…
https://luma.com/zorjnr9f
about 2 months ago
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I see a
@palvaro.bsky.social
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Where all the ladders start | Peter Alvaro | Bug Bash 2026
YouTube video by Antithesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjVfsx9LVJU
about 2 months ago
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Pony
about 2 months ago
pony-doc: From the back pew to the front pew
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pony-doc: From the back pew to the front pew - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/05/pony-doc-from-the-back-pew-to-the-front-pew/
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Good talk on a great paper.
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Will Wilson on Swarm Testing -- Papers We Love SF March 2026
YouTube video by Antithesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzfC7Q-xNik
about 2 months ago
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I love that I work at a company that creates stuff like this.
add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 months ago
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Pony
about 2 months ago
Last Week in Pony - My Bucket's Got A Hole in It Edition
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Last Week in Pony - May 10, 2026 - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/05/last-week-in-pony---may-10-2026/
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@palvaro.bsky.social
this is a family channel Peter. A family channel.
about 2 months ago
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I ended up getting stuck at LGA overnight so hey, lucky you, you get a 2nd blog post!
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Go Slow to Go Fast
A reminder.
https://www.seantallen.com/posts/go-slow-to-go-fast/
about 2 months ago
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All the good chocolates will belong to me.
add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 months ago
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Hey guess what? My flight home is horribly delayed so you get to benefit bt reading the blog post I just spent an hour "dashing off".
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Water Is Wet
Breathe.
https://www.seantallen.com/posts/water-is-wet/
about 2 months ago
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Pony
about 2 months ago
pony-lint: Codifying the Style Guide
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pony-lint: Codifying the Style Guide - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/05/pony-lint-codifying-the-style-guide/
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Awesomeness.
microsoft.github.io/bocpy/
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boc: Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python
The bocpy module provides behavior-oriented concurrency for Python.
https://microsoft.github.io/bocpy/
about 2 months ago
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Pony
about 2 months ago
Last Week in Pony - Voodoo Child Edition
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Last Week in Pony - May 3, 2026 - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/05/last-week-in-pony---may-3-2026/
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People who know me well, know that I have this collection of things that you are destined to hear from me. I'm slowly knocking out quick blog posts about them (even if the blog posts didn't necessarily come about very quickly). Here's tonight:
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Don't Fuck It Up
A phrase that became a team motto.
https://www.seantallen.com/posts/dont-fuck-it-up/
2 months ago
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How Do I Know It's Working?
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How Do I Know It's Working?
Why I test, even though I don't value tests.
https://www.seantallen.com/posts/how-do-i-know-its-working/
2 months ago
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Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE-bench Pro.
https://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/
2 months ago
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Pony
2 months ago
Last Week in Pony - Take Me Home edition
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Last Week in Pony - April 26, 2026 - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/04/last-week-in-pony---april-26-2026/
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Pony
2 months ago
pony-lsp: An Actor and a Callback
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pony-lsp: An Actor and a Callback - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/04/pony-lsp-an-actor-and-a-callback/
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Peter Alvaro
2 months ago
When I was at bugbash I felt at home
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Bug Bash had a "holy shit, so many smart people" vibe that was very similar to Ricon.
2 months ago
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A short one for your Friday... "Batteries Are Magic::
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Batteries Are Magic
On the miracles we no longer find miraculous.
https://www.seantallen.com/posts/batteries-are-magic/
2 months ago
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@palvaro.bsky.social
if you come back out, I'm on the glorious roof outside.
2 months ago
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@palvaro.bsky.social
what day are you arriving? Wednesday night? Thursday morning?
2 months ago
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Pony
2 months ago
Last Week in Pony - New York Groove edition
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Last Week in Pony - April 19, 2026 - Pony
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/04/last-week-in-pony---april-19-2026/
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The OODA Loop
The OODA loop as a lens for auditing AI agent instruction files.
https://www.seantallen.com/posts/ooda-loop/
2 months ago
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I gave a talk at NYC Systems tonight. It was a blast. First public talk since 2020. For reasons, it wasn't recorded so, here's the slides and a picture of me representing Fort Worth.
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GC Made Fast
How Pony's actor-based design turns garbage collection from a coordination bottleneck into a local, fast operation.
https://www.seantallen.com/talks/gc-made-fast/
2 months ago
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@palvaro.bsky.social
fair warning... you are getting a big ole hug next week.
2 months ago
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Meet Murdock: The Wildcard in the Ensemble
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Meet Murdock: The Wildcard in the Ensemble
Why every ensemble of fixed-lens personas needs one deliberately unconstrained reviewer.
https://www.seantallen.com/posts/meet-murdock/
2 months ago
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Agentic Personae: Code and Cognition from Spotlights to Identity
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Agentic Personae: Code and Cognition from Spotlights to Identity
How small attention focuses became full personas, and why the distinction matters for recurring LLM tasks.
https://www.seantallen.com/posts/agentic-personae/
3 months ago
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