I'm in Brussels!

Paper details how police pushed for body cams so that they could protect themselves and control narrative while policing and surveilling more aggressively. Dems allied w cops to create narrative that this was somehow a corrective for state violence, now every time they kill they get more $$/power

In 2025, Trump's DHS claims that they removed more than 675,000 people, which (if true) is more than Obama's annual average around 400k. However, there were 685,000 total deportations in fiscal year 2024 under Biden. Why is that not shown in the first chart, you ask?

If you defend past decisions in a code base too much then you limit the life of project, and put undue burden on code (and authors) that likely did not write code that will stand the test of time. Not much code actually stands the test of time. It's not a skills issue, it's the nature of the medium

Meredith whitaker response on AI related: * Addresses Education, and the fact that * Software is a living thing and you need to understand what is built Also the difference in these two personalities is hilarious to me (start at the beginning for that) youtu.be/-CHfHA5ptaU?...

Black Zine Fair 2026: Open call for exhibitors, workshops, and volunteers until FEB 9. “If you have never made a zine, only made a few zines, or made several zines and never tabled a zine/art book fair before, we really want you to apply!” docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #BlackZineFair #BZF2026 #NYC

Oh hello: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/when-ed...

Okay, I suddenly have a bit more space to be excited about @fosdem.org . it's really about to happen! i want to meet all my new friends

Finally played this one from @lawraclark.itch.io itch.io/queue/c/5461...

Our project is not ready for new contributors yet. It's incredibly unstable, full of question marks, and we have milestones we need to hit before we are able to bring folks on

Let the poors freeze to death we need more gigawatts for the slop machines

Josie is amazing!

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Processing 4.5.1 has been released, here is a little post about it: medium.com/@ProcessingO...

wait can we make a processing sketch with this? cc @sableraph.bsky.social

This looks so fun! Bevy 0.18 is such an amazing release too

We are doing a little casual voice chat for contributors and folks looking to contribute on discord tomorrow. It's at 3pm eastern. Do come through. discord.gg/AFSXgrpK?eve...

@sableraph.bsky.social and I are going to be speaking at @fosdem.org this year. Definitely come find us and talk to us! OTHERWISE I WILL FIND YOU. AND I WILL TALK TO YOU. fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

If you're interested in contributing to @processing.org or want to find out what we're up to, come to the discord: discord.gg/mdnh6DED #creativecoding #java #processing #rust

Going through my old notes, this quick list of bullets I jotted down 5 years ago, to explain tech culture to someone outside the industry, really holds up.

Ice on ICE violence

ICE needs to get the fuck out of Earth. Don't forget what went down during George Floyd.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem claims ICE’s killing of a legal observer in Minneapolis today was actually the result of a “coordinated” terror attack carried out by the victim. She says it involves people “being trained” to “use their vehicles as weapons.”

Happening now: a vigil is getting underway in Chicago's Winnemac Park in honor of Renee Nicole Good, killed in Minneapolis today, and others who have been killed by federal immigration agents. A couple dozen people in attendance so far, though more are trickling in.

taking up several blocks

this is how every outlet should refer to X

Hello! The Processing Community Survey for 2025 is out! Take the survey take the survey. Please share widely :) @processing.org @processingorg.bsky.social @sableraph.bsky.social survey.processing.org #creativecode #processing #survey2025

Language choices matter. The language design works you over, the libraries built on the language matter, the people who are doing the work matter. Programming languages are ecosystems, and you need to consider the entire ecosystem.

I dont know when I'll have time for extra credit but: dev.realworldocaml.org/foreign-func...

i like being hot and then coding on my cool gentoo setup at the cafe. and then everyone is like "whoa who is she?" and ignore them. and then i take a break to read about category theory and cry to The Dispossessed

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

gosh we don't talk about the orphan rules enough www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI7S...

A polished commercial #visualnovel? In #rust?! Made with #bevy?! Better believe it :D Long Story 2 looks super cute, and I'm beyond happy that our #opensource engine could play a role in bringing it to life. Check it out at store.steampowered.c...

We’re soooo excited to make this announcement. Our end of year fundraiser has hit its goal!! There’s still time to contribute to the community and help us even further improve our programming for next year!! #games #newyorkcity #fundraiser #boshi #egg

My day job is making a video editor where every component is actually a p5.js sketch. If that's of use to anyone for Genuary, you can sign up for a dev account via this link www.usebutter.com/register?cod... and see some docs/examples here! www.usebutter.com/docs

Second blog post from the Rust vision doc effort: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/19/w... Working through the data we gathered really helped sharpen my understanding here.

open source means you're going to the discord/matrix/zulip servers of everything your project uses

i started adding support for procedurally generated enemy weapons. one of the things they'll have in the parameter space is an ability to fire multiple projectiles at once, like these.

Long live the monorepo

a bit belated, but: happy to share that Namesake has partnered with Superbloom for fiscal sponsorship!

UNIX, the first usability abstraction layer

proton.me/drive/sheets this is the most liberating product

If you're able, please donate to processing foundation! processingfoundation.org/donate

Good job team zig: ziglang.org/news/migrati...

For Episode 8 we have composer, educator, curator, and activist Amirtha Kidambi stopping by. We discuss the inseparability of politics from pedagogy as teaching artists, the importance of solidarity amongst working artists of all backgrounds and styles, and the need for us to Do-It-Together.