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tyleo.com @tyleo.com · 29/04/2026

I wanted to share how we built the synchronization layer for Circuits, Rec Room's multiplayer scripting system. Hoping it helps anyone working on similar multiplayer or realtime collaboration problems. www.tyleo.com/blog/how-we-...

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How We Synchronized Editing for Rec Room's Multiplayer Scripting System - tyleo.com

Simple solutions, powerful outcomes.

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 25/04/2026

“#DougMcIlroy doesn't use malloc to allocate memory. He uses his bare hands.” github.com/mischief/9problems/blob/…

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 24/04/2026

Something that is not about AI to end the week… I would like for you to read The Wind in the Willows (1908) because it is astonishing interconnected.org/home/2026/04...

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The Wind in the Willows and reading out loud

Posted on Friday 24 Apr 2026. 984 words, 4 links. By Matt Webb.

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 04/04/2026

I’ve spent a few days hacking up a toon-shaded game inspired by all my favorite Belgian BD artists. We’ll see what this turns into…

A Moebius inspired desert scene of a man before some monumental architecture

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Am I accidentally building a Color OS? :D Different needs require different stats, so I decided to let users rearrange, show, or hide color stats however they want.

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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

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Ef 📐 @sandboxspirit.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I am writing a blog about roads at sandboxspirit.com/blog/art-of-...

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Red Blob Games @redblobgames.com · 31/01/2026

Fun video youtu.be/8_WPBuYYz9M with an interactive toy to play with these thegraycuber.github.io/hexponents

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hexponents!

YouTube video by TheGrayCuber

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Kartik Agaram @akkartik.name · 25/01/2026

Most beauty per unit code Share your favorite short programs that have beautiful output. Any output modality, any programming language, any units. Doesn't generate identical output each time. Recording of output optional. My candidate is ~24 lines of @love-framework.bsky.social or equivalent.

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 10/01/2026

The Resonant Computing Action Plan, Use LLMs to build: - Adversarial interoperability - Adversarial credible exits - Local first version of walled gardens - Optional federation (atproto?) No grand plans, short feedback loops Real problems, real users Rough consensus and running code

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 01/01/2026

Here's a little spatial / tangible tool I made to explore an algorithm with my hands and eyes. I saw an error diffusion matrix on wikipedia and it looked vaguely like a circle, so I built this board game-inspired tool to feel out just how spatial it actually was. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vZc...

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YouTube video by Feeling of Computing

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Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 19/12/2025

Everything is in the eye of the beholder. Even beholding is in the eye of the beholder.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

My hot-take on indie-tech (which I am a big supporter of) is that "Prosocial" features are actually harmful. Voluntary communities are unable to coordinate effectively. Its not a tool problem, rather, people by default are not very good at coordinating. Corporations are good a coordinating, why?..

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LÖVE Game Framework @love-framework.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

This week: Archaic Virus is making a bafflingly stable dungeon generation system.

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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 12/11/2025

New blog post: "Explorable explorable explanations" Building on Bret Victor's concept of "explorable explanations" for scientific publishing. blog.khinsen.net/posts/2025/1... 🧪 #MetaSci

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Konrad Hinsen's blog

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 07/11/2025

The latest in my occasional series of over-complicated literary interpretations, this time on what connects Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) and Angel Heart (Mickey Rourke) Warning: spoilers interconnected.org/home/2025/11...

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Oedipus is about the act of figuring out what Oedipus is about

Posted on Friday 7 Nov 2025. 791 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.

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Kartik Agaram @akkartik.name · 31/10/2025

Landscape mode is hard-linebreak mode. Portrait mode is soft-linebreak mode.

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LÖVE Game Framework @love-framework.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This week: the folks at Fox2d have ported basically all of Scratch to LÖVE! Just in case you have some Scratch games lying around. github.com/fox2d-engine...

Screenshots of half a dozen Scratch games running in ScratchLove

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LÖVE Game Framework @love-framework.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

This game won FIRST PLACE at Ludum Dare! And it's made in LÖVE! I'm freaking out over here! Aaaaaaah!

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 23/10/2025

Because I could not help myself, me and @steveheist2.bsky.social estimated that this is roughly $270,000 in monitors … and $600,000 in monitor arms. bsky.app/profile/erni...

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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 23/10/2025

The Crowd (1928) features this office hellscape sequence and all I can think is "look at how much more space they had!"

A vast grid of office desks with men working at them

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 19/10/2025

Big’s Backyard Ultra individual world championship has begun — the runners are 12 hours in and the race won’t complete for at least another 4 days/400+ miles Here’s why you should be watching interconnected.org/home/2023/10...

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Why you should watch Big’s Backyard Ultra, which starts tomorrow

Posted on Friday 20 Oct 2023. 1,612 words, 11 links. By Matt Webb.

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 14/10/2025

This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

A screenshot of an academic paper. It reads:

Abstract
A "
'quine" is a deterministic program that prints itself. In this essay, I will show you a "gauguine": a probabilistic program that infers itself. A gauguine is repeatedly asked to guess its own source code. Initially, its chances of guessing correctly are of course minuscule. But as the gauguine observes more and more of its own previous guesses, it detects patterns of behavior and gains information about its inner workings.
This information allows it to bootstrap self-knowledge, and ultimately discover its own source code. We will discuss how-and why-we might write a gauguine, and what we stand to learn by constructing one.
CCS Concepts: • Computing methodologies → Philo-sophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelli-gence; Theory of mind.
Keywords: reflection, probabilistic programming
ACM Reference Format:
Kartik Chandra, Amanda Liu, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Joshua B.
Tenenbaum. 2025. Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! '25), October 12-18, 2025, Singapore, Singa-pore. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/
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1 A Way of Knowing

From time to time, we all have crises of identity-moments of radical and overwhelming uncertainty about our selves.
I' don't know whether the doubts that seize us can really be externalized in language, but if I were to try, I would express them as questions, questions like: Who am I? What am I?
What kind of person? What kind of mind?

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 12/10/2025

Some of La Mexicaine De Perforation were friends when I lived in Paris in the years just before this happened. You can read more here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_UX

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les UX - Wikipedia

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 12/10/2025

Some notes by @akkartik.name (2025) akkartik.name/post/2025-06...

"I'm very dissatisfied with the current state of the world in two regards:

𝐀. Computer owners can't easily understand or modify programs they run.
𝐁. Computer vendors compete to limit permissions for modifying programs.

Both 𝐀 and 𝐁 have happened through the efforts of often idealistic people, but they've brought us to a world that it seems clear is going in the wrong direction:

For 𝐀: Every tool (IDE, debugger, programming language) and process (Waterfall, TDD, Agile) arose out of dissatisfaction with some current state of the world, but the "pragmatic" ones that gained traction were the ones that vendors get to control.
For 𝐁: "Trusted computing", browser sandboxing and app stores are all "pragmatic" solutions that have centralized power in vendors and failed to keep computer owners safe."

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Tomas Petricek @tomasp.net · 07/10/2025

I'm teaching 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺(𝘀)! again. I'll be posting the videos & tasks on YouTube too. In the first lecture, I explain what's a tiny system, why write one and show plenty of demos! 🎞️ Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 👉 More info: d3s.mff.cuni.cz/teaching/npr...

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Write your own tiny programming system(s)! - YouTube

The goal of this course is to teach how fundamental programming language techniques, algorithms and systems work by writing their miniature versions. The cou...

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

in particular, most baggage requires baggage polymorphism and baggage subtyping to be practically useful, and those are two concepts that always seem to confuse everyone. certainly that's what everyone complains about re: lifetimes in rust

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

In the early days of quantum chemistry, before we had computers to calculate the shapes of electron orbitals, one man invented a mechanical machine that simulated their shapes. My latest column for @chemistryworld.com www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...

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The simple machine that visualised atomic orbitals

In 1931, Harvey Elliott White developed a device that traced out the shapes of electron clouds by approximating solutions to the Schrödinger equation

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 18/09/2025

[new draft post] Too much murder drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/09/17…

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 16/09/2025

also reminds me of something @akkartik.name said about "vestiges" and "regressions" although those aren't exactly the same thing: • vestige: something that was necessary that is no longer necessary (contrast chesterton's fence) • regression: something that used to work that no longer does

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Max @maxbittker.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I like this: arxiv.org/pdf/2211.13619

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Rejoice! Observable 2.0, file based notebook programming observablehq.com/notebook-kit/ is released Does that make Lopecode entirely pointless? What are the differences? github.com/tomlarkworth...

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Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview | Observable

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html energy @htmlenergy.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

🌼🌁 San Francisco Saturday, August 2, 1–3pm Golden Gate Park: Robin Williams Meadow Organized by Alex Wennerberg More info: alexwennerberg.com/energy.html

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HTML Day 2025: San Francisco

Saturday, August 2, 2025, 1-3pm, Alamo Square Park

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Rasmus Andersson @rsms.me · 13/07/2025

Sometimes I play with the idea of starting a company which makes really nice electronics that feels as little “tech” as possible. Ie where the user only have to interface with “tech” when absolutely necessary.

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Kartik Agaram @akkartik.name · 13/07/2025

@jackrusher.com @tomlauerman.bsky.social Nice juxtaposition: bsky.app/profile/motd... bsky.app/profile/toml...

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Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

"The problem is that, after supporting us on the way up, Canada coddles us once we’ve become rich." macleans.ca/politics/tax... @avibryant.com

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I’m a Millionaire. Tax Me More, Please. - Macleans.ca

Wealthy Canadians like me can afford to pay extra for the greater good

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Has anyone come up with a negative meme name for the “big beautiful bill” that has caught on? I haven’t heard one. Seems like basic gamesmanship failure.

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Lionel Lemarié @hikey.org · 28/06/2025

The photon debugging view is working pretty well now. I can navigate the scene to look at the paths, bounces and final photon positions - along with a preview of their impact on the scene. #metalrt #rendering

A single small area light on the back wall is shooting photons into the scene, bouncing through the colored glass dragon and hitting the walls and floor. This is showing a trace of the path of each photon.

Sponza scene, illuminated by 'physical' photons shot from a point light inside a colored glass dragon.

Sponza scene, illuminated by 'physical' photons shot from a point light inside a colored glass dragon. Showing the traced paths.

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Bret Victor @worrydream.com · 29/06/2025

Archive of archives. worrydream.com/Links2025/

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Links 2025

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

if aibohphobia is the fear of palindromes, is someone that has that phobia an aibohphobe or an ebohphobe

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 27/06/2025

The best answer to worse is better: "the smart money isn't on building the best product - it's on being the default option when the underlying tech finally works." from: textql.notion.site/levered-beta... via: benn.substack.com/p/meme-company

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levered beta is all you need | Notion

how to win by riding waves you didn't make.

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 26/06/2025

A great time capsule of the "future of programming" space from one decade ago. Lots of familiar usernames, lots of projects that are still running to this day. Also fun to think about all the things that happened shortly after this thread. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1092...

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Ask HN: Which people and groups are researching new approaches to programming? | Hacker News

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LÖVE Game Framework @love-framework.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This week: YouDoYouBuddy is making a successor to their game Lead Haul, gosh look at those elevator animations. Check out the original Lead Haul too, also made in LÖVE! youdoyoubuddy.itch.io/lead-haul

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tann @colourtann.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I find this one quite mesmerising, and it's not horrible on my eyes.

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