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Nathan Knowler @knowler.dev · 09/10/2026
🪦 “We will support the Deno runtime for another year with monthly releases containing bug fixes and security updates. After that year we will end our development of the Deno runtime. Deno will remain open source, and we welcome others who want to continue its development.”
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Video is now up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kbP...
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Bryan Cantrill: Keynote: "Rust, In Sickness & In Health" | RustConf 2026
YouTube video by Rust Foundation
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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 29/09/2026
anyway this is out
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crates.io: Rust Package Registry
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
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Dr. Kim McMillon (Arthouseflower) @arthouseflower.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
youtu.be/yDiLuZ4g0cM?... It felt like an inferno; it was so hot at the 29th Annual Watershed Poetry Festival, but Genny Lim, San Francisco's Poet Laureate, took us to heaven and beyond with her beautiful and insightful poetry.
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29th Watershed: Genny Lim
YouTube video by Poetry Flash
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Josh Collinsworth @collinsworth.dev · 21/09/2026
Hey, friends—I'm excited to share my new project! I call it Tupo. It's a daily logic puzzle with roots in sudoku, where every cell has to have a unique color-number combo. Give it a shot if you like daily logic games, and let me know what you think! playtupo.com
playtupo.com
Tupo · A daily sudoku-style logic puzzle with a twist
A simple logic puzzle of numbers and colors. One new puzzle every day, starting easy and getting harder through the week.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 20/09/2026
pretty interesting project by @s0hw.bsky.social and @andresmh.com building an ontology of community guideline decision points. I think this will be very relevant to high-context moderation within atmospheric groups
bonfirenetworks.org
Making Community Governance Legible: A Semester with Bonfire
A collaboration with Princeton explores how Governance Cards can help communities explain how they organise, make decisions, and care for their shared spaces.
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dan @danabra.mov · 19/09/2026
great guest post by @3blue1brown.com
terrytao.wordpress.com
If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
[This is a guest post by Grant Sanderson. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] A sentiment echoing throughout the mathematics communit…
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Behnam Esfahbod 🦊 @behnam.es · 05/09/2026
@mapcenter.com Any recomms for non-political Pacific-centered Equal Earth large prints for home decor?
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Behnam Esfahbod 🦊 @behnam.es · 29/06/2026
The correct capitalization is: XBAY en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox
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Xbox - Wikipedia
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 22/06/2026
If you like writing long threads on Bluesky, wait until you discover "blog posts." Start blogging with @pckt.blog, @leaflet.pub or @offprint.app today and get 25% off your first year, on us.
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Summer of Standard.site - Bluesky
We've partnered with three blogging platforms built on AT Protocol — Offprint, Leaflet, and pckt.blog — to give you 25% off any annual plan this summer.
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Offprint @offprint.app · 27/03/2026
It's taken far longer than expected, but we are here, open beta! 🚀 ready for writers to start their journey on Offprint. Soon you all will be receiving an email notifying you that your invite request has been approved. Take a look around, we will be available for any questions you may have!
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Offprint News | Offprint
News and updates from the Offprint team. New features, changes, and the occasional deep dive.
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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 25/04/2026
All right folks — livestream with JetBrains is on for MONDAY the 27th! 10:00 PDT/17:00 UTC
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Faster Rust Testing at Scale: cargo-nextest in Practice
YouTube video by JetBrains
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Behnam Esfahbod 🦊 @behnam.es · 17/04/2026
Mythocalypse is the new Y2K
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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
features no-one asked for: keyboard navigation, and chaning the hash in the URL updates the active character. charcuterie.elastiq.ch oh and the favicon now updates :D
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Behnam Esfahbod 🦊 @behnam.es · 09/04/2026
@npr.org What happened to the NPR Music New Music Friday playlist on Spotify?! It's not been updated since March 27.
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Behnam Esfahbod 🦊 @behnam.es · 15/03/2026
I made a story for the Pi Day to read at my kid's kindergarten class tomorrow: Pi and the Never-Ending Adventure Sharing the PDF for others to read and share, too. #piday #children #book drive.google.com/file/d/1dX9C...
Cover page of the story: Pi and the Never-Ending Adventure

Shows a happy Pi, the mathematical symbol, going on a journey along its digits.
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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The nicest article about JPEG compression, by @sophielwang.bsky.social The moment there are color stats involved, I’m in. It’s so well done it makes me think we need some kind of online library where articles like this get preserved. www.sophielwang.com/blog/jpeg
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AT Protocol Developers @atproto.com · 03/03/2026
It has been so exciting to see @npmx.dev come together over the past month. We're proud to offer our support — this project is just getting started. Congrats on the launch! atproto.com/blog/npmx-al...
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Supporting the npmx Alpha Launch - AT Protocol
The launch of npmx is an incredible showcase for how open source communities can build quickly on top of atproto.
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zeu @zeu.dev · 25/02/2026
What even is the AT Protocol? @jason.energy and I talked about @atproto.com and what the future of social media can look like, where users are in control and developers are given more interoperability opportunities
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The promise of ATproto is social media without corporate overlords
YouTube video by CodeTV
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 17/02/2026
Our design team is growing by 100%. Join us!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
newrepublic.com
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org
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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 31/01/2026
Some thoughts on software engineering and particularly the role of a software engineering *leader* in the industry. v5.chriskrycho.com/notes/three...
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Three Theses and Their Implications About Software Engineering — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho
As a friend and I were discussing the industry at large.
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Behnam Esfahbod 🦊 @behnam.es · 30/01/2026
On this #NationalShutdown day, treat yourself to some ageless music of resistance. Here are some of my favorites: 1) youtu.be/UYe5acrYY1c
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Freedom Glory Project - Freedom, Glory, Be Our Name - Live
YouTube video by fearlessmusicshow
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 29/01/2026
There’s so much need in Minnesota right now. Businesses are closing and rent is due soon. If you want to help people here, there are links to rent relief & other vetted mutual aid funds on standwithminnesota.com. Please boost and donate what you can. Thank you 🫶🏻
standwithminnesota.com
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
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vectorware.com @vectorware.com · 20/01/2026
We are excited to announce that we can successfully use Rust's standard library from the GPU. This has never been done before. www.vectorware.com/blog/rust-st... Supporting Rust's standard library enables existing Rust code to work on the GPU and makes GPU programming feel normal.
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Rust's standard library on the GPU
GPU code can now use Rust's standard library. We share the implementation approach and what this unlocks for GPU programming.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Ronnica Fatt @ronnicareads.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
35/400 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: The Dilemmas of Working Women by Fumio Yamamoto Genre: Short stories, Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: These stories explore women and the societal and family expectations they face. I’m so glad they were finally translated into English. #booksky
Dilemmas of Working Women
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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 12/01/2026
“In-Context Learning” is a hilariously bad name for “include examples or correct and incorrect usage”. It’s not learning. It’s steering! Many of the metaphors most commonly used of ML systems are annoyingly misleading—arguably including the ‘L’ in ML!—but the problem has gotten much worse lately.
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 04/01/2026
lol, lmao. Okay I’m going to explain this hack because it’s pretty clever. Non-technical people should know that this is a fun thing that a user created and there’s nothing wrong with it per se, but it’s not exactly standard
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
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CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
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Matt Godbolt @matt.godbolt.org · 06/12/2025
Day 6 of Advent of Compiler Optimisations! Divide by 512—just a shift, right? But the compiler adds extra instructions. Why? A subtle difference between what you asked and what you meant! xania.org/202512/06-di... youtu.be/7Rtk0qOX9zs #AoCO2025
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Division — Matt Godbolt’s blog
Division doesn't have to be slow with some clever tricks
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Michael Fogleman @michaelfogleman.com · 06/12/2025
@matt.godbolt.org have you seen @mattkeeter.com 's "Prospero Challenge"? Several folks used compiler optimization techniques on it so I thought you'd be interested! www.mattkeeter.com/projects/pro... His presentation here gives more context and is worth a watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Cn...
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The Prospero Challenge
Evaluate a 7866-clause math expression for fame and glory
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 04/12/2025
Website Task Flowchart xkcd.com/3175/
Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.
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AstraKernel 💫 @astrakernel.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🦀 A look at Rust from 2012 - Thanks to all the people who put efforts and shaped the today's Rust purplesyringa.moe/blog/a-look-... #rustlang
Snippet from the blog showing old approach before cargo
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 25/11/2025
EFF is thankful for @session-app.bsky.social, helping us fight to protect end-to-end encryption.
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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 20/11/2025
*with tears in my eyes* they grow up so fast blog.rust-lang.org/2025/11/20/s...
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Switching to Rust's own mangling scheme on nightly | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
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Behnam Esfahbod 🦊 @behnam.es · 09/11/2025
"Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century Moroccan traveler, mentions the city of Gaza on two separate occasions, some thirty years apart: once when, still young, he was beginning his journey to China, and again when he was returning to his homeland after a long voyage." www.laotrarevista.com/2025/11/pres...
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Presentación La Otra 198 Noviembre de 2025 | La Otra | Revista de poesía + Artes visuales + Otras letras
Ibn Battuta, viajero marroquí del siglo XIV, menciona la ciudad de Gaza en dos momentos distintos, separados por unos treinta años: una vez cuando, aún joven, iniciaba su viaje hacia China, y otra cua...
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Long video, but worth the full watch. It covers Peter Thiel’s journey, showing how much control he has and the danger he poses. “That moment gave away what Peter Thiel really is: a greedy, selfish person who wants to own the world and will invent any fantasy he can possibly think of to justify it.”
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The Antichrist is Here: Story of Peter Thiel
YouTube video by Volksgeist
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 25/10/2025
it's important to remember the people doing this aren't "just following orders," they signed up to do this, they're excited to do it, it's what they want to be doing, and each one of them is personally culpable for the entirety of ICE's conduct
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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 22/10/2025
I see a future in #jj-vcs: steveklabnik.com/writing/i-se...
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I see a future in jj
Blog post: I see a future in jj by Steve Klabnik
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Behnam Esfahbod 🦊 @behnam.es · 13/10/2025
On a recent road trip in Mexico, we stopped at Yanga, Ver, named after Gaspar Ñanga, "a Central African man who led a maroon colony of enslaved Africans in the highlands near Veracruz, New Spain during the early period of Spanish colonial rule", forming the first African-led community in Americas.
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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Look what arrived in the mail today! Hooray and congrats to Ken Feder! "Insightful, respectful, important, and a pleasure to read. It belongs on the bookshelf of every American," according to one archaeologist who blurbed the book. Get your copy today!
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 09/10/2025
As a parent with a kid who’s starting to play games on the iPad, I’m so pissed at the predatory state of kid’s games. 1. I pay $7 to remove all ads from this game. Yet catch my kid watching ads - even after paying they are offered to watch for in-game rewards. WTH 2. (cont’d)
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/09/2025
The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”
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AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities
Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients
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Guy Lavender Forsyth @guylavenderforsyth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
New paper alert! 🧪 www.doi.org/10.1057/s415...
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Language endangerment in Vanuatu: Bislama likely does pose a threat in the world’s most language-diverse country - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Language endangerment in Vanuatu: Bislama likely does pose a threat in the world’s most language-diverse country
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/09/2025
“Technology firms behind artificial intelligence–based note-taking software — marketed to therapists as a time-saving administrative tool — have quietly included provisions in their terms and conditions that allow patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications.”
jacobin.com
Your Therapists’ Notes Could Become Fodder For AI
Tech companies are marketing AI-based note-taking software to therapists as a new time-saving tool. But by signing up, providers may be unknowingly offering patients’ sensitive health information as d...
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
NorCal Touchstone Climbing workers joined the ranks of 5 unionized climbing gyms in Los Angeles this week--but the work is only just beginning.
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Four Touchstone Climbing gyms win unions in Northern California
NorCal Touchstone Climbing workers joined the ranks of 5 unionized climbing gyms in Los Angeles this week--but the work is only just beginning.
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