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Damien

@damienstanton.com
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👋 hello, I build research software at PwC & am a @colorado.edu CS grad student. Code tinkerer for 12+ years; into distsys, PL/types, aviation, & practical AI.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this literally is not true
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Damien @damienstanton.com · 06/10/2026
Brilliant thread:
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
real answer: so you understand the formal model at a deep and intuitive level granting you the ability to compose the right formal concepts into clear descriptions that LLM agents can productively act on
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Grace @gracekind.net · 14/07/2025
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a man sitting at a desk using a computer with a woman standing behind him
ALT: a man sitting at a desk using a computer with a woman standing behind him
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Damien @damienstanton.com · 03/10/2026
Swift and Rust are the best general purpose languages out there, and further adoption is to be celebrated!
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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 26/09/2026
discord.doll.systems immediately coined "tensorpunk" and i fw the term profoundly ngl
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Discordサーバー「☽ doll.systems ☾」に参加しよう!
☽ tensorpunk witchcraft central ☾ | 236人のメンバー
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Damien @damienstanton.com · 11/09/2026
After a few months of use, I am happy to share this little agentic coding tool. Goal is slop reduction by integrating a fast, portable model of code quality. Within SLDC flow, it uses Rust’s type checker to validate modules, resulting in memory-safe, well-structured code. github.com/damienstanto...
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GitHub - damienstanton/veneer: Help your agents write small, sound, modular code in any language.
Help your agents write small, sound, modular code in any language. - damienstanton/veneer
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The Rust Foundation @rustfoundation.org · 09/09/2026
NVIDIA, our newest Platinum Member, launched CUDA Rust today. You can now write GPU kernels in Rust and compile them straight to PTX. Learn more on their blog: developer.nvidia.com/blog/introdu...
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Introducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels | NVIDIA Technical Blog
In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are mature, enterprise-grade toolchains, and NVIDIA will be growing and maturing CUDA…
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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 09/09/2026
Rust: when empty isn't Bottom ettolrach.com/blog/rust_wh...
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Rust: When Empty Isn't Bottom | ettolrach
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Damien @damienstanton.com · 07/09/2026
Many things are true. The technical reality here is that the transformer kicked off a fundamental shift towards a before-unknown inherent computational aspect of writing/language itself; we may be in Sumer now. With that said, we can choose to maximize or minimize the humanity of its application.
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Damien @damienstanton.com · 03/09/2026
We've lost the benevolent utility of real, justified, physical shame. It's actually good to be able to ostracize people when they are clearly hurting others. Kicking racists out of shows, banning shoplifters, bouncing bar fighters. No wonder moderating digital spaces is so hard and demoralizing.
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Damien @damienstanton.com · 27/08/2026
The funny thing is even Ant engineers and PMs don't seem to be pausing to ask: Do any well-defined, real problems that are solvable with software even require or benefit from this insane tradeoff of quality vs quantity? Like seriously -- with this kind of velocity, where are the useful products?
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
How to approach an unknown language in the ocean? Here’s one of the first cases of AI interpretability leading to a scientific discovery -- in whales.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i cannot fathom why people are so incredibly focused on what are either falsehoods or equivocal and preliminary studies about the buildings which AI runs in, rather than the White Collar Proletarianizing Machine
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Abel @abeliansoup.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
have you ever seen a visual shepherd tone anon? courtesy of @bleuje.com
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Damien @damienstanton.com · 18/08/2026
I think biofuels (especially jet A), the swap from 100LL to mogas and other sustainability efforts will have a bigger impact on aviation's evolution, but hybrids and electrics are still really interesting and will allow totally new modalities that weren't previously possible.
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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 14/08/2026
I am very happy to announce that I have gotten a paper accepted to PLSS 2026: LLMs as Collaborators in Language Specification and Design conf.researchr.org/details/spla...
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LLMs as Collaborators in Language Specification and Design (PLSS 2026) - SPLASH/ISSTA 2026
Workshop on Programming Language Standardization and Specification This workshop aims to foster cross-pollination between researchers and industry professionals with experience in programming language...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In 1924, the son of the president of the United States, with access to the best medical treatment, got a blister on his foot playing tennis, it got infected, there were no antibiotics, and he died of sepsis.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.
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Dion Dokter @diondokter.nl · 10/08/2026
Native sealed traits coming! blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/... #rustlang
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Call for testing: Restricting trait implementability and field mutability | Inside Rust Blog
Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!
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Тsфdiиg @tsoding.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Damien @damienstanton.com · 08/08/2026
Excited to watch the PLDI talk: opt-in lifetimes are one of the nicest ergonomics in modern Swift.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/08/2026
current feelings around AI: the CEOs shoveling slop into everything should be in jail but the guys spending upwards of $60,000 on elaborate, janky home rigs to run local models for no reason other than to see if it works are engaging in a long and semi-honorable tradition of computer toucher shit
Reddit post from r/localllama of a user "Setting up of a 16xGB10 (DGX Spark) cluster

Preparing this to be able to run locally frontier level open models.

It's 16 boxes stacked around a widescreen monitor. There is no art on the walls
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ceej @ceej.online · 31/07/2026
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
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Hillel @hillelwayne.com · 29/07/2026
I am delighted to announce that after 5 years of work, 15 early releases, 50,000 words written, and 100,000 more deleted, *Logic for Programmers* is now complete and available in print! Blog post announcement: www.hillelwayne.com/post/lfp/ Website: logicforprogrammers.com
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Logic for Programmers
Practical math for the working programmer.
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Game Maker's Toolkit @gamemakerstoolkit.com · 27/07/2026
Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%
Pie chart showing game engines used to create 10,511 GMTK Game Jam games in 2026. Godot has the largest slice with 47%. Then Unity with 34%. Other with 11%. Game Maker with 5%. And Unreal Engine with 3%.
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Bailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad · 27/07/2026
I’ve been working on an Exaclidraw fork for about a week that syncs your drawings to your Atmosphere account as well as uses Iroh for realtime encrypted end to end collaborative work. I feel like it’s at a stage where I can share it. Meet lexidraw.app!
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Lexidraw, an Excalidraw fork where your drawings follow you
Lexidraw is an Excalidraw fork where your drawings follow you. Share publicly with the Atmosphere or privately with iroh.
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Haskell programming language @haskell.org · 26/07/2026
Haskell is particularly resilient to lone apostrophes in the middle of identifiers! You can have a function that is literally called "don't" and it's perfectly fine (although your colleagues might object…)
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stellz @piss.beauty · 23/07/2026
"make no mistakes" negative, unrealistic, anxiety inducing, process focused "do a breakthrough" positive, incredible, aspirational, goal oriented
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Grace @gracekind.net · 11/07/2026
Prompt engineering in 2026:
Never Give Up!!
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Damien @damienstanton.com · 22/07/2026
This is the best quaternion visualization I've seen!
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Conor Titania Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I told a tall story about type inference via effects and handlers, this morning in Bristol. Thanks to my lovely hosts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc2n...
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YouTube video by PLRG :: Bristol
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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 20/07/2026
Memory safety is good, and I will never argue against a language pursuing it. That said, Andrew going for a memory safety model with a substantial runtime cost, seemingly out of social animus toward Rust, is extraordinarily petty.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Before Sister Rosetta Tharpe, it was guitarist, bassist and vocalist Memphis Minnie (1897-1973) who helped shape the sound of modern pop music and recorded around 200 songs #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting Black woman playing the guitar next to a microphone wearing a light dress
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Sichu Lu @sichulu.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
this delightful chart of "is it a transformer" courtesyof x.com/_lyraaaa_/st...
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Damien @damienstanton.com · 15/07/2026
Yes - exactly this. Going from ops to assembly, or assembly to Lisp, or C to SML, etc. LLMs and agentic coding represent what these things have always represented: a higher level, abstracted, more direct translation of human expression into computation. It's "computational writing" all the way down
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 14/07/2026
PrismML launches Bonsai 27B, a model based on Qwen3.6 27B that it says runs natively on Apple devices via MLX; its CEO says Apple is evaluating the tech (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Thrilled to share our latest collaboration with Google DeepMind: Formal Conjectures, an evolving Lean 4 benchmark for evaluating AI capabilities in formal math. arxiv.org/abs/2605.13171
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Formal Conjectures: An Open and Evolving Benchmark for Verified Discovery in Mathematics
As automated reasoning systems advance rapidly, there is a growing need for research-level formal mathematical problems to accurately evaluate their capabilities. To address this, we present Formal Co...
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Damien @damienstanton.com · 14/07/2026
As a Caps->Ctrl person I feel *very seen*
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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 13/07/2026
new favorite diagram shortlist entry
graph showing relationships between probability distributions, including cases of special parameters and convergence.  the normal distribution is quite central
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Damien @damienstanton.com · 12/07/2026
💯
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 11/07/2026
all will become fidgetable
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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 12/07/2026
btw the turn towards dynamically typed languages was entirely because the major statically-typed languages didn't have sum types and pattern matching once static languages got those features it was gg for dynamic typing
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Damien @damienstanton.com · 12/07/2026
Ngl got access to 5.6 Sol at work and... pretty on par with Fable and suddenly not getting nastygrams about token spend
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TypeScript @typescriptlang.org · 08/07/2026
📣 The moment is here. 📣 TypeScript 7 is officially released! 7️⃣ devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...
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Announcing TypeScript 7.0 - TypeScript
Today we are proud to announce the availability of TypeScript 7, a 10x faster native port of TypeScript! Since its early days, TypeScript has promised to
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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Damien @damienstanton.com · 06/07/2026
Neat - this is like the fun part of TempleOS
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Damien @damienstanton.com · 05/07/2026
FWIW, Happy Fourth.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In other "excellent news from religious bodies", the US Presbyterian General Assembly has formally voted to start the process to (correctly) declare white Christian nationalism a theological error incompatible with the teachings of Jesus: pres-outlook.org/2026/07/pcus...
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PC(USA) labels White Christian nationalism "Theological Error"
Calling White Christian nationalism incompatible with the teachings of Jesus, commissioners approved a proposed constitutional amendment and a new policy statement opposing the ideology.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.
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