Reposted by Damienrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026this literally is not true 1556341
Reposted by Damienhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 04/10/2026real 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 725417
Reposted by DamienGrace @gracekind.net · 14/07/2025media.tenor.coma man sitting at a desk using a computer with a woman standing behind himALT: a man sitting at a desk using a computer with a woman standing behind him 0991
Damien @damienstanton.com · 03/10/2026Swift and Rust are the best general purpose languages out there, and further adoption is to be celebrated! 010
Reposted by Damiensamhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 26/09/2026discord.doll.systems immediately coined "tensorpunk" and i fw the term profoundly ngldiscord.doll.systemsDiscordサーバー「☽ doll.systems ☾」に参加しよう!☽ tensorpunk witchcraft central ☾ | 236人のメンバー 4808
Damien @damienstanton.com · 11/09/2026After 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...github.comGitHub - 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 000
Reposted by DamienThe Rust Foundation @rustfoundation.org · 09/09/2026NVIDIA, 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...developer.nvidia.comIntroducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels | NVIDIA Technical BlogIn 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… 49514
Reposted by DamienSteve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 09/09/2026Rust: when empty isn't Bottom ettolrach.com/blog/rust_wh...ettolrach.comRust: When Empty Isn't Bottom | ettolrach 4372
Damien @damienstanton.com · 07/09/2026Many 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. 010
Damien @damienstanton.com · 03/09/2026We'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. 010
Damien @damienstanton.com · 27/08/2026The 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? 000
Reposted by DamienGasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026How 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. 222051
Reposted by Damienrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026i 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 1226314
Reposted by DamienAbel @abeliansoup.bsky.social · 23/08/2026have you ever seen a visual shepherd tone anon? courtesy of @bleuje.com 1431063
Damien @damienstanton.com · 18/08/2026I 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. 000
Reposted by DamienSteve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 14/08/2026I 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...conf.researchr.orgLLMs as Collaborators in Language Specification and Design (PLSS 2026) - SPLASH/ISSTA 2026Workshop on Programming Language Standardization and Specification This workshop aims to foster cross-pollination between researchers and industry professionals with experience in programming language... 172009
Reposted by DamienAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026In 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. 613035702
Reposted by DamienEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026You 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. 75123763000
Reposted by DamienDion Dokter @diondokter.nl · 10/08/2026Native sealed traits coming! blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/... #rustlangblog.rust-lang.orgCall for testing: Restricting trait implementability and field mutability | Inside Rust BlogWant to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look! 2609
Damien @damienstanton.com · 08/08/2026Excited to watch the PLDI talk: opt-in lifetimes are one of the nicest ergonomics in modern Swift. 000
Reposted by Damienlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/08/2026current 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 693157321
Reposted by Damienceej @ceej.online · 31/07/2026ANTHROPIC: 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 3666151247
Reposted by DamienHillel @hillelwayne.com · 29/07/2026I 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.comlogicforprogrammers.comLogic for ProgrammersPractical math for the working programmer. 1020348
Reposted by DamienGame Maker's Toolkit @gamemakerstoolkit.com · 27/07/2026Well, 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% 9356211233
Reposted by DamienBailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad · 27/07/2026I’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!lexidraw.appLexidraw, an Excalidraw fork where your drawings follow youLexidraw is an Excalidraw fork where your drawings follow you. Share publicly with the Atmosphere or privately with iroh. 2336463
Reposted by DamienHaskell programming language @haskell.org · 26/07/2026Haskell 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…) 1163
Reposted by Damienstellz @piss.beauty · 23/07/2026"make no mistakes" negative, unrealistic, anxiety inducing, process focused "do a breakthrough" positive, incredible, aspirational, goal oriented 1146068
Reposted by DamienConor Titania Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I 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...youtube.comEffing WYouTube video by PLRG :: Bristol 4276
Reposted by DamienAndrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 20/07/2026Memory 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. 4915
Reposted by Damienwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Before 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 103938750
Reposted by DamienSichu Lu @sichulu.bsky.social · 18/07/2026this delightful chart of "is it a transformer" courtesyof x.com/_lyraaaa_/st... 1435
Damien @damienstanton.com · 15/07/2026Yes - 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 110
Reposted by DamienTechmeme @techmeme.com · 14/07/2026PrismML 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 0131
Reposted by DamienBlaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Thrilled 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/2605.13171arxiv.orgFormal Conjectures: An Open and Evolving Benchmark for Verified Discovery in MathematicsAs 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... 3383
Reposted by Damiencyber professional @permadeath.com · 13/07/2026new favorite diagram shortlist entry 1013337
Reposted by Damienrain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 12/07/2026btw 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 41358
Damien @damienstanton.com · 12/07/2026Ngl got access to 5.6 Sol at work and... pretty on par with Fable and suddenly not getting nastygrams about token spend 000
Reposted by DamienTypeScript @typescriptlang.org · 08/07/2026📣 The moment is here. 📣 TypeScript 7 is officially released! 7️⃣ devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...devblogs.microsoft.comAnnouncing TypeScript 7.0 - TypeScriptToday 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 15617157
Reposted by Damienrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/07/2026In 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...pres-outlook.orgPC(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. 173713979
Reposted by DamienCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Asking 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. 094832280