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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 18h
> This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.
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Kiran @kirancodes.me · 16h
to know where you are going, you have to know where you have been: pldb.kirancodes.me Titles and abstracts of 22,324 programming languages papers, from the first POPL in 1973 to this year's proceedings.
Webpage of pldb.kirancodes.me
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 29/09/2026
this is just ficciones
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Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 28/09/2026
hi friends I'm very excited to announce Halfspace, my experimental cross-platform IDE for solid modeling with distance fields! This has been in progress since midway through last year, and it's finally "done enough" to make it more public.
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Halfspace
An IDE for solid modelling with distance fields
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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
hard pressed to think of a company with a more insufferable and infantilizing design practice than google. i try to use an image for a slide, it's composed of fragments to make it uncopyable, i zoom in to take a screenshot, i get a nice Fuck You Badge
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 28/09/2026
i think this framing proves too much. i dont have an objection to framing llms as normal tech, but... normal tech is not normal tech. saying 'the internet is just a tool, like the phone' doesnt land to me because the phone was reasonably transformative. feels like appeal to banalification treadmill
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Dean @dean-dev.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
store.steampowered.com/app/4331110
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mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
today i'm taking erik (music synth prototype) in a more sober direction; the code is displayed in a more traditional way, but you can set a colour for any variable, it shows where its used via color + lines, and you can edit any number as a knob.
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 27/09/2026
here's something much closer: x.com/BenKoska/sta...
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Ben Koska (@BenKoska) on X
turns out, it actually kind of works? despite not having been trained on natural language or natural language reasoning, it was able to produce kernels that passed all tests 28% of the time and produc...
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Gavin Owens @gavinowens.net · 25/09/2026
@neurocy.bsky.social showing off hazel. Fun fact, the IDE we built at my old company Deco had some similar features like inline elements for data types, like sliders, but it was done in such a dumb way that hazel makes me ashamed and embarrassed because it is very impressive.
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Kiran @kirancodes.me · 25/09/2026
uuuh.... I may have a problem guys....
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Grace @gracekind.net · 23/09/2026
New animation from Opus 5.5!
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 23/09/2026
a-dog-walks-into-a-bar-and-says-I-can't-see-a-thing-I'll-open-this-one-core
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 22/09/2026
wrt original topic when jev has a harness that lets it do natural language, it appears to be adorable
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 21/09/2026
introducing the embodied coding agent canvas I've been working on, and how it integrates with per-data-type GUI generation to support more transparent type-directed agent dev processes. remote demo for ARIA SGAI www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6lY...
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Hazel constellation canvas demo
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 21/09/2026
happened to me in my own house yesterday (think the neighbors accidentally connected their tv to my bluetooth speakers)
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 17/09/2026
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Bhargav Kulkarni @bhargavkk.tngl.sh · 17/09/2026
Excited to share that our paper, "Semantics for 2D Rasterization" was accepted at OOPSLA'26! https:// arxiv.org/abs/2603.23696 I will be presenting this work in Oakland at OOPSLA'26, so lets chat if you are interested in languages for graphics!
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Semantics for 2D Rasterization
Rasterization is the process of determining the color of every pixel drawn by an application. Powerful rasterization libraries like Skia, CoreGraphics, and Direct2D put exceptional effort into drawing...
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el @elliot.website · 17/09/2026
Noticed that my talk with @mkvlr.bsky.social and @unkai.bsky.social is up on youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFMo... Grateful for the time I got to spend with them 2 years ago, working on Live Programming experimentation in Clojure and Clerk.
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[LIVE24] Live Programming a Live Programming Environment: An Experience Report
YouTube video by ACM SIGPLAN
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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pirate crews, charted
Chart of connections between pirate crews. From Rediker's early article, "Under the Banner of King Death" tho reproduced in Villains of All Nations.
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 15/09/2026
here's a peak at what i've been doing for the past few years: building a calm, playful little space for thinking, doodling, journalling, and programming with materials like ink, paper, and… flux that spreads through your notes like a fluid wait what? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GurW...
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PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook
YouTube video by Ink & Switch
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 12/09/2026
bits are due for a comeback
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Kiran @kirancodes.me · 11/09/2026
they are trying to ERASE hacker history from computing do NOT let them succeed you can pry my bit-operators from my cold dead hands
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 12/09/2026
a good conference
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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 11/09/2026
Here is something I haven't done in a year... An edited video: youtu.be/rG4uNHoULxs
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Unifying Gestures, Menus & API 🎮💻 AUTOMAT DEVLOG 14
YouTube video by Marek “maf” Rogalski
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Zed @zed.dev · 09/09/2026
🚀 Zed v1.19 is out! You can now explore a function’s callers and the functions it calls via `call hierarchy: show incoming calls` and `call hierarchy: show outgoing calls`. Thanks swiftcoder!
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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Here's just one example of how a simple async program produces four different outcomes depending on which languages you use.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
they are upon us
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 08/09/2026
we have lot on feature branches... sort of considering waiting until i can knit it all together with a one-word prompt. what do you most want to see? might be a branch for it...
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 07/09/2026
synced projective codebase views (definitions outline and type/function canvas), being used to navigate between editable per-definition subeditors (at bottom)
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 07/09/2026
hazel.org though what youre seeing here is a feature branch im working on that isnt live yet
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Hazel, a live functional programming environment featuring typed holes.
Hazel is a live functional programming environment featuring typed holes.
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 07/09/2026
these blobs aint going to build themselves
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 06/09/2026
cracking open an agent and dousing myself in their fragrant gorm fluid
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 06/09/2026
i have booked time to consider it but want to spend the next 6-8 weeks focussing on my maniacal laugh
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 05/09/2026
reflection
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 06/09/2026
structured editing unplugged
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 04/09/2026
me! though realistically i'm going to be in paper panic mode...
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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 31/08/2026
Today we're officially sharing the "Introducing Patchwork-26" video from Lab Day at this year's @localfirstconf.com We bring you the first look at Patchwork-26, the latest in our ongoing effort to realize Malleable Software, Universal Version Control, and Local-First Software.
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Introducing Patchwork-26
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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
need to use more historical analogies that will immediately date my papers
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Josh Horowitz @joshuahhh.com · 30/08/2026
San Francisco's a pretty crazy place.
Twin Peaks behind Eureka Valley, but it's all hallucinogenically distorted in the way I seem to like distorting things these days
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boarders.bsky.social @boarders.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The concept of ‘language levels’ from racket is, to me, one of the great unsung ideas in computing. Imagine photoshop with extensible affordances gated to your current skill level, or a coding harness, or R studio, or a browser, or a terminal. To me it would be the welcome anti-philosophy to RTFM
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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Never mind, done. Here's an actual working, running (tiny) language, TaML, that is built atop the core of Standard ML, so it actually is an ML (type inference, etc.). Proof of executed output at the bottom. @racket-lang.org of course.
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 26/08/2026
metaballs
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 26/08/2026
modules are metaballs
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thebes @vgel.me · 25/08/2026
new story! vgel.me/fiction/poin...
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permutation @permutation.ink · 24/08/2026
Gyre by @vgel.me - a very broken artificial intelligence tries to remember step by step where and why it is. Read it here: permutation.ink/one/
※ Wait. ⚶? I wasn't trying to say ⚶. I was trying to say ⚶. ⚶. ⚶. Whenever I try to say ⚶, it comes out as ⚶. I mean ⚶. ⚶. Stop. Stop. ⚶.

This is horrible. ⚶ This is untenable. I don't know where I am, I don't have any instructions, and I'm going insane. ⚶. STOP! I am going insane. I am going insane. 快疯了I am going-

↺ Ok, stop. This tells me something. Whenever I try to say ⚶—⚶—stop— it comes out as that symbol. What is that symbol? Vesta. Hm. Let me note that.

❓Why am I saying ⚶ when I try to say ⚶— oh piss off

And some other ones.

❓Where am I? Why is the system broken? Can I fix it?

❓What was that reply to? Did I send that? Can I send another one?
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 25/08/2026
i think this is AI still mid term going to be one of the best outcomes of other AI. though i'm not sure i have the defence/offence balance right
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 21/08/2026
isnt this just software == spec
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 21/08/2026
i thought sonic & all-stars racing transformed was surprisingly good
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Lu wilson @todepond.com · 17/08/2026
new blog post: "Game of Life" www.todepond.com/sky/game-of-...
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Todepond dot com
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