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I appreciate the complex and nuanced human. Homogenized monoculture is lame.

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johanna @jola.dev · 25/05/2026

After meditating on my own thoughts, this sounds like I value the creation because it’s hard—nah—it’s the unique filter. I read authors because the qualities of their unique voices fit me well. They might have honed their craft, and do it quite effortlessly, or understand deeply through experience.

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Wrote a bit about why LLM-written text is so painful, even when the content itself is fine, and the importance of using your own voice jola.dev/posts/the-so...

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The social contract of writing | jola.dev

About the value of genuine writing in a world being drowned in slop.

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Join the movement to reclaim the em dash from AI stigma.

P.S. Although I know AI-popularized idioms are annoying, I want to help re-humanize them, particularly the em-dash: www.reclaimtheemdash.org. ✊

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Reclaim The Em Dash

With any creative act, I want to know there was someone going through something—a struggle, a realization, growth, failure—real life stuff. Even, nah, especially if it’s heady and materialized as fiction.

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Jared M. Smith @jaredmsmith.com · 24/05/2026

Love this! Thanks for elucidating your thoughts, and declaring your dedication to doing the work. And thanks for sharing the LLM section of Oxide RFD 576 by @bcantrill.bsky.social, the desire as a reader to know the author had worked to understand what they’re writing.

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I'm grateful for the wondrous path that led me to this conversation—from reading the paper Ari Schlesinger wrote with @felienne.bsky.social ("A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design") to my conversation with Felienne Hermans—and last but not least, the gracious introduction. 🙇

Jared M. Smith @jaredmsmith.com · 24/05/2026

Hey folks! I’m excited to share my chat with Ari Schlesinger in the ultimate episode of the Wonder series. Social-tech-carved trail; Words, Elm & errors shape us; Contorting yourself Elm Town 90 – Wonder: Contorting yourself with Ari Schlesinger: youtu.be/BWUL2WdAHsA elm.town/episodes/elm...

Elm Town 90 – Wonder: Contorting yourself with Ari Schlesinger

Jess House @jesshouse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

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The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.

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Jared M. Smith @jaredmsmith.com · 25/03/2026

Good chat about Elm Camp: the unconference format, a beautiful venue in Czechia, and the lovely, inviting community ❤️ Find yourself at camp, whether curious or sold— Tickets on sale now! Elm Town 89 – Elm Camp 2026: youtu.be/vLY9CrEQ0PY elm.town/episodes/elm... 🎫 Get yer tickets here: elm.camp

Elm Town 89 – Elm Camp 2026

Martin Janiczek @janiczek.cz · 12/03/2026

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Not only does the ESP32 + CRT sync, we're now marking dirty tiles and efficiently redrawing only what's needed!

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change." An Octavia Butler gem: www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/06/o...

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Mary Oliver on the creative aspect of habit www.themarginalian.org/2015/02/20/m...

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Marcio Frayze @segunda.tech · 02/03/2026

Note to myself: Life is too short to waste with null pointer exceptions, undefined is not a function, ... Just use Elm for the frontend.

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Orangetronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

absolutely wild that "i think we should think about the environmental costs of things" is met with "your ignorance and anti-AI bias is showing" like what the fuck are we doing here?

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Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 09/02/2026

Doing some writing on things I've been noticing about AI. Plenty of people have said plenty about it, but I wanted to add my own voice to the mix. www.lindsaykwardell.com/blog/dont-re... #blog

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Don't Replace Yourself With AI

AI is potentially helpful, but always harmful to creativity and expression. We should not be relying on it, and yet we are.

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness." George Saunders's wonderful reflection on the power of kindness, animated www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/28/g...

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Marcio Frayze @segunda.tech · 12/01/2026

Elm-review is AWESOME!! 🤩 package.elm-lang.org/packages/jfm...

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Jeroen Engels @jfmengels.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

In which elm-review gets the best-in-class automatic removal for unused parameters. jfmengels.net/removing-unu...

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Removing unused parameters, and then some

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter—undistracted notes on the search for meaning, free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human since 2006: themarginalian.org/newsletter

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Jared M. Smith @jaredmsmith.com · 16/12/2025

Culture sways coding Hedy clears language blockers Felienne finds tribe Elm Town 88 – Wonder: Unconscious bias with Felienne Hermans: youtu.be/rCl4YgVTeUk elm.town/episodes/elm... Thanks to @felienne.bsky.social for coming to Elm Town!

Elm Town 88 – Wonder: Unconscious bias with Felienne Hermans

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2025

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Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

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Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

"integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer". What a great way to say this. 😍

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.

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Jared M. Smith @jaredmsmith.com · 23/09/2025

From machine to mob, a learning environment— start-up, air, guitar. Elm Town 87 – Wonder: From machine to mob learning with Sophie Collard: youtu.be/D3-shZomLF8 elm.town/episodes/elm...

Elm Town 87 – Wonder: From machine to mob learning with Sophie Collard

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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Official data is in today, and America set a new record-high for solar power in July, with generation up 30% compared to last year!

A graph of monthly solar generation in the US

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taylor.town @taylor.town · 19/09/2025

I built a free og:image tool: lede.me

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Easiest og:image ever

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taylor.town @taylor.town · 12/09/2025

Be the strange you want to see in the world.

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Jared M. Smith @jaredmsmith.com · 12/09/2025

Hey Zed folks, you might have to run a check for updates. Auto-update was accidentally disabled. 😶 github.com/zed-industri...

Zed -> Check for Updates menu item screenshot with a subtle .elm file in the background. 🌳

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Jared M. Smith @jaredmsmith.com · 04/09/2025

Decode thoughts for growth; Connect and share; example— △ Joël's Triangle Elm Town 86 – Wonder: Linking notes for active growth with Joël Quenneville: youtu.be/DyjKmk9PzwA elm.town/episodes/elm...

Elm Town 86 – Wonder: Linking notes for active growth with Joël Quenneville

What would Webster's look like if it were made today? Would it be AI-generated from social media? Wiktionary might approach it. But for some reason, I think of the copious jungle in Urban Dictionary; however, Urban Dictionary is clearly mob-made, suffering from info pollution.

Additionally, it comprises several language dictionaries: French, Spanish, German, and Italian; a thesaurus; a "Book of Familiar Quotations"; a "Rhyming Dictionary"; a "Music Dictionary"; and more. I enjoy the physical reference, but now I want a copy of that OG Webster's dictionary.

It contains a modern, "wrong" dictionary which includes the preface "This book is not published by the original publishers of WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY, or by their successors". 😆

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Fertile discovery! Thanks for sharing. I keep a 3″-deep Webster's New Encyclopedia of Dictionaries from 1992, given to me when I must've been a pre-teen, over 30 years ago. One kid puked on it at a high school party; a bit of discoloration, but no significant damage.

Elm Camp unconference experience.

A couple of months ago, I went to Elm Camp, which I wrote about here: jaredmsmith.com/dev/elm-camp.... In the Community section, I quip a bit about where Elm "happens" for me.

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Elm Camp 2025

Welcome to Elm Town! A podcast about the people making and using the Elm language, and the things that they do.

I use Elm every day for work and play. At work, I use it to build the Logistically transportation management system. I talk with folks about it on Elm Town; and elm-pages drives the elm.town site. Personally, I use it to run my website.

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Lore: Elm Core Development

More details about core development at elmcraft.org/lore/elm-cor..., including how Elm core dev works and what Evan is working on. Also see the cheeky iselmdead.info site.

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Lore: Elm Core Development community history & cultural knowledge