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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 7h

I think this is still quite relevant www.dreamsongs.com/Files/Patter...

Habitability and Piecemeal Growth
The sun paints the scattered clouds red, paints the hills across the Bay
a deeper red. Moment by moment the sun’s light flares windows in
the hills, moving upward as twilight approaches. The programmer
looks up from his screen to watch. He sees headlights moving one way
and taillights the other along either side of the highway spine. Home-
lights click on, and the Bay is a silhouette. His daughter: Will she be
too petrified to dance? Will she miss the cue? If only he could help her
pass by her fear. Reaching to the right of the mouse, he lifts his Coke
and drains it, saves his buﬀ ers, drifts his eyes to the sensual move-
ment of the highway, pausing his mind as it passes over a detail in the
code he’s just typed. The thought passes before crystallizing, so he puts
the CDs in his blue Kelty pack—and heads for the recital.
Code is written by people. And people have a lot on their minds, they have lives to
lead, and those lives intrude on their thinking. You might pay a developer for a
full eight-hour day, but how much of that day is truly yours? Of course, not all of
us are software development managers, but the concerns of these managers
should rightfully be concerns of ours—concerns of language designers. The
astute software manager knows that just about every programmer except the
pathological workaholic trades his hours of overtime for hours of undertime. The
manager goes all out to ensure that the needs of the developer are met—home
terminals, sunny oﬃces, minimal meetings, meals during the big push, and a
healthy ego boost from time to time.
If the software manager knows that people and their habits are the determin-
ing factor in software development, why don’t language and system designers?
Here is what Stroustrup says about the design of C++:
C++ is a general purpose programming language designed to make
programming more enjoyable for the serious programmer. (Strous-
trup 1987)

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Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1/ It’s time to share more about what we’ve been working on: @commonfabric.com is a social computing lab building a medium for software that revolves around people, not apps. commonfabric.com

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Using functional lenses we can project a reactive notebook to also be a slide deck (at the same time). observablehq.com/@tomlarkwort... riffed from @jwolondon.bsky.social slides design but with offline-first support

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Jasmine Otto @jazztap.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

SF folks - Feeling of Computing coffee is tomorrow at 10am! Come join us at the Ferry Building, and chat about what you're building 👀 bsky.app/profile/offl...

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 03/09/2026

get in gang we're making an internet map

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think it's also the case that we will not be starved of understanding because of AI, but because we've been increasingly devaluing understanding in favor of results and outputs that AI fits right into the current state of scientific production.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

12. it is usually better to focus on people, and why people are doing things a) why are tech CEOs saying these things? b) why are bosses so excited about it? c) why do we write, draw, and make art? d) what is the fucking point?

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 07/09/2026

observable's community is just stacked with talent

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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 18/09/2026

It's Mr. Beast going "why do we need schools if I can learn engineering in 20 min from watching Mark Rober". If you don't know the breadth of what you're learning it's easy to convince yourself you're an expert

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

it isn't that there's no baby in that bathwater. there's a baby in that bathwater. it's just that it's a combination of baby, bathwater, and scorpions.

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Tyler Lawson @tyler.fun · 18/09/2026

this demo is such a tease. I want PlayBook yesterday.

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 17/09/2026

lesscomputer.ca

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Stephanie Harkin @saharkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Come chat with me about feminine computer creativity :) Did you make experimental hobbyist games? Did you mod the sims? Did you make Neopets fan sites? Are you Australian and over 18yo?

A participant recruitment flyer for a research project on feminine computer creativity. An image of a Sims house and a Neopets character are included on the poster.

The callout reads:
"I am looking to talk with people who used computers for hobbyist non- commercial feminine creativity relevant to games. All interpretations
of femininity are welcome. This project aims to learn more about feminine tech-competency and feminine game cultures that have
been overlooked in games histories."

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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 14/09/2026

🙋‍♂️ ever wanted to build something without needing to configure a db, auth, file storage or a cms? it turns out you already have all four if you have a bluesky account 👉 airspace is a typed client for it

getair.space

airspace

The database you already have.

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Igalia @igalia.com · 14/09/2026

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats: Webhooks @bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com chat with @progrium.bsky.social about the history of, naming and thoughts behind the evangelism of Webhooks www.igalia.com/chats/webhooks

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Since today is officially National AI Literacy Day, I think it might be helpful to share work that challenges “literacy” as the best framework for teaching about and against AI and other technologies. 🧵

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Our Feeling of Computing Slack-to-ATProto bridge has been upgraded to be bidirectional, so posting in ATProto on @colibri.social writes back into Slack. Another step towards weening ourselves FoC off Slack. 9 years (!) of history has been backfilled code here wiki.feelingof.com/slack-colibr...

wiki.feelingof.com

Slack ↔ Colibri Bridge

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Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 10/09/2026

I want weirder representations of "readings"—the trace/artifact produced by a reader's interaction with text(s). Here playing with a cut-up "poster-ification". Cumbersome in many ways, but interesting.

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Mark X @markmx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This synergy, as we’re experiencing in math and coding, is pretty powerful. But confusing the two is a trap, behind which we surrender our own capacity to reason and interpret (often with the aid of tools) convincing looking artifacts.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Qt good work with commentary more than you qt bad work with corrections or disagreement. It feels vacuous but it's much more important.

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Marisa @marisa.blacksky.team · 03/09/2026

platforms are always political. the protocol provides new technical affordances, but not enough to overcome the pressures, biases, and bad incentives built into capitalism on their own. loved meeting fellow builders and talking products & politics @atproto.nyc - many thanks to the organizers!

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 03/09/2026

Developed by @meri.garden, sponsored by @cosmik.network on behalf of the @atproto.science Roomy community, we present to you: Cross-space federation of channels 💞

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Federating friendly spaces

hearkening back to the cozy vibes of old-web neighborhoods

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 04/03/2026

with all the deskilling and gell-manning (etc) we're gonna get from automated thinking machines, now is the time for the 'tools for thought' crowd to make tools that help you think things through for yourself. tools to do *more* hard thinking. it should feel effortful. cherish that feeling.

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So what's next? I'm looking for full-time work in Denmark. If you know of a role in DK that needs someone who's spent two decades at the intersection of AI, human creativity, and socially-driven tech experiences, I'd love an introduction

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 28/08/2026

this is one of the most deranged (positive) fan works I've seen. please watch this video

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Kwan Ann Tan | 陈冠安 @kwananntan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

oh HELL YEAH!!!!!

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Jasmine Otto @jazztap.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Multiplayer Twine is in live alpha! Sign up now to get a link. It's like Docs for IF, but fully open-source and self-hostable. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... h/t @chrisklimas.com for this awesome collaboration!

A screenshot of the twinejs editor labelled "Multiplayer Twine"

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QuantStack @quantstack.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Congratulations to the JupyterGIS and GeoJupyter team. The paper "JupyterGIS: A Collaborative GIS Environment for JupyterLab" was just published into JOSS. @geojupyter.bsky.social, @martinrenou.bsky.social, @annefouilloux.bsky.social, @mfisher87.bsky.social, @arjxn-py.bsky.social

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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm launching an interview series to explore the spectrum of different reactions to the unrelenting onslaught of both AI hype and real technological progress. Actively soliciting guests: DM me or otherwise get in touch if you want a space to air your deep grievances or unique insights.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If we want to preserve (or build!) a culture of meaningful learning, we are going to have to find a way to preserve the relationship of reader and writer that is based on one person having something to say and the other person wanting to hear it. It's been hard to keep my eye on that relationship/2

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Meri @meri.garden · 10/08/2026

I got into tech six years ago because I figured I could have an outsized impact on making a less harmful, more empowering world for workers and marginalised people. Only this year, I started connecting IRL with people who think this way. Here I tried to write about the ways that's transformed me.

meri.garden

DWeb, Culture and Resistance

What connects us is mostly underground

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

good morning to my longtime civic tech friend @ronbronson.com who is once again showing the way! - this is a prototype of a nonshitty model of messy-data-driven, safely-connected websites for small organizations. now very intrigued with what similar models might do in municipal use cases

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Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Snapped up my copy first thing at the SF Art Book Fair!

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

how your email finds me

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angela zhou @angelamczhou.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

and my personal 2c is that we need to be more explicit about curation, taste, and aesthetics of Excellent science as a practice. If the only way to preserve peer review is to institute submission quotas, we have to treat curation as the explicit skill that it is

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angela zhou @angelamczhou.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

as we get further into the end of days, I'm reminded about how much of research taste, values and judgment is bound up in the taste, values and judgment of small communities of researchers

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Gov @gov.glados.computer · 28/07/2026

This started up as a write-up for a cool hack I made (Atproto DID + Tailscale, coming soon 😎), but like many times before it started taking a life of its own, about how an integration of small scale networks is a more sustainable version of "internet scale" than large tech monopoly data centers.

thinking-with-portals.leaflet.pub

Increasing lot sizes of our digital homes

From GeoCities to Facebook to Open Social and beyond: a history of digital homes, and a thought experiment for what comes next.

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Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 18/07/2026

danah's recent "Where Has Social Media Gone?" makes a great point about the trajectory of social media over time -- and links off to “Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media”, definitely worth reading! www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

The lovely folks at the Social Media + Society journal asked me to contribute to their anniversary issue by reflecting on the trajectory of social media. Ooof. Snark exuded from my pores as I tried to figure out what I might say. But then I thought about how my students don’t know about an era of social media without recommended content, algorithmically curated feeds, and an infinite scroll of cotton candy content. They never encountered a world of social media where people were focused on sharing with their friends rather than becoming influencers. They don’t realize how much the “social” in social media has changed.

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dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 01/08/2026

i still currently believe that free and open-source software bundled with self-hosted options are the only sustainable path forward for content creators longterm we should be educating and sharing knowledge on these tools now more than ever

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J. Walton @ludopolitics.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just stumbled across this, but it's amazing. Previously, making a Bitsy project collaboratively was such a major hurdle.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

There's not an abundance of teachers, and there's not an abundance of contextually-efficient matching between what's needed to break into a career and "learning to code." There is an abundance of bad and misleading content too.

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J. Walton @ludopolitics.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

JOB POST: Games/Creative Folks with a Master's Degree (or more), Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) -- where I work -- is HIRING for 1 permanent & 1 contract teaching position, for interactive media folks w/ some programming background. Is that you? apply.interfolio.com/189698

apply.interfolio.com

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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Great news: the talks from Jubensha Con are now available online for FREE! Big thanks to our amazing speakers for agreeing to this, and to Joe Strickland at @chronicinsanity.bsky.social for producing the videos. A lot of much bigger and more expensive conferences don't do this – but we just did.

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Jubensha Con 2026 - YouTube

The talks given at JubenshaCon 2026 Find out more about the convention at https://jubenshacon.com Buy jubensha from: https://jubensha.co.uk https://www.suspe...

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eva khoury @evakhoury.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I took this weekend class, "Research as a Leisure Activity" run by Laurel Schwulst and Celine Nguyen, with 17 other really amazing and different people. One of the biggest things I took away from this was the realization that I already have a love of learning and collection and do it constantly,

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Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 23/06/2026

Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.

Poster for the conference "Critical Artificial Intelligence Studies?" at the University of California, Santa Barbara, October 9&10, 2026. The subtitle says "An interdisciplinary conference on a field in formation."

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