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Devamardeep Hayatpur @devamarh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am very pleased to share the program for LIVE'26: liveprog.org We have seven exciting presentations as well as a featured keynote by Brian Hempel! LIVE this year will take place remotely, so come join us over video-chat next Saturday (Oct 17) :)

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Title: Programming by Interaction, Everywhere!

Abstract:
Before graphical user interfaces (GUIs), “using” a computer and “programming” a computer were the same activity. The popularization of GUIs in the 1980’s separated these two activities: computer use became graphical (and easier) while computer programming remained textual (and hard). Can graphical interfaces, now familiar, be reunited with the expressive power of textual code? In this talk, we will explore ways to take interactive graphical manipulation, such as chart editing, and back it live with code, such as Matplotlib. Then we will paint a vision of ubiquitous GUI-code integration, to perhaps finally put the “compute” into the old promise of the personal computer.

Bio:
Brian Hempel is a postdoc at the Foundation Interface Lab at the University of California San Diego. His research aims to fuse graphical interfaces and traditional text-based programming. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he worked on the Sketch-n-Sketch bidirectional programming environment. Outside of interface research, he built the Nadocast severe weather prediction models, in use as experimental guidance at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center.

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Ryan Hunt @eqrion.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wasm stack switching in SpiderMonkey is the most complex feature I've ever built. One of those projects you get lost and start rethinking the basics like "what is the stack even really?" Was fun to give a talk on it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvYF...

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WebAssembly Stack Switching in SpiderMonkey

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 05/10/2026

Startup Pitch: Elephant 2000 (2026 Edition) Business and Hype in the Front, Aliens in the Back

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Kiran @kirancodes.me · 30/09/2026

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.

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 27/09/2026

If they pay me it's all theirs :P

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 27/09/2026

Pr.ai announces a 500M seed round and a partnership with the Vatican and Depeche Mode to release Your Own Personal Jesus: Someone to hear your prayers Someone who cares To activate you simply: Reach out and touch faith Lift up the receiver, It'll make you a believer

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 24/09/2026

Any A2A revision contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of the actor model

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 24/09/2026

After escaping the city, Guy Montag encounters a group of outcast intellectuals. These "Software People" preserve systems in a dystopian world by memorizing entire codebases

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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Do you like VIS/HCI/programming interfaces? Do you care about critical visualization? Or perhaps building dynamic data interfaces? Perhaps some combo therein? If so! I'm hiring for Ph.D. student to work with me at UBC starting Fall 2027! You should apply! www.mcnutt.in#/hiring-26

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Andrew McNutt

Andrew McNutt is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah, where he leads the HAVOC Lab and works on HCI, visualization, and programming interfaces.

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Ryan Hunt @eqrion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm working on this. We're trying to build a developer preview of wasm components running in Firefox, along with getting good docs and toolchain support so that people can try it out easily. Should have more details later this year!

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 22/09/2026

They have played us for absolute fools

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Jimmy Miller @jimmyhmiller.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've always hated that mainstream languages don't have macros as powerful as lisp macros. So I'm doing my small part to fix that. First an argument why we need them. jimmyhmiller.com/change-our-l... Second a library to add them to typescript sweetener-ts.github.io

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We Should be Able to Change our Languages — Jimmy Miller

It's time we stopped treating languages as sacred fixed objects. We need now, more than ever, languages we can change.

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 21/09/2026

don't we call that other part "gut"?

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andrew blinn @ oopsla @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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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 21/09/2026

Jev as a channel and reply router: Write a message, let jev decide where it goes The chat input box is "global" Jev sends the message to the correct channel or as a reply to a recent message in the current one

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 21/09/2026

jev /dʒɛv/ verb To reshape a problem to suit an available solution, chiefly because that solution is fast, inexpensive and fun to implement.

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 21/09/2026

duck-jev: Describe the query in natural language, jev selects the dataset, the table, classifies the columns and builds the query step by step. You only get asked when it is unsure FAQ: Q: Does it *really* work? A: I don't know, it was a fun exploration

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 20/09/2026

toast in the streets, spead in the sheets

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 20/09/2026

word in the streets, excel in the sheets

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 19/09/2026

send me your recs for an intro to (textual) programming for an 11 year old

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 17/09/2026

Any MCP revision contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Hypermedia

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 15/09/2026

Today we bring you the second @localfirstconf.com Lab Day video. Follow Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com as she whirls through PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook It's a blank page in the truest sense, for pulling ideas out of your head so you can feel and think differently about them.

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PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 14/09/2026

TIL: >>> JSON.stringify({"debt": JSON.rawJSON("999999999999999999999999999999999")}) '{"debt":999999999999999999999999999999999}' developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

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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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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 14/09/2026

[1] pure-py.github.io [2] mooncakes.io/docs/mariano... [3] mooncakes.io/docs/mariano... [4] marianoguerra.github.io/tutuca-moonb... [5] docs.racket-lang.org/shrubbery/ [5] mooncakes.io/docs/mariano...

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PurePy

PurePy: a pure, functional subset of Python for scientific computing. Formal specification and reference checker.

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 14/09/2026

Components can be exported and imported back as source code (.tutu) or as .wasm modules, the tutucard source is embedded in the wasm module The tutucard DSL syntax is based on Shrubbery[5]

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 14/09/2026

Since the interpreter is embedded the harness can inspect its data and display it as interactive components Tutucard components are compiled to an intermediate representation called WAP[3] (WebAssembly's Pascal) then down to .wasm modules[4]

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 14/09/2026

Technical Details: The harness now uses code mode with a PurePy[1] implementation compiled to Wasm[2] The agent has access to a single tool: `run_python(code)` Everything the agent can do is available as functions and modules

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 14/09/2026

muy heteronormativo lo tuyo (?)

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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...

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Slack ↔ Colibri Bridge

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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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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 10/09/2026

Vibe and Combine Safe Components Live in the Browser The agent uses Tutucard to create, test and display interactive components Components are registered and made available for reuse Layout components like grid, tab and box containers are predefined

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Super excited to share "A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await". How differently does async/await behave across today's languages? (More than you might expect!) And what *is* "structured concurrency"? Check out our ~interactive~ blog post introducing the paper: cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/design-...

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A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await

Every language pitches async/await as synchronous-looking code, and the same two keywords appear everywhere. But behind the shared syntax hide nine independent design decisions, and no two of seven mo...

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 09/09/2026

Read, write and bash? Where we are going we don't need read, write and bash

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 08/09/2026

LLMs know the cost of everything and the value of nothing

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Alex Warth @alexwarth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This week in Livelymerge, Dan Ingalls gives us a tour of Morphic: the scene graph, halos, text editing, and programming tools of the live, malleable kernel that lives inside an Automerge document.

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 03/09/2026

Another absolute banger "Feeling of…" virtual meetup. I am continually amazed by all the creativity and energy in our little community <3 youtu.be/y6JUm11l1S8

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August 2026

YouTube video by Feeling of Computing

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Joy to the world, Lopecode Newsletter 002. Mainly about my adventures in Functional Lenses. Oh wow the atprotoe standard.site thing worked for once! Local-first but on the atmosphere. Computational blogging FTW did-plc-j7nm3lrd5h7fm3sfhcv3lhfv.lopecode.com/r/lopecode-n...

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Lopecode News Issue #2

Drag the drawing, the code rewrites itself. Issue #2: lenses, self-modifying cells, and a document with no source.

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Mike Bostock @ocks.org · 01/09/2026

It’s finally here! So excited to be working out in the open again and for you all to try the new Observable. bsky.app/profile/obse...

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Not sure why but Sonic Pi is on the front page of Hacker News again! Please join in the discussion in the comments :-) news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4948...

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Sonic Pi | Hacker News

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 02/09/2026

Shikinen Sengū but for software

Screenshot of the first 3 paragraphs of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ise_Shrine#Rebuilding_the_Shrine

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Tomas Petricek @tomasp.net · 01/09/2026

I have been neglecting my website... But at least, I managed to upload all the papers, done recently with amazing students and collaborators! Including three papers to be presented at SPLASH in Oakland. Get them all from: tomasp.net

Listing of papers:

Timeline: Adding the Time Dimension to Spreadsheets
In Proceedings of OOPSLA 2026

Towards Critical Abstraction for Software
In Proceedings of Onward! Essays 2026

The Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Calculus
In Proceedings of Onward! Papers 2026

Formal Semantics and Type System for Vega Data Transformations In Proceedings of FTfJP 2026

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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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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 27/08/2026

neither my original post nor this bait thread generated engagement, it seems I'm shadow banned online 😄️

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