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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 29/08/2026

I had my first experience using the jcode harness, and it was on a Raspberry Pi 3. Being able to use a massive LLM on such low-end hardware is pretty fun. Here's how cross compiled: github.com/bbarker/jcod... Looking forward to using jcode more

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Pull requests · bbarker/jcode

The most RAM efficient harness. Contribute to bbarker/jcode development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I spoke to Weekend Edition's Scott Simon about the Maine initiative to end Super PACs (now being considered by the First Circuit): www.npr.org/2026/08/08/nx-s1-592246…

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Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The Five Books That Could Save America bit.ly/43SY9U1

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

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The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck

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Kaushik Chakraborty @kaushikc.org · 26/02/2026

I built a Tigerbeetle client in Unison by building a Tigerbeetle wrapper client in Zig to the official Tigerbeetle C client. I had no other choice. It was hard and fun. Read more to find out. #zig #unison #tigerbeetle

notes.kaushikc.org

🪲 Building a Tigerbeetle Client in Unison

Or learn Zig the hard way

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 16/06/2025

In the vast majority of cases, AI systems are all remote workers (to the extent they can currently be considered workers).

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 04/06/2025

University accreditation in the US: the new Twitter Blue?

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sminez @sminez.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

OK, first pass at a tiling window manager for OSX is a thing 🎉 This is me updating Penrose to remove the X11-isms and then implementing a backend for OSX that lets you drop in pretty much all of the existing functionality. #rust #rustlang #osx github.com/sminez/penro... github.com/sminez/penrosx

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 02/03/2025

Not much experience with @deno.land , but I thought I'd try to install @anthropic.com 's claude-code with it deno install --global \ --allow-read \ --allow-net \ --node-modules-dir=auto \ --allow-scripts \ -n claude-code \ npm:@anthropic-ai/claude-code@0.2.29

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 11/02/2025

I created a #nix flake for @nikl.me 's excellent game template project using the #rustlang #bevyengine : github.com/NiklasEi/bev... I've tested on NixOS, Pop!_OS (Linux) and MacOS (Intel). For those interested in such things, more testing and feedback would be most welcome.

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add flake.nix by bbarker · Pull Request #127 · NiklasEi/bevy_game_template

This has been tested on NixOS (Linux), non-NixOS Linux, and MacOS (intel).

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Susan Potter @susanpotter.net · 25/01/2025

I built a gorgeous slide deck this week using typst and now I will not go back! typst.app It is just `typst` in nixpkgs, btw.

typst.app

Typst: Compose papers faster

Focus on your text and let Typst take care of layout and formatting. Sign up now and speed up your writing process.

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 24/01/2025

Any other #nixos users noticing odd behavior with dev shells in 24.11? nusentry.org/posts/intera...

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NuSentry

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 06/01/2025

As someone who absolutely wouldn't want to program in C, I think it's a great first language for CS. You learn a bit about the computer itself, as well as programming, and eventually, why you don't want to use C.

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 22/12/2024

In software development, the hard decisions almost never seem to be this or that, but how much of this and how much of that.

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 21/12/2024

I really should write a post about writing a lambda calculus in @unison-lang.org ; it has been quite fun to add syntactic sugar: {{ tru = λt. λf. t; }} untyped.tru : '{LCtx untyped.Binding, Exception} untyped.Term untyped.tru = do λ "t" (tt -> λ "f" (ff -> mkVar tt))

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 13/12/2024

And on that note I have a small @unison-lang.org library where I've started to put `@html` utilities: share.unison-lang.org/@bbarker/htm... It isn't properly documented yet; I'll hopefully write a small post about it; posting in case you are looking for a home for your odd html utility function.

share.unison-lang.org

Unison Share

Explore, read docs about, and share Unison libraries

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Orhun Parmaksız @orhun.dev · 11/12/2024

Today I found a powerful tool for working with JSON in the terminal! 🚒 🌀 jnv: Interactive JSON viewer and jq filter editor. 🚀 Supports filter auto-completions, hint messages & more! 🦀 Written in Rust! ⭐ GitHub: github.com/ynqa/jnv #rustlang #json #terminal #jq #commandline #interactive #tool

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 08/12/2024

I made a purchase using perplexity.ai today. Overall experience beats using Amazon, although surely Amazon will catch up. Still it's really astounding how much they've missed the consumer #AI boat. It's almost like watching IBM lose control of the personal computer.

perplexity.ai

Perplexity

Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 07/12/2024

I love the idea of locally stored LLM chats! venice.ai/blog/welcome... The blog link didn't work but found this one.

venice.ai

Welcome to Venice

Introducing Venice: private, permissionless AI.

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 07/12/2024

(1/9) Less than a month till Trump. I asked Claude what it thought about his writing - pretty generous! (thread) Related; I've been listening to Lucky Loser recently, which has a lot of interesting history, including about Atlantic City, which I recently visited. Not particularly inspiring though.

claude.ai

Claude

Talk with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 07/12/2024

readwise.io is a great way to accumulate notes from different sources and remember them (like Duolingo for your notes); it would be great to have @bsky.app integration, so we could save skeets easily: readwise.canny.io/reader-featu...

readwise.canny.io

Bluesky integration | Reader Features | Readwise

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 03/12/2024

Does that sound familiar, @dickwall.bsky.social ? Would love to find that old episode

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 03/12/2024

Borgo is to Go as Coconut is to Python? It seems like not many people use Coconut and I'd be curious as to why (though I have my suspicions it is due to lack of interest rather than problems with Coconut).

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Warcop @warcop.com · 03/12/2024

Hey! Heads up it’s gonna be THE @pfrazee.com on an upcoming episode of Oxide and Friends. Topic: Scaling #Bluesky Dec. 16th You don’t want to miss this. Join the live chat in Discord. See you there. oxide.computer/podcasts/oxi... @jay.bsky.team @why.bsky.team

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Oxide Computer Company

Recordings of our weekly live show where we discuss a wide range of topics.

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 02/12/2024

Sick of repetitive rebase conflicts on feature branches? Here's a script to cure what ails ya 💊 nusentry.org/posts/increm...

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NuSentry

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 30/11/2024

Required Components are looking good - hopefully I'll get a chance to try them soon!

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 29/11/2024

I wonder if not feeling inclined to walk on escalators, and assuming the folks behind you feel the same, is American, or more general.

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 26/11/2024

I put together a small library for making Shields.io Social links in @unison-lang.org Docs: share.unison-lang.org/@bbarker/doc... Of course @bsky.app is included. Thanks @rlmark.bsky.social for answering a question about hyperlinked images!

share.unison-lang.org

@bbarker/doc-socials | Unison Share

Explore, read docs about, and share Unison libraries

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AJ Stuyvenberg @ajs.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

NEW: It looks like the new AWS Lambda Sandbox code is written in Rust, and migrated off of Go. Previously, GODEBUG=inittrace=1 would reveal debug output from the Go as it loaded the sandbox (and eventually your code). Now with RUST_BACKTRACE=full (and a crash), you'll see a full stack trace!

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 23/11/2024

At times like this, I'm glad I have a brick of a phone like the ulefone armor 24 with a 22000 mAh battery ithacavoice.org/2024/11/wint...

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 21/11/2024

www.msn.com/en-us/news/n... further confirmation of the real motivation for RTO mandates.

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MSN

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 18/11/2024

Duct tape and Gorilla tape are great, but a good epoxy will change your life.

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 16/11/2024

Something a little different. Thanks Spotify, for surfacing another somewhat obscure song from over a decade ago I'd never have heard otherwise youtu.be/I8sUC-dsW8A?...

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Tally Hall - Ruler of Everything

YouTube video by tallyhall

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