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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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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 18/06/2026

Is cargo alone a good enough reason? although I suppose Python has uv now, my last experience was fighting the rest of the ecosystem could be a bit of an issue (still, it has been a while).

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 14/06/2026

There's ATS (applied type system). Very niche

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 09/06/2026

I was inspired by just hearing about this podcast you revive a similar aged project github.com/bbarker/cthu... youtu.be/CTZg4fpoVMg?... (old video) Obviously, a Rust port is in the works

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GitHub - bbarker/cthughanix: A Unix port of Cthugha

A Unix port of Cthugha. Contribute to bbarker/cthughanix development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 09/06/2026

it's sort of Linux (it could be argued) I think I used an early version of it long ago.

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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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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 07/06/2026

Did you make a decision? Hilarious video, even as a Linux user

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 06/06/2026

That checks out. I am curious to hear how context7 fairs/improves agentic Unison coding. I haven't tried context7... in any context.

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 30/05/2026

The quote is from the Forward, by Simon Johnson.

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 01/05/2026

Gotcha. I still get a lot of use out of just the package manager at least

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 01/05/2026

NixOS I assume, not just the package manager?

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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

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🪲 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

The default runner script wasn't really useable, so I modified it to be this: gist.github.com/bbarker/ab6a... However, it still has this issue: error: Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'GOOGLE_SDK_NODE_LOGGING') Any @deno.land users have suggestions?

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deno-claude. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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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 · 14/02/2025

I had a similar issue yesterday with a totally normal reply to a friend.

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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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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 25/01/2025

Interesting - if I start from a bad state, enter the bash interactive shell to get into a good state, and launch tmux, I do get the problematic behavior again, as you described:

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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.

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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 · 24/01/2025

I believe virt-manager uses vnc

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 07/01/2025

What are we looking at?

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

Yeah I'm sympathetic to that perspective and I think it depends a bit on the person, a bit on the program, and what they want to do. Teaching C to most middle schoolers for instance, is probably not idea. Undergrads in a CS course, or even in high school, I'd lean more towards C (personally).

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

I think I agree with everything you said if you take out the word "first". Otherwise I'm not convinced. Should a first programming language, for *CS* students, necessarily be the *best* language (by some metric for best). Put another way here: youtube.com/shorts/RYNrf...

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Learn this Language FIRST

YouTube video by ThePrimeTime

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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

Picking a non binary, grey scale solution also tends to require more communication in a team, etc.

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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

Is this an open source game by any chance? (No judgement, just curious, as it seems like the style of game I would like; still kinda regret missing Ultima Online)

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

(here I'm using Unison lambda functions as syntactic sugar for introducing lamba calculus abstractions)

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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 · 20/12/2024

This has oddly been my experience using Google Voice in the browser lately.

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Brandon Barker @nusentry.org · 15/12/2024

I like Scala, especially Scala 3; use it at work. I like Rust too, but it helps if you're interested in low level or computational efficiency. Because you're going to pay for it. That said, Rust has an amazing build system (cargo).

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

Sorry for the typo in your name, Mitchell! (Rosen, not Wrosen - 🤦‍♂️)

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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.

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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 · 12/12/2024

I wrote what might be a good follow-up blog post to this a few months back: nusentry.org/posts/concis...

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