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The BEAM Bots workshop gave each attendees a balance robot. These work ridiculously well now and experiments continue in the Nerves Discord. #elixirlang #goatmire

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Kodsnack @podsnack.se · 09/10/2026

It knew I wanted a synthesizer How do you use a tool that lies to you? @samaaron.bsky.social on getting reliable results out of LLM:s. A clip from Kodsnack 723 - listen wherever you get podcasts, or at kodsnack.se! #ai #llm #sonicpi #podcast #softwareEngineering

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Kenji Rikitake @jj1bdx.tokyo · 09/10/2026

The BEAM Book 1st and 2nd editions #Erlang #Elixirlang #gleam #BEAM

The front covers of The BEAM Book by Erik Stenman, 1st edition on the left, 2nd edition on the right

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Kodsnack @podsnack.se · 06/10/2026

In this week's Kodsnack, Fredrik talks to Sam Aaron about Sonic pi - the tool for learning, coding, and performing music. kodsnack.se/723/ #podcast #sonicPi

Kodsnack 723 - Bach and Beethoven and the dots and the lines. The red center label of a black LP. The episode title is written in large, somewhat curly white letters on the upper half of the red circle. On the lower is a sitting dog looking with curiosity at a pi character from which three audio waves emenate. Below that is the text "Ex-Meta-eX records". On the left side in the middle of the circle, the three tracks of the A side are listed: "Vaporware", "A special kind of worker", and "On the tick". On the right side are the two B side tracks: "A better supercollider" and "You're the thinker".

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

ultimately, without a union or a professional body to back them, or legislative penalties for corporate negligence, software engineers will go fast or be replaced, and safety rules will continue to be written in blood, on a case by case basis

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Christophe @genserver.be · 01/10/2026

It has come to my attention that many people at #goatmire have not seen Erlang: The Movie. I think that is unacceptable. Please spread the word of our Lords and saviors, Mike, Robert, and Joe. youtu.be/xrIjfIjssLE?...

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Erlang: The Movie

YouTube video by uncertainyesterday

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Richard Carlsson @richcarl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wish I'd had this back in '83. Covers 3D matrix transformations and hidden lines, stuff I didn't learn about until almost 10 years later. #zxspectrum #retrocomputing

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gabby @fullmoon.id · 01/10/2026

the secret to my success? I have a post-it note on top of my monitor saying “You are an expert software engineer”

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Jim Blimey @jimblimey.com · 28/09/2026

I'm not easily offended but I just got asked if I was using a slop bot to write my latest game and now I feel the need to go punch an old lady in the face.

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 28/09/2026

I am excited and worried about the US midterms My hunch, if you deign to call it that, is the guy who tried to mount a coup last time he lost a critical election will, ya know, go Coup Two Electric Boogaloo

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What’s this? A “QR Code Link” you say? Yes, it’s Sonic Pi code encoded into a url that opens ready for you to read, play and edit in Sonic Pi in your browser. Share your live coded tracks with greater ease!

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If your favourite programming consultants are ranting about the transformative potential of AI but aren’t producing incredible awe-inspiring next-level work with it - why are you listening to them? Seriously.

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Mike Dailly ™ @mdf200.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Found this in my archives. It's the source of the "dino.exe" name that #GTA1 inherited (via it's DINO.BAT) It was listed as "Darrens Dino Game" Unless this was Attack! I have no idea what this game concept was.This would have been the demo that I drew the Isometric picture for that then spawned GTA

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Richard Carlsson @richcarl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That's fair. Can you tell me a concrete example, that someone who hasn't touched it for 20 years would find significantly different?

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Richard Carlsson @richcarl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I dunno. Looking at an xfig screenshot and imagining high res, nice fonts and rounded corners, and the main difference today would be that some tools would be hidden to reduce clutter. But I think one thing I'd expect today is heavy use of mouse hover, for tooltips and discoverability.

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Richard Carlsson @richcarl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The stateful URLs are a good point, though more of a technical one. The rest I feel are more incremental improvements thanks to more cpu speed and memory. On mobile, touch has of course had more radical effects on UI, but it doesn't seem to transfer much to desktop/laptop.

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Richard Carlsson @richcarl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I sometimes feel like I was the only one who liked Ubuntu's Unity, because for once it didn't feel just like a re-skinned Win95/Mac/Motif.

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Richard Carlsson @richcarl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It did, and the apps/files change you mentioned, but purely UI wise... we seem to be stuck.

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Dan Luu @danluu.com · 18/09/2026

There's no point at which turning your brain off will work: danluu.com/brain-off/

In early 2025, I started seeing people turn off their brain as they use LLMs1. They would have an LLM take an action (summarize text, write some code, etc.), and just assume that it worked2. This generally didn't work in early 2025 and the result was often quite silly.

As LLMs have gotten better, I've seen more of this. Sometimes, people will try to get the LLM to write some code for them and basically just assume that it works3. Sometimes there's a human in the loop and, if the thing doesn't work, they'll ask the LLM to figure out the problem and solve it. Niklas Gruhn calls some variants of doing this being a meat proxy.4

Being a for loop meat proxy works better than it did in early 2025 and the software I've tried that's developed like this sometimes actually sort of works. Not well enough that I'd want to use it or that it's successful, but I'm impressed at how effective being a meat proxy is in September 2026. You could even imagine LLMs improving enough that brain-off meat-proxy development produces average quality software in the foreseeable future.

Let's say that happens. What reason is there for the company to employ the meat proxy? The company can just run the LLM in a loop and lay off the employee. There's no point at which this methodology will work for the employee5.

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Richard Carlsson @richcarl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oooh, so that was the meaning! I always read it as a "raspy noise".

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What's this? Another screen shot of Sonic Pi v5? Oh no my friend... This is a completely new implementation of Sonic Pi running live in my web browser running on top of SuperSonic. Coming soon to a browser near you...

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Scientists

BBC News headline

Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough.

Picture of mouse being held by gloved hands

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

did you know "packet switching" was invented in the uk? arpanet (live in 1971) radically changed direction away from low bandwidth links and store-and-forward for basic comms after donald davies's work on the NPL network (live 1969-70), including the term "packet switching", which he invented

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Richard Carlsson @richcarl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Basically the Speccy's FP engine on a chip, innit

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Andrew Crompton @andrewcrompton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think you’re equating a sociopathic compulsion to hoard money with talent, intelligence or empathy. The evidence suggests the opposite. You can’t be a decent person and do the things oligarchs do.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 13/09/2026

The news headlines this week seem to have been mostly along the lines of: “‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of The Torment Nexus Company calls for a slowdown in Torment Nexus development” “Torment Nexus staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Torment Nexus researcher tells reporters”

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 10/09/2026

A reminder that any phone can become a folding phone if you try hard enough.

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Richard Carlsson @richcarl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Always wondered what they did in the ZX80. Now that I know, I must say it's the most bonkers solution I've ever seen, all in good Sinclair style. Hijack both the instruction fetch *and* the refresh, why not?

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 08/09/2026

The ZX81's native resolution of 64x48 suits big bold graphics, like 3D Monster Maze and Mazogs. This is another good example where the developers have leaned into the limitations. Surprised I've not come across this before. As ever, great video review by @villordsutch.bsky.social

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

eugenicist views? in my tech oligarch? i can't believe the leopard in chief of eatingface would do that

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

A quick demo of Sonic Pi controlling VST plugins. Note that it's not just trigging like a MIDI track, it's also algorithmically controlling the controls (cutoff in this example).

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Richard Carlsson @richcarl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Rainbow Electronics is certainly a good pick.

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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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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I currently have a working experimental build of Sonic Pi that has support for VST plugins. My current plan is to release it as Sonic Pi Pro exclusively available to Patreon supporters only. It’s going to be a complete game changer.

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Sam Aaron @samaaron.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I might be working on a completely new audio DSP engine that combines my favourite parts of SuperCollider and Erlang…

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

'£30 billion lost’: Six major studies confirm Brexit’s HUGE toll on UK economy. "Both exports and imports will be around 15 per cent lower in the long run than if the UK had remained in the EU". Self-inflicted harm that needs to be reversed.

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'£30 billion lost': Six major studies confirm Brexit's HUGE toll on UK economy

In 10 days' time, MPs will be summoned to debate the economic impact of Brexit. Let's hope they all have a good read of this...

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Richard Carlsson @richcarl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Didn't evaporate the branches. Disappointed.

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sam Aaron was a much loved part of the first Goatmire. He returns with more. If you've followed his work, and you should, you will know he has been doing very interesting things. He will be speaking and the topic is a hard one. Time. goatmire.com/talk/notes-o... #goatmire #elixirlang

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Notes on the Synthesis of Time by Sam Aaron

Something cool about Tau5.

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Richard Carlsson @richcarl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Right now I can only conclude that Hell is full.

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