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Rebecca

@rlmark.bsky.social
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Reader of poems, Ada Developers Academy alumna, amateur potter. Eternal learner @unison-lang.org Opinions are my own. Pronouns = she/her.

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Unison @unison-lang.org · 10/04/2026
🗞️ For your weekend perusal, check out Unison community member @zetashift-01.bsky.social's latest blog post! Here, he's using Unison Cloud Daemons to write an uptime notifier! zetashift.unison-services.cloud/s/blog/posts...
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zetashift's blog
I saw this repository by yorickpeterse where fish and podman were used to create an uptime notifier and thought it was a very cool, readable repository. And fish is a great shell as well, so double fun. It motivated me to try to do something similar with Unison Cloud and document parts of it.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
It’s been fun the past few years, having people lie or be useful idiots about how Anti DEI is just about merit and not a backdoor whites only policy and then insist those of us who saw that clearly are shrill or paranoid
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Unison @unison-lang.org · 26/03/2026
computational.chat introduces a simple idea: computations that can pause for user input with rich UI controls. Unlike a typical chatbot, there's a real programming model here, and these conversational flows can include any mix of regular code, humans-in-the loop, and LLMs.
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Unison @unison-lang.org · 26/02/2026
🎥 New conference recording from the Unison community! A deep dive into content-addressed code and how it changes refactoring, dependency management, and remote code execution. 🌟 Dejan's keynote is one to watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQHo...
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Dejan Miličić - Unison: A New Programming Paradigm
Unison is a pure functional language introducing a groundbreaking concept: content-addressed code. On top of the well-known advantages of functional programm...
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Unison @unison-lang.org · 19/02/2026
We have a consulting group, now open to work in a variety of languages, including Scala, Haskell, Rust, Elm, and of course Unison. More details here: www.unison-lang.org/blog/consult... Please boost to help get the word out. And we'd love to hear from you if you're interested in working with us!
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Unison Computing now has a consulting group · Unison programming language
We are spinning up a consulting group, now open to work in a variety of languages, including Scala, Haskell, Rust, Elm, and of course Unison. Our goal is a self-sustaining model in which a mix of consulting and product revenue funds development of Unison-based tech well into the distant future. We aim to be cash flow positive as a business in the next 12 months and could use your help in getting there.
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Unison @unison-lang.org · 10/02/2026
🧵🪡 Our latest release of the standard lib includes a new `Threads` ability for structured concurrency. Why is it an improvement over our existing primitives? Here's a video with some comparisons. youtu.be/xU_MRNNo4kg
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Introducing the Threads ability for safer structured concurrency
The latest Base upgrade contains the Threads ability, for safer structured concurrency. This video talks about the problems that the Threads ability solves a...
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 09/02/2026
“Mr. Beast Salesforce ad” - they’re calling it the least appealing phrase ever assembled in any language. They finally did it
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James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
While in California, Ian Watt asks Theodor Adorno how his day went
I remember one conversation with Theodor
Adorno when, after I'd said what I'd done that morning (checking out
some books from the library, going to the laundromat, etc.), and asked
"What about you," I was slightly chilled when he answered: "I have been
meditating on erotic and musicological problems."
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...
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How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
FREE EBOOK! Cities Under Siege, Stephen Graham's powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life is available as a free download.
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Cities Under Siege
Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political viol...
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Very WIP, but these ceramic whistles depict what happens to ICE in the fires of hell. 👹
Three ceramic whistles shaped like melting ice cubes at the greenware stage.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/01/2026
It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.
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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc (GFM in next post) www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Ah, I see we have reached the cultural void that is "All Art is now Propaganda." Cool cool cool...
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 10/02/2025
This is like Kendrick and Drake if both of them were Drake.
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Unison @unison-lang.org · 06/02/2025
🐘 The new Unison Postgres library features typed queries, prepared statements, and support for custom decoders! `lib.install` it here: share.unison-lang.org/@runarorama/...

A `main` function in Unison showing a postgres configuration and simple query for the birth date of some users.

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main : '{IO, Exception} [LocalDate]
main = do
  config =
    PostgresClientConfig.default
      (HostName "localhost")
      (UserName "postgres")
      (DatabaseName "userDB")

  singleIO config do
    Query.execute
      (sql "SELECT birthday from users" |> typedQuery (Codec.date))
```
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Also worth contacting the governor and asking him to publicly reaffirm his commitment to this extremely vulnerable group. governor.wa.gov/contacting-g... 360-902-4111
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Send Gov. Ferguson an e-message | Governor Bob Ferguson
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DontMakeMoi @dontmakemoi.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
at least @techdirt.bsky.social is not fucking around
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A Coup Is In Progress In America
A coup is underway in the United States, and we must stop pretending otherwise. The signs are unmistakable and accelerating: in just the past 48 hours, Elon Musk’s DOGE commission has seized …
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Unison @unison-lang.org · 31/01/2025
Coming soon: create Unison Cloud clusters in minutes on your own infra, anywhere. www.unison.cloud/byoc/ 🔐 All data stays with you. We don't see service requests or data in storage. ⚡️ Services deploy in seconds, service calls in 1 LOC, and more..
unison.cloud
The Unison™ Cloud Platform
Deploy to the cloud with a function call. Call services as easily as local functions, verified by the typechecker. Access typed storage as easily as in-memory data structures.
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Gen Michael Hayden @genmhayden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
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Salena @salena.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
😆 Don't let @kylegoetz.com fool y'all! He single-handedly deciphered Unison's grammar for the Tree-sitter Unison implementation and that's not even captured in this list! 🔥
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
🫶 Anyways, we've been busy. Unison has shipped more features than I can remember and has even more planned. www.unison-lang.org/roadmap/ 🪄🐇🎩
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Unison Roadmap · Unison programming language
A friendly programming language from the future.
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
⛅ Cloud functionality has expanded to support blob-based storage, daemons for long-running processes, WebSockets, etc. From simple distributed computing primitives, we're bringing event-streaming libraries to Unison: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdn5...
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Distributed Streaming on Unison Cloud — Fabio Labella
YouTube video by Unison Language
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
🚤 The interpreter for Unison is SO MUCH faster. The core language team has done some incredible work adding optimizations to the runtime. Just one example: github.com/unisonweb/un...
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Cache Pure Top Level Definitions on startup by ChrisPenner · Pull Request #5379 · unisonweb/unison
Overview Before this change all pure top-level definitions were evaluated at every call site, which is obviously unnecessary. Now we can detect these using type info from the codebase, and inline t...
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
↔️ If you wanted to review and merge a PR, the old workflow involved a file-based comparison of the changes locally. Now, there's a semantic code diff view on Share. share.unison-lang.org/@unison/base...
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#82: 3x to N times faster version of `List.isPrefixOf` · @unison/base | Unison Share
Adds a short circuit for the case where the prefix is longer than the list it is supposed to be a part of (so `range 0 100` cannot be a prefix of any list with fewer than 100 elements), and then after...
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
📥 The way you install libraries in Unison is new! We added the `lib.install` command this year. You used to have to `pull` a versioned branch to a specific location in your codebase. github.com/unisonweb/un...
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feat: add `lib.install` command by mitchellwrosen · Pull Request #4953 · unisonweb/unison
Overview Edit: the help now looks like this This PR adds a lib.install (alias: install.lib) command to replace pull for installing a dependency into lib. It's different than pull in a couple ...
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
🗃️ We created a project-based workflow for *writing* code in 2023, but your history was still stored in a global reflog. Now you can rewind and fast-forward project branches without impacting other projects to your heart's content. www.unison-lang.org/blog/project...
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New, safer commands for managing codebase state · Unison programming language
New and improved commands for safely undoing changes have landed in the Unison Codebase Manager with the latest release. Here's the backstory for what made them necessary, how to prepare, and why they...
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
🔍 There was no way to search for Unison terms on Unison Share. You could search for libraries, but not the source code for `List.map`. Now our global search functionality supports searching by name and type. www.unison-lang.org/blog/type-ba...
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Behind the Scenes on Type Directed Search for Unison Share · Unison programming language
A peek behind the scenes at how we built type-directed search for Unison Share. Follow along as we discuss the kinds of queries we wanted to optimize for and how we designed the search functionality t...
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
🔡 We made big changes to our syntax this year: `do` introduces a thunk and `()` calls it, and there's new operator precedence rules for the language. The best part? Unison devs didn't need to update a thing. Syntax changes are automatically applied. www.unison-lang.org/blog/ucm0523/
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Unison version 0.5.23 is out! · Unison programming language
The latest Unison release, version 0.5.23, is now available. This release includes some changes to the syntax for forcing delayed computations, improvements to the `todo` command, and several bug fixe...
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
🐥 The Unison Cloud platform hadn't been released yet. Last January we opened our doors for general availability. Happy birthday Unison Cloud! You're one year old now! www.unison.cloud
unison.cloud
The Unison™ Cloud Platform
Deploy to the cloud with a function call. Call services as easily as local functions, verified by the typechecker. Access typed storage as easily as in-memory data structures.
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
💜 It's hard to remember all the progress that @unison-lang.org has made, since most of the time we're heads-down, building the plane and flying it. But to put all this in context, at the start of 2024 here's where we stood <takes giant breath>...
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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Working in tech is cool because you can lose half a day to "rectangle sometimes too big."
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
There's lot's of bad news out here, but two of my favorite humans (and one large cat) are starting a pottery studio in Portland. Don't let the fascists steal your joy. Go make some art!
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
many of us are doomin out tonite myself included so here is a poem by tony hoagland i like to read when i am trying to snap out of it a little
Reasons to Survive November

November like a train wreck—
as if a locomotive made of cold
had hurtled out of Canada
and crashed into a million trees,
flaming the leaves, setting the woods on fire.

The sky is a thick, cold gauze—
but there's a soup special at the Waffle House downtown,
and the Jack Parsons show is up at the museum,
full of luminous red barns.

—Or maybe I'll visit beautiful Donna,
the kickboxing queen from Santa Fe,
and roll around in her foldout bed.

I know there are some people out there
who think I am supposed to end up
                in a room by myself

with a gun and a bottle full of hate,
a locked door and my slack mouth open
          like a disconnected phone.

But I hate those people back
from the core of my donkey soul
and the hatred makes me strong
and my survival is their failure,

and my happiness would kill them
so I shove joy like a knife
into my own heart over and over

and I force myself toward pleasure,
and I love this November life
where I run like a train
deeper and deeper
into the land of my enemies.
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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...
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Literally every company now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Paul Graham's latest piece is the hottest piece of garbage he's ever written -- which honestly is really saying something. But I take solace in the HN comments, the most upvoted of which observes that his mind has turned to mush. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4268...
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The Origins of Wokeness | Hacker News
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
New year, new Unison UI. Try it out! 🤩
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 08/01/2025
Just a lil’ reminder that I publish all of my visualisation code at github.com/samwho/visua... under an MIT license. You are welcome to use it (I’d love to hear about it if you do!). If you see stuff in the wild that looks a bit like mine, please don’t immediately think it is stolen. 🙏
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GitHub - samwho/visualisations: Code behind my visualisation blog posts
Code behind my visualisation blog posts. Contribute to samwho/visualisations development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Norman Rockwell painting meme with the text "Your body is the straw when you eat a cheese straw" on top of it.
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
🎄Happy holidays from one person who liked sitting for the family photos, and two creatures who didn’t! 👹👹
Smiling person holding up a dog who is not looking at the camera in front of a Christmas treeSmiling person holding two dogs in front of a Christmas tree but one has its tongue stuck out.
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Tired: "Write me a hit tweet ChatGpt." Wired: "Find me at the cosine distance between Bach and Tommy Richman."
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
"Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies." Plese make sure to share thys lynke: refusinggenai.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
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Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies
Visit the post for more.
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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 12/12/2024
Many Oliver poems are a perfect reset cause sometimes I'll be thinking "oh god I need to fill in my KPIs and OKRs at work" and she's like "go look at a pond" and who am I to argue with Mary Oliver
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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
MOM SAYS SHE IS PROUD OF BOTH OF US EQUALLY
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
"The cost of eroding the distinction between genuine thought and artificial intelligence is nothing less than our self-understanding as human beings—as those creatures who think and act, albeit imperfectly, in light of the truth." thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
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Intelligent Life | The Point Magazine
What would it be to approach the question “Can machines think?” in a different way?
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
If you don't mind a bit of a read, we wrote this docs page at @unison-lang.org to help explain why you'd use algebraic effects instead of monads or direct-style sans functional effect management: www.unison-lang.org/docs/fundame...
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docs Unison | Abilities for the monadically inclined · Unison programming language
A friendly programming language from the future.
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In me are two wolves
Top songs, some are Bach and Beethoven and others are… distinctly not
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
For my fellow US-based functional programming fans, 9/01/2025 is not September first 🙃, it's January 9th, which makes far more sense as a CFP deadline for a conference in June.
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Rebecca @rlmark.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
🎄For #AdventOfCode Day 3, I wrote about making a parser and its pitfalls in @unison-lang.org
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day03.doc · @rlmark/aoc2024/main | Unison Share
Explore, read docs about, and share Unison libraries
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