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Rasmus Andersson

@rsms.me
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Working on Playbit playb.it . Designer of Figma, Inter, Spotify. Software painter. rsms.me

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NPR @npr.org · 05/08/2026
This summer marks a moment of transition in the Grateful Dead's long, strange trip: the first in many years where there is no clear center of the band's universe. Where do Deadheads go from here?
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The Ripple Effect: The Grateful Dead's long, strange trip might keep going forever
This summer marks a moment of transition in the Grateful Dead's long, strange trip: the first in many years where there is no clear center of the band's universe. Where do Deadheads go from here?
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antirez @antirez.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Now part of the DwarfStar README
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Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · 19/07/2026
Ended up making a whole data vis for showing the massive number of deaths over the course of the war. Three.js and canvas rendering 9000+ subtly moving 3D flowers here. Plus a lot of tricks to make it performant across devices. (though if you see anything janky, lmk)
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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 09/07/2026
May I proudly present... Super Wild Cart kinda Excite Truck × Flicky × Donkey Kong's Crash Course Still *so much* to do but it is fun already! Pretty much locked 60fps, and do I have a story to tell about the toolchain…but that's one for another time. #superwildcart #snesdev
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Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 17/06/2026
Could I possibly nerd-snipe anyone into polishing something like this non-modal update flow into an official UI for Sparkle? weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/04/28/u...
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Calligram Studio @calligramstudio.com · 05/06/2026
📣✨ NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT ✨📣 We're pleased to introduce... I’M YOUR HOST An audio deduction game where you have one task: restore a series of lost podcast episodes.





 🙏 Wishlist now 

s.team/a/4720280

 🎧 Press/ creators
 shorturl.at/0Chkp
 👀 30-second trailer👇
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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 10/06/2026
Brutify, my image optimiser app is OUT NOW! Built for Apple silicon & Intel Macs, it's a modern, fast, well-considered alternative to ImageOptim. Its processing engines are customisable, and you can add more if you have specific additional requirements. www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/brutify/
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 07/06/2026
Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.
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Max @bernsteinbear.com · 03/06/2026
Inlining: the hard parts bernsteinbear.com/blog/inlinin...
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A survey of inlining heuristics
Compilers, especially method just-in-time compilers, operate on one function at a time. It is a natural code unit size, especially for a dynamic language JIT: at a given point in time, what more infor...
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sami 🔵 @hellosami.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Made a website where you can explore Wikipedia like it's a file system on your desktop: explorer.samismith.com
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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 14/05/2026
Snap Shot Golf for iOS/iPadOS/macOS has been submitted for TestFlight! Infinite Golfing in only 424 KB - generate hole from photo - generate random hole - pick your scenery theme - share by QR code - permanent scorecard - let's play golf forever! ⛳️🏌️‍♂️
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Oliver Medhurst @honk.foo · 23/04/2026
porffor.dev is now served by a Porffor-compiled TS native binary!
A screenshot of porffor.dev:

new! This page is served by a Porffor-compiled TS binary!
[live stats] memory 4.0mb | binary 287kb | requests 210 | uptime 3h 21m
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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 20/04/2026
I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org
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ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL
Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.
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Aaron Boodman @aaronboodman.com · 25/03/2026
Zero to 1.0 After two years of work, 50+ releases, thousands of commits, and hundreds of bugfixes, we are officially declaring Zero stable and ready for production workloads. zero.rocicorp.dev/docs/release...
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Zero 1.0
First Stable Release
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Johan Peitz - Icy Tower is coming soon! @johanpeitz.com · 21/03/2026
This week I released picoCAD 2! A retro inspired 3d modeler with built in texture and animation tools. Check out picoCAD.net and grab the launch discount! ☺️ #screenshotSaturday #lowpoly #gamedev
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large
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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 24/02/2026
For my 150th (!) post, a look back at Apple’s breathing lights: unsung.aresluna.org/just-a-littl...
unsung.aresluna.org
“Just a little detail that wouldn’t sell anything” – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
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Becca Royal-Gordon @beccadax.soincredibly.gay · 27/02/2026
The Swift Performance team isn’t *my* team, but they’re in my hallway. Or in London if you’d prefer. They’re looking for an engineer who’s not afraid of optimizers. jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...
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Swift Compiler Backend Engineer - Jobs - Careers at Apple
Apply for a Swift Compiler Backend Engineer job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.
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antirez @antirez.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Qwen3-ARS transcription models inference in C is ready: github.com/antirez/qwen... This is by far the most practical model for quick inference on low end CPUs. Perfect for things like transcribing bots, voice-driven UIs, and so forth.
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GitHub - antirez/qwen-asr: C inference for Qwen3-ASR 0.6b and 1.7b transcriptions models
C inference for Qwen3-ASR 0.6b and 1.7b transcriptions models - antirez/qwen-asr
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/02/2026
After a brutal stretch of winter weather in many parts of the U.S., especially the East Coast, there was an eagerness on Monday to grab on to any sign of hope for warmth. Punxsutawney Phil did not oblige.
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Punxsutawney Phil Sees His Shadow, Leaving U.S. in the Cold
The supposedly meteorologically gifted rodent saw his shadow, suggesting several more weeks of winter. (Forecasters agreed, at least for this week.)
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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com · 30/01/2026
10m documentary film on the local-first software movement! www.youtube.com/watch?v=10d8...
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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 23/01/2026
I’ve been working on this for a while, but let’s make it official: I started a little Tumblr-like microblog about software craft and quality! You can sign up via RSS or a weekly newsletter digest. There’s already almost two months of content, if you just want to check it out. unsung.aresluna.org
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Unsung
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Paper Trails – 50 pre-war tourist maps from Japan, all beautifully illustrated & bound in a book. www.presentandcorrect.com/products/pap... Only available at P&C, because we made it.
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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 18/01/2026
It’s been a year and I use them but I have absolutely no idea what a passkey is. Half the time login fails with them and I have to do something else that works (like a password). I refuse to understand more. I’m tired of computers and don’t care. This is what it’s like for every non-nerd, isn’t it?
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Michael Frei 🪰 @michaelfrei.io · 15/01/2026
playables.itch.io/time-flies-f...
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Time Flies Fonts by Playables
A collection of hand-drawn pixel fonts.
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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 15/01/2026
What are you favourite well-made apps and sites? Phones and computers alike. Doesn’t have to be “pretty,” but well-made according to whatever definition works for you.
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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 04/01/2026
GLSL Web CRT Shader I’m releasing my GLSL Web CRT Shader as open source. blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/01/04/g... Have fun with it! 😎
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 24/12/2025
After reading this I gave exe.dev a shot and the combination of cheap VMs, the HTTPS proxy with passkey auth and link sharing, and the built-in LLM agent is... incredible. Like, I know how to use each of these things individually, but combining them feels like when I first learned to script things.
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Just in time software
I didn’t plan to write software in the grocery store last night. I was tired and hungry, kids in tow. My long shopping list sat in a text message. I wished I could check items off as I found them.…
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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
ssh tiny.christmas a global christmas carol in the terminal :)
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Scott Jenson @jenson.org · 12/12/2025
My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about: 1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead 2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns 3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...
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Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
YouTube video by Canonical Ubuntu
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𝖒𝖆𝖋 @mrogalski.eu · 10/12/2025
New zoom warning. Because you can't zoom out once your "scale" gets to "NaN". #automat #gamedev #motiondesign
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 05/12/2025
The fact that coding agents need a lot of context to work well and chew through 10x the number of tokens (compared to regular chat) should be concrete evidence to non-coders that programmers have to hold a lot of context in their heads to be effective on production code bases.
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noé @celechii.itch.io · 29/11/2025
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making outcomparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy backgroundcomparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlightscomparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face
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Rasmus Andersson @rsms.me · 08/10/2025
One of the best, up for air!
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Rasmus Andersson @rsms.me · 14/09/2025
What publications offer PDF subscription? The web has gotten so bad over the past decade. PDF seems like the perfect media. To work around screen-size issues, just publish (generate) three sizes: A7 “pocket”, A5 “book”, A4 “magazine”
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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 21/08/2025
Surprise! I made the built-in game for @perplexitycomet.bsky.social it was so much fun working with such a dream team at Perplexity.
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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Today's newsletter: - a game for you to try! - a sappy interlude! - too many sports metaphors! - too many exclamation marks! (as usual!) buttondown.com/ashsmash/arc...
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Rasmus Andersson @rsms.me · 16/07/2025
WIP
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Rasmus Andersson @rsms.me · 13/07/2025
Sometimes I play with the idea of starting a company which makes really nice electronics that feels as little “tech” as possible. Ie where the user only have to interface with “tech” when absolutely necessary.
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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 21/10/2024
🐸 my froggy desk setup is my pride and joy 🐸 ✿ frog computer by me ✿ kerokerokeys keycaps by me (available at bubblesort.io) ✿ kerokerokeys deskmat by @mogumu.bsky.social ✿ frog chair by byalicelee.com ✿ frog planter is a collab with alice lee ✿ frog hoodie by @maobabie.com
frog desk set up with frog shaped computer and green keyboard with frog keycaps, frog planter, and chair with a frog faceme sitting with a frog hoodie at my frog themed desk
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Rasmus Andersson @rsms.me · 09/07/2025
So good!
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 21/06/2025
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
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Sho Kuwamoto @skuwamoto.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
When an eel bites your thigh and you’re ready to cry that’s a moray
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The Phillips TV Test Screen, and what each section means. Images from Wiki
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Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt.com · 10/06/2025
New longform @inkandswitch.com essay! 📜 Malleable Software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps by me, @joshuahhh.com, @pvh.ca and @seaofclouds.com inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea... It's about why people need agency over their software tools, and how to make that happen.
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can...
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Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · 09/06/2025
The talks from Day One have been published. To kick off the conference, @rsms.me is talking about Playbit Sync. youtu.be/KMcmMm8v5_E?...
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Rasmus Andersson - Playbit Sync
Rasmus share more about Playbit, a new local-first operating system.-----Learn from engineers, designers, academics, startups, and indie developers who are p...
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Neven Mrgan @mrgan.com · 08/06/2025
Blippo was handmade with vintage analog broadcast equipment, and it features an intergenerational cast of over 100 actors, comedians, performers, and artists. As an MST3K kid, I am constitutionally optimized for hijinks of this sort. It's pure, undiluted creativity. It's Hundreds of Beavers ❤️
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Rasmus Andersson @rsms.me · 05/06/2025
@akkartik.name This is so cool! akkartik.name/freewheeling...
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Matt Godbolt @matt.godbolt.org · 01/06/2025
Fixed
A box of "Aluminum foil" on a counter. Next to it is a Sharpie. The Sharpie has been used to insert an "I" making it say "Aluminium Foil"
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