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Bob Nystrom

@stuffwithstuff.com

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Dad, husband, brother, son. Working on Dart at Google, ex-game dev at EA, wrote "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters". stuffwithstuff.com

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Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com · 25/09/2026

Last night was curriculum night at my kids' high school. Multiple teachers said they are moving back towards having the kids write and do assignments on paper instead of screens.

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Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com · 21/08/2026

It took a long time, but we finally added primary constructor syntax to Dart. If you want some (a lot) of background into how we designed it the way we did, I wrote a long blog post about it: dart.dev/blog/bringin... #dartlang

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Bringing Primary Constructors to Dart

An inside look at the design decisions, trade-offs, and syntactic sugar behind adding primary constructors to Dart 3.13.

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Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com · 16/07/2026

BREAKING: Pete Hegseth Reverses Stance on Gender Affirming Care

Screenshot of news article with headline "US troops to get testerone treatment to make them strong".

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Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com · 21/03/2026

I've read so many articles in the past year from developers talking about how much more productive LLMs have made them at work. You know what I can't recall a single one of them mentioning? Getting a raise because of it.

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Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com · 29/01/2026

Forgive me, I wrote a thing about AI: journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2026/01/24/t...

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The Value of Things – journal.stuffwithstuff.com

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Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com · 22/10/2025

For anyone in the market for some nerd knuckle tats: P E E K — P O K E E X P R — S T M T P R E D — S U C C T H E N — E L S E

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Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com · 05/09/2025

Emoji Kitchen is the best thing Google has ever made.

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Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com · 17/07/2025

Really wish Hacker News would fork into "LLM news" and "all the other Hacker News". It's worse now than it was with crypto during the crypto bubble. Yes, gen-AI is important and I want to learn about it, but there are diminishing returns in yet another dude's breathless vibe coding blog post.

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Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com · 15/06/2025

The premise of LLMs leading to AGI is that if just you wordcel hard enough, a shape rotator magically pops out.

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Dart @dart.dev · 10/06/2025

Introducing Dart 3.8! Here's everything you need to know ↓

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Allison F @ablington.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

yes

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Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com · 31/05/2025

I wrote a blog post about, of all things, knitting: journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2025/05/30/c...

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Consider Knitting – journal.stuffwithstuff.com

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Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com · 26/05/2025

Wrote a blog post on noodling around with syntax for access control modifiers in my hobby scripting language: journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2025/05/26/a...

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Access Control Syntax – journal.stuffwithstuff.com

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Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com · 17/01/2025

OK, I'm actually here! I created an account a while back and then promptly lost the password. Also, bsky's password reset wasn't working for me. But I finally managed to find my password. <phew> I would hate to lose "munificent@" here.

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