ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

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Over the last few years, 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social has has become mildly obsessed with hustle bros and their online get rich quick scams. He goes LARPing to see how exactly they do this: Read the story here: www.404media.co/how-i-bought...

New Elm release today! 🎉 0.19.2 🥳 Incremental builds of 850k lines of Elm in <350ms. Gearing up for a batch of smaller releases as we head towards Elm 1.0. elm-lang.org/news/faster-...

Writing advice can be harsh, haughty, and cringey—or else strictly limited to questions of technique. A new book of daily prompts and other acts offers something stranger, and more expansive. www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

Why the Best Writing Advice Is Often the Weirdest

Writers are fed a bevy of mantras—“show don’t tell,” “kill your darlings”—which provide the security that there are rules, but little else. A new book by Lucy Ives offers a more expansive view of writing advice.

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The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

We translated each part of Palantir's 22-point manifesto because public service is our passion www.theverge.com/policy/91523...

☀ Weather getting warmer 🎮 Nintendo Switch dusted off 😮 Caves of Qud on sale! www.nintendo.com/en-ca/store/...

We should have never legitimized gambling or outsourced our thinking.

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!

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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A beginner's overview of Caves of Qud's absolutely bonkers character creator:

First building block towards creating an RSS reader on AT protocol - Unison HTML parser #unison #html #parser

html-parse - HTML parser in Unison

Parse HTML text into a structured representation

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Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

Caves of Qud is $23.99 on Steam buff.ly/R4Rev7b $25.49 GOG buff.ly/EJluKIK Deck verified

Absolutely damning from @aaronschaffer.com, @willoremus.com, & @nitasha.bsky.social. To get more data, Anthropic: * "destructively scanned" millions of books * downloaded the shadow library LibGen * hailed another shadow library's arrival as "just in time!!!" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books

Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

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Unison's got a C FFI! 🎉 If you were waiting for a reason to try Unison, now's a good a time as any :)

Unison@unison-lang.org · 7mo ago

🔌 We're adding C FFI bindings! This opens the door to a huge ecosystem of native libraries. Go wrap your favorite C APIs! share.unison-lang.org/@unison/base...

None if this trash is ever inevitable and you can help crush this surveillance creep tech by calling it surveillance creep tech.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7mo ago

The funny thing is that you can see these exact same articles written about Google Glass in 2012. Casting them as inevitable is part of the hype cycle.

This is incredibly well written and describes so well why I detest LLMs in programming

Simon@hojberg.xyz · 10mo ago

I wrote about AI and programming. About the identity challenges we are facing as programmers and the potential erasure of craft. There's a fun little easter egg in the header as well :) hojberg.xyz/the-programm...

My @sfruby.com talk on real-time collaboration with AnyCable, YJS and Rails is up! I felt really happy with how it came out - let me know what you think because I can't watch myself talk 😂 youtu.be/J68QOBLEItY

JP Camara, Real-time collaboration with Rails, AnyCable and Yjs. San Francisco Ruby Conference 2025.

YouTube video by Evil Martians

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That! Code should be designed for human understanding, not just computers. By empathizing with the audience and anticipating their needs, programmers can create code that is easier to reason about and maintain. ”Design for people. Code for people.” (c) @hojberg.xyz hojberg.xyz/code-for-peo...

Code for People ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer

A reflection on the audience of code.

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Sharing atproto-experiments: a foundation for building AT Protocol tools using @unison-lang.org . And the first tool is to sync Bluesky replies as @leaflet.pub comments. #atproto #unisonlang #leafletpub

atproto-experiments

A foundation for building tools on the AT Protocol using Unison Programming Language.

notes.kaushikc.org

🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed! After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone! Spread the word!

Announcing Unison 1.0

After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.

unison-lang.org

Just what I’ve always wanted: a bot to watch a season for me and tell me what happened.

Prime Video launches AI-powered Video Recaps to help viewers catch up between seasons

Video Recaps, a first-of-its-kind application of generative AI, provides Prime Video customers with compelling, comprehensive season recaps to bring viewers up to speed on their favorite stories.

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🚀 New deep dive: Distributed System Engineering in Unison In our latest blog post, take a look at the design of the Volturno library: a distributed stream processing engine built atop Unison Cloud. www.unison-lang.org/blog/volturn...

Distributed system engineering in Unison: Volturno · Unison programming language

We look at the design of Volturno, a streaming engine with exactly-once processing, to illustrate why Unison Cloud is a great enabler for distributed systems builders.

unison-lang.org

After a year hiatus, my series on all things Ruby concurrency is back! This post digs into the interrupt mechanism in Ruby threads. These interrupts revolve around bit masks, so it's got some Ruby bit work as well! Expect more regular updates from now on 💃💃💃 jpcamara.com/2025/10/22/b...

Bitmasks, Ruby Threads and Interrupts, oh my!

👋🏼 This is part of series on concurrency, parallelism and asynchronous programming in Ruby. It’s a deep dive, so it’s divided into several parts: Your Ruby programs are always multi-threaded: Part 1 ...

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We went from being asked to think different to not thinking at all.

Getting started with writing some Unison code: www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Do...

Starting the UCM and setting up a scratch file

YouTube video by Unison Language

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The Servo project is starting to publish releases, version 0.0.1 is out today! 🚀 You can learn more about the goals and plans behind these releases in our blog: servo.org/blog/2025/10...

Servo 0.0.1 Release - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.

A brief update on the goals and plans behind the new Servo releases on GitHub.

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New blog post is up! "Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer" wickstrom.tech/2025-10-10-p...

I wrote about AI and programming. About the identity challenges we are facing as programmers and the potential erasure of craft. There's a fun little easter egg in the header as well :) hojberg.xyz/the-programm...

The Programmer Identity Crisis ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer

On AI, Creativity, and Craft

hojberg.xyz

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚