The computer in the Apollo spacecraft had 4K of memory, which is about four LinkedIn posts. The computer I use today has 500,000 times more memory than my first computer, which is hard to wrap my head around. 1/3

there is a straight line from my @recurse.com batch in 2023 to speaking in front of ~400 people—including many personal and professional heroes—at @localfirstconf.com. plus three years of learning, making friends (both online and off) and having a blog that i'm actually proud of. apply for a batch!

Recurse Center@recurse.com · 3w ago

15 years + 3,000 alums later, what started as a 6-person experiment is now a community of curious, kind programmers: engineers, artists, scientists, hobbyists, all united by a love of programming. If 6 or 12 weeks to focus on what truly interests you sounds appealing, apply! www.recurse.com/apply

15 years + 3,000 alums later, what started as a 6-person experiment is now a community of curious, kind programmers: engineers, artists, scientists, hobbyists, all united by a love of programming. If 6 or 12 weeks to focus on what truly interests you sounds appealing, apply! www.recurse.com/apply

the recurse center (@recurse.com) helped me fall back in love with programming as a tool for self expression, introduced me to dozens and dozens of kind and intelligent people, and then promptly found me a job when i needed one. and this was all free?

Every office should have one of these.

Happy 15th birthday to the Recurse Center < 3

I've been a happy Zulip user for 13 years. It remains one of my favorite pieces of software (OSS or otherwise), and I'm thrilled to see it set up for long-term stability and success. Thank you to Tim and the rest of the team for their many years of hard work that got the project to this place.

Zulip organized team chat@zulip.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Major transition for #zulip: Tim Abbott is stepping back from full-time leadership, and donating the company behind Zulip to new nonprofit Zulip Foundation. This sets up stability and a renewed commitment to our values. More: blog.zulip.com/2026/05/15/a... #OpenSource

We’ve kicked off our annual alum reunion, Never Graduate Week 2026! Hundreds of RC alums gather at our Brooklyn hub to give talks, run jams, collaborate on projects, and so much more. Welcome everyone and thank you for coming! Stay tuned for more across the week.

Next week is one of the best weeks of the year. It's Never Graduate Week, our annual Recurse Center alumni reunion. And this year RC turns 15, so we're having a birthday bash (the cake will have electronics...). Alums: check out the full schedule and make sure to RSVP: www.recurse.com/ngw

A puzzle where every piece is a phone. A joyful moment from pairing jam demos at the Recurse Center. The demo was almost thwarted by all the iPhones trying to share contact details with each other. @recurse.com

What's it like being an unschooler? What are the weirdest projects people have done at the Recurse Center? What surprises people about our admissions criteria? I talked with Samuel Arbesman about these questions and more. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/23Kr... YouTube: youtu.be/URxJxTu1WBY

Everyone's ragging on Allbirds' pivot to AI but it seems like a shoo-in to me.

15 years in and there's still no place else like the Recurse Center. Courses are rigid and don't provide community. Founder residencies are just about building startups. Working alone is lonely. Only RC provides community, lightweight structure, and freedom to follow your curiosity. @recurse.com

In 2020, the big question was when it would be safe to eat at restaurants again. Today, in the age of AI, the equivalent question is when it will be safe to use em dashes again.

This computer is the reason you can't download all software for free. The Franklin Computer Corp was a computer manufacturer founded in the early 1980s. Their flagship product was a clone of the Apple II, one of the most popular personal computers of the day. 1/4

Conspiracy theory: Banks and airlines discovered LLMs years ago and this explains their captchas.

nolen@itseieio.bsky.social · 7mo ago

idea: captchas that are ~impossible for humans to solve serve them to bots that you suspect are using AI models to solve captchas. if they solve it successfully they fail the test.

"How did you spend your time off of work?" If you're lucky enough to have a chunk of time when you don't need a job, you want to make it count. Come learn how three Recuse Center alums chose to spend their time off. How to Make Your Time Off Count: luma.com/zfhxstgy

Someone really should write this and then never change it.

David Buchanan@retr0.id · 7mo ago

I was making a list of my favourite programming essays ("parse don't validate", etc.) and I realised I don't know of any that extol the virtues of immutable data structures. Does anyone know of one? Do I need to write one?

"Choosing learning over autopilot" A thoughtful, a concrete approach to coding rigorously with LLMs by an RC alum now at Netflix: anniecherkaev.com/choosing-lea...

unicode braille characters are 2x4 rectangles of dots where you can arbitrarily set any of the dots. That's 8x the pixels you normally get in the terminal! anyway here's a proof of concept terminal SVG renderer using unicode braille:

Wrote about being halfway through the recurse center, beyblades, and bad musical instruments: www.henryfellerhoff.com/blog/halfway...

Halfway through the Recurse Center

The last six weeks have gone by in a flash - here's what I've been working on!

henryfellerhoff.com

Heh, sounds delightful. I had a very fun moment at Recurse Center where I was showing code to someone to discuss. He leaned in to look closer, “Is that Inconsolata?” and I said “Yeah, wow, good eye” and he said “I made it.”

What companies (in any domain) have done the following? Around for decades Profitable and growing Privately held, run by founders Expanded into new areas while maintaining a core mission Maintained positive, good brand Punch above their weight

Tech hiring in 2021: Awesome, this candidate is an 8/10. Let's hire! Tech hiring now: Unfortunately, this candidate is a 9/10. We'll pass.

Nice handle @recurse.com

@recurse.com's local host last night was awesome. Great talks, wonderful company. Frederic Kettelhoit's Komucha lang (github.com/fkettelhoit/...) was particularly inspirational. Love me a lang with an effect system.

GitHub - fkettelhoit/kombucha: Minimal & malleable language for symbiotic end-user programming

Minimal & malleable language for symbiotic end-user programming - fkettelhoit/kombucha

github.com

you're telling me a duck typed this code?

New Yorkers hate dogs 🚫🐕 (we have the data) It's pairing jam day at RC and Chris, Brittney, Wilson, and Tajairi made a 311 noise complaint heat map of NYC.