Come to RC on August 25 for @geoffreylitt.com on Dynamic Documents as Personal Software! We usually think of "documents" and "applications" as different concepts. But what if we can combine both to empower more people to craft their own personal, malleable software? RSVP: luma.com/rc-dynamic

Geoffrey Litt: Dynamic Documents as Personal Software · Luma

Come to Localhost at the Recurse Center! Localhost is a series of technical talks in NYC given by members of the Recurse Center community. For every event, we…

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the @recurse.com RCade talk is up!!!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Op... I think it's extremely fun (but I'm also in it, so I'm biased! whatever! everybody else in it is amazing ok! anyway!)

RCade: The Arcade Cabinet Anyone Can Deploy To | Custom GPU + Real CRT

YouTube video by Recurse Center

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If you look really hard at this you’ll see my contribution of bad saxophones and metal chairs making music (and you should anyways because everyone involved is very cool)

Recurse Center@recurse.com · 7d ago

Four Recursers built an arcade cabinet that you can ship games to by pushing to GitHub. It has a real CRT with a custom display adapter, and over 50 new games made by the RC community. Watch the full talk on how the RCade was built from the hardware up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Op...

Four Recursers built an arcade cabinet that you can ship games to by pushing to GitHub. It has a real CRT with a custom display adapter, and over 50 new games made by the RC community. Watch the full talk on how the RCade was built from the hardware up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Op...

RCade: The Arcade Cabinet Anyone Can Deploy To | Custom Graphics Card + Real CRT

YouTube video by Recurse Center

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It's true...

Juliet Shen@julietshen.bsky.social · last wk.

I have so many ideas for starters, the recurse center is literally next to a good dosa spot that does filter kaapi and chai

We're accepting applications for the Fall 1 Batch, which begins on August 10! Spend 6 or 12 weeks programming with other curious peers in Brooklyn or online. 🌱 The (soft) deadline to apply to Fall 1 is tomorrow, July 30, but we'll still review applications sent later. 👉 www.recurse.com/apply

The @atproto.nyc community day will be held at the Recurse Center on Saturday, 8/22! Details and tickets below: blog.atproto.nyc/3mrionom6ck2k

atproto.nyc community day 2026

Join us on Saturday, Aug 22nd at the Recurse Center in Brooklyn to learn, hack, and build with the AT Protocol!

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they're running DOOM in the language we made up for our programming contest

nolen@itseieio.bsky.social · 3w ago

i'm running a programming contest next week! we've spent the last few months thinking about how to make a fun contest in a world with agents. I think we've got a good answer :) Starts next friday. Give it a try! and mutuals dm if you wanna test or chat about this

We sponsored a podcast about the history of computing! Give it a listen: magworld.pw/episodes/com...

Nick Bergson-Shilcock@nicholasbs.bsky.social · last wk.

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

It's Friday! What better way to start your weekend than applying to RC? The application takes about an hour, but the community will stay with you for so much longer. The Summer 2 batch starts June 29th, and the window's closing soon. Apply below:

Thank you to the Recurse Center @recurse.com for inviting me to install Between at their 15th birthday party! I did a batch last fall and it inspired me to get back into programming while meeting so many smart, generous people. I loved being able to do something fun for the community!

🐬 🎀 𝒞𝒽𝓇𝒾𝓈 🎀 🐬@r1pvanw1nkl3.com · 3mo ago

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?

Our website automatically updates as more people come to do a batch at the Recurse Center. Today, we finally hit 3,000 people! Thank you to everyone in our growing community! RC couldn't exist without you all. 👫👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏼👬

Happy 15th birthday to the Recurse Center < 3

I built a "minimum viable PNG" generator during my batch @recurse.com. Just pushed up my work: github.com/adrianparson... `pngcheck` says my little 1x1px image is valid (it's not, but close).

GitHub - adrianparsons/minimumviablepng

Contribute to adrianparsons/minimumviablepng development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Live from the RC hub: Lincoln S.P. Clarete with Parser Generator Report: 2018-2026

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

Applying to @recurse.com was one of the single best decisions I've ever made, both personally and professionally. My life would be very different if I hadn't done that - I'm extremely glad I did!

Nick Bergson-Shilcock@nicholasbs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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

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

Join us on March 18 for Localhost! The RCade is a custom arcade cabinet built during the Fall 2, 2025 batch at the Recurse Center. It has a real CRT, a custom graphics card, spinner controllers, and a deploy pipeline where anyone can ship a game just by pushing to GitHub. It now has over 44 games.

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

my friends at @recurse.com made a website for a zojirushi water boiler, perfectly christened as spenser i love it so much spenser.recurse.com

From a salvaged retro arcade cabinet with a CRT monitor to a custom community game platform, @frankchiarulli.com and many other Recursers came together to make something that we couldn't have imagined alone:

Frank Chiarulli Jr.@frankchiarulli.com · 6mo ago

Built an arcade cabinet at @recurse.com. Wrote about it 🕹️ www.frankchiarulli.com/blog/buildin...

⌛️There's still time to apply to the Spring 1 batch that begins on February 16th! Join us for six or twelve weeks on a self-directed programming retreat: work at the edge of your abilities and become a dramatically better programmer alongside other kind and curious peers. www.recurse.com/apply

Applying to RC - Recurse Center

The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.

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