Last Week in Pony - Dolly, Willie, and Charley Edition www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/09...

Just a reminder. We do really appreciate your donations. opencollective.com/ponyc

Pony - Open Collective

Pony is an object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language.

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Last Week in Pony - Effity Eff Edition www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/08...

Last Week in Pony - Mas Suicide Edition www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/08...

Pony's Arena Allocator www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/08...

Last Week in Pony - Where Have All The Average People Gone Edition www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/08...

Last Week in Pony - This Corrosion Edition www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/08...

Look at the pretty slides you can come and see! And you know I will say a lot of words as well....

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RSVP: luma.com/pwl?e=evt-Ag... 1: When Concurrency Matters: Behaviour-Oriented Concurrency -- www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... 2: Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures: An Analysis of Production Failures in Distributed Data-Intensive Systems -- www.usenix.org/publications...

Last Week in Pony - Roly Poly Edition www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/07...

Last Week in Pony - Caravan Edition www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/07...

Last Week in Pony - Baby Come Back Edition www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/07...

Last Week in Pony - I Put Something in Your Drink Edition www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/06...

Improving Runtime Test Coverage www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/06...

I remember the before times... www.seantallen.com/posts/github...

GitHub Is a Gift

GitHub has taken a beating lately, but I'm old enough to remember when open source developers scrounged for the machines to test their code. From there, free CI looks like a gift.

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Until now, very few people knew this story. www.seantallen.com/posts/the-du...

The Due Diligence

Hold the line.

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Last Week in Pony - Midnight Rider Edition www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/06...

Look Ma, I put a compiler in the compiler www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/06...

Last Week in Pony - Horse Outside Edition www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/06...

Last Week in Pony - Uncloudy Day Edition www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/06...

Last Week in Pony - Black Soul Choir Edition www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/05...

Will Wilson and Me aka "How I end up at @antithesis.com" www.seantallen.com/posts/will-w...

Will Wilson and Me

Simpatico.

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Pony's Errors Stop Unwinding the Stack www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/05...

Round and Round www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/05...

Last Week in Pony - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Edition www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/05...

Do you like compilers? Do you like making things fast? Making Finite Recursive Type Aliases Compilation Fast www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/05...

If you've worked with me, you know I'm not a fan of the workflow and collaboration cycle that gets built up around "the PR". I finally wrote down a bit of that "for everyone". www.seantallen.com/posts/trunk-...

Trunk Based Development — Now More Than Ever

Live on main.

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I only know one way to get things done and if you work with me, you've heard this before: www.seantallen.com/posts/baby-s...

Baby Steps

One step at a time.

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Consensus protocols like Raft and Paxos are a fundamental building blocks in thousands of modern distributed systems, so implementing consensus is a totally straightforward, drop-in operation by now. Right? Right?

Inside Pony's Finite Recursive Type Aliases www.ponylang.io/blog/2026/05...

I was recently having a conversation with Sylvan. It was very similar to many conversations we have. Afterwards, I finally had a bunch of thoughts that had seemed different but "same shaped" for years click in a single shape. www.seantallen.com/posts/spooky...

Spooky Action at a Distance

Boo.

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