More than half of what I wished for in 2026 has already happened. Keep manifesting!
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
a blog post before starting a new chapter next week substack.com/@tidefield/n...
Doing nothing is doing something
First month of pausing, sitting with uncertainty, and unlearning momentum
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the level of details made in this fork of the Rust book is phenomenal and crystal clear. rust-book.cs.brown.edu/ch04-02-refe...
Productivity doesn't matter if you're working on the wrong thing.
Day 1 of funemployment: Packacking for NYC and @recurse.com this summer!
win of 2026 is waking up to AI news but still deciding to finish a run, read a good book, and have good coffee
10/2025 - diagnosed with chronic stress and sleep disorder 5 months later - daily run / walk is apparently the cure good things take time and persistence
Are you a "0-1" person or a "2-50" person or a "100-5000" person? Often we don’t know until we’re already in the thick of it. You think you know, only because there’s comfort in the familiar. But maybe you really are just one, in which case you’ll need an exit plan someday.
this is fascinating this agent opened prs to projects from @43081j.com, @pi0.io, @katt.dev, @vite.dev, @bsky.app, @playwright.dev... and many more many of them were merged (many closed, too!)
AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainer...
An AI agent is merging PRs into major OSS projects and cold-emailing maintainers to drum up more work.
socket.dev
@sealight.xyz 's seams.so looks useful! But can we limit what it can do to my data to just the bare minimum?
Thanks @brittanyellich.com for planting this community. And thanks @sarna.dev and @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social for the book! Here's my way to pay it forward! tidefield.dev/writing/hell...
Hello world, again!
Coming back to blogging after five years
tidefield.dev
Overcommitted Podcast@overcommitted.dev · 10mo agoWe will soon be kicking off our next book club, Writing for Developers! If you write blogs or newsletters for developers (or want to), you should join the book club! Come hang out in Discord and drop a link to your blog in the comments! discord.gg/d9gZyYuqKd
i wrote about atproto and why it matters
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
overreacted.io