Simon

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...

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...

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-...

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!

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

🚀 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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

In memoriam...

Please, please, please do this. One of my biggest JS pet peeves is when people catch errors then throw a new error without including the cause. You’re shooting yourself in the foot.

You can now spin up Unison Cloud clusters on your own infrastructure! ✅ Build elastic distributed systems and services in vastly less code ✅ Fast, typed RPC ✅ Deployments in seconds ✅ Free to get started youtu.be/0sZqI1XoGLY

@tangled.org In trying to create a new repository (my first on tangled) I get this error `xrpc request failed`?

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

✨ The new dependents view shows everywhere a definition is used, broken down by category, as a separate card in Unison Share and the Unison Desktop app. Your codebase is a bidirectional graph! You should be able to walk it as such.

I miss Strange Loop

🤝 Check out our new side-by-side language pages for Unison! We provide comparisons for syntax and patterns found in other languages and how to accomplish them in Unison. Here's a snippet from our Python guide. 🐍 More to come! www.unison-lang.org/compare-lang...

✨ Big O ✨ Let me take you on a visual introduction to what big O notation is in my new blog post: samwho.dev/big-o. With big O notation you can better understand how algorithms will perform in practice, finding orders of magnitude improvements often with very simple changes to your code.

Did you know, Unison has a @zed.dev extension? It's built by our wonderful community! 🛸 The friendly programming language from the future plays nice with your favorite editors. 👽✌️

Wrote up my thoughts on the "extreme work culture" more and more AI startups expecting devs to work regularly late into the night and on weekends at AI startups. I don't think it will change but cannot see this being healthy. (The hope of) money talks? blog.pragmaticengineer.com/new-trend-ex...

🧙 For fans of optics and traversals and other such functional programming wizardry, here's Unison's own @chrispenner.ca, explaining how he composed custom Traversable instances to speed up Unison Share database queries!

I've wanted versioning on my digital garden for ages. Felt like a critical missing piece. Making my own dreams come true over here. Hard but fun to design this. These aren't automatically generated – I intentionally decide when to make new versions. Not every edit = new version. Only major updates

The award-winning Caves of Qud is coming to Nintendo Switch in Q4 2025!

I took a journey into the heart of Ruby to learn the secrets of the /o regex modifier, and I emerged wiser, but also so deeply tired. jpcamara.com/2025/08/02/t...

So excited and honored to be speaking at SF Ruby conf in November! I’ll be talking Realtime with Rails, Anycable and Yjs! Hope to see you there!

Walking is really, really, really good for you. Conclusion of a new meta-analysis that reviewed 57 studies on walking & health: "Compared with 2,000 steps per day, 7,000 steps per day was associated with a 47% lower risk of all-cause mortality." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

A must-watch talk from @scott.hanselman.com. Scott and I are of the same vintage, and I am embarrassed (mortified!) by how revolting some of our generational peers have become. Technology still has a unique power to improve our lives, but wow, do we ever have work to do. youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg?...