Recurse Center

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

My @recurse.com Localhost is up on youtube! Covers results from the Runescape benchmark, design of rs-sdk, and economic swarm experiments I've been doing youtube.com/watch?v=cNm4zyUtWj0

Thank you for an amazing localhost talk about rs-bench @maxbittker.bsky.social. @recurse.com

❄️ Our Winter 1 Batch is accepting applications through Sunday, October 18. Come spend six or twelve weeks with us! It’s an exciting time to be building -- what could you do if given the time, space, and community to work on something that you’re really interested in? recurse.com/apply

Our alums are *checks notes* creating posable camera tentacles able to see urban eels, axolotls, and the world's creatures at their eye level. If you're interested in supporting, check it out!->

We still need to understand the things we build, so how do we build tools for that understanding? Geoffrey Litt on Margin Notes:

Patrick Thill experimented with vibecoding for the first time and created a new constructed language that was intended to be a) not Eurocentric and b) easy to learn for anyone, regardless of their first language. And that was just one of the many cool projects he worked on during his 12 weeks at RC.

if you keep plugging enough objects together, with enough time and determination (and working with geniuses from @recurse.com) you can have an open source audio over ethernet (aes67) implementation that runs on cheap hardware

Couldn't make it to RC? Check out the thread below to watch the talks given at @atproto.nyc Community Day 2026!

Check out @bnb.im's Essential Resources for Getting Started with ATProtocol: bnb.im/posts/atprot...

🫵 You are a weirdo @awarm.space saying cool things @atproto.nyc community day

Thank you @recurse.com for hosting our @atproto.nyc community day!! Recurse center actually changed my life and many others so it’s so cool to do this here~

An absolutely normal, completely everyday day at @recurse.com (Yes, these are two embroidery machines with custom pcb’s, yes) Yes.

If you’re on the fence about applying to RC, don’t be. Just do it. You’ll have a great time! Also AMA about my time at RC if you have questions.

a reminder to pick up your tickets for the community day if you’ve not already! we’ll be sharing more details on speakers and workshops soon 👀

This is a really fun talk by Lincoln Clarete @recurse.com alum on a Parser Generator! www.youtube.com/watch?v=M97H...

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

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!)

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)

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...

It's true...

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

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

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

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!

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!

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).

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.