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We should have never legitimized gambling or outsourced our thinking.

Unison Computing now has a consulting group · Unison programming language We are spinning up a consulting group, now open to work in a variety of languages, including Scala, Haskell, Rust, Elm, and of course Unison. Our goal is a self-sustaining model in which a mix of consulting and product revenue funds development of Unison-based tech well into the distant future. We aim to be cash flow positive as a business in the next 12 months and could use your help in getting there.

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:

html-parse - HTML parser in Unison Parse HTML text into a structured representation

First building block towards creating an RSS reader on AT protocol - Unison HTML parser #unison #html #parser

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

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

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

This link seems to be a 404 :(

Besides the horrific diff size, can we talk about the label alignment on those buttons? 😱

JP Camara, Real-time collaboration with Rails, AnyCable and Yjs. San Francisco Ruby Conference 2025. YouTube video by Evil Martians

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

Code for People ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer A reflection on the audience of code.

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...

atproto-experiments A foundation for building tools on the AT Protocol using Unison Programming Language.

Sharing atproto-experiments: a foundation for building AT Protocol tools using @unison-lang.org . And the first tool is to sync Bluesky replies as @leaflet.pub comments. #atproto #unisonlang #leafletpub

Announcing Unison 1.0 After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.

🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed!

After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!

Spread the word!

Prime Video launches AI-powered Video Recaps to help viewers catch up between seasons Video Recaps, a first-of-its-kind application of generative AI, provides Prime Video customers with compelling, comprehensive season recaps to bring viewers up to speed on their favorite stories.

Just what I’ve always wanted: a bot to watch a season for me and tell me what happened.

Distributed system engineering in Unison: Volturno · Unison programming language We look at the design of Volturno, a streaming engine with exactly-once processing, to illustrate why Unison Cloud is a great enabler for distributed systems builders.

🚀 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...

Bitmasks, Ruby Threads and Interrupts, oh my! 👋🏼 This is part of series on concurrency, parallelism and asynchronous programming in Ruby. It’s a deep dive, so it’s divided into several parts: Your Ruby programs are always multi-threaded: Part 1 ...

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.

Starting the UCM and setting up a scratch file YouTube video by Unison Language

Getting started with writing some Unison code: www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Do...

Servo 0.0.1 Release - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications. A brief update on the goals and plans behind the new Servo releases on GitHub.

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...

Updated :)

It’s so weird to me that they chose an animation where it looks like it’s spying on your document. A really strange branding decision. They could have done so many other things to convey confidence

This is really cool!

New blog post is up!

"Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer"

wickstrom.tech/2025-10-10-p...

The Programmer Identity Crisis ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer On AI, Creativity, and Craft

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...

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.