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The retreat where curious programmers recharge and grow. 🌱 Work at the edge of your abilities, develop your volitional muscles, and learn generously. πŸ“ Applications are now open! πŸ”— https://www.recurse.com/ πŸ“NYC

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This computer is the reason you can't download all software for free.

The Franklin Computer Corp was a computer manufacturer founded in the early 1980s. Their flagship product was a clone of the Apple II, one of the most popular personal computers of the day.

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04.03.2026 15:31 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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my friends at @recurse.com made a website for a zojirushi water boiler, perfectly christened as spenser

i love it so much

spenser.recurse.com

04.02.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

From a salvaged retro arcade cabinet with a CRT monitor to a custom community game platform, @frankchiarulli.com and many other Recursers came together to make something that we couldn't have imagined alone:

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Questions? Send us a DM or email at admissions@recurse.com.

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Applying to RC - Recurse Center The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.

βŒ›οΈThere's still time to apply to the Spring 1 batch that begins on February 16th!

Join us for six or twelve weeks on a self-directed programming retreat: work at the edge of your abilities and become a dramatically better programmer alongside other kind and curious peers.

www.recurse.com/apply

26.01.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Peter Whidden’s Mote is an impressive GPU-based interactive ecosystem simulation. While he first started development at the Recurse Center, he’s taken it so much farther since. Watch his full talk in ... TikTok video by Recurse Center

A rapid-fire tour of Peter Whidden's impressive GPU-based interactive ecosystem simulation, Mote:

www.tiktok.com/@recursecent...

21.01.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"How did you spend your time off of work?"

If you're lucky enough to have a chunk of time when you don't need a job, you want to make it count.

Come learn how three Recuse Center alums chose to spend their time off.

How to Make Your Time Off Count: luma.com/zfhxstgy

15.01.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"Choosing learning over autopilot"

A thoughtful, a concrete approach to coding rigorously with LLMs by an RC alum now at Netflix: anniecherkaev.com/choosing-lea...

13.01.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Is Useful the Opposite of Fun? Building a Toy Language | Ryan Goldstein
Is Useful the Opposite of Fun? Building a Toy Language | Ryan Goldstein YouTube video by Recurse Center

Watch the full talk on Felt:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVHZ...

09.12.2025 16:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"I purposefully did not prioritize being useful. Useful and fun I think might be antonyms."

Ryan Goldstein on building Felt:

09.12.2025 16:57 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ•ΉοΈA mysterious joystick has appeared… the tree is, in fact, getting new features

09.12.2025 15:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Peephole A tiny display for the back of your laptop that shows what you're working on.

ever wanted to show what you're working on to the people on the other side of your laptop? now there's a way!

peephole.greg.technology

08.12.2025 02:49 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Pixel art 🀝 cross stitch

08.12.2025 17:19 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

me and @henryfellerhoff.com made beyblades

08.12.2025 04:25 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

View Ryan's work and writing on Felt:
- rygoldstein.com
- codeberg.org/rgoldstein/f...

Learn more about Tomo: tomo.bruce-hill.com

​View Frederic’s work on Kombucha:
​- fkettelhoit.com
​- github.com/fkettelhoit

05.12.2025 16:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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And we will post to TikTok!

www.tiktok.com/@recursecent...

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Recurse Center Recurse Center talk recordings. RC is the retreat where curious programmers recharge and grow. Work at the edge of your abilities, develop your volitional muscles, and learn generously.

Stay tuned, we will post the recorded talks on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@recursecent...

05.12.2025 16:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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We featured Ryan Goldstein’s Felt, Bruce Hill’s Tomo, and Frederic Kettelhoit’s Kombucha.

Thank you to everyone who came to our December Localhost. We’ll see you next year!

πŸ“Έ Photos by @robbielyman.com

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This week, three people shared their handmade programming languages.

We learned not only about their features and syntax but the philosophies, joys, and challenges around building them. Could you build your own language? Should you? We dare say… yes!

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At the Recurse Center, we encourage people to share their work at all stages of doneness.

Introducing: the Holiday Shrub πŸŽ„

04.12.2025 17:31 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

easiest and best job in the world: being a cheerleader for people at Recurse who push&support each other into doing their best lives' work.

(this is my answer to "what would you do under UBI")

03.12.2025 20:52 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Want to keep up with the RCade development? ->
bsky.app/profile/recu...

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Zulip screenshot of a message by Greg Sadetsky. An image of an arcade cabinet with various arrows pointing to different parts. Caption:
"the spirit of RC in a single picture: a retrofit arcade cabinet with a secured logitech webcam, an rgb cat animation in rust running on a led panel, webgl settings on ubuntu being tweaked on a ~300px CRT display (miraculously driven by gpio pins on a pi), and instructions in chalk to install a bespoke npm sdk. i adore."

Zulip screenshot of a message by Greg Sadetsky. An image of an arcade cabinet with various arrows pointing to different parts. Caption: "the spirit of RC in a single picture: a retrofit arcade cabinet with a secured logitech webcam, an rgb cat animation in rust running on a led panel, webgl settings on ubuntu being tweaked on a ~300px CRT display (miraculously driven by gpio pins on a pi), and instructions in chalk to install a bespoke npm sdk. i adore."

Possibly the best thing about being at the Recurse Center is watching this sort of beautiful, wild, communal, thingamajig pop up in the hub every day:

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Nice handle @recurse.com

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GitHub - fkettelhoit/kombucha: Minimal & malleable language for symbiotic end-user programming Minimal & malleable language for symbiotic end-user programming - fkettelhoit/kombucha

@recurse.com's local host last night was awesome. Great talks, wonderful company. Frederic Kettelhoit's Komucha lang (github.com/fkettelhoit/...) was particularly inspirational. Love me a lang with an effect system.

03.12.2025 14:05 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Localhost: A Tale of Three Languages Β· Luma Come toΒ Recurse Center'sΒ DecemberΒ Localhost! 🌩️🌩️🌩️ Please join us for a very special set of three lightning talks from RC alums who are building their own…

RSVP:
luma.com/8gc7m4rw

02.12.2025 16:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today at 6:30pm, join us for a series of lightning talks on three bespoke programming languages: Felt, Tomo, and Kombucha!

Why make your own programming language? What unique goals, design decisions and sensibilities come into play?

RSVP below ⬇️
We have a few tickets left!

02.12.2025 16:23 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Recurse Center Info Session Β· Zoom Β· Luma Thinking about applying to a Recurse Center (RC) batch? If you want to spend 6 or 12 weeks building what excites you (compilers! games! languages! research!…

Have questions about the retreat, admissions, or anything else?

Join our Open Info Session via Zoom today at 5pm ET:

luma.com/v209g7hc

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