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  ① Mid-century research institutions like Bell Labs and MIT became legendary in large part because their scientists recognized that groundbreaking ideas were useless if they weren't clearly articulated. Here are some sentiments plucked from that broad culture as a series of quotes:

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  Discuss. (from Eder, 1966: Definitions and Methodologies)

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  Given recent cinematic news, I’ll offer again this old essay of mine that touches on a previous interpretation of the Odyssey that took even greater liberties… https://jackrusher.com/journal/sing-o-muse.html

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  I cannot recall a time in the last 40 years when I was less inspired to make and share things on the internet. 🙁

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  #Scheme is my top desert island programming language, and one of the reasons I've been shipping Clojure code for the last ~17 years is that it's approximately a commercially viable scheme dialect with an active community†. These days, I'm seeing less commercial interest in Clojure and really great work being done by schemers, like: https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/ ... and wonder about going home 🤔 † don't get me wrong, I like the immutable data structures...

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  Every “flat” organization in history…

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  CERN’s KiCad component library now open source — great resource for open hardware hackers. https://home.cern/cerns-kicad-component-library-now-open-source/

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  Relatable: “The intellectually lazy overuse of neural nets killed my interest in Computer Vision. The crypto-bros took my interest in Cryptography Engineering away. Now, the slop jockeys take away my interest in general computing as they cover everything in a thick, oily residue of Silicon Valley soot, smearing the collective art project that was free and open-source into a blurry mess.” https://arcan-fe.com/2026/06/02/arcan-10-years-of-online-obscurity/

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  Love to see this, and I’m in the process of doing the same thing… https://lisacharlottemuth.com/bringing-everything-back-to-my-website

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  I've been working on something that involves a bit of shell automation this week. @borkdude's Babashka is such a treat in that context! #clojure

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  We took a woodblock printing workshop today. I think I’m going to try some tile system to CNC machine experiments to produce woodblocks for patterns.

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  “The thing that just comes clear from ancient DNA is that the people who lived in any one place a thousand years ago and 5000 years ago are almost never directly ancestral to the people who live in that place today.“ https://bigthink.com/the-well/your-ancestors-arent-who-you-think-they-are/

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  Another #geometer example this morning, this time vector fields… #Clojure

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  Let’s do a thread of what we consider to be the best things on the Internet. I'll start with two: Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap.

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  I've been using gandi for domain name registration for over 20 years now. Am I missing out on some great alternative?

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  Higher order Markov chain gonna Markov… https://mato.social/@josemurilo/116334603207819104

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  “The UI is clean. The API is RESTful. The architecture diagram is beautiful. The outputs are wrong. Nobody checks because nobody on the team knows what correct outputs look like. They’ve never looked at the data. They’ve never computed a baseline.” https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

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  TFW you are doing a bit of game dev for the first time since 1993…

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  Trying to explain some things…

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  “If you don't overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life will amount to nothing.” #MasutatsuOyama

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  “Certum quod factum” “(One is certain only of what one builds)” #GiambattistaVico, presumably regarding library dependencies

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  I implemented the Nimble type inference algorithm from Henry Baker's old Common Lisp paper in Clojure awhile back for #reasons. It's based on lattice/algebraic data flow (Kaplan-Ullman) rather than logical unification (Milner), and works well to calculate type specialization while compiling dynamic languages: https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/TInference.html Yesterday I added a simple C generator to make something like Pre-Scheme <https://prescheme.org> f...