Recurse Center

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")

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

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:

Nice handle @recurse.com

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.

RSVP:
luma.com/8gc7m4rw

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!

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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Seeking the ultimate turducken this week: TYIA

Ever written something you might describe as a turducken of code?

Localhost: A Tale of Three Languages · Luma Come to Recurse Center's December Localhost! 🌩️🌩️🌩️ Please join us for a very special set of three lightning talks from RC alums who are building their own…

RSVP to Localhost: A Tale of Three Languages:
luma.com/8gc7m4rw

Why make your own programming language? What possibilities unfold in making one? How do you even start?

Programming languages are unique design works, each with their own goals and sensibilities.

On 12/2, join us on a tour of three bespoke programming languages: Felt, Tomo, and Kombucha!

RSVP ⬇️

i like computer..

Really REALLY got sick of comparing printouts of one spreadsheet with one shown on screen. Regex and OCR radicalized me

Also career switch wouldn’t have been possible without the good folks involved at RC (and probably would have never met my wife!)

Recurse Center Info Session · Zoom · 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 on Monday Dec 1, 5pm ET:

luma.com/v209g7hc

The Recurse Center is a self-directed retreat for programmers, coming to make for the joy of making, collaborate with kind peers, and of course— become a dramatically better programmer. We don’t charge tuition, since we’re fully funded by our integrated recruiting team.

Applications are now open!

When you @frankchiarulli.com have successfully nerd-sniped the entire floor into clustering around your project, crawling out from behind their laptops and study groups…

A lovely view of Rose’s screen. It’s sort of working?

Frank: What do you think about making a cabinet using a CRT monitor?

Me: I don’t know anyone who uses CRTs, but I couldn’t tell you why.

Why:

Join us in our quest to make an open, hackable, alt-control, modular, multiplayer arcade cabinet! The future home of many a Recurser’s game:

Come to P&T Knitwear in the LES on Tuesday Dec 2nd at 6pm:

www.eventbrite.com/e/daniel-tem...

RC alum Daniel Temkin will be reading from his new book, Forty-Four Esolangs!

The book challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art.

Details/tickets: ⬇️

YouTube video by Recurse Center Super Robot Variety Hour – Michael Suguitan

Watch Michael Suguitan's Super Robot Variety Hour:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMRS...

MAKING ROBOTS IS GOOD (& good for you)

Michael Suguitan came to RC and presented on a series of robots, from a cat-detector, to a self-strumming guitar, to a robot used in research and schools around the world.

He goes not just into the how, but the why behind making. ⬇️

you're telling me a duck typed this code?

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

🦆🦢🪿🦩🦜 Come along with us, oh wayward programmers!
Applications are now open for our Winter 2 batch!

Learn more and apply:
www.recurse.com

This Thanksgiving, you might find yourself at the dinner table explaining what RC is. Don't worry, we asked some Recursers for help:

🧑🏻‍🏫Montessori for programmers
🦆Wildlife/programmer rehabilitation
🛋️SoHo House for nerds
🤷🏽‍♀️Something of a mindset

Localhost: A Tale of Three Languages · Luma Come to Recurse Center's December Localhost! 🌩️🌩️🌩️ Please join us for a very special set of three lightning talks from RC alums who are building their own…

Localhost at the Recurse Center:
A Tale of Three Languages

Dec 2nd, 2025

RSVP: luma.com/8gc7m4rw

🌩️ On Dec 2nd, join us for a rapid-fire tour of handmade programming languages! Three RC alums will present: Ryan Goldstein on Felt, Bruce Hill on Tomo, and Frederic Kettelhoit on Kombucha.

Three perspectives on and how, and why, to design a new language.

RSVP below: ⬇️