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Front-End @unison-lang.org (Leading UCM Desktop and Unison Share) https://github.com/hojberg Web: hojberg.dev Writing: https://programming-is-collaboration.com Dance more!

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Simon @hojberg.xyz · 4d

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 :)

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The Programmer Identity Crisis ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer

On AI, Creativity, and Craft

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Simon @hojberg.xyz · 1d

This is really cool!

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Oskar Wickström @wickstrom.tech · 1d

New blog post is up!

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

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Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer

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Simon @hojberg.xyz · 4d

The Programmer Identity Crisis ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer

On AI, Creativity, and Craft

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 8d

In memoriam...

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 10d

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.

Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 10d

JS pro tip: Add { cause } to errors. Makes debugging and inspection way easier 🔍

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Unison @unison-lang.org · 10d

You can now spin up Unison Cloud clusters on your own infrastructure!

✅ Build elastic distributed systems and services in vastly less code
✅ Fast, typed RPC
✅ Deployments in seconds
✅ Free to get started

youtu.be/0sZqI1XoGLY

Unison Cloud on your infrastructure

YouTube video by Unison Language

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Simon @hojberg.xyz · 10d

@tangled.org In trying to create a new repository (my first on tangled) I get this error `xrpc request failed`?

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Simon @hojberg.xyz · 11d

Yeah I’m using it on my website. It mostly works great. Dealing with fallbacks is a bit annoying but it’s ok. I’d love to be able to do a lead-in styling as well.

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Unison @unison-lang.org · 15d

✨ The new dependents view shows everywhere a definition is used, broken down by category, as a separate card in Unison Share and the Unison Desktop app.

Your codebase is a bidirectional graph! You should be able to walk it as such.

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Simon @hojberg.xyz · 18d

I miss Strange Loop

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Unison @unison-lang.org · Sep 2

🤝 Check out our new side-by-side language pages for Unison! We provide comparisons for syntax and patterns found in other languages and how to accomplish them in Unison.

Here's a snippet from our Python guide. 🐍 More to come!

www.unison-lang.org/compare-lang...

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · Aug 23

✨ Big O ✨

Let me take you on a visual introduction to what big O notation is in my new blog post: samwho.dev/big-o.

With big O notation you can better understand how algorithms will perform in practice, finding orders of magnitude improvements often with very simple changes to your code.

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Unison @unison-lang.org · Aug 20

Did you know, Unison has a @zed.dev extension? It's built by our wonderful community!

🛸 The friendly programming language from the future plays nice with your favorite editors. 👽✌️

unison Extension

A native Zed extension for unison.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · Aug 14

Wrote up my thoughts on the "extreme work culture" more and more AI startups expecting devs to work regularly late into the night and on weekends at AI startups.

I don't think it will change but cannot see this being healthy. (The hope of) money talks?

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Unison @unison-lang.org · Aug 13

🧙 For fans of optics and traversals and other such functional programming wizardry, here's Unison's own @chrispenner.ca, explaining how he composed custom Traversable instances to speed up Unison Share database queries!

Using traversals to batch database queries

Techniques for lateralizing nested code

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Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · Aug 14

I've wanted versioning on my digital garden for ages. Felt like a critical missing piece.

Making my own dreams come true over here.

Hard but fun to design this. These aren't automatically generated – I intentionally decide when to make new versions. Not every edit = new version. Only major updates

One of my essays with a "Version history" dropdown visible in the metadata showing three different versions with different descriptions of what's been updated. Each version shows a relative date (2 years ago, 6 days ago).

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Simon @hojberg.xyz · Aug 14

This is super cool!

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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · Aug 7

The award-winning Caves of Qud is coming to Nintendo Switch in Q4 2025!

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JP Camara @jpcamara.com · Aug 2

I took a journey into the heart of Ruby to learn the secrets of the /o regex modifier, and I emerged wiser, but also so deeply tired.
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The /o in Ruby regex stands for “oh the humanity!”

Your code using the /o modifier Source: wikipedia Hi there! Do you like Regex? Do you like performance? Do you like creating confounding bugs for yourself rooted in the mechanics of the Ruby VM itsel...

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JP Camara @jpcamara.com · Jul 25

So excited and honored to be speaking at SF Ruby conf in November! I’ll be talking Realtime with Rails, Anycable and Yjs! Hope to see you there!

Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · Jul 24

⚡️ We launched the general ⚡️ ticket sale⚡️ for the San Francisco Ruby Conference on November 19-20! Get yours at lu.ma/sfrubyconf2025
The full program is live on sfruby.com/speakers and it is 🔥exceptional🔥.
Friends, help us share the message!

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · Jul 24

Walking is really, really, really good for you.

Conclusion of a new meta-analysis that reviewed 57 studies on walking & health:
"Compared with 2,000 steps per day, 7,000 steps per day was associated with a 47% lower risk of all-cause mortality."

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · Jul 20

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
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ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds

A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · Jul 20

A must-watch talk from @scott.hanselman.com. Scott and I are of the same vintage, and I am embarrassed (mortified!) by how revolting some of our generational peers have become. Technology still has a unique power to improve our lives, but wow, do we ever have work to do. youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg?...

Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland

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