Rebecca
@rlmark.bsky.social
Reader of poems, Ada Developers Academy alumna, amateur potter. Eternal learner @unison-lang.org
Opinions are my own. Pronouns = she/her.
Opinions are my own. Pronouns = she/her.
Ah, I see we have reached the cultural void that is "All Art is now Propaganda." Cool cool cool...
The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.
'Chilling effect': Arts organizations react to end of DEI initiatives from fed agency
The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.
www.npr.org
February 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Ah, I see we have reached the cultural void that is "All Art is now Propaganda." Cool cool cool...
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This is like Kendrick and Drake if both of them were Drake.
UPDATE: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rejects Elon Musk-led bid
February 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This is like Kendrick and Drake if both of them were Drake.
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🐘 The new Unison Postgres library features typed queries, prepared statements, and support for custom decoders!
`lib.install` it here: share.unison-lang.org/@runarorama/...
`lib.install` it here: share.unison-lang.org/@runarorama/...
![A `main` function in Unison showing a postgres configuration and simple query for the birth date of some users.
```
main : '{IO, Exception} [LocalDate]
main = do
config =
PostgresClientConfig.default
(HostName "localhost")
(UserName "postgres")
(DatabaseName "userDB")
singleIO config do
Query.execute
(sql "SELECT birthday from users" |> typedQuery (Codec.date))
```](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i5ylt5pq2y4l6v5sc57wnv7u/bafkreihyyw3oqhhljhomnkc237vgh3mblfbaqxaac5bgh5656cnspagnpq@jpeg)
February 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🐘 The new Unison Postgres library features typed queries, prepared statements, and support for custom decoders!
`lib.install` it here: share.unison-lang.org/@runarorama/...
`lib.install` it here: share.unison-lang.org/@runarorama/...
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Also worth contacting the governor and asking him to publicly reaffirm his commitment to this extremely vulnerable group.
governor.wa.gov/contacting-g...
360-902-4111
governor.wa.gov/contacting-g...
360-902-4111
February 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Also worth contacting the governor and asking him to publicly reaffirm his commitment to this extremely vulnerable group.
governor.wa.gov/contacting-g...
360-902-4111
governor.wa.gov/contacting-g...
360-902-4111
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at least @techdirt.bsky.social is not fucking around
A Coup Is In Progress In America
A coup is underway in the United States, and we must stop pretending otherwise. The signs are unmistakable and accelerating: in just the past 48 hours, Elon Musk’s DOGE commission has seized …
www.techdirt.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
at least @techdirt.bsky.social is not fucking around
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Coming soon: create Unison Cloud clusters in minutes on your own infra, anywhere. www.unison.cloud/byoc/
🔐 All data stays with you. We don't see service requests or data in storage.
⚡️ Services deploy in seconds, service calls in 1 LOC, and more..
🔐 All data stays with you. We don't see service requests or data in storage.
⚡️ Services deploy in seconds, service calls in 1 LOC, and more..
The Unison™ Cloud Platform
Deploy to the cloud with a function call. Call services as easily as local functions, verified by the typechecker. Access typed storage as easily as in-memory data structures.
www.unison.cloud
January 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Coming soon: create Unison Cloud clusters in minutes on your own infra, anywhere. www.unison.cloud/byoc/
🔐 All data stays with you. We don't see service requests or data in storage.
⚡️ Services deploy in seconds, service calls in 1 LOC, and more..
🔐 All data stays with you. We don't see service requests or data in storage.
⚡️ Services deploy in seconds, service calls in 1 LOC, and more..
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Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
February 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
💜 It's hard to remember all the progress that @unison-lang.org has made, since most of the time we're heads-down, building the plane and flying it.
But to put all this in context, at the start of 2024 here's where we stood...
But to put all this in context, at the start of 2024 here's where we stood
✨ Here's our 2024 Unison Wrapped!
We've had an unforgettable year of Unison features, contributions, and achievements. Take a look back at what we've accomplished and get a peek at what’s to come. 🔮
Check out the full experience: www.unison-lang.org/wrapped2024/
We've had an unforgettable year of Unison features, contributions, and achievements. Take a look back at what we've accomplished and get a peek at what’s to come. 🔮
Check out the full experience: www.unison-lang.org/wrapped2024/
Unison Wrapped 2024
Our 2024 in review.
www.unison-lang.org
January 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
💜 It's hard to remember all the progress that @unison-lang.org has made, since most of the time we're heads-down, building the plane and flying it.
But to put all this in context, at the start of 2024 here's where we stood...
But to put all this in context, at the start of 2024 here's where we stood
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Working in tech is cool because you can lose half a day to "rectangle sometimes too big."
January 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Working in tech is cool because you can lose half a day to "rectangle sometimes too big."
There's lot's of bad news out here, but two of my favorite humans (and one large cat) are starting a pottery studio in Portland.
Don't let the fascists steal your joy. Go make some art!
Don't let the fascists steal your joy. Go make some art!
Hi. We hear it's like old twitter (non-derogatory) on here and since Instagram is a cesspool of trash run by and for a pathetic nerd (derogatory) that simps for nazis, we decided to open an account. 🤷
Let's make some pots. :)
Let's make some pots. :)
January 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
There's lot's of bad news out here, but two of my favorite humans (and one large cat) are starting a pottery studio in Portland.
Don't let the fascists steal your joy. Go make some art!
Don't let the fascists steal your joy. Go make some art!
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many of us are doomin out tonite myself included so here is a poem by tony hoagland i like to read when i am trying to snap out of it a little
January 9, 2025 at 6:07 AM
many of us are doomin out tonite myself included so here is a poem by tony hoagland i like to read when i am trying to snap out of it a little
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Paul Graham's latest piece is the hottest piece of garbage he's ever written -- which honestly is really saying something. But I take solace in the HN comments, the most upvoted of which observes that his mind has turned to mush. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4268...
The Origins of Wokeness | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Paul Graham's latest piece is the hottest piece of garbage he's ever written -- which honestly is really saying something. But I take solace in the HN comments, the most upvoted of which observes that his mind has turned to mush. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4268...
New year, new Unison UI. Try it out! 🤩
🌟 The the first official release of the UCM Desktop app is here!
Browse your local codebase, click through to source definitions, and read the docs, all in a sleek new UI. ✨
github.com/unisonweb/uc...
Browse your local codebase, click through to source definitions, and read the docs, all in a sleek new UI. ✨
github.com/unisonweb/uc...
January 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
New year, new Unison UI. Try it out! 🤩
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Just a lil’ reminder that I publish all of my visualisation code at github.com/samwho/visua... under an MIT license. You are welcome to use it (I’d love to hear about it if you do!).
If you see stuff in the wild that looks a bit like mine, please don’t immediately think it is stolen. 🙏
If you see stuff in the wild that looks a bit like mine, please don’t immediately think it is stolen. 🙏
GitHub - samwho/visualisations: Code behind my visualisation blog posts
Code behind my visualisation blog posts. Contribute to samwho/visualisations development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 8, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Just a lil’ reminder that I publish all of my visualisation code at github.com/samwho/visua... under an MIT license. You are welcome to use it (I’d love to hear about it if you do!).
If you see stuff in the wild that looks a bit like mine, please don’t immediately think it is stolen. 🙏
If you see stuff in the wild that looks a bit like mine, please don’t immediately think it is stolen. 🙏
🎄Happy holidays from one person who liked sitting for the family photos, and two creatures who didn’t! 👹👹
December 20, 2024 at 8:46 AM
🎄Happy holidays from one person who liked sitting for the family photos, and two creatures who didn’t! 👹👹
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"Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies."
Plese make sure to share thys lynke:
refusinggenai.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
Plese make sure to share thys lynke:
refusinggenai.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies
Visit the post for more.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com
December 12, 2024 at 8:51 PM
"Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies."
Plese make sure to share thys lynke:
refusinggenai.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
Plese make sure to share thys lynke:
refusinggenai.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
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Many Oliver poems are a perfect reset cause sometimes I'll be thinking "oh god I need to fill in my KPIs and OKRs at work" and she's like "go look at a pond" and who am I to argue with Mary Oliver
December 12, 2024 at 8:21 AM
Many Oliver poems are a perfect reset cause sometimes I'll be thinking "oh god I need to fill in my KPIs and OKRs at work" and she's like "go look at a pond" and who am I to argue with Mary Oliver
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MOM SAYS SHE IS PROUD OF BOTH OF US EQUALLY
December 10, 2024 at 8:22 PM
MOM SAYS SHE IS PROUD OF BOTH OF US EQUALLY
"The cost of eroding the distinction between genuine thought and artificial intelligence is nothing less than our self-understanding as human beings—as those creatures who think and act, albeit imperfectly, in light of the truth."
thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
Intelligent Life | The Point Magazine
What would it be to approach the question “Can machines think?” in a different way?
thepointmag.com
December 7, 2024 at 6:00 PM
"The cost of eroding the distinction between genuine thought and artificial intelligence is nothing less than our self-understanding as human beings—as those creatures who think and act, albeit imperfectly, in light of the truth."
thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
For my fellow US-based functional programming fans, 9/01/2025 is not September first 🙃, it's January 9th, which makes far more sense as a CFP deadline for a conference in June.
Sharing is caring! Tell others about your latest discovery, the cool project you're working or a problem that is keeping you awake. lambdadays.org
Our Programme Committee is ready to be amazed 🙌
#functionalprogramming #lambdadays #clojure #scalalang #elixirlang #elm
Our Programme Committee is ready to be amazed 🙌
#functionalprogramming #lambdadays #clojure #scalalang #elixirlang #elm
December 4, 2024 at 6:24 PM
For my fellow US-based functional programming fans, 9/01/2025 is not September first 🙃, it's January 9th, which makes far more sense as a CFP deadline for a conference in June.
🎄For #AdventOfCode Day 3, I wrote about making a parser and its pitfalls in @unison-lang.org
day03.doc · @rlmark/aoc2024/main | Unison Share
Explore, read docs about, and share Unison libraries
share.unison-lang.org
December 4, 2024 at 10:05 AM
🎄For #AdventOfCode Day 3, I wrote about making a parser and its pitfalls in @unison-lang.org
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💌 We're thankful for the amazing developers who make Unison a vibrant, friendly, and innovative community. Your creativity and collaboration inspire us every day. 🙌
November 28, 2024 at 2:00 PM
💌 We're thankful for the amazing developers who make Unison a vibrant, friendly, and innovative community. Your creativity and collaboration inspire us every day. 🙌