Recurse Center
@recurse.com
The retreat where curious programmers recharge and grow. 🌱
Work at the edge of your abilities, develop your volitional muscles, and learn generously.
📝 Applications are now open!
🔗 https://www.recurse.com/
📍NYC
Work at the edge of your abilities, develop your volitional muscles, and learn generously.
📝 Applications are now open!
🔗 https://www.recurse.com/
📍NYC
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Recurse Center
@recurse.com
· Oct 9
📝 Applications are OPEN for our next batch!
Enjoy programming? Spend 6-12 weeks building what excites you alongside thoughtful, kind peers, both in NYC and remotely!
Learn more at recurse.com, and apply at recurse.com/apply
Enjoy programming? Spend 6-12 weeks building what excites you alongside thoughtful, kind peers, both in NYC and remotely!
Learn more at recurse.com, and apply at recurse.com/apply
"I purposefully did not prioritize being useful. Useful and fun I think might be antonyms."
Ryan Goldstein on building Felt:
Ryan Goldstein on building Felt:
December 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"I purposefully did not prioritize being useful. Useful and fun I think might be antonyms."
Ryan Goldstein on building Felt:
Ryan Goldstein on building Felt:
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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
peephole.greg.technology
Peephole
A tiny display for the back of your laptop that shows what you're working on.
peephole.greg.technology
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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
peephole.greg.technology
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me and @henryfellerhoff.com made beyblades
December 8, 2025 at 4:25 AM
me and @henryfellerhoff.com made beyblades
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!
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!
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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!
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!
At the Recurse Center, we encourage people to share their work at all stages of doneness.
Introducing: the Holiday Shrub 🎄
Introducing: the Holiday Shrub 🎄
December 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
At the Recurse Center, we encourage people to share their work at all stages of doneness.
Introducing: the Holiday Shrub 🎄
Introducing: the Holiday Shrub 🎄
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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")
(this is my answer to "what would you do under UBI")
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:
December 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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")
(this is my answer to "what would you do under UBI")
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:
December 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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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@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.
GitHub - fkettelhoit/kombucha: Minimal & malleable language for symbiotic end-user programming
Minimal & malleable language for symbiotic end-user programming - fkettelhoit/kombucha
github.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
@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.
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!
Why make your own programming language? What unique goals, design decisions and sensibilities come into play?
RSVP below ⬇️
We have a few tickets left!
December 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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!
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
Join our Open Info Session via Zoom today at 5pm ET:
luma.com/v209g7hc
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!…
luma.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Have questions about the retreat, admissions, or anything else?
Join our Open Info Session via Zoom today at 5pm ET:
luma.com/v209g7hc
Join our Open Info Session via Zoom today at 5pm ET:
luma.com/v209g7hc
Ever written something you might describe as a turducken of code?
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Ever written something you might describe as a turducken of code?
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 ⬇️
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 ⬇️
November 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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 ⬇️
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 ⬇️
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i like computer..
November 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
i like computer..
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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!)
Also career switch wouldn’t have been possible without the good folks involved at RC (and probably would have never met my wife!)
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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!)
Also career switch wouldn’t have been possible without the good folks involved at RC (and probably would have never met my wife!)
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:
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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:
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: ⬇️
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: ⬇️
November 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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: ⬇️
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: ⬇️
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. ⬇️
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. ⬇️
November 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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. ⬇️
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?
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
you're telling me a duck typed this code?
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
🧑🏻🏫Montessori for programmers
🦆Wildlife/programmer rehabilitation
🛋️SoHo House for nerds
🤷🏽♀️Something of a mindset
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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
🧑🏻🏫Montessori for programmers
🦆Wildlife/programmer rehabilitation
🛋️SoHo House for nerds
🤷🏽♀️Something of a mindset
🌩️ 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: ⬇️
Three perspectives on and how, and why, to design a new language.
RSVP below: ⬇️
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
🌩️ 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: ⬇️
Three perspectives on and how, and why, to design a new language.
RSVP below: ⬇️
New Yorkers hate dogs 🚫🐕 (we have the data)
It's pairing jam day at RC and Chris, Brittney, Wilson, and Tajairi made a 311 noise complaint heat map of NYC.
It's pairing jam day at RC and Chris, Brittney, Wilson, and Tajairi made a 311 noise complaint heat map of NYC.
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
New Yorkers hate dogs 🚫🐕 (we have the data)
It's pairing jam day at RC and Chris, Brittney, Wilson, and Tajairi made a 311 noise complaint heat map of NYC.
It's pairing jam day at RC and Chris, Brittney, Wilson, and Tajairi made a 311 noise complaint heat map of NYC.
My favorite hobby? Just watching everyone swarm the pair programming signup sheet.
November 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
My favorite hobby? Just watching everyone swarm the pair programming signup sheet.
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?