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The retreat where curious programmers recharge and grow. Work at the edge of your abilities, develop your volitional muscles, and learn generously. DMs open!
New York, NY
Joined January 2012
We're offering $10,000 Fellowships to women working on open source programming projects, research, and art for our batch starting Jan 7. 50% of funding is reserved for women, trans, and non-binary people of color. Apply now: Please help spread the word!.
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SO BASICALLY THERE'S THIS PROGRAMMING RETREAT WHERE YOU GET TO WORK ON WHATEVER YOU WANT WITH NO DEADLINES AND YOU COLLABORATE WITH COOL PEOPLE BUT ALSO IT'S FREE BECAUSE THERE'S THIS OPTIONAL THING WHERE THEY HELP YOU FIND A JOB IF YOU WANT AND RUST'S TYPE SYSTEM IS ACTUALLY
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We're funding Fellowships of up to $10,000 for women, trans, and non-binary people to work on programming projects, research, and art at RC this fall. Apply by July 22nd and start August 12th or September 23rd. Please help spread the word!.
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Programmers: If you had $10,000 and 12 weeks to make a positive difference by building a tool, doing research, or contributing to an existing project, what would you work on? (If you're not a programmer, what would you want someone to work on?).
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Anyone think we should do these again? 🤔.
We're offering $10,000 Fellowships to women working on open source programming projects, research, and art for our batch starting Jan 7. 50% of funding is reserved for women, trans, and non-binary people of color. Apply now: Please help spread the word!.
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1/ In honor of leap day, here are some facts about JavaScript date parsing:.
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📢 We offer grants of up to $7,000 to folks from groups that are underrepresented in programming who do a batch at RC. Tell your friends! 💻 RC is free for everyone: our grants cover living/travel expenses that would prevent someone from attending.
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A great example of how much you can accomplish with curiosity, hard work, and persistence. Way back in 2017, Nora Sandler started a blog at the Recurse Center. One of her first posts was about writing a C compiler. (1/n).
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We're now offering need-based grants of up to $1,000 to women, trans, and/or non-binary people who attend our Spring 2 or Summer 1 online batches: RC is and has always been free to attend; our grants are for living expenses.
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What’s the best interview process you’ve been through (regardless of if you got an offer or not)? What made it good?.
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We’ve spent the past year running the Recurse Center in RC Together, a virtual space to help people feel connected and collaborate. Today, we’re opening up private beta access so other groups can try it out!. (1/3).
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Narrated Diffs: a tool that lets you reorder and comment on each section of your GitHub pull requests (or .diff files) so your changes tell a clear story and are easier for people to understand. By Thomas Broadley. Source:
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Companies hiring engineers: Want to beat 95% of your competitors?. 👻 Never ghost people. Follow up, even if it’s just a polite “no.”.⏰ Don’t be late for, miss, or reschedule interviews at the last minute. 🗒️ Prepare and be present for interviews. 💥 Don’t give exploding offers.
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Here's a brand new page explaining the RC social rules:
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The Recurse Center is 10 years old! Over the last decade our community has grown to include over 2000 programmers from 61 countries across the world. Check out our 10 year report: Here are some of our favorite highlights from the last decade:
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Some alums building great indie stuff outside typical jobs:. @b0rk writing zines.@itseieio designing wacky games.@rsnous & @cwervo making @FolkComputer .@heyvrk creating software that ♡'s paper.@saulfp making @VisiData.@FiloSottile maintaining OSS.Andrew Kelley building @ziglang.
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Thank you to the Spring 1 batch for a beautiful gift! An algorithmically generated poster featuring every RC alum:
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We're working on getting our entire collection of retro computers in working order. Still missing a few parts, but here's a family picture.
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Founder Friday, celebrating some alums who started companies:. @sjwhitmore -> @newcomputer .@davidcrawshaw -> @Tailscale .@infinitefun_ -> @websim_ai.@laurenzlong -> @WithAmpersand.@litacho + @hausdorff_space -> @moment_dev .@Zephraph -> @membraneio. MANY more we can't fit!.
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48% of new Recursers so far in 2019 identify as women, trans, or non-binary. Here's what we've tried and learned over the past seven years of working on this:
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A new version of Checkboxland, a library by @BryanEBraun for rendering text, animations, and almost anything using *just* HTML checkboxes:.
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One of our application questions is “What is the most interesting thing you’ve learned in the past month?” Reading those answers is one of our favorite parts of application review, and we’ve collected our top hits from 2019 to share (we got everyone’s permission first😉)!. (1/14).
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Today is the Recurse Center's last day at 455 Broadway, our home for the last five years.
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We are delighted to announce that, thanks to the generous support of our alumni community, we can again offer grants of up to $7,000 to Recursers from groups that are underrepresented in programming! . Learn more here:
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We're hiring a Career Facilitator! Required: emotional intelligence, good judgment, intellectual curiosity, and exceptional people skills. Not required: a degree, an existing connection to RC, or specific past job titles. Please share widely! Details here:.
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We're finally recording talks! Here's @raphlinus talking about Xi, a new, super fast text editor for the next 20 years.
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Considering writing a blog post about what we're seeing in the tech hiring market. Would that be of interest? If so, what specifically would you most want to know?.
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Can't carve out time for a full batch? We now offer 1-week mini retreats. Treat yourself to a break, learn some new tricks, and become a scarily good programmer without spooking your employer!. (Credit to @b0rk and @kamalmarhubi for the awesome pumpkins!)
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💵 We've granted over $1.6 million to over 360 programmers who are women, trans, non-binary, Black, Latinx, and/or Native American. 🖥️If you want to spend six or twelve weeks learning, doing research, creating art or music, or making progress on a personal project, apply to RC!.
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Today's Joy of Computing: a live coding environment by @rsnous for making Game Boy games. Edits to the code are hot-swapped into the running game. Code:
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Pair programming is great, but purr programming is even better. Show us photos of your most adorable coding buddies! Cats, dogs, bunnies, plants, and babies are all acceptable. (Photo credit: @_jak, with Wren)
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You can build something great. Everyone who’s ever done something great has at least two things in common: they started, and they didn’t quit when things got hard. This goes for any kind of work, including programming. 1/2.
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It took some coaxing, but we were able to get RC's Color Classic on the web. 🎉 🌈 💾
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An interactive Git learning game & visualization where you play as a time agent solving temporal paradoxes, built by @blinry and bleeptrack with the help of the Godot game engine.
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We are unequivocally against the federal government's executive order banning refugees, immigrants, and visitors from Muslim countries. 1/8.
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We have known Timnit for over eight years. She is a deeply ethical, thoughtful, accomplished person, and a pioneer in her field. Google's behavior here is repugnant:
I was fired by @JeffDean for my email to Brain women and Allies. My corp account has been cutoff. So I've been immediately fired :-).
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1/ If you’re interested in hiring smart, self-directed programmers who are part of a diverse and supportive community and have anywhere from 6 months to 30 years of experience, we’ve got great news for you:
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Thinking your old code is bad means you've grown. And if you're not struggling now, you've likely stagnated. Growth takes time and effort.
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We're so excited to reopen our Brooklyn hub this summer! 🥳. If you'd like to learn more about how we're making our retreats more flexible than ever, come to our next info session on Tuesday, May 16th at 3:00pm ET:.
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Congratulations to @timnitGebru (RC S'12!) on founding DAIR, a new distributed AI research institution, to document the harm AI does to marginalized groups and build towards better outcomes:.
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We're thrilled to announce that @Google is sponsoring $150k+ in grants for female programmers at Hacker School!
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Learn more about RFIDs and how to use them in RC alum @samantha_gold's Localhost talk, "Crafting a Connected Home"
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We've noticed that lots of Recursers are also musicians, and gravitate towards music-related projects. Question for the musically-inclined who also program: what connects music and code for you?.
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manifesting circle:. 🕯 🕯. 🕯 🕯. rekindle love. 🕯 of programming 🕯. in 2023. 🕯 🕯. 🕯 🕯. everyone light a candle.
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We're hiring! Join RC and build a better place to learn: (We'd love a diverse range of applicants, please share!).
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Introducing the self-directives, a set of three guiding principles for your time at RC! .They are: .🧗 Work at the edge of your abilities.💪 Build your volitional muscles.🤝 Learn generously.
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Today's Joy of Computing: Guess, to the nearest order of magnitude, how fast your computer is at running different programs! By @kamalmarhubi and @b0rk. Play here:
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In honor of RC's 11th birthday this month, we're offering an extra 11 $1,000 grants for our fall batches to women, trans, non-binary, and/or Black programmers! 🎉. Apply by July 21 (earlier is better). Please spread the word!.
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Liz (@learningnerd) is currently at RC making a game to teach herself how to sight-read sheet music. “But it needs to work with an acoustic piano. So my first step: use the web audio API to get mic input and analyze the data to determine which note is being played.".#madeatrc
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This spring marks 10 years since we announced our first round of living expense grants: thanks to a partnership with @Etsy and the great advocacy of @marcprecipice, we were able to support 19 women who attended our Summer 2012 batch.
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We're hosting all batches of RC online through the end of 2020. Read about how we managed moving our in-person retreat online (and built a virtual version of our space!) on our blog:
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Very cool work!. Anyone want to guess what @geoffreylitt, @maxbittker, and @infinitefun_ all have in common? 😇.
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If you're just tuning in: We're the retreat where curious programmers recharge and grow. RC is 100% free and currently accepting applications from programmers anywhere in the world. Come join us!.
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Introducing Joy of Computing, a site where you’ll find one new link to an interesting technical project made by a Recurser posted each day!. Rediscover the good parts of programming:
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😊❤️.
@recursecenter It totally wouldn't surprise me if — 20 or 30 years from now — people talk about RC the same way we talk about the Whole Earth Catalog, Homebrew Computer Club, etc. today.
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That was our first ever tweetstorm. Are we doing this right?.
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A great overview of Ruby 3.0 garbage collector's internal constants and what they're used for, by @JemmaIssroff.
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5 days, 200 alumni, 33 batches, over 20 talks, a Coding Bee, and one very big game night: Never Graduate Week 2017 has officially begun!
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A deliberately terrible brand new lossless net portable native image format. View any image on your computer as an array of colored <p> tags. Do simple image transformations, and make your browser crash! By @woodntshoodnt.
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What happens when a dozen Recursers gather in Berlin to work on generative art?
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Gitlet: A heavily-annotated JavaScript implementation of Git by @maryrosecook. Built to explain Git's internals http://t.co/ye8cwYWROY.
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It may seem base, but this is *precisely* the type of joke we like to float at parties and then double down on. It really adds to the discussion in an unpredictable way.
oh, you're a programmer? so how much is 0.1 + 0.2?.
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We’re so sad to hear that Joe Armstrong has passed away. Our thoughts are with his loved ones. We’re thankful for his many contributions to programming, which will live on for years to come. Here’s Joe sharing fun Erlang stories at RC in 2013:
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Appreciate the shout-out!. Fun fact: more than 40% of the people named in this article are alums.
there’s a new tech scene emerging in NYC with a culture all its own. what will it create?. 🔗👇
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Start your engines! Applications for all of our 2023 batches are now open: 🏁
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💻 If you’re a programmer looking for time and space to do the work you’ve always wanted to do in a supportive community, apply to RC: 💼 If you’d like to hire curious, kind, self-directed programmers, we can help:
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RC is hiring a Facilitator. Here's why you should (or maybe shouldn't) apply:. (Please retweet and share to help ensure a diverse range of candidates!).
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Looking for something to do today? Apply to Hacker School -- it could change your life :)
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First up! . Meeting @_404wolf who shows us his "Everything" project, which lets you import _everything_ in python. ??. Behind the scene, it parses the AST tree of your python code, calls OpenAI to generate any code you called (!!) and then just runs??.
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Drumroll please! 🥁🥁🥁. This summer, you can join the retreat from anywhere, including our Brooklyn hub!. We're so excited to reopen -- you can read more about how our summer retreats will work here: Hope to see you in June!.
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Mindy (@mindypreston) just finished her 3rd batch at RC! She worked on✨stitchcraft✨: small, interoperable command-line utilities for making, manipulating, and navigating cross-stitch patterns. The pattern on display is an integration test inspired by fellow RCer @emmazsmith.
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Thanks to Aaron Wood (F1’18) who whipped this up on our Apple IIe to welcome the new batches today!
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68% of Recursers in our upcoming Summer 1 batch are women, trans, and/or nonbinary -- our best gender balance ever! This could change before the batch begins (on May 17th, still plenty of time to apply 😀), but we're really excited about it!.
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Russell, who famously describes his interests as "Mate, I just wanna listen to Drum&Bass and make stuff" (!!) shows us his. !! ! ! an audio sampler/looper on the web + a gorgeous custom command line + desktop app (!??!). Are we done? We are not.
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Fun fact: our co-founder @jollysonali spent the past two weekends screen printing 70 Recurse Center social rules posters by hand!
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Announcing RC Start, free one-on-one mentorship for new programmers:
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An in-depth review of all the ways you can define method parameters in Ruby, by Jemma Issroff.
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Eleven years ago today, six curious people showed up at a nondescript room to program and learn together. Thanks to everyone who took a risk on us that day, and all who have done a batch since. RC wouldn't exist without you. (Also, thanks for the free room, @ITP_NYU!).
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When you apply to RC, you get an automatically generated pseudonym on your application instead of your real name to reduce bias in our admissions. They’re very silly. Good luck, Bee Meeting! 🐝💼
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Our latest Localhost video is up! Watch @b0rk talk about building rbspy, a new Ruby profiler written in Rust:
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💻 The RC community has ~1,400 alums. 🌍 They live in 180+ cities in nearly 50 countries around the world. 🏙️ At least a dozen cities have over a dozen RC alums living in them. 🌉 Including San Francisco: over 70 alums came events we hosted there when visiting earlier this month.
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Apropos of nothing, seems like the world could use a few more thoughtful people to build reliable, ethical software for our big challenges!.
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Today's Joy of Computing: "Your First THINK C Program," a guide to getting started programming a Macintosh running System 7. By John Earnest.
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Announcing Localhost, a new series of technical talks from RC:
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Still looking for a Halloween costume? We've got you covered:
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New blog post: Michael Nielsen joins the Recurse Center to help build a research lab
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As of last week, we have a new website with a more accurate description of RC and a better design.
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Today marks the 12th anniversary of our very first retreat. Happy Birthday, RC!. From six folks programming together, we’re honored to have grown into a community of over 2,400 kind, thoughtful, and curious Recursers all over the world. We couldn’t have done it without you! (1/3)
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Thank you to the Winter 2s, who gave us the most thoughtful and beautiful batch gift (painted by @christinechanyc)!
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Want to check out the RC space, meet Recursers, and watch a talk about prototyping a private home phone network? RSVP to Localhost on October 1st! Localhost is our series of technical talks given by Recursers and open to the public.
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