Jack Rusher
@jackrusher.com
Ex-Bell Labs/AT&T Research'er making art & technology in Berlin.
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Jack Rusher
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· Apr 15
Intro. I’m a multifaceted weirdo, so in three parts:
① Homeschooled child prodigy, early/pre-web Internet’er, contributed to software used by ~2/3 of the world. Worked at multiple labs, including Bell/AT&T. Many successful startups.
Currently building tools to move forward science and computation.
① Homeschooled child prodigy, early/pre-web Internet’er, contributed to software used by ~2/3 of the world. Worked at multiple labs, including Bell/AT&T. Many successful startups.
Currently building tools to move forward science and computation.
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My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.
December 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.
The perfect language ratios for firmware (and the first Forth environment I used):
github.com/openbios/ope...
github.com/openbios/ope...
December 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The perfect language ratios for firmware (and the first Forth environment I used):
github.com/openbios/ope...
github.com/openbios/ope...
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People mistakenly think prototypes are for discovering the right answer. They are most effective when used to find the right question.
December 27, 2025 at 6:10 AM
People mistakenly think prototypes are for discovering the right answer. They are most effective when used to find the right question.
Surprising bit of graffiti in Neukölln today
December 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Surprising bit of graffiti in Neukölln today
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
5:43 AM (4 hours ago)
to me
Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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Jmail is incredible! A great way to browse Jeffrey Epstein’s emails, photos, flights, files, and properties via a neat, Google-like interface.
www.jmail.world
www.jmail.world
December 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Jmail is incredible! A great way to browse Jeffrey Epstein’s emails, photos, flights, files, and properties via a neat, Google-like interface.
www.jmail.world
www.jmail.world
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My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about:
1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead
2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns
3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...
1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead
2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns
3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...
Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
YouTube video by Canonical Ubuntu
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:51 AM
My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about:
1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead
2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns
3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...
1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead
2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns
3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...
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Emblogginated: The best things and stuff of 2025
blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/t...
topics include: clojure, llms, zettelkasten, baron corvo, fiction, and computing.
blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/t...
topics include: clojure, llms, zettelkasten, baron corvo, fiction, and computing.
December 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Emblogginated: The best things and stuff of 2025
blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/t...
topics include: clojure, llms, zettelkasten, baron corvo, fiction, and computing.
blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/t...
topics include: clojure, llms, zettelkasten, baron corvo, fiction, and computing.
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My #fsharp #FsAdvent post for 2025 is up. It's about applying my functional DDD design principles to an unusual non-business domain, which is my hobby of hand weaving! Anyone else weave? I'd love any comments.
fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/design...
Thanks as always to @sergeytihon.com
fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/design...
Thanks as always to @sergeytihon.com
Designing weaving software
Applying my design principles to an unusual domain
fsharpforfunandprofit.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
My #fsharp #FsAdvent post for 2025 is up. It's about applying my functional DDD design principles to an unusual non-business domain, which is my hobby of hand weaving! Anyone else weave? I'd love any comments.
fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/design...
Thanks as always to @sergeytihon.com
fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/design...
Thanks as always to @sergeytihon.com
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> We archived around 86M music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB. This is the largest music metadata database that is publicly available.
Many interesting 📊 charts on this page that can only be made by having this scale of data.
annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
Many interesting 📊 charts on this page that can only be made by having this scale of data.
annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
December 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
> We archived around 86M music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB. This is the largest music metadata database that is publicly available.
Many interesting 📊 charts on this page that can only be made by having this scale of data.
annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
Many interesting 📊 charts on this page that can only be made by having this scale of data.
annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
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Flocking Quadtrees in Clojure
www.lbjgruppen.com/en/posts/flo...
#boids #clojure #lisp #graphics #simulation
www.lbjgruppen.com/en/posts/flo...
#boids #clojure #lisp #graphics #simulation
Flocking Quadtrees
Learn how to make a flocking simulation using Quadtrees and Clojurescript. It's a revisit of last weeks post about Functional Quadtrees.
www.lbjgruppen.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Flocking Quadtrees in Clojure
www.lbjgruppen.com/en/posts/flo...
#boids #clojure #lisp #graphics #simulation
www.lbjgruppen.com/en/posts/flo...
#boids #clojure #lisp #graphics #simulation
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doing IT consulting is going to be pretty lucrative in ~3-5 years; when there are hardly anyone who remembers how to use a computer anymore
December 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
doing IT consulting is going to be pretty lucrative in ~3-5 years; when there are hardly anyone who remembers how to use a computer anymore
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zwift workouts should simulate bad drivers to help radicalize indoor cyclists
December 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
zwift workouts should simulate bad drivers to help radicalize indoor cyclists
① Periodic thread of surprising/unintuitive scientific findings…
The earliest sharks 🦈 appeared ~439 million years ago, whereas the earliest evidence for trees 🌳 is from ~385 million years ago.
Sharks appear to be older than trees by >50 million years!
The earliest sharks 🦈 appeared ~439 million years ago, whereas the earliest evidence for trees 🌳 is from ~385 million years ago.
Sharks appear to be older than trees by >50 million years!
December 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
① Periodic thread of surprising/unintuitive scientific findings…
The earliest sharks 🦈 appeared ~439 million years ago, whereas the earliest evidence for trees 🌳 is from ~385 million years ago.
Sharks appear to be older than trees by >50 million years!
The earliest sharks 🦈 appeared ~439 million years ago, whereas the earliest evidence for trees 🌳 is from ~385 million years ago.
Sharks appear to be older than trees by >50 million years!
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This just popped onto my radar, looks interesting for European open social builders: www.rebuild.net
Rebuild
Twelve months to catalyse European social platforms.
www.rebuild.net
December 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This just popped onto my radar, looks interesting for European open social builders: www.rebuild.net
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While stories of singular DNA changes that drove evolution of human brain/behaviour remain seductive, advances across multiple fields of biology cast doubt on such simplistic narratives of our origins. A new paper from my lab shows how biobanks may speak to this fundamental question.🧪
Explainer🧵👇1/n
Explainer🧵👇1/n
Evaluating the effects of archaic protein-altering variants in living human adults
Promise and pitfalls of using large biobanks to study impacts of archaic protein-coding variants in living humans.
www.science.org
December 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
While stories of singular DNA changes that drove evolution of human brain/behaviour remain seductive, advances across multiple fields of biology cast doubt on such simplistic narratives of our origins. A new paper from my lab shows how biobanks may speak to this fundamental question.🧪
Explainer🧵👇1/n
Explainer🧵👇1/n
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My iOS apps are on the App Store again; if you ever wanted to have sonogrid or the others, now might be a good time to get a copy.
rosano.ca/blog/audiosc...
rosano.ca/blog/audiosc...
December 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
My iOS apps are on the App Store again; if you ever wanted to have sonogrid or the others, now might be a good time to get a copy.
rosano.ca/blog/audiosc...
rosano.ca/blog/audiosc...
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they should invent a version of large language models that deletes code instead of making more of it
December 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
they should invent a version of large language models that deletes code instead of making more of it
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new bloggery, an acceptance speech ~~ wingolog.org/archives/202...
in which our protagonist dreams of laurels — wingolog
wingolog: article: in which our protagonist dreams of laurels
wingolog.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
new bloggery, an acceptance speech ~~ wingolog.org/archives/202...
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The problem with the Turing test, which I discovered at least for myself with Mark V. Shaney back in the mid-1980s, not to mention Eliza in the 1960s, is that people are just far too gullible to be a reliable judge of intelligence and humanity in language.
The dude who wrote End of History tried to vibecode an app but ended up doing a Her(2013) with ChatGPT (AKA "Pygmalion displacement" @olivia.science) while also failing the Turing test (sigh cc @olivia.science again)
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The problem with the Turing test, which I discovered at least for myself with Mark V. Shaney back in the mid-1980s, not to mention Eliza in the 1960s, is that people are just far too gullible to be a reliable judge of intelligence and humanity in language.
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Tons of useful packages. Umbrella is awesome and my go-to repo to pimp up my #javascript github.com/thi-ng/umbre...
GitHub - thi-ng/umbrella: ⛱ Broadly scoped ecosystem & mono-repository of 210 TypeScript projects (and ~185 examples) for general purpose, functional, data driven development
⛱ Broadly scoped ecosystem & mono-repository of 210 TypeScript projects (and ~185 examples) for general purpose, functional, data driven development - thi-ng/umbrella
github.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Tons of useful packages. Umbrella is awesome and my go-to repo to pimp up my #javascript github.com/thi-ng/umbre...
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I hadn't realized it before but #emacs syntax highlighting (font lock) can do a lot more than assign color. Here I'm parsing the string into a number, doing a calculation, then generating text to show the result
December 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I hadn't realized it before but #emacs syntax highlighting (font lock) can do a lot more than assign color. Here I'm parsing the string into a number, doing a calculation, then generating text to show the result
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Announcing eurosky.social accounts - launching January 2026.
✅ Managed by Eurosky, a European non-profit initiative
✅ Hosted on European cloud
✅ Governed by European law
www.eurosky.social/register
✅ Managed by Eurosky, a European non-profit initiative
✅ Hosted on European cloud
✅ Governed by European law
www.eurosky.social/register
Register for a eurosky.social account - one web identity, dozens of apps — eurosky
www.eurosky.social
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Announcing eurosky.social accounts - launching January 2026.
✅ Managed by Eurosky, a European non-profit initiative
✅ Hosted on European cloud
✅ Governed by European law
www.eurosky.social/register
✅ Managed by Eurosky, a European non-profit initiative
✅ Hosted on European cloud
✅ Governed by European law
www.eurosky.social/register