Simon Weber

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! youtu.be/Qv801wYJoXQ (1/3)

@yasoobkhalid Hi! Growth has been pretty slow; we're still in the low thousands. I'd love to reach the size of The Listserve someday!

Hi @simonmweber! Longtime kleroteria subscriber. Love it! Was wondering how many people are receiving kleroteria emails these days if you don't mind sharing :)

Kleroteria is now open source! github.com/simon-weber/kl…

@Preflight01 possible you have lag in your stream but not in your monitor? sounds like the keys are sometimes behind the computer's audio, eg with clips.twitch.tv/GrossStrangeBe…

First new project of 2020! Opsgrid is a free server monitoring service that stores your metrics in Google Sheets. More about it at simon.codes/2020/09/20/ops…

What would you ask a community of 1,700 nice programmers? Answers may be published in future issues of Still Computing! recurse.com/still-computing

In case you missed it: We've made all our remaining batches in 2020 remote-friendly. You can now attend RC and become a lifelong member of the community no matter where you live. Learn more: recurse.com/blog/153-what-… (Please retweet to help spread the word!)

If you'd like to attend RC online and join our community of kind, thoughtful programmers, our first ever remote batch begins on March 30th! You can apply to Spring 2 or Mini 3 here: recurse.com/apply

Caption this cartoon by Aidan Holloway-Bidwell! Submit your captions by 5pm tomorrow for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to your local bookstore. Send your entries to stillcomputing@recurse.com with CAPTION in the subject line.

Today's Joy of Computing: An autoresponder for Hangouts to use while you're on vacation, or for accounts you don't use often, by @simonmweber. joy.recurse.com/posts/649-auto… github.com/simon-weber/gc… gchat.simon.codes

Sentry has committed to contributing $100,000 to open source in 2020 blog.sentry.io/2020/02/18/fun…

"For the longest time I was involved in a loose collective of people whose only binding element was the shared desire to disrupt online scammers." -- last week's fascinating Kleroteria post is now available publicly! kleroteria.org/example-post

📢 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! recurse.com/diversity 💻 RC is free for everyone: our grants cover living/travel expenses that would prevent someone from attending.

TIL there's a .weber gTLD, meaning it's technically possible for me to own the domain simon.weber. Unfortunately, it would require taking over a multi-billion dollar international construction company: icannwiki.org/.weber

I finally got around to open sourcing my NYC Parks & Rec closure alert site: github.com/simon-weber/ny…

@ZachWeiner I expected to have to recommend Open Borders to the NYPL, but they've already got 26 copies and a queue of 16 holds!

@maltzj @scott_triglia simon@simonmweber.com is fine

@maltzj I'm not very familiar with the python backend part of it, just the js part that's in Autoplaylists. I can take a look tomorrow and see what I remember; shoot me an email so I don't forget to do it

@mrbrianfirenzi "Nicolas Cage on his legacy, his philosophy of acting and his metaphorical — and literal — search for the Holy Grail": nytimes.com/interactive/20…

@mrbrianfirenzi I thought the quote-off was surprisingly poignant