Recurse Center The Recurse Center is the retreat where curious programmers recharge and grow. 🌱 Work at the edge of your abilities, develop your volitional muscles, and learn generously. 📍NYC

For those who can't make it, a recording of the talk will be made available on our YouTube channel:

www.youtube.com/@RecurseCenter

The Recurse Center The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.

Localhost is a series of technical talks in NYC given by members of the RC community.

RC is the retreat where curious programmers recharge and grow. 🌱 Dedicate your time to programming in a alongside other kind, sharp, and supportive peers.

Learn more: recurse.com

Building a 24-bit Arcade CRT Display Adapter, From Scratch

Read Stephen Downward's blog on building a custom display adapter for the CRT:
www.scd31.com/posts/buildi...

RCade: Building a Community Arcade Cabinet — frankchiarulli.com A custom arcade cabinet that runs games made by the Recurse Center community.

Read @frankchiarulli.com's blog about building the RCade:
www.frankchiarulli.com/blog/buildin...

RCade: Building a Community Arcade Cabinet · Luma Come to Localhost at the Recurse Center! 🕹️ A collective arcade cabinet like no other The RCade is a custom arcade cabinet built during the Fall 2, 2025…

The cabinet will be there in person. If you'd like to try it, this is your chance!

Space is very limited. Request a seat here: ⬇️
luma.com/localhost-rc...

Frank Chiarulli @frankchiarulli.com, Rose Hall @rose.hall.ly, Stephen Downward, and Greg Sadetsky @greg.technology will present how they built it; reviving the hardware and building the deployment system, designing a custom display adapter from scratch, and building a game engine and plugin sandbox.

Join us on March 18 for Localhost!

The RCade is a custom arcade cabinet built during the Fall 2, 2025 batch at the Recurse Center. It has a real CRT, a custom graphics card, spinner controllers, and a deploy pipeline where anyone can ship a game just by pushing to GitHub. It now has over 44 games.

This computer is the reason you can't download all software for free.

The Franklin Computer Corp was a computer manufacturer founded in the early 1980s. Their flagship product was a clone of the Apple II, one of the most popular personal computers of the day.

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my friends at @recurse.com made a website for a zojirushi water boiler, perfectly christened as spenser

i love it so much

spenser.recurse.com

From a salvaged retro arcade cabinet with a CRT monitor to a custom community game platform, @frankchiarulli.com and many other Recursers came together to make something that we couldn't have imagined alone:

Questions? Send us a DM or email at admissions@recurse.com.

Applying to RC - Recurse Center The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.

⌛️There's still time to apply to the Spring 1 batch that begins on February 16th!

Join us for six or twelve weeks on a self-directed programming retreat: work at the edge of your abilities and become a dramatically better programmer alongside other kind and curious peers.

www.recurse.com/apply

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Peter Whidden’s Mote is an impressive GPU-based interactive ecosystem simulation. While he first started development at the Recurse Center, he’s taken it so much farther since. Watch his full talk in ... TikTok video by Recurse Center

A rapid-fire tour of Peter Whidden's impressive GPU-based interactive ecosystem simulation, Mote:

www.tiktok.com/@recursecent...

"How did you spend your time off of work?"

If you're lucky enough to have a chunk of time when you don't need a job, you want to make it count.

Come learn how three Recuse Center alums chose to spend their time off.

How to Make Your Time Off Count: luma.com/zfhxstgy

"Choosing learning over autopilot"

A thoughtful, a concrete approach to coding rigorously with LLMs by an RC alum now at Netflix: anniecherkaev.com/choosing-lea...

Is Useful the Opposite of Fun? Building a Toy Language | Ryan Goldstein YouTube video by Recurse Center

Watch the full talk on Felt:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVHZ...

"I purposefully did not prioritize being useful. Useful and fun I think might be antonyms."

Ryan Goldstein on building Felt:

🕹️A mysterious joystick has appeared… the tree is, in fact, getting new features

Peephole A tiny display for the back of your laptop that shows what you're working on.

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

Pixel art 🤝 cross stitch

me and @henryfellerhoff.com made beyblades

View Ryan's work and writing on Felt:
- rygoldstein.com
- codeberg.org/rgoldstein/f...

Learn more about Tomo: tomo.bruce-hill.com

​View Frederic’s work on Kombucha:
​- fkettelhoit.com
​- github.com/fkettelhoit

And we will post to TikTok!

www.tiktok.com/@recursecent...

Recurse Center Recurse Center talk recordings. RC is the retreat where curious programmers recharge and grow. Work at the edge of your abilities, develop your volitional muscles, and learn generously.

Stay tuned, we will post the recorded talks on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@recursecent...

We featured Ryan Goldstein’s Felt, Bruce Hill’s Tomo, and Frederic Kettelhoit’s Kombucha.

Thank you to everyone who came to our December Localhost. We’ll see you next year!

📸 Photos by @robbielyman.com

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!

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At the Recurse Center, we encourage people to share their work at all stages of doneness.

Introducing: the Holiday Shrub 🎄

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")