Nashville Cherry Blossom Festival The Nashville Cherry Blossom Festival is a free-to-the-public, family-friendly celebration of Spring and Japanese culture, featuring Japanese food, music, dance, martial arts, artwork and merchandise.ナッシュビル桜祭りは春と日本文化を祝うご家族皆様で楽しめるお祭りです。皆様のお越しをお待ちしてます。

Beautiful day for a great festival.

www.nashvillecherryblossomfestival.org

Developer pro tip: add a checkbox to your pull request templates `- [ ] this PR contains code either produced by generative AI or copy-pasted from a stranger on the Internet`.

Claude is not your co-worker. Claude is a stranger on the Internet that copied code from all the strangers on the Internet.

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Happy new year fellow BEAMers! 🎉

Designing weaving software Applying my design principles to an unusual domain

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

One of the best things I’ve seen on YouTube all year.

I Blame You YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

Republicans can stop this anytime they want… youtube.com/shorts/0mcdj...

This is what happens to software companies who go all-in on coding with LLMs. Coding isn’t the one “good use case” for LLMs but a dozen Y2K crises in the making.

And I’m saying this as a software developer who knows more about how LLMs work than most in the field.

Happy Anniversary, Erlang Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding and Mike Williams (the creators of Erlang)

Happy Anniversary, Erlang!!

cc @theerlef.bsky.social

See archive.is/TVnf9

Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.

AFTYN: “What a time to be alive! A battleground district in Tennessee… everyone loves an underdog story.”

It’s Election Day in TN-7, and Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social says Tennesseans can send a message that they’re fed up with Trump and a Republican Party that has failed to deliver.

Thankful to all the volunteers who came out this week!!!!

We got this y'all :)

Zork I, II, and III are now open source. Microsoft has released the classic Infocom text adventures under the MIT license! opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...

One third of the country supported the January 6 2021 attempted take over the government & are the same ones who voted him back in. They are traitors in my book.

Early voted!

Aftyn Behn is the best US House candidate I’ve ever had as a choice on my ballot.

At my polling place they said the turnout has been 4-5 times higher than during the primary. Wow! With this energy TN District 7 is going to flip blue despite the dirty gerrymander of Nashville.

Happy Friday!! Just a reminder that our second Nerves Meetup EU will be next week Wednesday (Nov. 12) at 7pm CET! Joining us is @alvises.bsky.social to talk about running computer vision models on Nerves.

Sign up via Luma below :)

nervesmeetup.eu/meetup/alvis...

And if you are interested in bioinformatics or learning to program here is an excellent playground to celebrate Rosalind Franklin’s work and her discoveries:

rosalind.info/about/

👀 WOW — “Speaker Johnson is stalling Grijalva until Van Epps gets there to cancel out her vote?”

TN-7 nominee @aftynbehn.bsky.social tells us Johnson plans for Van Epps to help him cover up the Epstein files. (His weak answer to NC5 is another clue🕵️ )

Not just ignoble; he’s ignobel too.

TALKING TO VOTERS WILL WIN THIS ELECTION

Never knocked on a door or called a voter? Now is the time to learn! There are lots of opportunities to plug in EVERY DAY. Let's get out of our echo chambers and talk to people!

SIGN UP: www.mobilize.us/afty...

Good fun! I would have enjoyed being there. This quote slide from @baldurbjarnason.com made me laugh out loud in a quiet room.

You get home from work and your sundowning house guest has taken out one of the walls with a bulldozer. Not a metaphor; really happened. Why wasn’t he sedated and hauled off to a nursing home for this?

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

Felt good to pitch in today!

If you would like to help flip Tennessee's US House District 7 from red to blue (and punish the state GOP for their gerrymandering) start here:
www.aftynforcongress.com

Heck, go big enough on the fraud, and you get a seat on air force one.

BEHN: “Feed kids. Fix roads. And fund hospitals. Instead of handing out corporate tax breaks.”

TN-07 Democratic nominee @aftynbehn.bsky.social puts her people-first priorities front and center in a high-energy victory speech

Congratulations!!!

On Dec 2, you are going to flip that seat blue. A deep thank you for getting out there and doing the work. How can we all help? Tell us what you need.

🎉 🙌 🎉🥳 🎉

Please order the State Police to establish trust with the protestors. Trust and cooperation are crucial so that any false flag agitators that the regime sends in to masquerade as bogeyman“Antifa” will be spotted and stopped before they can create camera-ready violence.