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May 2023
A new kind of retreat
March 2023
Nurturing a learner’s mindset: A day at RC with David Balatero
RC Down Under: A day in the life of Sam Uong
Patricia in Paris: A day in the life of a Recurser
February 2023
You can do more than you think: Practical principles for self-directed growth
January 2023
Surprise and self-discovery: Victoria and Jordan’s sabbaticals at RC
Sabbaticals for the rest of us
December 2022
Jimmy Li: Law School *to* Software Engineering *to* Tech Lead
Bernie Snell: Sociology and Philosophy *to* Full-stack Engineer *to* Blockchain and Quantum Physics
Anjana Vakil: Teacher *to* Computational Linguist *to* Software Engineer, Conference Speaker, and Developer Relations Consultant
Johann Diedrick: Web Developer *to* Director of Engineering and Artist
Allie Jones: Textile Designer *to* Web Developer *to* Staff Engineer
November 2022
Jiheh Ritterling: Business *to* Full-stack Engineer *to* Educational Game Developer
Filippo Valsorda: Wikipedia Community Contributor *to* Cryptography Library Maintainer
Dylan Nugent: Engineering Manager *to* Infrastructure Engineer
Max Pekarsky: Product Operations *to* Software Engineer *to* Freelance Developer
Jean Cochrane: Community Journalism *to* Data Viz *to* Backend Engineer
September 2022
Dave is stepping down next year
April 2022
We're hiring an Online Facilitator! (US remote)
March 2022
4 Questions with Avinash Sajjanshetty
We're hiring a Head of Marketing (US remote)
4 Questions with Jeff Wang
February 2022
Developing the self-directives
Pausing mini retreats
January 2022
Join the Recurse Center as an Operations Assistant (we're hiring)!
4 Questions with Ashley Li
December 2021
4 Questions with Joseph Dumont
4 Questions with Meri Leeworthy
4 Questions with Laura Tessin
4 Questions with Diana Ilithya
July 2021
We’re hiring! Join the Recurse Center as a Career Facilitator
May 2021
Grants of up to $7,000 now available for upcoming batches of RC
April 2021
How to improve your calls and reduce Zoom fatigue
March 2021
We’re offering $1,000 grants for our Spring 2 and Summer 1 batches
October 2020
What does it mean to do RC remotely?
August 2020
We're continuing to run batches online in 2021
April 2020
What we’ve learned from running RC remotely, and an update for future batches
March 2020
RC is online-only until at least May
Never Graduate Week will be held remotely and other precautions for COVID-19
January 2020
What I worked on at RC: Thais Correia
July 2019
$10,000 Fellowships for women (trans and cis), trans, and non-binary programmers
April 2019
What we've learned from seven years of working to make RC 50% women, trans, and non-binary
Meet RC's first Fellows
March 2019
Why you should work at RC
December 2018
$10,000 Fellowships for women working on open source programming projects, research, and art
November 2018
Discover the Joy of Computing
Making RC more family-friendly
September 2018
Localhost #15: Veit Heller on Carp, a programming language for the 21st century
Localhost #14: Allison Kaptur on Mypy in practice
August 2018
Why we stopped RC Start
Localhost #13: New work from Recursers
July 2018
What we mean by self-directed and community-driven
Why we stopped our residents program
Localhost #12: Bonnie Eisenman on cheating CAP with scaled cache TTLs
June 2018
Localhost #11: Aditya Mukerjee on cloning Git in Go
RC is moving
May 2018
Localhost #10: Mindy Preston on library operating systems
April 2018
Living Room: Making RC programmable
Join RC and help grow a new kind of business and community
Localhost #9: Samantha Goldstein on crafting a connected home
March 2018
Localhost #8: Andrew Kelley on Zig, a new programming language
February 2018
Localhost #7: Julia Evans on building a Ruby profiler
January 2018
A new way to join the RC community
A new resource for Recursers: The Heap Community Cluster
Localhost #6: Raph Levien on Xi
A few great things Recursers did in 2017
December 2017
RC Pop-up: Two weeks of collaboration and focused work on generative art
November 2017
Localhost #5: David Nolen on the fundamental principles of software
Come to RC for a one-week retreat
Localhost #4: Leah Hanson on WebSockets
October 2017
Localhost #3: Ron Minsky on types, and why you should care
September 2017
Localhost #2: When r0ml brought down Morgan Stanley's network
August 2017
Localhost: a series of technical talks from RC
July 2017
Happy 6th birthday, RC
June 2017
Join the Recurse Center and build useful software
Never Graduate Week 2017: how we planned and ran our annual alumni week
April 2017
Join RC and help build a better place to learn
January 2017
How RC uses Zulip
October 2016
Code Words Issue Seven, and some changes
August 2016
Pausing RC Research
July 2016
Five years
June 2016
Thanks to Perka for funding $10k of diversity grants
May 2016
Andreas Fuchs, Sarah Sharp, and Jamey Sharp are Recurse Center residents
April 2016
Steve Klabnik, Paul Fenwick, and Frank Wang are Recurse Center residents
March 2016
Welcome Lisa and James (and Ginger)!
A new essay from RC Research Fellow Michael Nielsen
Code Words Issue Six
Nine reflections on RC
February 2016
You can now attend RC Retreat for six weeks
We're hosting an info session in San Francisco
January 2016
RC Start: Free one-on-one mentorship for new programmers
Evan Czaplicki and Yan Zhu are Recurse Center residents
December 2015
Code Words Issue Five
The Finger Waggle
November 2015
Advice for new Recursers
Why am I saying this?
October 2015
Why research
Star Simpson, Tim Abbott and Marijn Haverbeke are Recurse Center residents
Code Words Issue Four
September 2015
Zulip: Supporting OSS at the Recurse Center
August 2015
Four new Recurse Center residents
July 2015
Three reasons to apply (and three reasons not to)
We're hosting an open house
June 2015
Code Words Issue Three
May 2015
More new residents for 2015
Join the Recurse Center and help people find fulfilling work
Michael Nielsen joins the Recurse Center to help build a research lab
April 2015
What people do at the Recurse Center (April 2015)
Announcing four new residents for summer 2015
A guide to RC at PyCon 2015
Mark Dominus and Ben Orenstein are Recurse Center residents
March 2015
Code Words Issue Two
Hacker School is now the Recurse Center
Alumni interviewers
February 2015
Goodbye Paper of the Week
A string of unexpected lengths
A day at Hacker School
Paper of the Week: Compositing Digital Images
Paper of the Week: Literate Programming
January 2015
Paper of the Week: The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System
Paper of the Week: Xen and the Art of Virtualization
December 2014
A small step in a new direction
Announcing eight new residents for 2015
Four failure modes of Hacker Schoolers
Paper of the Week: Open, extensible object models
Negative comments
Michael Lee is a last minute resident
Paper of the Week: Structural Regular Expressions
Introducing Code Words
23 Hacker Schoolers and Residents on their experiences at Hacker School
Paper of the Week: Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems
November 2014
Paper of the Week: Notation as a Tool of Thought
Paper of the Week: The Power of Two Random Choices: A Survey of Techniques and Results
Testing from the ground up
Paper of the Week: Worlds: Controlling the Scope of Side Effects
What people do at Hacker School (Nov 2014)
Paper of the Week: Managing Update Conflicts in Bayou, a Weakly Connected Replicated Storage System
October 2014
Jean Yang and Matt Might are Hacker School Residents
Paper of the Week: Out of the Tar Pit
Hacker School Profile: Stephanie Samson
Paper of the Week: The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems
Paper of the Week: The Power of Interoperability: Why Objects Are Inevitable
An unusual goodbye
Paper of the Week: On Understanding Data Abstraction, Revisited
September 2014
Spring 2, 2015 applications are open
Paper of the Week: Error Detecting and Error Correcting Codes
Building a better and more diverse community
Paper of the Week: Reflections on Trusting Trust
Introducing "Paper of the Week"
New batch names
August 2014
What people do at Hacker School
July 2014
Subtle -isms at Hacker School
June 2014
Welcome Rachel!
May 2014
Overlapping batches
April 2014
We're hiring an operations person
March 2014
Mistakes we've made
February 2014
Summer and fall 2014 applications are open
Acceptance rates
January 2014
Winter 2014 residents
Words are hard
December 2013
Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers
Treating people like adults
November 2013
Fundamental qualities of good programmers
Dropbox, Etsy, Jane Street, Tapad, and Tumblr support female programmers at Hacker School
October 2013
Who comes to Hacker School?
August 2013
Fall Residents at Hacker School
Announcing the Hacker School Maintainers Program
Partnering with Juniper
July 2013
Little Lisp interpreter
What we look for in students
May 2013
One more resident: Alex Payne
Publishing the Hacker School User's Manual
April 2013
Peter Norvig and eight others are Hacker School residents
March 2013
New residents and sponsors
Mary Rose Cook is a Hacker Schooler
February 2013
There's no magic: virtualenv edition
January 2013
List comprehensions in eight lines of Clojure
December 2012
What we mean when we say "hacker"
Exploring Emacs
Stop waiting: Winter 2013 applications are open
November 2012
We're thankful for GitHub and Palantir
September 2012
Alex Payne, Peter Seibel, Jessica McKellar, David Nolen, and Stefan Karpinski are Hacker School Residents
Understanding C by learning assembly
August 2012
Allison and Zach are Hacker Schoolers
Learning C with gdb
Fall Applications and Hacker School Residencies
May 2012
Welcome Tom and Alan!
April 2012
Do you have enough experience for Hacker School?
Summer 2012 Applications Open