Having recently witnessed a Bryan Cantrill Talk™️ at #monktoberfest, this is sure to be a good one with plenty of energy and insight. Oh, and click through to read the description closely. 😉

Really enjoyed hearing @rude1.blacksky.team talk at #monktoberfest. He talked about building #blacksky and community more generally. Was a good one.

Hey @kaiho.bsky.social I think I found something *even worse* than that horrendous PBJ-flavoured beer we sampled at #Monktoberfest:

I forgot to share this because I was having too much fun at #Monktoberfest, but here is what I read and watched in September 2026, featuring Chinese history, The Grand Tour, and lots more!

After another great #monktoberfest, @pop-punk-bot.bsky.social you should send @kateholterhoff.com some great vibes

Post-conference fuel for the drive home at the altar of the breakfast sandwich gods. #monktoberfest

I went to a tech conference #Monktoberfest for the first time after watching it from afar for years and years and y’all I have maybe never stepped into a warmer kinder and exceptionally fabulous group of people.

NOT A JACKWAGON TO BE FOUND!

Really seems like it's the Rebecca Solnit era. Her name kept coming up at #monktoberfest. Clear eyed about hope in a time of turmoil. I am going to read her work stat.

A second #Monktoberfest in the bag (other than maybe happy hour beers tonight).

All of the delightful people, food, talks, and people.

Slides for my #monktoberfest talk today, "Execution in the Kingdom of Agents: Reflections on Abstraction and Complexity"; video to come!
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Just talked to someone at #monktoberfest who has the enviable position of money and time to find his purpose. Chatted about how constraints can actually help with this.

As humans we've been seeking answers to this for a long time. There are no easy ones.

This is the blessing and the curse of llms.

There are no dumb questions to an llm - plus.

There's no pushback on dumb ideas - big negative.

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Another awesome #monktoberfest.

Finishing up with deep conversation at Definitive brewing about what new devs need to do to find jobs, the history of Merck, and what AI is good for (spoiler, not everything).

this #monktoberfest talk about the web and “view source” and people using Processing/p5.js to teach coding…boy is it landing with me

very fond memories of working with @humphd.bsky.social on the precursors of that. having no idea what we were doing but it being so clear that we needed to do it

"Go and look at how things are made. Turing machines are actually simple." Moon Davé #monktoberfest

Creative learning and working with technology. Start with Processing, end up writing Rust.

This is the way.

bell hooks has come up a few times over the last couple of days #monktoberfest.

I am so fucking proud that this is a space where voices and analysis like hers are being heard and inform the work we do as a community.

Related, this wave of cancellations was pervasive in the arts as well. The Virginia Opera Avocation (VOA) had commissioned an opera about the Supreme Court case making multi racial marriages legal, Loving v Virginia. Their funding was cut 1 week before debut. Almost bankrupted the VOA #Monktoberfest

Emme is sharing about the impact of the cancellation of NSF grants impacting valuable programs. This was a sheer chaos everywhere. #Monktoberfest

Emily Lovell and Moon Davé #monktoberfest talking about the future of tech and open source. Tldr - strong DEI focus.

Educators, contributors, in the Processing community processingfoundation.org

Emily had funding to run a program for HBCU students to do open source. Then that funding was pulled 😢