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Tim Disney

I make code and things. Programming languages, the web, and the Atmosphere bring me joy.

Recent posts

May 30
RFCs on the Atmosphere

May 30, 2026
Apr 23
An Atmospheric Website

Notes from the fifth and final migration.

Apr 23, 2026
Apr 10
SembleIt: Semble Without the Distractions

Semble is two apps in a trench coat. SembleIt is just the quiet one.

Apr 10, 2026

Recent photos

Recently shared via Skyreader

May 31
AI Isn't Management. Try Explaining That to Matthew Prince

Henry Farrell · programmablemutter.com
May 28
I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

simonwillison.net
May 26
Clanker: A Word For The Machine

Armin Ronacher · lucumr.pocoo.org
May 22
Getting Gooier

Venkatesh Rao · contraptions.venkateshrao.com
May 22
Capital Must Seek Delight

Venkatesh Rao · contraptions.venkateshrao.com

Recently filed in the library

co/core — an AI cooperative

console.cocore.dev
Are Scientific Papers Bad?

YouTube · Hank Green
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

maggieappleton.com
The Cognitive Dark Forest

ryelang.org · Janko
https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.2

z.ai

Workshop

things I've made

Skyreader

An RSS reader on the Atmosphere
Skyboard

A Kanban board on the Atmosphere
SembleIt

An alternative client for Semble
Flint

A note-taking app.
Sweet.js

Hygienic macros for JavaScript.
Contracts.coffee

Higher-order contracts for CoffeeScript.

Papers

Hygienic Macros for JavaScript

My doctoral dissertation showing how to adapt a hygienic macro system to JavaScript.

Thesis 2015
Virtual Values for Language Extension

A generalization and formalization of existing meta-object systems, with an application to JavaScript.

OOPSLA 2011
Temporal Higher-Order Contracts

Bringing temporal assertions to higher-order contracts.

ICFP 2011