Recurse Center reflections

The Recurse Center is where self-directed programmers go to push themselves, learn from each other, and have fun. In the fall of 2025, I traveled to New York and spent 12 weeks there building software for fun. In the beginning, I planned my work using a bottom-up approach &mdash; first deciding on a topic I wanted to learn more about, then structuring my work around that goal. The main example of…