Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

• Recommendsrcmnd.app

  ChatGPT

  Their words

  1 founder who's also developer, designer, marketing (use ChatGPT to help with those)

  levels.io

Alignment researcher at Anthropic; co-led OpenAI's superalignment team until 2024, and writes Musings on the Alignment Problem.

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  Releasing open weights is irreversible in a way that deploying a hosted model is not, so its risks cannot be mitigated later.

  Their words

  This is especially severe for open weight models, where deployment is essentially irreversible and mitigations can’t be improved later.

  Two alignment threat modelsaligned.substack.com

Interface designer and researcher, known for the talks Inventing on Principle and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable and for essays on dynamic representations of ideas. Founder of Dynamicland, where he is building a communal computer.

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  Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

  Their words

  The essence of software engineering.

  worrydream.com

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  Lambda the Ultimate

  Their words

  Everything I know about programming language theory, I owe to this site.

  worrydream.com

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  Haskell

  Their words

  The programming language for the 21st century.

  worrydream.com

Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

From one piece Response to DHH 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Building a business on open source is a good thing; the objection is to trademark abuse, not to commercial use.

  open source

  Their words

  I think it’s fantastic when businesses are built on open source, the WordPress ecosystem is at least 10B+ a year; Automattic and WP Engine are less than 5% of that.

  Response to DHHma.tt

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  An open source project’s trademarks must be defended, and that defence is separate from the software’s licence.

  open source

  Their words

  Trademarks must be protected, as evidenced by Rails trademark policy.

  Response to DHHma.tt

Economist writing on why technological progress slowed and what would restart it — energy, supersonic flight, housing and the regulations around them.

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  Investors avoid hard tech for its capital intensity while the largest returns available are in exactly those physical markets.

  startups

  Their words

  Many software investors eschew hard tech startups because of their capital intensity, but it’s hard to deny that huge returns are possible in hard tech: just consider SpaceX.

  Cargo airships are happeningelidourado.com

Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.

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  Homebrew

  Their words

  Homebrew - macOS Package Manager

  garden.narze.live

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  Fish

  Their words

  Fish - Alternative command line shell than Zsh, I still use Zsh though.

  garden.narze.live

Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

From one piece WPE & Trademarks 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither.

  open source

  Their words

  This isn’t a money grab: it’s an expectation that any business making hundreds of millions of dollars off of an open source project ought to give back, and if they don’t, then they can’t use its trademarks.

  WPE & Trademarksma.tt

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  A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead.

  open source

  Their words

  If WP Engine wants to find another open source project with a more permissive license and no trademarks, they are free to do so; if they want to benefit from the WordPress community, then they need to respect WordPress trademark and IP.

  WPE & Trademarksma.tt

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  Respect for trademarks and other intellectual property is part of what open source means, not a departure from it.

  open source

  Their words

  WordPress is licensed under the GPL; respect for copyright and IP like trademarks is core to the GPL and our conception of what open source means.

  WPE & Trademarksma.tt

Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.

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  Mastodon's web client is a heavy React app that breaks without scripting and loads slowly on old hardware.

  JavaScript

  Their words

  when you send someone a link to a post, they can't read it without loading the entire Mastodon frontend app into their browser, which will is a monster React codebase that will break if they have scripting disabled and also can take up to 30 seconds on older hardware.

  technomancy.us

Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.

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  Safari

  Their words

  For browsers, I use Safari for browsing and Google Chrome for development.

  alialaa.dev

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  Postman

  Their words

  I use MAMP for WordPress development, Postman for API testing, Notion for notes and task management, Slack and Discord for communication and Keynote for course presentations.

  alialaa.dev

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  VS Code

  Their words

  I use VS Code as my main code editor for both; my daily work and recording courses and videos.

  alialaa.dev

Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

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  Nix is worth switching your day-to-day package management to, over Homebrew.

  Nixdeveloper tools

  Their words, before

  I’m also still not sure how much I like nix – it’s very confusing! But it’s helped me compile some software that I was struggling to compile otherwise, and in general it seems to install things faster than homebrew.

  Their words now

  I’ve mostly switched back to Homebrew, nix was interesting but overall I think it’s not worth the complexity for me

Game designer and director of the NYU Game Center; made Universal Paperclips and writes Donkeyspace.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Games should not be measured against any outside yardstick — not purpose, not pleasure, not politics.

  Their words

  In my approach, I resist using any external value framework as an ultimate set of criteria against which to measure games’ worth - not purpose, not pleasure, not politics.

  Are Games Good?franklantz.substack.com

Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.

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  Firefox Developer Edition

  Their words

  Firefox Developer Edition for development/sandboxed work

  sreetamdas.com

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  Hoppscotch

  Their words

  Hoppscotch for testing APIs, after Insomnia turned to 💩

  sreetamdas.com

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  Brew

  Their words

  Brew the package manager for macOS

  sreetamdas.com

Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.

From one piece Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open source maintenance firm 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The thing open source can actually sell is not the code but access to its maintainers’ attention and expertise.

  open source

  Their words

  Clients still pay a fixed monthly retainer to ensure the professional maintenance of the whole portfolio, and to get access to the expertise of all of Geomys’ maintainers.

  words.filippo.io

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  Open source maintenance can be a mature profession organised into small specialist firms, the way law and medicine already are.

  open source

  Their words

  From the onset, I envisioned small firms of professional maintainers with thematic portfolios, accommodating diverse maintainers and project sizes, just like the specialized firms of other professionals.

  words.filippo.io

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  Companies are willing to pay for their critical open source dependencies; what is missing is a legible way for projects to sell it to them.

  open source

  Their words

  I started with a rather non-consensus hypothesis: companies want to pay for their critical open source dependencies, but most projects are not selling them a legible way to do so.

  words.filippo.io

Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  At current ride volumes it would take a leading robotaxi fleet about twenty years without a single fatality to show it is as safe as the average human driver.

  self-driving cars

  Their words

  At current deployment rates it will take Waymo about 20 years with ZERO fatalities to show they are net as safe as average human driver fatality rates (including the old cars, impaired drivers, etc. in that comparison baseline).

  Perspective on Waymo's Safety Progresssafeautonomy.blogspot.com

Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, working on assembly theory and the physics of life.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Life obeys universal principles, and the right framework will let us recognise life that is currently too different for us to see as alive at all.

  Their words

  I think life obeys universal principles. I think there is some deep underlying explanatory framework that will tell us about the nature of life in the universe and will allow us to identify life that we can’t yet recognize because it’s too different.

  youtube.com

Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  JavaScript has the lowest bar of entry to being productive, but one of the highest bars of any stack to building high-quality, stable, reliable software.

  JavaScript

  Their words

  My hot take is that JS has the lowest bar of entry to building and being productive (a good thing) but one of the highest bars of any language and stack to building high quality, stable, and reliable software. Very few devs have the expertise to pull off the latter

  @dillon_mulroy on Xx.com

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Ruby on Rails took off because its creator evangelized it by arguing its superiority against the competing alternatives.

  Ruby on Rails

  On changing their mind

  And for a long time, I thought that's what had worked. That this was why Ruby on Rails took off, became one of the most popular full-stack web frameworks of all time, inspired countless clones, and created hundreds of billions in enterprise value for companies built on it. But I was wrong. It wasn't the crusade that did it.

Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.

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  Next.js

  Their words

  Web framework: Next.js

  smakosh.com

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  TailwindCSS

  Their words

  Side note for CSS, I'm cool to use what ever tech available out there that makes my task done quickly & well, I have personally used Bootstrap 3 & 4, Bulma, Lostgrid, Materliaze, Skeleton, Tailwindcss, Styled-components, emotion, CSS modules, Tachyons & made my own micro CSS framework called Unnamed that has over 200 stars on GitHub. Still I prefer using Tailwindcss.

  smakosh.com

Neuroscientist at UC Davis; studies memory and wrote Why We Remember.

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  Memory athletes were not born with extraordinary memories; they practise a handful of strategies until deploying one is automatic.

  Their words

  By all accounts, from people who become memory athletes, they weren’t born with some extraordinary memory, but they practice strategies over and over and over again. The strategy that they use for memorizing a particular thing, it can become automatic, and you can just deploy it in an instant.

  youtube.com

Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

From one piece Stripe's monorepo developer environment 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Rapidly growing organizations need a developer environment that works well out of the box for new engineers

  Their words

  In a rapidly growing organization, it's much more important to have a developer environment that "just works" out of the gate, with minimal setup pain for new engineers.

  Stripe's monorepo developer environmentblog.nelhage.com

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  Reliable, stable developer tooling matters more than which specific technical choices a team makes

  Their words

  The best tooling in the world will struggle to make up for "regularly losing a day debugging your environment," and so getting that aspect right can easily outweigh almost any other decisions you make.

  Stripe's monorepo developer environmentblog.nelhage.com

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  Per-engineer productivity inevitably declines somewhat as an organization and its codebase grow

  Their words

  It is almost inevitable that per-engineer productivity drops to some extent as an organization and codebase grows, even though it's also nearly-impossible to quantify that effect.

  Stripe's monorepo developer environmentblog.nelhage.com

Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  People are overreacting to the Remix and React Router merge.

  JavaScript

  Their words

  People are overreacting to the Remix React Router merge.

  @kentcdodds on Xx.com

CEO of Redwood Research, where he works on AI control: making sure a powerful model cannot cause a catastrophe even if it is misaligned and trying to.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Labs should make powerful models safe to deploy even if those models are misaligned and actively trying to subvert the safeguards.

  AI alignment

  Their words

  That is, labs should make sure that the safety measures they apply to their powerful models prevent unacceptably bad outcomes, even if the AIs are misaligned and intentionally try to subvert those safety measures.

  redwoodresearch.substack.com

Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  When somebody accuses you of being arrogant about an idea, almost all they ever mean is that they disagree with you.

  JavaScript

  Their words

  Yeah, it is interesting because, when people react against you by saying you are being arrogant about this, 99.999% of the time, all they mean is I disagree. That’s all they really mean, right?

  youtube.com

Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.

From one piece Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive” 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Copyleft licences impose obligations rather than restrictions, and it is from those obligations on the powerful that software freedom comes.

  Their words

  Copyleft does not impose restrictions, but it does impose obligations. The obligations exist to guarantee rights to the users of the software – in other words, to ensure freedoms.

  Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive”drewdevault.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  No free or open source licence may restrict what the software is used for, however objectionable the use.

  open source

  Their words

  No such restrictions are found in free or open source software licenses, be they permissive or copyleft – all FOSS licenses permit the use of the software for any purpose without restriction.

  Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive”drewdevault.com

Research scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before that.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The performance gap between closed-source and open-weight language models is closing.

  Their words

  I'm excited about what this means for the open-source community and research, with the gap between closed-source and open-weight models closing and SOTA-level conversational models being more easily accessible.

  Command R+ruder.io

Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The xz backdoor marks a watershed moment in open source supply chain security.

  open source

  Their words

  It marks a watershed moment in open source supply chain security, for better or worse.

  Timeline of the xz open source attackresearch.swtch.com

Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".

From one piece You Are All On The Hobbyists Maintainers’ Turf Now 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Veterans of the 1990s free software movement do not understand the world today’s maintainers work in, and should listen before proposing fixes for it.

  Their words

  This is not the same world that you were part of. The complexity is off the chart; we are hidden layers and layers under the scaffolding. And we are used everywhere.

  softwaremaxims.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Any plan for open source sustainability or security that is not built around hobbyist maintainers will achieve nothing.

  open source

  Their words

  If your plans for open-source sustainability or security do not align first and foremost with this population it is not going to achieve anything.

  softwaremaxims.com

German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.

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  Netlify

  Their words

  I deploy quite a few sites to Netlify.

  stefanjudis.com

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  Keynote

  Their words

  I use it for presentations, graphic tasks and animations. I love this piece of software.

  stefanjudis.com

Independent policy analyst on space and national security, formerly of the RAND Corporation, who writes on counterspace weapons and rules for keeping satellites safe.

From one piece Preventing a “Space Pearl Harbor”: Rep. Turner leads the charge 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Satellites need self-defence zones: a keep-out rule around them is the only workable arms control in orbit.

  Their words

  We accordingly proposed a framework of self-defense zones to “facilitate unilateral defense against a surprise attack on satellites.”

  thespacereview.com

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  China could field enough robotic spacecraft to cripple critical US satellites years earlier than American experts expect.

  ChinaAmerica

  Their words

  Based on public commercial data that tells a lot about the military potential of these dual-use robotic spacecraft, we have shown that China can manufacture and deploy 200 such spacecraft as early as 2026, enough to cripple critical US satellites in geosynchronous, highly elliptical, and other orbits, and thus severely degrading space support to wartime operations.

  thespacereview.com

Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.

From one piece Redis Renamed to Redict 2 beliefs · andrewkelley.me

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  Handing stewardship of Redis to a company whose goal is extracting profit was a mistake for the project

  open source

  Their words

  I think that was an unfortunate move because their goal is mainly to extract profit from the software project rather than to uphold the ideals of Free and Open Source Software.

  Redis Renamed to Redictandrewkelley.me

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Source-available licences like the SSPL take volunteer labour while restricting the freedoms that made it worth giving

  Their words

  In short summary, the licenses limit the freedoms of what one can do with the software in order for Redis Labs to be solely enriched, while asking for volunteer labor, and having already

  Redis Renamed to Redictandrewkelley.me

Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  AI should be released iteratively rather than built in secret, because AI and surprise do not go together and the world needs time to adapt before it is under the gun.

  OpenAI

  Their words

  So part of the reason that we deploy the way we do, we call it iterative deployment, rather than go build in secret until we got all the way to GPT-5, we decided to talk about GPT-1, 2, 3, and 4. And part of the reason there is I think AI and surprise don’t go together. And also the world, people, institutions, whatever you want to call it, need time to adapt and think about these things.

  youtube.com

Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The lower a layer sits in the software stack, the harder it is for an individual developer to build in it.

  Their words

  the lower we go in the stack, the harder it is for individuals to build.

  huyenchip.com

Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.

From one piece Muse retrospective 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Prosumer software needs tens or hundreds of thousands of users for its development costs to be sustainable.

  Their words

  You need tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, to make the cost of development sustainable.

  Muse retrospectiveadamwiggins.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  New productivity software rides community excitement for a few years, after which it must serve a deep, hard-to-replace need to survive.

  Their words

  After that, I think you have to be left with software that serves a deep and hard-to-replace purpose in people's lives.

  Muse retrospectiveadamwiggins.com

Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Programming is fundamentally the practice of making tradeoffs about what matters and what doesn't.

  Their words

  Programming is the art of tradeoffs. You have to decide what matters and what does not.

  jsonfile: a quick hack for tinkeringcrawshaw.io

Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Platform decay is the result of specific decisions by identifiable people rather than impersonal historical forces, which is precisely what makes it reversible.

  Their words

  I think that the enshittification framework goes a long way to explaining it, moving us out of the mysterious realm of the 'great forces of history,' and into the material world of specific decisions made by named people – decisions we can reverse and people whose addresses and pitchfork sizes we can learn.

  My McLuhan lecture on enshittificationpluralistic.net

Writes about the biotech industry, drug development and forecasting — “I write to learn, mostly about biotech.”

• Our readingkorrents.com

  How long a trial takes decides which diseases get drugs at all, because capital flows to the indications whose endpoints can be measured quickly.

  Their words

  Because patents have fixed term lengths, with small extensions to compensate for the year or so when the drug is under regulatory review, drug developers are incentivized to go after conditions where clinical trials can be completed quickly, all else being equal.

  atelfo.github.io

Research scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before that.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The rise of closed-source large language models makes preserving an open culture of sharing knowledge and software important for NLP.

  LLMs

  Their words

  In light of the increasing number of closed-source LLMs, it is important to continue to promote an open culture of sharing knowledge, data, and software, from which the NLP community has benefited greatly.

  EMNLP 2023 Primerruder.io

American front-end engineer and design-systems specialist; built the Pantsuit design system for Hillary for America and has worked at Slack and IBM.

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  GitHub CLI

  Their words

  GitHub CLI - GitHub on the command line. Great for creating PRs, etc.

  mina.codes

• Usesrcmnd.app

  Arc Browser

  Their words

  I recently switched to Arc Browser, so some of these no longer apply.

  mina.codes

Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  React and TypeScript developers are infantilized by the ecosystem's thought leaders; anything beyond a simple CRUD app will need generics, mapped types and memoization.

  TypeScriptJavaScript

  Their words

  One thing that drives me crazy about the React ecosystem, and more specifically "tech influencers" and "thought leaders" in the space, is the infantilization of the developers using and working in it. I’m tired of reading takes like TypeScript generics, mapped types, etc should only be needed and used by library authors for most use cases. Or today’s discourse; Don’t use `useCallback’, ‘useMemo’, and React.memo. If you’re building anything beyond a simple CRUD app or a an incredibly focused app with few features, you _will_ need these features.

  @dillon_mulroy on Xx.com

Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Frontier AI systems cannot be presumed safe unless proven unsafe; developers must bear the burden of proof that risks stay within acceptable limits.

  Their words

  Despite evaluations, we cannot consider coming powerful frontier AI systems "safe unless proven unsafe". With current testing methodologies, issues can easily be missed. Additionally, it is unclear if governments can quickly build the immense expertise needed for reliable technical evaluations of AI capabilities and societal-scale risks. Given this, developers of frontier AI should carry the burden of proof to demonstrate that their plans keep risks within acceptable limits.

  arxiv.org

Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Solar has got cheaper faster than even its most optimistic forecasters expected.

  solar

  Their words

  A number of commentators have consistently predicted that solar cost improvements will level out “this year” since about 1990, and yet if anything deployment, cost decline, and the learning rate have only improved.

  Radical Energy Abundancecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com

Designer, architect and scientist, who led the Mediated Matter group at MIT and founded OXMAN, a company that builds products in collaboration with living organisms.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The runaway emergence we are trying to prevent in AGI is exactly what we should be trying to cause in synthetic biology and bio-based materials.

  AGI

  Their words

  What we don't want to happen with AGI, we want to happen with synthetic biology. What we don't want to happen online and software with language, we want for it to happen with bio-based materials.

  youtube.com

Developer and designer publishing at pouria.dev; author of the open-source URL shortener Kutt.

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  Visual Studio Code

  Their words

  Visual Studio Code has been my main code editor for the past 3 4 +5 years.

  pouria.dev

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  Arc

  Their words

  Arc, the main web browser I use.

  pouria.dev

Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.

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  Samsung Monitors - 28

  Their words

  I use 2 Samsung Monitors - 28''. Best developer monitor bang for your buck hands down. Works well if you have a ARM based macbook pro.

  ivansantos.me

Product management teacher and consultant; wrote Escaping the Build Trap and teaches product at Harvard Business School.

From one piece Are We Getting Rid of Product Managers? 2 beliefs · melissaperri.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Product management is merging with the GM role as more companies become software companies, not disappearing.

  Their words

  As more and more companies become predominately software companies, I believe the Product Management role and GM roles are going to merge.

  Are We Getting Rid of Product Managers?melissaperri.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Product management is not going away, but hiring product owners who just feed developers tasks should stop.

  Their words

  I don’t think Product Management is going anywhere, but I do hope the days of hiring Product Owners who just feed developers tasks are done.

  Are We Getting Rid of Product Managers?melissaperri.com

Programmer; founded comma.ai and tinygrad, and was the first to unlock the iPhone.

From one piece George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Anyone who cannot write a full software stack for NVIDIA's generic GPUs has no chance of writing one for their own, more specialised, AI chip.

  Their words

  It’s always harder to write software for more specialized hardware. A GPU is pretty generic. If you can’t write an in Nvidia stack, there’s no way you can write a stack for your chip. My approach with Tinygrad is first write a performant NVIDIA stack.

  youtube.com

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  An AI you rent from a big company in the cloud is fundamentally aligned to that company and not to you, which is why the hardware has to be yours.

  the cloud

  Their words

  Of course, when you talk to an AI that’s made by a big company in the cloud, the AI fundamentally is aligned to them, not to you. And that’s why you have to buy a tiny box. So you make sure the AI stays aligned to you.

  youtube.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  If Copilot is meaningfully helping you write code, that is evidence your framework or library is bad and full of boilerplate.

  Their words

  So almost if Codex or copilot are helping you, that actually probably means that your framework or library is bad and there’s too much boilerplate in it.

  youtube.com

Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Access to large-scale generalist AI systems that could be weaponized should be limited, meaning their code and neural network parameters should not be released open-source.

  Their words

  At the same time, in order to reduce the probability of someone intentionally or unintentionally bringing about a rogue AI, we need to increase governance and we should consider limiting access to the large-scale generalist AI systems that could be weaponized, which would mean that the code and neural net parameters would not be shared in open-source and some of the important engineering tricks to make them work would not be shared either.

  FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risksyoshuabengio.org

Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.

From one piece RedwoodJS’ Next Epoch: All In on React Server Components 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  React Server Components are still an immature, early-stage technology.

  JavaScript

  Their words

  When it comes to React Server Components, it's still the first inning.

  tom.preston-werner.com

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  Building a secure, performant GraphQL API is tricky and adds real cost during early-stage app prototyping.

  Their words

  While we love GraphQL for many use cases, implementing a secure and performant GraphQL API can be tricky and there is a definite cost to requiring it during early prototyping of your app.

  tom.preston-werner.com

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  React Server Components represent the future direction of the React framework.

  JavaScript

  Their words

  RSC is the future of React. The React team has made this very clear and we are lucky to be in touch with their amazing team members to help us along this path.

  tom.preston-werner.com

Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.

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  Petey

  Their words

  The app costs a few dollars up front and then has an optional subscription for unlimited requests, but I would recommend going directly to OpenAI’s developer dashboard, creating your own account, and copy/pasting your own API key into Petey.

  thesweetsetup.com

Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

From one piece Performance Excuses Debunked 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The evidence from the largest software companies says programmers should take performance more seriously than they do, not less.

  Their words

  the logical conclusion would be that programmers need to take performance more seriously than they have been, not less!

  Performance Excuses Debunkedcomputerenhance.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Performance-aware programming is a skill a working developer can learn in months rather than years.

  Their words

  Learning basic performance-aware programming skills is something a developer can do in months rather than years.

  Performance Excuses Debunkedcomputerenhance.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Software performance is central to long-term business success rather than a niche engineering concern.

  Their words

  Software performance appears to be central to long-term business interests.

  Performance Excuses Debunkedcomputerenhance.com

Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

From one piece "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Giving up a decade or more of hardware performance to make programming more comfortable is not an acceptable trade.

  Their words

  It simply cannot be the case that we're willing to give up a decade or more of hardware performance just to make programmers’ lives a little bit easier.

  "Clean" Code, Horrible Performancecomputerenhance.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The programming practices taught as best practice are ruinous for performance and should not be followed.

  Their words

  The ideas underlying the “clean” code methodology are almost all horrible for performance, and you shouldn’t do them.

  "Clean" Code, Horrible Performancecomputerenhance.com

Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.

From one piece I’m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Volunteering cannot sustain critical software, because a volunteer’s life circumstances change and the project’s need does not.

  Their words

  Volunteerism is self-evidently not sustainable, as people’s life circumstances change.

  words.filippo.io

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.

  open source

  Their words

  This experiment started from the observation that despite being critical for the functioning of the Internet—and, by extension, the economy—the role of open-source maintainer has not yet found a sustainable manifestation.

  words.filippo.io

Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  Closing off interoperability is how a platform locks people in, and that lock-in is what lets the service be made worse without losing them.

  Their words

  The temptation to enshittify is magnified by the blocks on interoperability: when Twitter bans interoperable clients, nerfs its APIs, and periodically terrorizes its users by suspending them for including their Mastodon handles in their bios, it makes it harder to leave Twitter, and thus increases the amount of enshittification users can be force-fed without risking their departure.

  Tiktok's enshittificationpluralistic.net

Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

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  The Linux Programming Interface

  Their words

  The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk – an exhaustive reference on how Linux works. There are about a million chapters, but every individual chapter is pretty short and I find it quite readable.

  jvns.ca

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  Go standard library documentation

  Their words

  the Go standard library documentation is probably my favourite language reference

  jvns.ca

Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.

• Our reading nowkorrents.com

  The Federal Reserve's average inflation targeting framework is a real commitment to hold inflation near a 2% average across the 2020s, so an overshoot now has to be offset by undershoots later.

  inflationinterest rates

  Their words, before

  The Fed needs PCE inflation to average 1.96% for the remainder of the decade in order to hit their AIT target.

  Their words now

  I assumed they intended inflation to average roughly 2% during the 2020s.

Founder of Pinboard; writes Idle Words — talks and essays on the web, aviation, politics and travel.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Fifty years of miniaturisation have made robotic spacecraft better and cheaper explorers than astronauts.

  Their words

  But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed the balance between robots and humans in space.

  Why Not Marsidlewords.com

Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".

From one piece I am not a supplier 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.

  open source

  Their words

  Hell even worse, a lot of the libraries that underpin the fabric of what we all call the digital economy have trouble getting enough money to pay for food.

  I am not a suppliersoftwaremaxims.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  An open source maintainer is not a supplier: there is no relationship with the companies using the code, so they cannot impose requirements on the person who wrote it.

  open source

  Their words

  We are not suppliers. All the people writing and maintaining these projects, we are not suppliers. We do not have a business relationship with all these organisations.

  I am not a suppliersoftwaremaxims.com

Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

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  Template Metaprogramming with C++

  Their words

  I spent the last few weeks reading Template Metaprogramming with C++ by Marius Băncilă. It is currently 50$ on Amazon. Though, technically, the book is about advanced 'template' techniques, it is much more broad and practical. It is one of the 'good programming books'. If you are an experienced C++ programmer, you should give it a peek

  lemire.me

Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.

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  The Four Tendencies

  Their words

  Our Tendency shapes every aspect of our behavior, so understanding this framework lets us make better decisions, meet deadlines, suffer less stress and burnout, and engage more effectively.

  gretchenrubin.com

Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Electric bikes are worth their cost, flaws and all, because they bring the world nearer

  Their words

  Sure, electric bikes aren't cheap. But I believe they're a rare object to be well worth the cost. This in spite of their annoying flaws, their often bad software, their defective geometries. Because they open the world.

  Electric Bike, Stupid Love of My Lifecraigmod.com

Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.

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  Vanmoof X3

  Their words

  The Vanmoof is much smarter — the brain and software within it are refined, the app good, the acceleration curves smooth — but the bike is all custom components, and they aren't the highest quality at that.

  craigmod.com

Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.

From one piece in which the word column has several meanings, none of them architectural 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Because programming requires forgetting, developers should weigh the costs of their abstractions and who those abstractions leave out.

  Their words

  Programming, of course, is forgetting, but we need to at least try to be aware of the costs of the abstractions we choose and consider who it is that ends up being forgotten.

  technomancy.us

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Software design that assumes text behaves predictably like English reflects the cultural bias of its typically white American developers.

  America

  Their words

  In my opinion the root cause of this bug is that when a white american developer sees a terminal they immediately interpret it as this idealized cartesian plane where they can lay out any writing they want in neatly-spaced characters that behave in "predictable" ways (in other words, behave exactly like English).

  technomancy.us

Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.

From one piece Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Rates 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The probability of a self-fulfilling bad equilibrium in sovereign debt markets depends little on the debt level itself, but is much reduced by a rule linking the primary balance to debt service increases.

  JavaScript

  Their words

  I have argued that the probability of a bad equilibrium is only marginally influenced by the level of debt, but can be much reduced by a contingent rule making the primary balance react to an increase in debt service.

  Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Ratesdirect.mit.edu

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  Fiscal multipliers vary across time and place but are generally nonzero, positive for spending, negative for taxes, and larger when monetary policy cannot offset them.

  JavaScript

  Their words

  Multipliers are likely to vary a lot over time and space, but the bulk of the evidence is that they are different from zero, positive for spending, negative for taxes, and that they are stronger when monetary policy does not or cannot react to fiscal policy.

  Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Ratesdirect.mit.edu

Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.

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  Notion

  Their words

  System for notes, knowledge base, and project management. Helps organize and store references, documentation, and roadmaps.

  ripandis.com

• Usesrcmnd.app

  Lucide Icons

  Their words

  Collection of open-source icons for use in web and mobile applications. Provides a wide range of icons for various use cases.

  ripandis.com

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  Edge Browser

  Their words

  Modern browser with split-screen functionality. Helps organize different work contexts more efficiently. Yeah I know, I know. It's a Microsoft product.

  ripandis.com

Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Unnecessary code is a burden that makes a codebase harder to change

  Their words

  Code has mass. Every additional line of code you don't need is ballast. It weighs your codebase down, making it harder to steer and change direction if you need to.

  Professional Programming: The First 10 Yearsthorstenball.com

Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Climate change is the existential crisis of our time

  Their words

  Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. We need more ideas and progress in every sector, including software-based approaches to preventing emissions and sequestering carbon.

  Introducing the Redwood Startup Fundtom.preston-werner.com

Release engineering manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. Keeps a public log at tylercipriani.com of every book he reads, with a rating and notes.

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  Masters of Doom

  Their words

  Carmack is a legend to anyone who writes software, and the book offers an unflinching portrait.

  tylercipriani.com

Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A plain text file and a basic editor are everything anyone needs in order to think and write well; the extra tools add nothing.

  developer tools

  Their words

  Plain text files and a basic text editor are enough. This is everything you need for great thinking and writing.

  Write plain text filessive.rs

Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Free software is meant to be exploited commercially, and the licence’s terms are the whole of what a company owes in return.

  Their words

  Free software is designed to be used commercially, but you have to do it correctly. This is a resource which is made available to companies who want to exploit it, but they must do so according to the terms of the licenses.

  On commercial forks of FOSS projectsdrewdevault.com

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

• Our reading nowkorrents.com

  Open source projects should adopt the commercial software playbook to compete for attention, and that professionalization is unequivocally good for open source.

  open source

  On changing their mind

  I used to think that this was unequivocally a win for open source. That to fight for attention with the commercial alternatives, we had to adopt the commercial playbook. Now I think it’s at the very least a mixed blessing.

Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

From one piece log4j: between a rock and a hard place 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The software industry misunderstands backwards compatibility by focusing on narrow legalistic definitions rather than outcomes.

  Their words

  We as a profession misunderstand and misuse the concept of backwards compatibility, both upstream and downstream, by focusing on narrow legalistic definitions instead of outcomes.

  log4j: between a rock and a hard placecrawshaw.io

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Software projects should break downstream users as little as possible, and make any breakage they do cause obvious and easy to fix.

  Their words

  a good software project tries to break downstream as little as possible, and when we do break downstream, we should do our best to make the breakage obvious and easy to fix.

  log4j: between a rock and a hard placecrawshaw.io

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Software upgrades that invalidate previously learned knowledge make programmers worse at their craft.

  Their words

  When software "upgrades" invalidate my old knowledge, it makes me a worse programmer.

  log4j: between a rock and a hard placecrawshaw.io

Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.

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  Future Ethics

  Their words

  Bowles' 2018 book provides a useful survey of the various problems tackled by this nascent field, and the frameworks that have emerged to tackle them.

  calnewport.com

Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.

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  Fauna

  Their words

  I typically recommend looking at serverless native databases like DynamoDB or Fauna however they do not work for all preferences or workloads.

  thdxr.com

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  Kysely

  Their words

  To connect to these various databases I am using the incredible library by Sami Koskimäki called Kysely

  thdxr.com

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  DynamoDB

  Their words

  I typically recommend looking at serverless native databases like DynamoDB or Fauna however they do not work for all preferences or workloads.

  thdxr.com

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

• Our reading nowkorrents.com

  The complexity of a JavaScript bundling and transpiling toolchain is a bargain worth making, and the right default for building web applications.

  JavaScript

  On changing their mind

  Five years later, the facts on the ground have finally changed. I no longer believe that this bargain is worth it for most new applications.

Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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  Mac OS

  Their words

  I have a lot of feelings about macOS: it is astonishingly painful for developers, but makes up for it with a consistent experience for users.

  usesthis.com

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  Vim

  Their words

  For writing software I full-screen a terminal and use Vim. Ctrl+Z for a shell.

  usesthis.com

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  Debian

  Their words

  Debian is a decent programming environment. It has some of the consistency properties like macOS, but fails unexpectedly.

  usesthis.com