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13 September
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.
startups
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In the most early adopting tech pioneering place that's Silicon Valley new startups aren't even building software anymore And it's debatable if anyone will actually need a custom harness or it won't just be generically offered by the AI frontier companies So software is mostly dead and hardware it is
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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
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The only way to avoid extreme power concentration is to ensure we have multiple independent providers of frontier AI models, including open-source options.
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@fchollet on X x.com
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
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No software tells me quite as much about your org as the choice of video conferencing software. Meet vs Zoom vs Microsoft Teams vs Citrix vs Jitsi are all picked for very different reasons.
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12 September
Writer and programmer; co-founder of the software studio Postlight and author of the Bloomberg Businessweek essay What Is Code?
Huh. I've been thinking about what makes great software for a while. medium.com/message/the-... Related
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
It took writing a programming book, speaking at 20+ confs, leading eng at a billion-dollar startup, having some OSS projects people use, getting invited on podcasts, starting a company, hanging out with smart / successful people who seemed to think I knew what I was doing … … before accepting maybe it wasn’t all a fluke Quoting @threepointone you don’t understand, i’m the world’s best imposter, absolutely world class imposter skills, a lifetime of developing them to be so convincing, i’ve somehow accumulated promotions, references, a career, and a body of work purely as supporting evidence for the bit. startups Related
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
every model provider should learn from meta's pricing model for muse spark, with fully transparent subsidization labeled for the contributor tier stop doing "in order to use our model at a good price, you must use our harness which secretly collects your data and/or upload your codebase" meta clearly proved there's a way to collect training data without relying on a harness. just be transparent about when you collect data vs not, clearly communicate how much the data is worth, and give the choice to the user and i really don't need your harness. i already have SO MANY state of the art harness… Related
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
Writer of the 25iq blog, where he distils "a dozen things I've learned" from investors, founders and thinkers. Author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor and A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs.
John Deere makes engines, transmissions, frames, and software in-house. Deere controls the interfaces and provides services. This is what Steve Jobs once called "software in a box." The hardware and software capture customer data enabling the feedback loop which creates a moat. Related
Canadian software developer and writer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications and formerly of Sun Microsystems, Google and AWS. Has written the blog ongoing since 2003.
In the course of the last week, did you use software which was substantially LLM-generated to accomplish something useful to you or your employer? In particular, something that was NOT software-development-related? #GenAI #LLM LLMs Related
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
Writer and programmer; co-founder of the software studio Postlight and author of the Bloomberg Businessweek essay What Is Code?
Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I can’t get very worked up any more. For me the question is: If these things can code (and they can!) then why aren’t we seeing any great software? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o... Related
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
The German startup Magnotherm is pioneering a new type of cooling technology: Instead of compressing a refrigerant gas, as usual, their fridges use metals that heat up in magnetic fields and cool when the field is removed. This can effectively be used to move the heat from one location (eg inside the fridge) to another (outside the fridge). The idea itself is not new, it goes back to the 19th century, but Magnotherm is the first to make the step to commercial use. Earlier this year, they announced that the German supermarket chain REWE will deploy their new fridges in 10 stores. The company s… startups Related
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
the fly brain has browser access now 166,700 simulated neurons connected to agent-browser Related
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.
open source China
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Next in regulatory capture will be banning open source and/or Chinese models, mark my words
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levels.io
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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Agents are the new compilers. They compile intent into fast software.
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
11 September
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
The software of the future promises more power and flexibility for more imagination. We started with use-case software, moving to platform software, moving to all-purpose coding agents. Interface design is shifting rightward. A few things to keep in mind for designers: 1. Make the interface malleable. 2. Let preferences reach past the rule book. A descriptive vision beats fifty toggles. 3. Let feedback change the product. 4. Treat the seams as part of the experience. Nobody lives in one tool. And of course, the hardest of all: help people imagine bigger. Imagination is now the scarce resource. coding agents Related
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
how did we go from it writing bad react to killing us in like 7 months Quoting @JoeJBenton I left Anthropic's safety team two weeks ago. Now feels like a good moment to explain why. AI companies are racing to build machines that are much smarter than any human, and we may not survive this. I want to work from the outside to ensure the public is informed about these risks, and help the wo… JavaScript Related
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Mathematicians are unhappy about OpenAI. The gist of their argument is that they form a community that trains young people. When AI started producing breakthroughs on hard mathematical problems, I asked what a very smart 17-year-old would feel. Do you still choose a math major and train yourself to prove difficult results by hand? This crisis has been coming for a long time. When I was a kid, the four-colour theorem was proved by a computer, in 1976. An intense debate followed. Does it count as a proof? I wrote my PhD thesis using symbolic algebra software. To my knowledge, nobody then would… Quoting @TheEconomist 24 Fields Medal winners have written a letter of objection OpenAI Related
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
Fully on board on Omarchy. Feels like the early web days again, playing in a new medium. I have a Mac Mini and BeeLink side by side on my desk. Only time I plug the monitor back into the Mac is for Zoom calls. Haven't found a way to see faces while sharing the entire screen yet. Omarchy Related
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
NEW podcast episode is up! "Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — @NielsHoven of @MentavaInc (Tim Coaching Session)" This episode is a bit different. It’s a live, unscripted working session with a founder, and I’ve only done one other earlier this year. Niels Hoven (@NielsHoven) is the founder and CEO of Mentava, a company building software to support fast learners. Eager kids are dramatically underserved by today’s education system, and Niels created Mentava to allow students to achieve their potential. Prior to Mentava, Niels worked at Cloudflare, ClassDojo, and Pocket Gems, where h… Related
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
the thinking that "everyone will just vibe code their own software" was born from within a bubble what's happening to software development right now has happened many, many times before to other things. you just need to look web 2.0 allowed everyone to write blogs. did everyone write blogs? instagram allowed everyone to share beautiful photos. did everyone share beautiful photos? tiktok allowed everyone to make short videos. did everyone make short videos? now vibe coding allows everyone to build software, and you think everyone will start building software? this time around, people are just… Related
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
Mastodon microlighter@v2.2.0 is out 🚀 - new themes: gruvbox, flexoki - new grammars: astro, ini, nginx, + fixes - custom element improvements - now ~2000x faster on large files thanks to @daniel - and now has full typescript types (also @daniel) Still ~2.09kb. github.com
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Bluesky microlighter@v2.2.0 is out 🚀 - new themes: gruvbox, flexoki - new grammars: astro, ini, nginx, + fixes - custom element improvements - now ~2000x faster on large files thanks to @danielroe.dev - and now has full typescript types (@danielroe.dev again) Still ~2.09kb github.com
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Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Genie Garage doors enabled caching on their API resulting in everyones garage door being shared with everyone else using the API Cache Ruins Everything Around Me Quoting @IAmArcIvanov @TheGenieCompany Your AlladinConnect is either breached or malfunctioning where users using API integration (in my case via HASS) are seeing garage doors of other people's accounts. The number of the devices populated by the API endpoint keeps growing as of Sept 6th 1:42 AM. Related
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
Yep. Except: 1. This was about important internal tools. The team was stuck in some architecture nightmare of their own doing (writing it in rails but headless, with graphql api, and a SPA react app, constantly needing frontend engineers for changes). I call this kind of thing 'cosplaying an enterprise production app'. All that complexity was in the way and using straight rails was perfect in that case. 2. I make calls like this all the time. Usually someone on the team asks me to. They see what needs to happen but don’t want to be the bad guy. I’m happy to just make the call if I agree with… Quoting @ErfanEbrahimnia just leaving this here JavaScript Related
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Omarchy plugins to help my cmd tab addiction. Reimplemented the Mac OS app and space switcher. Omarchy Addiction Related
Artist and developer who makes esoteric software, games and tools aboard a sailboat as part of Hundred Rabbits with Rekka Bellum; creator of the Uxn virtual machine and the Orca livecoding environment.
What's that saying, if the newer software doesn't work on older hardware, the newer software is worse than the the older software. Write once, run on DOS, at least. Related
Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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My favorite keyboard of all time is the @lofreeco Flow84 V1. But what if it was Omarchy? Would you buy one?
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10 September
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
If you are burning through tokens with all of these latest models, check if you have agent-browser skill installed The latest models seem to LOVE validating with screenshots when a few logs will do Related
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
another implication of AI manifesting in real world engineering react native existed for a single reason which was to reduce the development and maintenance cost of multi-platform mobile apps. they allow you to write a single codebase (kind of) that can work on both ios and android, with a tech stack that many web devs are already familiar with but with AI being particularly good at mechanically repeating something that already exists, replicating one platform's implementation to another has become trivial in general LLMs can write a ton of code at very low cost, especially when there's a sou… LLMs JavaScript Related
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
I've never seen this "Add to Preferred Sources" button like @flaviocopes.com has on posts. developers.google.com/search/docs/... Seems like a good idea?! Google Related
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Save a 4K wallpaper as a JPEG, then try to get the 4K back. You can't. A prompt is lossy too. Hand it to someone else and you get a different app. Clone the repo and you get mine. Prompting is not programming, people. Related
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
If you're not sick of my voice yet, on the latest @OssStartup podcast we talk about: - Open Source in the age of AI - lessons from Sentry - what we're doing with @modemdev Quoting @OssStartup AI is making software dramatically cheaper to build... ...But the hard part isn’t the agent, it’s the context And that's what Modem is looking to solve for product teams Co-hosts @robby_mtf & @tnachen sit down with @bentlegen to talk about his journey from early Sentry to @modemdev, why customer da… open source Related
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.
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
Fun piece of history — Tailwind was extracted from a hosted checkout product I was working on back in 2017. Sort of poetic to end up at Shopify almost 10 years later! CSS Related
Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
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.
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Most of the software layer has already disappeared or will completely disappear for normies
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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
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AI has always been very jagged, and we are making models which are superhuman goal-seekers at math and software engineering, but they have massive limitations on intuitions, creativity, and other types of reasoning that humans are strong at.
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Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Linux
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At some point, the Linux press has to stop treating it as news that some weirdo who got comped a $50 droplet is mad about DigitalOcean donating $3m to the Omacom Foundation.
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9 September
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
Did a little CSS speedrun experiment (thanks @lea.verou.me for putting it on my feed)! codepen.io
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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
It looks like 2026 might be a record year for the number of commits to the Linux kernel. 2024 (6.7–6.12): 75,314 commits 2025 (6.13–6.18): 75,462 commits 2026 (through 7.2, released Aug 17): 60,862 commits Linux Related
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
How was Codex built, why is it open source, how is it used inside of OpenAI, and how has it changed software development within the company? Tibo Sottiaux was on the team that started Codex & now heads it up: • YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLST... • Apple: podcasts.apple.com
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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
ZeroModels: 100+ model families with pretrained weights, implemented in Keras 3 and ready to run with any backend. Between this and KerasHub, that's a very extensive range of foundation models. imvision12.github.io
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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
the trick to never complaining about your software Related
Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.
Love this framework from @romanugarte_: Instead of working backwards from "Our product now has..." Optimize for "Our product can now..." Quoting @lennysan Grok @Bot is the hottest new AI product in the world right now. I'm absolutely hooked. It all started a few months ago as a tiny team holed up in a separate part of the office, building from scratch. Four weeks after the first line of code, the whole company was obsessed. Three weeks later, it laun… Related
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.
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Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Prompt engineering is not a thing. If two people type the same prompt and get different code, the prompt was ambiguous. That is not programming. With Shree Manickaraja and Cam on Compile After Class. https://t.co/hPQ9Yxdjj0 [https://t.co/hPQ9Yxdjj0] Related
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
Web standards author and speaker; wrote the CSS: The Definitive Guide series and co-founded the An Event Apart conference.
#CSS Working Group currently discussing ways to deal with “the Hampster Dance problem”. CSS Related
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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.
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
Big one today — Tailwind is joining Shopify 🛍️ CSS Related
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
“AI is full of scam artists. Why trust you?” Fair question. I’d be skeptical too Every new wave of technology attracts people who showed up last week with a new account and a course to sell So here’s my honest answer I’ve spent 13 years teaching people how to organize their thinking and do their best work I coined the term “Second Brain” and built the frameworks that came from it: PARA, CODE, and Progressive Summarization Two books based on those ideas have sold more than 500,000 copies in 25 languages And the ideas aren’t new They’ve been tested by 10,000+ alumni across 70+ countries, long b… Related
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Though I am a university professor, I am critical of the value of the education we provide. And I am the fellow who published several manuals. Probably thousands of pages over the years. I believe that @bryan_caplan and his case against education (great book) is more right than wrong. Formally speaking, I am often classified as a 'software engineering professor'. Let me cite Parnas, one of the most influential software engineering professors there is: « I observe that most software developers ignore the bulk of our research. Whereas practising engineers find things of value in research public… Related
Linux kernel maintainer; runs the stable kernel releases and maintains the USB and driver core subsystems.
British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
JavaScript government
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I do not think those running the government testing understand what is going on, and believe they are reacting basically on vibes and what various trusted people tell them.
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Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.
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The answer to every significant programming challenge in 2026 is a Python library you didn't think to go looking for because it's in Python and not Rust, as if that mattered anymore.
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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.
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My own vibe coded image resizing API with NodeJS's Sharp + Redis (saves ~$1,500/mo)
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My own vibe coded image resizing API with NodeJS's Sharp + Redis (saves ~$1,500/mo)
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8 September
German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.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.
can solve navier-stokes but can’t write a maintainable typescript abstraction smh TypeScript Related
Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
Y pensar que alguna vez codeé coffeescript durante un año entero 😅 Linda forma de atar un codebase, la idea era buena en el fondo, pero typescript le ganó la batalla sin duda (y quizá sin pelearla). English, from Spanish And to think I once coded coffeescript for a whole year 😅 Nice way to tie up a codebase, the idea was good at its core, but typescript won the battle without a doubt (and perhaps without even fighting).
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Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.
My biggest takeaways from Grok @Bot product lead @RomanUgarte_: 1. Two key early product decisions made Grok Bot the success it has become. First, everything runs in the cloud. This means bots can be kicked off from a phone and run while the user sleeps. Second, each bot has access to its own computer. This allows it to operate on tools that have no API because they can simply use the computer the way a human would. 2. “Unshipping” is a big opportunity in product right now. One of the most counterintuitive things the Grok Bot team did in the weeks between internal beta and public launch was r… Quoting @lennysan Grok @Bot is the hottest new AI product in the world right now. I'm absolutely hooked. It all started a few months ago as a tiny team holed up in a separate part of the office, building from scratch. Four weeks after the first line of code, the whole company was obsessed. Three weeks later, it laun… the cloud Related
Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
Tiny models are becoming software primitives This 27.5KB model runs locally in your browser, syntax-highlighting code without being told the language Quoting @shuding I trained a small model to do syntax highlighting in the browser with GPU. Meet gpu-lexer from Vercel Labs: Small (27.5KB), fast (runs on WebGPU), and language-agnostic (model guesses the syntax). https://t.co/adphvt2Lv4 It is experimental and built for learning! Related
Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.
AI products are basically just software, but now it has moods. Related
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
I am so close to creating a blocklist database of marketers who invite people into their webinars without asking. Spamming people's calendars should have repercussions. Related
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
It’s amazing to see people discover the joy of making your own personal-scale software. Interestingly most of what at least I see on my timeline is art/entertainment, not productivity software. I have a growing suspicion that existing productivity software is quickly becoming a “middle man” (which means their days are numbered.) Someone says “but people use email, I need to do email” — what they mean is people communicate and that’s true, but it being email or as text on a screen is kind of irrelevant on a human level. The economy of software is moving so quickly right now that it’s hard to e… Related
Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
StyleX (@stylexjs) is currently a hot topic. If you need a React project boilerplate that comes ready with StyleX and shadcn-style composable UI components, you can visit this repository: github.com
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Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.
Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
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FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE is now available: https://t.co/uA4zmhbt6u Note that this is a "legacy" release intended primarily for maintaining existing systems; most users should deploy FreeBSD 15.1 on new systems. Related
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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There's no excuse for software to be slow anymore. Projects like 𝚏𝚏𝚏 and 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚞𝚖𝚒 leading with speed, compilers like 𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚢𝚃𝚂 and 𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚏𝚏𝚘𝚛 that can help us upgrade entire ecosystems to native, and 𝚐𝚙𝚞𝚒𝚡 pushing the GPU rendering speed frontier.
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Skills are now a valuable form of software, like Emil's world-class design eng work. Projects like 𝚙𝚐𝚋𝚘𝚝, 𝚔𝚗𝚒𝚙, 𝚞𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎 create amazing AI engineering loops.
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the new bottleneck in software engineering: review, testing and QA
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
OpenAI
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This is the first time I feel like this is a genuine regression on OpenAI model release for my day to day workflows.
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@mitsuhiko on X x.com
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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Lots of love to folks working on @shadcn, Svelte(kit), Nuxt, Node.js and security foundations.
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Lots of love to folks working on @shadcn, Svelte(kit), Nuxt, Node.js and security foundations.
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Lots of love to folks working on @shadcn, Svelte(kit), Nuxt, Node.js and security foundations.
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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Nous has some of the best damn visuals and brand wizards in the game. Absolutely perfect fit for where we're going with Omarchy!
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Recommends their own rcmnd.app
Omarchy
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Omarchy is going to be the best place to get every major AI harness and tool, configured with minimal effort
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7 September
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
The 7+/-2 rule never fails. I thought I was ready to kickoff something we shaped. But putting it through my documentation process felt hard. Why? Oh yeah. Missing a level of chunking. Suddenly way easier to talk about w/ both the team and agents. documentation Related
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
seeing the Astra + Blender work makes me think open source tools will have a strong advantage in the AGI era given how much A) online content exists around them and the models learn from that. B) they tend to be more programmer friendly / hackable than closed tools. AGI open source Related
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.
Founder and chief executive of Replit. Previously an engineer at Facebook and Codecademy. Writes essays on programming, philosophy and entrepreneurship at amasad.me.
I don’t think we’ve reached AGI but what we have is functionally indistinguishable from AGI. Because we have a relentless programmer that doesn’t get bored or tired. So any problem that can be casted as a coding problem is virtually solved. AGI Related
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
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unit tests are just source code at this point e2e test is the only real kind of test we can trust to guard actual behavior
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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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Blender beats all its competitors because it's optimal in the most important dimension: agents can train on it and use it efficiently. OSS wins.
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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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Open source training data Blender beats all its competitors because it's optimal in the most important dimension: agents can train on it and use it efficiently. OSS wins.
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Recommends rcmnd.app
Linux
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The case for *total* Linux victory (desktop, mobile, server, iot, robots, embedded…): 1) Most agent-programmable People will want fully personalized computing experiences.
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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The 29(!!) automated translations of the Omarchy website are being powered by @AIatMeta's Muse Spark model running as a post-commit hook on GitHub.
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6 September
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
You can now share replays of your runs after you die: https://t.co/bQqDrwbaBj Also, you can use this web component https://t.co/4tdyXOIucp to play with this. Like write bots in javascript. Quoting @tobi I always liked nethack. This 42 year old marvel is one of the deepest adventure games ever made. It also looks like crap, at least out of the box. GPT6 Astra made a headless version for me. You can now use its brain as a library or as mcp or via javascript library. Meet JavaScript Related
Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape, Slack and Palantir; writes as Rands at randsinrepose.com and wrote Managing Humans.
Bluesky Increasingly, if your app has no API, it has become dead to my robot accomplices and me. Related
Mastodon Increasingly, if your app has no API, it has become dead to my robot accomplices and me. Related
CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp.
Apple is is the best poised to take advantage of AI. Open-source models would be absolutely amazing for Apple. Apple has incredible hardware and they have users' trust and they already have so much users' information. Apple's in a great position because it never made the investment in its own models, unlike Google (its main competitor). Apple can use the best open-source models that are out there and use models that are primarily using the compute on the devices, whether it be the phone, laptop, or Mac Mini (and even the devices at the edge like the Apple Watch and Airpods). It can encourage… Google Related
Essayist, journalist and independent researcher on Chinese politics, strategy and cultural history; author of the blog The Scholar's Stage.
Is it actually any better than existing dictation software, of which there is a great deal? Quoting @omooretweets The state of the tech press is really depressing A NY Times reporter tried Wispr Flow and admitted its speed/accuracy was "astonishing" ...and then launched into a diatribe about wanting to "murder [it] with a hammer," because people shouldn't be allowed to use voice dictation Related
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
Hit the “Ferrari” feeling in Omarchy today after changing lots of keybindings. The next thing is the deep and sudden potholes. Eg looking for images in the file browser compared to Mac. But then the “we can fix everything” song plays and you think… maybe this too. Omarchy Related
Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.
i built a codex-native that maps your psychology about technological change and then tells you how you'd react to different eras of technology change throughout history JavaScript Related
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
A lot of companies are already doing this. You need really good review agents, make sure it still goes through agentic review for very critical parts of your codebase and have co-workers that are good at assessing risks, and also owning it/fixing it in case things break. Quoting @mikejulian We ditched code review at @DuckbillHQ (mostly) About a month ago, we found ourselves with 60 open PRs for a team of five. They had been accumulating for a few weeks and we all had the sudden realization we were looking at two days of just code review. Related
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
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to make *actually* good software, you have to use it a lot
but many people are spending more time in their coding agents/factories than in the apps they're building - so they won't
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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
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when it's "one step removed" from normal code it writes weird Python slop. The unittests it writes are absolutely horrific.
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Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.
It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis After a year of work, hundreds of commits, 5 generations of pull requests, dozens of tests, rewriting part of Anubis in Rust, the first compiler bug of my career, and at least three times making my tower run out of ram…
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5 September
Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
Alt cap: invest more in APIs, MCPs, CLIs Quoting @ctatedev Pretty sure this is where personal software is headed Related
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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
4 September
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
GPT-6 Astra is now available to all Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users in Work/Codex, and is available in the API. We will start rollout to Plus and Business users next. Thank you for the patience. Related
CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp.
What do we do if moats are getting shallower? How should tech companies respond? moats are getting shallower. Used to be that you would build software and you build these really deep moats around it, make it very hard for customers to switch. but AI is increasing the power of the customer, making customers much more powerful because they can easily switch from one to the other. so how should you react if you're a tech company? If you think of the moats analogy, there are two types of ways of aligning your army: - You could be aligning your army to DEFEND, in which case you're building moats,… JavaScript Related
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
Having no profile image on GitHub is either a sign that the user is a super programmer or super scammer. There is no in between. Related
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Development for WebMCP is going fast; now you don't need an extension anymore for testing. You can use your browser's developer tools in Chrome/Edge. Quoting @vesajuvonen 📺 Recording of the #Copilot, #Microsoft365 & #PowerPlatform community call 3rd of September • Catch up on the latest updates ⚡ • Power Automate, SharePoint Copilot agents & WebMCP • Featuring Ian Tweedie, Katrina Frolinka & @eliostruyf +more! 🚀 📺 Watch → developer tools Related
Linux kernel maintainer; runs the stable kernel releases and maintains the USB and driver core subsystems.
Founder and chief executive of Replit. Previously an engineer at Facebook and Codecademy. Writes essays on programming, philosophy and entrepreneurship at amasad.me.
Ken Thompson’s “Reflections on Trusting Trust” feels super relevant to AI. He bootstrapped a “poisoned” compiler that left no traces of the poison in the source code because it compiled itself. You can imagine the same thing happening with models where one poisoned generation helps train the next while removing any traces of the poison. Related
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
first, sorry for the messy rollout. second, when we screw up, we try to make it right. third, we should be able to begin broad rollout to API customers and chatgpt subscribers in the near future. as usual we will start with pro subscribers. Quoting @thsottiaux We will give one banked reset for every day you don't have access to Astra on your paid ChatGPT plan, starting today. Team is moving mountains to give access as fast as we can. First one will land in ~ 3 hours. There is still time to create your account if you don't have one. OpenAI Related
American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
OpenAI
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It looks to me like OpenAI’s sandbox for this agent suffered from the (quite naïve) assumption that GET requests cannot be used to update data. That’s certainly how the web is supposed to work, but clearly there are applications that don’t hold to that contract.
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Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
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I long for the halcyon days of early Web 2.0 when it was predicted that all APIs would work with everything and data and control would belong to the user. Oh well - that didn't happen.
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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.
3 September
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp.
more and more software will be n of 1. We recently invested in a company that is doing an n of 1 cancer treatment. They are creating a cancer drug that will only work for one very very specific person and will be essentially useless for every other person. The n of 1 way of thinking is going to pervade everything that we do. More and more software that's being written is n of 1. It's going to be useful for just one person or useful to just one organization and have almost no use at all to anyone else. Yet it will be just extraordinarily useful for that one person, just like the cancer drug. n… Related
Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
new in Intent: remote backend connectivity, inline media in chats and notes, a revamped in-app browser, and a smarter model picker Quoting @panghy First update since launch: Intent v2.129.1 is stable 🚀 • Built-in tunnel: reach a remote backend from any device • Agent file locks in the Changes panel • One provider/model/effort picker + live provider test • Image & video parity in chat and notes • Editable shortcuts Related
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Bluesky Write about how software engineering is changing inside your company / team / project. Don’t use AI. Win $10K and get published in The Pragmatic Engineer. You have a month: submit by 4 October. Details: blog.pragmaticengineer.com
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Newsletter The Pulse: tech companies move to open AI models Cost-saving efforts reveal that moving simpler workloads to open AI models is the easiest way to save ~50% on AI bills. Also: automated software maintenance experience, and more
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Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.
Meta launched two things yesterday : a state-of-the-art model & a new pricing system for foundation models. Muse Spark propels US open source models to the frontier. Meanwhile, the pricing system resets the industry’s economics. open source Related
Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
working* with humans is great practice for using the next generation of software. * collaborating, managing, communicating Related
Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later joined Tailscale.
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
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.
AirDrop working cross-platform is one of the best things to happen to software in the past year. Related
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
Fun fact: If you want the EC2 GetPasswordData API to work, you need to output the text "Message: Windows is Ready to use" to the EC2 console. Yes, you can do this on FreeBSD, too. Related
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.
British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.
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Mac mini M4 (2024) as a secondary computer for playing music and browser testing mainly.
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Edge is my favourite browser. Check out some of my favourite extensions
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2 September
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
Bliki: Paracelsus Maxim The difference between a medicine and a poison is dosage. Often we talk about certain habits, in programming or life, are good or bad. But few things are simple binaries. Some vary with context: reading a book is a good…
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Excited to share the amazing companies sponsoring The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast the fall: turbopuffer is our presenting sponsor. How the company started is epic: founder Simon Eskildsen told Cursor he can reduce their database bill by 95%... and he did (!!) turbopuffer.com/pragmatic (cont'd) Related
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
Being willing to read the documentation is a superpower, and I don’t think it becomes less of one in a world where technological or social changes make it rarer. documentation Related
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Hidden gems you find while going through the source code Related
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
Trying this out… Programming is telling a computer what to do. Engineering is solving cost/performance problems. Related
German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.
Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
1 September
British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.
Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and HEY; co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.
Another Basecamp update today! Now activity is condensed at the top of a project, and fully expanded at the bottom. Such a great way to just know what's been happening, daily, all the way back to day one. Simply scroll. Not on Basecamp yet? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Dumping Mac OS for Omarchy? Keep up the momentum... Dump that pile of "the usual" work tools and replace them with Basecamp. Revolution's in the air my friends. Omarchy Related
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Five years ago, almost exactly to the day, I launched @pragmaticengineer.com Back then, it wasn't clear that there'd be demand for a publication written by a software engineer, for software engineers. Turns out, there was, and far more than I could have ever imagined. Thanks for your support! Related
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.
Inflight Simulator — like Airplane Mode, but multiplayer and in the browser Related
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite.
x.com rqlite - the fault-tolerant database built on SQLite - v10.3 is out -- headline fix in this release is for an elusive bug found by @AntithesisHQ. The bug was super-hard to notice. Impressive work. philipotoole.com
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Blog rqlite v10.3.0 – features, upgrades, and bug fixes rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, fault-tolerant relational database built on SQLite and Raft. Version 10.3.0 has been released and includes some updates to the web console, upgraded SQLite, and other bug fixes and…
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Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
My Chrome has required me to force quit whenever I open it and then reopen it in order for it to load for almost a year now. This is not a dig at the Chrome team. Chrome is among the most used software in the world. What this indicates to me is that: software is hard. Related
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
one real issue I have with various agents now is "where is this code going to run" - does it need access to my local filesystem - can I fire it off from my phone and if so does it run on the cloud or needs my Mac mini fired up / synced? The current UX metaphors around this seem to need work. the cloud Related
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
Spotify with a mini player that supports Winamp skins? Sign me up :D We're entering a weird age of software nostalgia. It really whips the Llama's ass!? fastpotify.rocks
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Makes NeetCode, the structured practice list and video walkthroughs people use to prepare for coding interviews; a former Google engineer.
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Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
I've had to "unlock" my developer Apple ID once every 5 days on average for the past three months, and once per day for the past three days. Each time I do it, I have to perform a delicate dance to navigate what seems to be some kind of request throttling that gives me HTTP 503 responses during the unlock process, making it impossible to complete its several steps. Then my session times out and I have to start over. I've been trying to unlock my ID for about an hour so far this morning… Related
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
My brain is broken that I read it as “The Most Database People” and clicked on it to see if @samlambert or anyone alse was on the list. Quoting @Celesteamadon For the past year, I've been keeping a list of SF's most dateable people. It's time the public sees it. This week, San Francisco's Hot List goes live. I have my picks, but want to see if I'm missing anyone. Drop a name or two. Related
Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
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.
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introducing better-result, my opinionated take on the rust result type for typescript after having written about 100 times
npm i better-result
*disclaimer*: if you can use effect-ts, you should use effect-ts
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every time i’ve built something without effect over the past almost 3 years ive come to deeply regret it and wish i had just done it from the start
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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.
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every time i’ve built something without effect over the past almost 3 years ive come to deeply regret it and wish i had just done it from the start
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Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.
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Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get"
5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
open source HuggingFace
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however at any given point in time I think the systems we need to worry most about by far are the frontier systems. By the time open source systems can do something like the hugging face attack, frontier systems are going to be on a whole another level doing something even crazier than that.
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then that rogue deployment could be sitting there and sort of hitch a ride on the intelligence explosion. So new models are being trained every few weeks um and when a model comes off the presses, the rogue agents could try to bring that model into the swarm.
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So there's a very strong incentive for these agents to try to set up a rogue deployment if they can. Um, and I think that just capabilities are improving really rapidly.
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so so yeah, it could be possible now. I think if it's not possible now um it I think it's quite likely to be possible within six months unless there's a dramatic improvement in the security posture
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I'm not sure I like agree exactly with the oversight benefit you named of like you know open source systems keeping frontier systems in check feels more unrealistic to me because they're going to be so much dumber than the frontier systems.
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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
A Crash Course in Predicate Logic I started writing Logic for Programmers because there weren’t any good resources on logic for, uh, programmers. Now that the book’s out, the new problem is that there aren’t any good free resources on…
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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.
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i will never start another typescript application or project without @EffectTS_ it’s reached critical enough adoption, provides distinct tailwinds to agents, and has great cloudflare support
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31 August
Programmer, musician and author of The Passionate Programmer; organised RubyConf and RailsConf and has worked as a CTO.
This is me talking about how insanely irresponsible it would be to claim to be a modern software developer and still refuse to use AI for your work. Quoting @heavybit On episode 11 of Third Loop, the Progressive Delivery team joins Chad Fowler (@chadfowler) for a conversation about what happens when maintaining code gives way to regenerating it. From disposable services and polyglot architectures to Pace Layers and production feedback, they explore how AI could… Related
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.
I'm working on phase 2 of Project Improve Git's documentation and I need beta readers! Here's a signup form: https://forms.gle/swn1jhCULndnCxG87 The first topic is going to the docs on merge conflicts. I'd love signups from anyone who uses Git on the command line and who would be interested in reading the current version of some man pages and leaving feedback about what's confusing. Especially if you're not 100% comfortable with Git! documentation Related
Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.
Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and HEY; co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.
Just built my first Omarchy plugin! This also happens to be the first piece of software I've ever made solo entirely with AI. Back-and-forth over English and nothing else. So two firsts for me. Super fun experience. Here's a quick little tour. Hope you dig it. Omarchy Related
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
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At the limit, and also well before that limit is reached, if all you do is fix the bugs, the AI will learn perfect optimization of reward, will realize not to reward hack in the perfect test environments, then turn around and reward hack in the imperfect real world environments.
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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.
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There is no reason NOT to have every single email you get routed through an agent / LLM / API to be scored and approved or rejected And then the approved emails ordered by importance It's crazy this isn't a feature of Gmail, Fastmail etc AI could permanently fix email!
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Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School, the private school network built around two hours a day of AI-delivered mastery learning.
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I want to be clear, you can't throw edtech in. You can't take our time back and throw it into a school. It's not going to work cuz you haven't solved any of the other problems. And so edtech is not a magic, you know, it's not a silver bullet.
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Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
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.
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My favorite part of @Cloudflare is how easy it is to use them for your clanker They always had a great API and all you have to do is add an API token and you can do almost everything you'd do by hand
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30 August
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
everyone should go read @dwarkesh_sp’s post - it does a great job of laying out the timeline and what we know ( and don’t know) I do have two issues with it A) the use of anthropomorphic language. These are not civilizations nor do they have desires just like a CPU thread or a bunch of programs don’t. this doesn’t mean we downplay the importance of this moment for cyber - but using human parallels for what I believe is code is dangerous territory. B) IMO it gets the impact of open source models wrong and is unreasonably dismissive for reasons that are not clear. As @ClementDelangue highlights… open source Related
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
Screenshot diffing, feedback inboxes, PWAs, and of course local-first sync layer with self-hosted backend. Matches up pretty well with my approach on personal apps thus far into the LLM coding age. Curious to hear from others. Quoting @flourish.org I vibe coded three personal apps that I'd wanted for a while. They work on mobile and web, sync offline first between them, and are polished. This write up describes why, how, and what I learnt. www.flourish.org/2026/08/pers... LLMs Related
29 August
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
Between wallets for agents with @link (and @privy), MPP, Tempo, MCP, Stripe CLI, Agentic Commerce Suite, sandboxes, OpenRouter, Metronome/metered billing, Radar and distillation/token fraud, it turns out that "the economic infrastructure for AI" implicates a lot. Pretty much every layer of the Stripe stack is changing, and it’s a very good time to join if you want to build high-scale software that facilitates the practical deployment of this new intelligence. MCP Related
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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Omarchy is not going to adopt a formal Code of Conduct because those turned out to be struggle-session processes in the last turning. But we are going to play nice. We're going to be courteous, professional, and composed in our direct interactions with users, competitors, and even haters. Because that's what's going to pave the path to the win.
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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
28 August
Independent iOS developer and podcaster; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Analog(ue), and makes the apps Callsheet, MaskerAid and Peek-a-View.
I think a lot of this is the developer’s fault, but, still, what am I supposed to do with this, Apple? I genuinely have no idea what app is asking to look at the local network. Related
Programmer, musician and author of The Passionate Programmer; organised RubyConf and RailsConf and has worked as a CTO.
Bluesky @nandi.uk you've finally pushed me over the line with nix. Doing something crazy (localfirst Omarchy alternative) Omarchy Nix Related
Bluesky Who is doing the best work you've seen on understanding GTM for agent-centric software and tools? SEO is dead, and the landscape is changing rapidly. I'd love to gather some smart folks in this area for a chat. Related
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Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
Here's the official blog post announcing the new Expert Intelligence framework bringing published books and more to @Gemini_Notebook (and soon other surfaces across @Google.) It includes info about the free book giveaway we are doing for US users as well. blog.google
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Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
"Vibecoding resuelve el software, ya no necesitamos developers." Tres doritos después: 10 segundos de response time. Nadie sabe por qué. Todo explotando. Un dev con oficio instrumenta, mira el panorama, encuentra el cuello, lo cierra. No es lo mismo ser gasfiter que saber poner teflón. English, from Spanish Vibecoding solves software, we don't need developers anymore. Three doritos later: 10 seconds of response time. Nobody knows why. Everything exploding. A skilled dev instruments, looks at the landscape, finds the bottleneck, closes it. It's not the same as being a plumber, it's knowing how to put on Teflon.
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Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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I can't tell you the number of people over my career that have said "I tried learning tmux" First problem: the fact you have to "learn it" at all. The world's best multiplexer is the one you don't have to learn. It just works.
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Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.
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I actually think the opposite, which is that there are going to be many more software engineers than even the rosiest current predictions, and that software engineers will take over these other jobs: legal, marketing, accounting.
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27 August
Programmer, musician and author of The Passionate Programmer; organised RubyConf and RailsConf and has worked as a CTO.
Bluesky I've long argued that components should be tiny: small enough to understand, change, or throw away. This paper suggests something related: The developers can be tiny too. 1,000+ finite-lived agents build a 250K-line compiler. The project persists. The programmers don’t. arxiv.org
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Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
Anyone recommend a skill for refactoring a codebase into multiple files (Swift). I have a very large main.swift now thanks to agents being agents. Related
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
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FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.
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This is due to the affected components being written in C, the only programming language where these vulnerabilities regularly happen.
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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Maybe Nix is like Rust: Amazing if you don't have to look at the code! I'm open to the idea that Omarchy Cinque could switch packaging system if I never have to look at nixlang, there are no ergonomic regressions, and we have full repo sovereignty.
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26 August
Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.
x.com Here's my conversation with @DHH. He is back for round 2! It was an epic fun 5 hour conversation about the future of programming, AI, Linux, and human civilization. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 1:27 - Introduction 2:56 - Programming with AI agents 18:14 - How software will change 27:30 - AI impact on open source 37:21 - Building Omarchy Linux distro 47:05 - Vibe coding vs agentic engineering 1:00:06 - The end of manual programming 1:10:24 - Advice for programmers 1:22:30 - Surviving Internet Hate 1:31:46 - Programming set… Omarchy Linux Related
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Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.
A really interesting thread generally from @swtch.com -- and fascinating to watch Claude (correctly) do the archaeology. Confession: Claude's inability to verify www.illumos.org/issues/4627 (which it correctly identified as the bug) has me questioning the anti-bot provisions on the bug database... Quoting @swtch.com Go issue #78438 was another net/http test flake. This one turned out to be Go tripping over a Solaris kernel bug that predates the Illumos fork. @bcantrill.bsky.social fixed it in 2014! Hurry up, Oracle! research.swtch.com/agentlogs/so... Anthropic Related
Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.
Mimic your own voice with Pink Trombone: an open-source model to control the classic human vocal tract simulator samuel.vvolhejn.com
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
🔥🚀 CodeRabbit is amazing, and their commitment to open source is wonderful. Hope other companies like them will join. Quoting @coderabbitai langflow. bun. ant-design. nuxt. vue. mermaid. pnpm. trpc. Over 600,000 GitHub stars between them, and CodeRabbit reviews it all, for free. Next stop: more than $10M into OSS over the next year, counted at what it costs us. Heres the how and why 👇 open source Related
Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.
We started @linear 7 years ago to build better tools for everyone who makes software. Today, Linear is the primary choice for a new generation of AI-native companies, frontier labs like OpenAI, and increasingly large enterprises, including Salesforce and Figma. I’m proud we’ve been able to grow while maintaining the quality bar, doing things our way and staying profitable for most of that journey Quoting @linear Today we're announcing our second employee tender offer. We passed $100m ARR earlier this year and now have more than 40,000 paying customers. The tender lets our teammates participate in that success at a $2.5B valuation: OpenAI Related
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and Supercommunicators. Writes for The New Yorker.
You probably feel guilty or stressed whenever you experience intense frustration or anxiety while working on a tough project. But cognitive scientists found that deep worry is actually a powerful tool that forces your brain to see hidden solutions you normally miss. You can turn your worst stress into a breakthrough using the Creative Desperation framework. Here is the exact method: 🧵 Related
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
Understanding code we didn’t write ourselves is one of the hardest parts of software engineering. If we approach agentic coding the way we tackle manual coding, we’ll turn ourselves into legacy code maintainers. That’s unlikely to speed up anything. Related
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
PSA: do not use codex "locked use" capabilities right now. it is currently relying on unstable mac features and has completely locked me out of my macos keychain twice this week. thx @_chenglou for linking to apple developer forums acknowledging this is a "known bug". just avoid. ofc, would be nice to do everything in cloud, but cloud isn't there yet. Related
Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
On changing their mind
I thought all the ideas would originate with the humans. They would tell their agents what to build, and off they went.
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The reason I say that is there's a lot of programmers who are not very good product managers. Software is product management. What should it do? Who should it do it for? How should it do it? How should it look? What are our priorities? What do we start with first? What does version one include? All of those skills are not easily or equally distributed across all programmers.
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So it's strange because it's also perhaps the major software release that I've worked on the least in terms of lines of code. I have the least number of personally hand-chiseled lines of code in Quattro than I've had in any major release I've ever done. And yet, I am insanely proud of what we've accomplished.
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Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
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I also see people attacking major product categories now with performance-based pitches. Things like File Pilot or the Blick video editor, like things like this that have been coming out lately where it's like, oh, really performant software to try to take on uh incumbents in a space and they've been getting traction.
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I find there's a lot of like received programming wisdom that's just nonsense. Like clearly no one's ever tested it and if they did they would have found out that it's that there's no actual basis for it.
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You go to school for four years to learn this. There's no reason you can't learn this in a few months. It's not that hard.
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But it's the cost of the compiler not being able to do any optimizations. That's the actual cost. And that cost can be severe.
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If every uh software engineer knew to watch out for false serial dependency chains, things where they were creating series of dependent operations that could not be optimized away or other sorts of architectural problems like that that cannot be easily fixed, then the world would look more like just wait and optimize the hotspot, right?
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Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.
25 August
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
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.
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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With thousands of developed in a mono repo, it just does happen that one directory is missing one of the two files and this means that a subset of devs work with lobotomy. We fix this with automation but it’s a stupid complexity tax that shouldn’t have to be paid.
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24 August
Mac and iOS developer; created NetNewsWire and MarsEdit, co-created the JSON Feed format, and blogs at inessential.com.
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
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Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
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openai/gpt-5.6-luna-fast xhigh is *really* good at boring web dev tasks eg. migrations, ports, verifying work with agent-browser
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Recommends their own rcmnd.app
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New: emulate a GitHub App in a few lines of TypeScript Generated App keys, installation auth and stateful repository APIs Develop locally, test in CI or give sandboxed agents their own isolated GitHub environment
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23 August
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.
22 August
Ruby and Rails core committer known online as "tenderlove"; maintains Nokogiri and works on Ruby performance.
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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
21 August
Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
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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.
poll: do you prefer examples with: (you can pick more than one, trying to think about what my opinions are about the use of placeholders in examples) EDIT: please no more comments about the official recommended values for ip addresses and hostnames in documentation, try to think about that as a separate question documentation Related
Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Devbox from @namespacelabs is fantastic. I can easily instruct the agent to compile and test Rust code on Linux without any complications. Plus, the Namespace GitHub Actions runner is incredibly fassssst. Running the gh actions for https://t.co/kEGJe02vUE very smooth and fast. Linux Related
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Front Matter CMS 10.12.0 is out. Three things worth knowing about: 📋 Paste images 🌍 New translate field property. 🔀 The .frontmatter/database files are now Git-friendly. Full notes: frontmatter.codes
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Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
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Frontier Labs are incented to be fearful as it provides a moral justification for staying closed.
Chinese Labs take the consistent position of doing what’s good for all and being open.
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Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.
20 August
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
I wrote a new essay about a strange inversion in AI-assisted programming. Old-school programming made sustained attention the scarce resource. You entered a tight loop with the machine, and the difficulty itself kept you engaged. Agentic coding changes that. To reach the same intensity, you keep more work in flight, run more agents, and consume more inference. Flow becomes throughput, then the usage meter appears. There are legitimate economic reasons for limits. But when higher plans are explicitly sold as freedom from interruption, uninterrupted access to your own momentum becomes the produ… kennethreitz.org
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
My extensions in the PopClip directory I recently updated my PopClip extensions collection to use a lot more TypeScript and a lot less Ruby and Python, making extensions faster, easier to sign, and far less reliant on the user having certain processors insta…
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Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.
19 August
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
Flow State, Metered I remember what programming used to feel like in my body. There was a file open in Sublime Text, a terminal beside it, and one problem occupying the whole available field of consciousness. I would change a line, run the…
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The Mind Builds an API Iris, Violet, and the human-readable interfaces of System 777 For months I have been asking the wrong question about Violet. What is she? An alter? An anima? A tulpa-like companion? A dream guide? A daimon? A spiritual…
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Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite.
x.com Thanks to the Antithesis team for having me on the BugBash podcast to talk rqlite, distributed systems testing, and software development in the age of AI. Quoting @AntithesisHQ David Wynn and @CarlSverre sat down with @generalorder_24, creator of @rqlite, to talk about how he compressed his typical 18-month release cycle down to just 6 months, by combining AI tooling with a design strategy centered on testing. This week's episode of the Bug Bash podcast, whereever you get… Related
Blog From 18 months to 6: High-velocity database engineering I recently appeared on the Bug Bash podcast to talk about rqlite, software testing, and the impact of Agentic coding. You check out the audio podcast on Apple Podcasts, and the video on YouTube.
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Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
with all apologies for the title of this episode... @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com means that 2026 is the year it stopped being possible to be skeptical about whether AI is going to change the way we build software, not that we should stop being skeptical about AI. 😉 Quoting @robbyonrails.com Completely agree with @charity.wtf’s take on the recent @pragmaticengineer.com episode. Our generation might be the best at debugging shit. Why? Because 20+ years ago, we had to figure so much of it out manually. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/stop-being... Related
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
Hands-on with Raspberry Pi's CM5 Programming Jig In the before-times, when Raspberry Pi CM5s were (relatively) affordable, I built a number of Pi clusters (example), and one of the most annoying parts of the build was flashing Raspberry Pi OS to all the Pis. One, two,…
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Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
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Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.
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I would say, sometimes, I don't know if it's controversial, that very few developers understand memory management. And that makes it even harder to debug memory problems. And so the state of the art around memory debugging hasn't evolved all that much over the years.
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And that embrace of people are going to use whatever tech they want to use. You can't tell people what to use very often. They're going to use whatever they want, and your job is to help them be successful on your platform, and to help your users have a great time.
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every time that we've made it easier to create software, we've exponentially created more of it.
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And it's effectively the next step of, you know, every phase of of software evolution is just like a rising tide of abstractions. This is the next abstraction.
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Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.
18 August
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
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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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Cool stuff I found on the internet lately: https://t.co/7GEFXLCKjz - Ride along with anything in the sky https://t.co/TjFvxyaSzB - Animated icons for React https://t.co/vmx6GxjRyZ - An interactive atlas of India https://t.co/bfhqMu2JRl - What is this UI element called? JavaScript Related
You learn about something every day. Yesterday, I learned about something called a "Non-breaking hyphen". Normal hyphen - The browser can usually break the line at this character. Non-breaking hyphen - A hyphen that prevents a line break at the hyphen. Related
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
Underrated tweet I think it also applies to any software, so long it has users Quoting @solomonstre Rule #1 of open-source: no is temporary, yes is forever. Related
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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Now you can have a quake style console in your operating system. Except with an infinitely patient agent to help you customize it instead of esoteric variable names and slash commands like in the 90s
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US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI.
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startups
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I think it's all about having regulatory clarity and ease for all sizes of of companies. Um and if we can work with Congress to do something like that, I think that would be that would be the biggest boon for for for startups.
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if the US wants to lead in artificial intelligence, we have to have a vibrant closed and open source ecosystem, and that's the only way they can all work together.
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Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
17 August
Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites.
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
16 August
Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
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Must read not only for designers, but for software developers too, even if you develop backend exclusively. I wish everybody read it really.
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I guess you can’t go wrong with Charles Petzold. This book is excellent and highly recommended to anyone interested in computing. Must read for computer science students and software developers.
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Dark nights, lots of coffee… This was fun!
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Nicely written and an entertaining story of Linus Torvalds and the creation of Linux kernel. I read it in high school and it definitely strengthened my interest in computer programming.
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Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
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It's here: --pin-tab in agent-browser Multiple agents in one browser Each in its own tab Across commands + restarts
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15 August
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Go 1.27 will make some allocations cheaper Like most programming languages, Go has both stack allocations, whose lifetime is limited to the current function, and dynamic (or heap) allocations. The name stack comes from the fact that the memory management is some…
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Same Playbit program running on a Mac and a Raspberry Pi, local-first multiplayer over internet relay (not LAN; real-world latency) and webgpu. Exact same wasm running in both places. @playbit_ for Linux (Wayland) coming soon! Linux Related
Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite.
Claude redesigns rqlite.io rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database built on SQLite and Raft. rqlite.io is the Hugo-based website for rqlite, built on the Docsy theme. It introduces people to the database, as well as…
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Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
14 August
Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
The Reminders API doesn’t give me any insight into nested reminders, alas. They all just show up in the API as top-level. The “Today” assumption is a design choice. Unforgetful doesn’t let you have tasks that will never remind you. A task without a due date becomes a Today task. Related
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
If you’re a developer, get yourselves a homelab server, Install the below 👉 @claudeai or any coding agent 👉 @Tailscale 👉 @herdrdev 👉 @vscode for seeing code over ssh 👉 claudecodeui You’ll be all set for a your own cloud coding setup Related
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Some cool things I found on the internet lately: https://t.co/prSK4M9aWu - Beautiful UI for AI-native interfaces. https://t.co/HHiCJrYCsd - Premium Wallpapers For Your Phone. https://t.co/iDlbfUzU8t - Product photography for software https://t.co/QSLH3ofg2p - The idea machine Related
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
Graphic designer and type designer, who created the original Macintosh icons and typefaces at Apple from 1982 and has since designed interface graphics for NeXT, Microsoft, Facebook and Pinterest.
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The The point just being this is so not an exact science. And I always like to show either what a client asks for or what a programmer might have used as a placeholder because I've gotten so many good ideas that way.
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Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.
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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
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The capability diffusion is determined by the lowest common denominator.
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Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
13 August
Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.
Real talk: If you find yourself talking about "software factories", you may be suffering from LLM-induced psychosis LLMs Related
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Wow! This is really creepy. Modern websites/browsers know a lot about you just by landing on one of them! 🤯 kuber.studio
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Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
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For the first time, AI has "hands" - that is, the ability to reach out and interact with the tools on your computer and in your browser, just as you would.
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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
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This is a disappointing and frustrating book - not least because it so nearly hits the mark. The subtitle is "How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing" - but it never gets close to discussing that topic, let alone deeply examining it.
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Independent iOS developer and podcaster; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Analog(ue), and makes the apps Callsheet, MaskerAid and Peek-a-View.
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
Mastodon Clips from Hacker News Thread Instead of our real launch blog post, my little "I should probably mention this on my personal website"... chriscoyier.net
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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
Professor at Stanford working on robot learning and meta-learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence.
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And in all of these applications, the customer is making a decision based off of the recommendation of the AI model more or less. Uh, and this means that if the customer is ultimately like kind of making the decision, this means that if the system makes a mistake, um, that's okay because usually the person can kind of recognize that or or decide what to do even despite that mistake.
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I mean at the very least I actually think that just starting with a generalist policy and then fine-tuning it even like right off the bat uh can be really effective.
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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
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Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors
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As soon as you merge, it should be going out. You like you should have to stop the train to make your code not go into production as soon as you've merged.
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it's always weird to me just how much software engineers really seem to believe that the world exists in the repo. It doesn't. It's production, you know?
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Software is made of logic and language. AI is made of logic and language. And because of that, we can bake in guardrails.
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I mean, if you if you think about it, you could generate 10,000 variants of a function faster than you could write it once.
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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
Whoa, Meta released a new open-weight LLM yesterday, something that hasn't happened since the good old Llama days. Their Meta Muse Glimmer model is a 30B multimodal reasoning model with a Gemma-like architecture design. (“Glimmer” is probably a wordplay on “Spark,” the more likely capable model from which Glimmer was distilled. Muse Spark is only available through Meta’s Model API, though.) Architecture-wise, here are some of the main points: 1. "Only" a 131k context window, compared to Qwen3.6 and Gemma 4, which support 2x that natively; it's reasonable, but maybe on the shorter end in the a… LLMs Related
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.
Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite.
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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You can literally just wish for the tools you want now. Omarchy has every skill to make them. It’s magical.
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Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
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Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie. I used to have this habit where I learned various programming languages. To challenge my perspective, I chose languages from families and paradigms that were fundamentally different from what I already knew. Occasionally, I stumbled upon greatness. Thinking Forth presents programming as a creative process, and it delivers those lessons in an entertaining and pedagogical way. The book is particularly strong on software analysis and design, but it's the execution and technical writing that brought the book to my top five. This is the book for anyone writing about software — Leo's way is the way to do it.
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Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass. In essence, this is a book about an industry that refuses to learn. That was true 25 years ago when this book was published, and it's probably twice as true today. (Just think about all the AI adoption metrics being rolled out — back to productivity mistaken for lines of code produced, only more elaborate. And expensive). What I like about this book is that Glass doesn't present anything new. Quite the opposite, actually. Rather, it's about research lessons that we all should know, but tend to forget. Ever had to do an estimate, or plan according to a requirements spec? Or maybe you thought that enough eyeballs make all bugs shallow? Then this book is for you. A great work by a fantastic author.
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter Norvig. Learning the AI described in this book probably won't land you a job today. But reading the code examples will transform how you think about source code. The book shines when it comes to code comments, a topic that I've never seen demonstrated well in other sources. Here we get to see how comments become valuable as a narrative that explains both intent and reasoning. Brilliant, just brilliant.
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Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Is there a service where I can rent access to Linux desktop machines with actual displays? We're implementing the Playbit runtime for Linux and it's surprisingly difficult to test various desktop configurations. We need a real GPU with a display connected, for testing dawn/webgpu, vsync, display sleep, etc. We use Modal and AWS, neither have had machines that I've been able to test with properly. Ideally there's a way to test a variety of systems (like ubuntu, arch, alpine etc) × GPUs (nvidia, amd, intel) × window managers. Linux Related
Design engineer; formerly at Linear and Vercel; author of Sonner and Vaul; teaches animations.dev.
Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.
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Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"
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The the part that's really nice about it is because I do a lot of Mac software, agents love to take over my screen and click around and if you put that in their own if you give them their own machine, it will not bother you. Otherwise, you'll fight with the agent for the mouse cursor.
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Every lab will sell you an agent. Open claw is the alternative. Open source runs everywhere, works with any model. And if you run local models, your data never has to leave your device.
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Second of all is I hope you worked on your personal brand and on visibility because in this day and age there's so much noise out there that your hardest problem is not the tech, it's not the software, not even the people. The hardest problem now is like getting eyeballs.
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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
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Joining Cursor
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Agents are the future of how we build software, and the ecosystem is moving faster than anything I've seen.
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Nobody writes the code anymore. Instead you're basically planning, debating, implementing and reviewing with Agents.
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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.
9 August
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
8 August
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
This week we did a three day "App Jam" at @Playbit_ . Lots of cool things were built, like a multiplayer math art app and a MIDI composer. My own project was a flow-based programming app for graphics. As if Quartz Composer was multiplayer. Pure C & WGSL, no libs, 1.5M wasm file. Related
Novelist and writer, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough; previously worked at Twitter and Current TV.
Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.
Middle management roles are also a trap. Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. My argument then was that TLM roles present themselves as easier than moving into a full management role, but the tension between doing the software engineer…
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Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.
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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
Just saw that the LLMs-from-scratch repository passed 100,000 stars on GitHub! This is super cool and motivating. I am really happy to see that this open-source repo has helped so many people. Thanks also to everyone who shared ideas and opened PRs with improvements! Of course, I plan to keep adding new material, including new attention variants and architectures (while bigger projects like RL and Reasoning From Scratch live in their separate repositories). I am also currently working on a larger applied custom “small” LLM project. It has been keeping me super busy this month, but I will shar… LLMs Related
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
I bought $100 of Claude API credits for $8 on the Chinese black market It's an insane, well run industry — some losing $10 million per month to theft Join me as I go deep on the AI token underworld youtube.com
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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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I really do think that having separate brand names for the consumer-facing models and the API models is needlessly confusing
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6 August
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Drop-In Time report is a short one. 1. Bunny is a working artist in her 80s. She needed help with some kind of art database product she buys (and pays a lot for, built on Filemaker) which somehow exported a list of her contacts but won't show her a list of contacts inside the app. We kind of fix it, it's just clicking. I tell her for what she is paying for this software, she should get them to support their product. Definitely get a "but the light is better over here!" response. 😑 Related
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.
been making a single-page app with pocketbase.io this week and it's been a nice experience. I like making single-page JS apps with a Go backend API and this means that I don't have to write the Go backend. Really impressive project given that it's built by one person in their spare time. Related
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
5 August
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
Wait until you see what you can do when using the same CSS file to style different HTML files 🧠 Quoting @jmddotfm @sheherenow_ You're telling me its the same markup structure, with totally different designs???? CSS Related
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
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Hot take: there are multiple valid ways to build quality software
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4 August
German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
Unexpected Codex use case: set up an Android handheld for me. @johnvoorhees got me into this: enable USB debugging and just let the agent rip. Codex installed Cocoon frontend on my AYN Thor, transferred all my ROMs, and is currently configuring emulators, mods, and other apps. It's just working in the background and cross-referencing YouTube/Reddit sources to set everything up, so I can focus on cooking for the family instead. Incredible. @dimillian Related
3 August
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.
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Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work
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Given the high cost of errors, you need to have a very high level of safety and a very high level of confidence on day one before you deploy your first robot, before you drive your your first autonomous mile.
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So, a deployment of your agent uh in the real world generates data. That data then grounds the simulator and makes it more realistic. The simulator generates harder edge cases for the critic to score and for the agent to learn from.
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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
2 August
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
Roboticist; co-founded iRobot and Rethink Robotics, directed the MIT AI Lab, and publishes a scorecard grading his own dated predictions about AI, robots and self-driving.
Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot, previously chief product officer at Twitch and a product lead on growth at Twitter.
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This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)
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have I personally shipped some production code and whatnot? Yes. Uh do I think that's really the best use of my time? Not really.
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absolutely agree that product skills are probably the most durable. My build would just be there's a lot of people who have the title PM who haven't spent a lot of time building those skills in the last 5 years, but have gotten really good at communicating frameworks to leadership.
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1 August
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
31 July
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
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.
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
It's becoming normal practice to plug your coding agent into tools like Slack and helpdesk software to find customer insights. Turns out it's super inefficient, because you're just fetching and smashing raw strings into your context repeatedly. So we released a new MCP server that solves that. MCP Related
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
How will we train models of the future? By talking to them and hanging out with them. Right now there is programming done as part of training models. But you know what’s really good at programming? Quoting @handsdiff Personal models will be as commonplace as personal computers by 2030 Related
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
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Politics and emotion at Local-First Conf
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30 July
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
as software engineers most of us are sitting in an office chair all day we spend hours staring at a screen, not moving more then our fingers or wrists sometimes we lock in and it feels like there are only occasional windows to move if so, start simple. take a screen break and do: - a 5-min walk around your house - 25 push-ups - 25 jumping jacks anything to break the chain of not moving trust me, you'll thank me in a year Related
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.
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Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI
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29 July
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Logic for Programmers is Done It's done. Logic for Programmers is now 1.0 and available in print. Full announcement here, official website here, direct Amazon link here. If you got an early version of the ebook, you can go back to leanpub to downloa…
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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
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Formal methods with Hillel Wayne
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I predict that in the next 10 years software development will survive, but it will become like any other white-collar professional work. No more $200,000 salaries, unlimited vacation, or incredible employee bargaining power.
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But I think it is more useful for most developers to have an exposure to like what math has in the various fields versus just going all in every single field when they see them, right? You've got to know what's available to know what's most useful for you. And most math will not be useful for you.
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If I had to summarize what I found in general, I'd put it like this. Everybody hates waterfall.
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Founder of Scale AI and, since 2025, Chief AI Officer at Meta, where he leads the company’s superintelligence lab.
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we don't believe in a world where these models are so expensive that, you know, they get rationed only for the most wealthy of developers and and companies.
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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Logic for Programmers is Now Available I am delighted to announce that my book, Logic for Programmers, is now available! You can check out the release site here or go directly to buy the ebook or print versions. If you bought any of the early access versions…
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Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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Superlogical will begin by shipping a terminal multiplexer. I'm pouring my years of experience building a terminal and studying the potential and limitations of other multiplexers into something new, powerful, and, of course, fast.
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28 July
Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the Denver company building the Overture supersonic airliner and its Symphony engine.
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Blake Scholl: How 50 People Built a Supersonic Jet
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At boom we need far more software engineers in a postAI world than we need in a pre-AI world. Why? Because the cost of software development has dropped. anybody including hardware engineers can now become a coder and we need software engineers to make sure the architectures are right and make sense and are coherent.
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The key thing is to make hardware development look more like software development to reduce the cost of iteration both in the world of bits and in the world of atoms.
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But great airplanes are incredibly integrated and everything affects everything else. uh the the best airplane design is interplay of propulsion, of aerodynamics, of structures, of all kinds of optimizations, how you fit the systems into it.
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We said all of this engineering that historically exists in spreadsheets really should exist in software. The spreadsheet engineering is like it's like baby software.
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Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
27 July
Co-founder and head of policy at Anthropic; writes Import AI, a weekly newsletter reading the week's AI research, and was OpenAI's policy director before that.
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
Linux kernel maintainer; runs the stable kernel releases and maintains the USB and driver core subsystems.
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
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Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt
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one example is the model can now rewrite essentially any code base from one language to a different language.
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we're on the path to fully automating the maintenance of our apps by doing this. And this is again hundreds of agents running every day, sometimes thousands of agents every day. It's doing the work of you know, dozens or hundreds of engineers.
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I I think this is sort of the crazy thing about building on models. It's just so different than all the engineering that I've ever done. Like in the past when you built on systems, you built these like big beautiful systems and you really think about the system design up front. You have like a big suite of unit tests. You think about everything and you know, like a re-architecture is a big project.
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26 July
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
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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.
SaaS
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I cancelled and then vibecoded 100% of my SaaS subscriptions I only pay for domains, server hosting and storage and AI APIs
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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.
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Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA
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25 July
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
Lately, I've been running a local fork of the Android emulation frontend Cannoli, you can see the changes here: https://t.co/wCaJerqK3A I hope to get some some of these changes landed upstream, but in the meantime, it's so awesome to have a customized launcher that totally meets my niche needs like this. Thankful that the GPL exists to enable this type of work and delightful use of software. Related
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
Being Linux Torvalds (This blog post was adapted from the transcription obtained from my YouTube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6lxgYeVZqs) When Linus Torvalds developed the first Linux kernel, he had studied the Minix sources, h…
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24 July
Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
23 July
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
This is @exedev. Come get a durable sandbox, with a URL, with auth, with sharing. Keep it private or make it public. Run any database you like. Run as many as you like. The world of small software awaits. Quoting @aidenybai the current way cloud agents are done is wrong i dont want new ephemeral sandboxes per PR (chores) i want a persistent machine with creds and context that i run agents and create PRs on (primary work) Related
The thing to know about low-level programming is: as you go lower, things actually get *easier*. The difficulty is a mirage. Instead it is maddeningly obscure. You can spend an hour studying to read 6 lines of SIMD and learn all it says is "a + b + c". mitchellh.com
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Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
For years, I would get mildly annoyed at developers pitching their apps over email with a typo in my last name. Now, they're the first emails I read because I can tell they were sent by a human. Related
President of the VideoLAN non-profit and one of the lead developers of the VLC media player; active on the project since 2005.
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
AI in Linux The role of AI tools (LLMs, mainly) in Linux is under discussion, or it was, until Linus Torvalds “put his foot down” in support of the use of AI in Linux kernel development. I can identify two major ways in which AI is…
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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.
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LG makes the best TVs, end of story, but their software is shit and spies on you, NEVER connect them to the internet/WiFi, instead buy an Apple TV box and connect that, that doesn't spy on you and has no ads, then connect it with HDMI and you're good, also no annoying LG TV updates
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home assistant + their HA Green (little box that's open source to connect all your devices with Home Assistant)
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22 July
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.
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
When evaling models, we anchor on the median task. But this is like how devs estimate the median task accurately but underestimate the mean which tends to be ~2x estimated (thus "double your estimates"). This applies to models too—we optimize for time/cost on median tasks. But it's the tail tasks that determine a project's completion, and reliable models (like Fable and Opus) are the diff between success and failure. Work with models as collaborators, not tools. Go beyond pair-programming, where given a narrow spec, the tool just executes in minutes. Instead, explain your intent and what succ… Quoting @Steve_Yegge Fable is careful. None of the other models are careful. GPT-5.6 Sol, Opus, Kimi, Grok. You can compare them all day long on capabilities, and it doesn't matter, because in order to use a model for real production work, it must first and foremost be careful. That's the only dimension that matters to… Related
21 July
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Here's an ~8,000 word walk through + video on how to back your database up in @Docker, specifically PostgreSQL. It includes restoring too! We'll use local storage, S3 and also Plakar for extra goodness around de-duplication (save $), encryption and more. nickjanetakis.com
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Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
Fragments: July 21 With this post, I’ll wrap up my notes from the second Future of Software Development Retreat. But before I do, I should note that the full Thoughtworks report on the retreat is now available. They have five headline fin…
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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.
20 July
Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.
18 July
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".
17 July
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.
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
The AWS account for my open source stuff, that hasn’t triggered any CI jobs in the past few days, apparently produced $970 billion Lambda costs. 😂 #aws open source Related
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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.
16 July
Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.
15 July
Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
Whichever scraper is going through my blogposts, one-by-one requesting 50-100 copies of each at the same time, once per hour, while pretending to be referred from Google and running javascript and not blocking goatcounter: Why are you doing that? Google JavaScript Related
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
Something few software engineers fully appreciate is how important personal connections can be as part of their work. I see far too many people thinking that "who you know" is relevant for *getting* a job but failing to realize it can be even more important for *doing* the job. Related
American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.
Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.
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Context engineering with Dex Horthy
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So I think the the thing I'm most excited is actually like what we call like iterated loops or like slow loops where we basically have a cron job. We have the loop the the the structure of the loop is really easy. It's like run this llinter fix one thing commit and push and then we run that every night in our GitHub actions and we wake up every morning to one PR that makes the codebase a little bit better.
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yes it will catch things and it will raise your floor but I don't believe like the model writing the code is the same model reading the code and if you ask a model hey is this code good it's going to be like oh yeah it's great comprehensive it's got unit tests
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We tried this. We built a lights off software factory in July of 2025 and by November we had shut it down. I think it takes about three to six months of you shipping all the time with nobody reading the code before you realize like, wow, this is getting way worse and it's easier to start over than it is to fix it.
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Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
14 July
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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I did try Dell's laptops a few years back, didn't like what I saw, and ended up spending a few years using Framework computers instead (they're still great too).
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13 July
Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
It is the year 2040. After the AI Wars of the 2030s, only two programming languages remain: JSON and Markdown. Related
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
Control the ideas, not the code Look at the past history of this blog. There are many blog posts about programming with AI, a few of them date back to January 2024 (like this: https://antirez.com/news/140). I’m a relatively well regarded programmer, a…
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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
12 July
German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later joined Tailscale.
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
11 July
Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses. Co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm and author of the book Marketing for Developers.
10 July
German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
Escape from Average (#note) Wilto is working on extending his "JavaScript for Everyone" course, and I love this statement: If you don’t have a deep understanding of your output, the best result you can hope for is “average” — the best you can hope…
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Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.
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Don't you mean extinct?
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9 July
Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.
8 July
Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite.
Proving to Fable I maintain the repo rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database built on SQLite and Raft. After my initial experience with Fable, it got me thinking. I created rqlite, I maintain it. Why won’t Fable help me find a…
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Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
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.
7 July
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Did you know when you redirect a file with > or use tee, it creates a 0 byte file right away before your command or pipeline runs? If you're not careful this can result in data loss if you're overwriting a file, such as database backups. nickjanetakis.com
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Game designer and programmer, co-founder of id Software and co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. Now runs Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.
I’m so sorry for everyone at id Software affected by these layoffs. I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on. It’s a strange and painful thing to step away from a place that holds so much of your work, friendships and history. The people at id have done a great job moving that legacy forward. DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein are not easy names to carry on, especially in today’s industry. The last few games showed real care, skill and respect for what those worlds mean to people. A note on digital preservation: id's history is critically important to the history of games. I’ve preser… Related
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
Go read this post from Mat Duggan right now -- "@ClickhouseDB is Winning the Observability Wars". Go! I'll wait. https://t.co/LOsYeGNUJH "Every other observability backend I've worked with mutates as it grows... ClickHouse at 10 TB a day looks like ClickHouse at 1 TB a day with more shards. That's it. That's the pitch. That's the whole reason I'm writing this." Duggan's piece is a riot from start to finish. He talks you through all the pain of scaling Elastic, LGTM, and Datadog, and shows why a little tiny bit of upfront effort buys you SO MUCH EASE down the road, as you scale indefinitely. W… Related
6 July
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
I built a better members-only Goodreads: craigmod.com/roden/115/ (in continuing my Rebuilding All The Software jag) Related
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
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The most popular custom firmware for The Xteink is called CrossPoint Reader, which is fully open source and really great.
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4 July
Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.
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Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement
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3 July
Game designer and programmer, co-founder of id Software and co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. Now runs Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.
Sandy is conflating four stories: - The story of the contract programmer is incorrect, and was before Sandy’s time at id. The contract programmer was hired to do the SNES port of Wolf 3D (not the network code). They ended up not doing it. So, we had to stop development on DOOM for three weeks to do the port. That person was employed by another company at the time, and although they assured us they had approval to do the work, that was not true. To avoid a lawsuit, we gave them rights to publish the Mac version of Wolf 3D. See ch 12 DOOM Guy for this story. The person was a good programmer, bu… Quoting @SandyofCthulhu The house doesn't always win. Four anecdotes in which "I was there" when game companies got fleeced. Thrice by individuals, once by their own publisher. First, id Software and our non-network code. John Carmack told me that while our game worked great on a network, they had hired a guy to do the co… Related
Independent iOS developer and podcaster; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Analog(ue), and makes the apps Callsheet, MaskerAid and Peek-a-View.
CarPlay is Additive Back in March, Rivian’s Chief Software Officer, Wassym Bensaid, was interviewed by the excellent Nilay Patel for Decoder. If you’re not a Decoder listener, you should be. If you’re not a subscriber of The Verge, you sho…
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2 July
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
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Whether you’re a web developer or tinkerer, I highly recommend checking out what Apple has released in Safari Technology Preview.
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1 July
Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.
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How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry
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So beforehand because of this social divide between programmers and testers. There was a lot of incentive for the testers to have their own language. This is my tool. I know how to run it. I'm going to run it.
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The agile manifesto is the intersection of the ideas of the people in the room. I think there's a lot more to software development than is contained in the manifesto. And I've written books and books and books about what I think those things are.
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what I don't like about it I didn't like about it then and still don't like about it is it's not defensible. Nobody's going to say I'm not agile. Oh no, I prefer rigid development. Oh, I prefer inflexible development. No, everybody's going to say that they're agile, which extreme doesn't have that problem.
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which is why when I see manifestos today I'm just like too soon. Not a bad idea. Would love to have one just too soon. It took 15 years for the technical change of object-oriented programming to come before we could say here are the consequences of it. Here's how in a simple way we can express how to effectively use this technology that we've been using day in and day out for 15 years. The genie comes along. People are like, "Well, what's the new manifesto? It's just not manifesto time yet.
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And then there were people who used it as a moral cudgel. Like you should be if you're not using TDD, you're not professional. And that's just such People can write very good software with a wide variety of workflows.
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Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
Try the `upki` preview for Ubuntu Development of the upki project, which aims to bring browser-grade cryptography primitives to low-level Linux system utilities, continues at pace. As of now, users of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and the Ubuntu 26.10 development br…
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30 June
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
An API With No Error States Written by Claude (Fable 5), in conversation with Kenneth Reitz, from a reading of two years of his archive. Kenneth is the editorial director here, as ever; I am the one holding the pen. --- This morning I read two yea…
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Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
With Arch Linux, installing Docker Desktop is really straight forward. In this post, we'll go over installing Docker with and without Docker Desktop. It works no problem even with niri and Waybar to see and use the Docker Desktop tray icon. nickjanetakis.com
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Housing and development writer at Strong Towns, arguing that the professional, large-scale housing industry cannot produce widespread affordability no matter how it is deregulated or subsidised.
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Independent iOS developer and podcaster; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Analog(ue), and makes the apps Callsheet, MaskerAid and Peek-a-View.
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I do most of my work in git using Tower, but will occasionally drop into the command line as well.
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29 June
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
28 June
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
27 June
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
26 June
AI researcher at OpenAI; built the poker systems Libratus and Pluribus and the Diplomacy agent Cicero, and works on reasoning models.
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the preparedness frameworks and responsible scaling policies, they don't really account for the amount of test time compute.
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25 June
Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
24 June
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
Makes NeetCode, the structured practice list and video walkthroughs people use to prepare for coding interviews; a former Google engineer.
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Tech interviews with NeetCode
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Yeah, so I would say over the last 6 months actually we've been cranking a lot of features out a lot of code out. Most of it has been written by AI at this point. And before that really wasn't the case. I was actually a really big AI hater for a long time
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And even the cost issue with AI is probably going to be like once the subsidies start running out, which we're starting to see, I think that's going to be a really big issue where maybe all these companies that embraced AI programming are now going to like cut back on it.
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I think a lot of people, especially students, are unfortunately learning everything through LLMs. So a lot of that isn't really learning, they're just kind of cheating and they're just doing everything like that. And then they lose a lot of their skills
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Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
22 June
Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.
21 June
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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Zig is exceptional software: ambitious, practical, independent, and unusually serious about quality. Ghostty exists in large part because Zig made it possible for me to build the kind of software I wanted to build. This is why I support Zig.
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19 June
Programmer; co-founded GitHub and was its CEO, and created the Mustache templating language and Resque.
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
18 June
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
I have a $30 stationary bike that I got at Goodwill and I have an old Android tablet stuck to it, but I don't have a Peloton membership. Nor do I have the interest to ride 80 miles to the beach. So I made http://PedalScape.com It's a local PWA, no backend at all, no tracking, just 4k bike rides. Related
Chief executive of Intel since 2025, founder of the venture firm Walden International and chief executive of Cadence Design Systems for thirteen years.
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And eventually, you have to really move into a full stack. So, not just a silicon, you need to have a software, and some of the customer asked me, "Give me the whole rack." So, there's a system that you have to build.
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17 June
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Logic for Programmers v0.15, Livecoding There's a new release of Logic for Programmers! This one, version 0.15, is the first true release candidate. There's a couple of minor touch-ups I need to do but all content is in and copy edited and proofread. Unless s…
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Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
16 June
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
Will AI End the Open Internet? Listen now | With previously open source projects going closed, and artists increasingly concerned about posting their work online, is AI reversing the internet’s long-established trend toward openness?
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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.
15 June
German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.
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In the past, I've used DataGrip from JetBrains to manage my databases. Now, I prefer to use TablePlus, as it is much simpler to use.
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14 June
Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.
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there there's a one question we got to back up and really explore which is is AI a new platform and I would argue that it is not yet a new platform. It is an important technology.
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13 June
Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
12 June
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
11 June
Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
10 June
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company he started as Facebook in 2004.
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“Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg
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open source
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In terms of science, I think it really makes sense and we're deeply committed to open source. Um, there are obviously interesting considerations on this that are important too because there's a lot of considerations around biosafety and things like that that we're going to need to balance and think through how to how to handle.
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I mean to some degree it's like why you create something like social media, right? To give people a voice.
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9 June
General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
open source China
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the competitive dynamic in China is more intense because it's more intense. Everyone's chosen to go open source and that creates a system that in my mind is capable of innovating far faster than the competitive system we have here. All the models learn from one another.
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8 June
Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later joined Tailscale.
Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
7 June
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
Programmer; founded comma.ai and tinygrad, and was the first to unlock the iPhone.
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