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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.
Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
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Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native
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The real problem is a lack of care. And the slop; you can build it with any stack.
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tonsky.me
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These days, though, native is as bad as the web, if not worse.
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tonsky.me
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Native APIs are terrible to use, and OS vendors use everything in their power to make you not want to develop native apps for their platform.
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Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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All the best, happiest, and most creatively productive times in my life have something in common: being disconnected.
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Media silence creates a vacuum, which your own thoughts expand to fill.
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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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Offline 23 hours a day
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Media silence creates a vacuum, which your own thoughts expand to fill.
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Every day or two, I bring my laptop into town to get online for an hour. The time limit keeps me super-focused.
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My brain feels stronger because I work through the problem instead of prompting it away.
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Front-end developer and writer on Svelte, Vue, CSS and WordPress; blogs at joshcollinsworth.com.
Man Cereal Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and, perhaps permanently and irreparably, stole a small piece of his joy.
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Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.
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It is definitely my broadest and least inhibited book — and in my judgment, the best-written and the best overall.
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betonit.ai
2 March
German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
New lines are removed from WHATWG URLs (#tilPost) Today I learned something groundbreaking about URLs! You know that when you're templating HTML and you're dealing with attribute values, it might make sense to break things into pieces. I like to have one attribute per…
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Web Weekly #185 (#blogPost) Guten Tag! Guten Tag! 👋 Have you heard of Chrome's soft navigations? Do you parse the sec-fetch header to prevent CSRF? Or do you know that elements with overflow: hidden are still scrollable? Turn on the Web Weekly tu…
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Game designer and director of the NYU Game Center; made Universal Paperclips and writes Donkeyspace.
Writes Strange Loop Canon, on the intersection of technology, economics and business — "building models of the world to understand these problem areas and to define them better".
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
RE: https://phpc.social/@denniskoch/116160494463008541 Adding a #laravel for more reach. Related
Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.
Anonymous credentials: an illustrated primer This post has been on my back burner for well over a year. This has bothered me, since with every month that goes by, I become more convinced that anonymous authentication the most important topic we could be talking ab…
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Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."— Anaïs Nin Related
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.
Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.
Environmental writer and campaigner; author of Six Degrees, The God Species, Seeds of Science and Our Final Warning.
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.
Learning a bit about building game AIs: Related
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
Neat new location. #LaraconEU Related
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.
Evals Skills for Coding Agents Today, Shreya Shankar and I are publishing evals skills, a set of skills for AI product evals1. Eval tools often get in the way. They nudge you toward generic off-the-shelf metrics and fully automated evals before you’v…
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Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Architecture critic; created McMansion Hell in July 2016, roasting suburban houses while teaching what makes a building work, and writes on architecture and cycling elsewhere.
mctuscan heaven Howdy folks, I have some good news, which is that, after seven months, I’ve finally recovered from Long Covid. This is not something I particularly want to talk about in depth but it was the worst thing that ever…
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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.
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Back To The Garden
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Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.
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Clinical Reflections on the Critique on Polyvagal Theory proposed by Grossman et al., (2026)
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Polyvagal theory
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Polyvagal theory provided me with a coherent framework for understanding why cognitive insight alone often fails when a nervous system is in defensive dominance. In such states, higher-order cortical processes are functionally constrained.
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Polyvagal theory
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The central clinical proposition of polyvagal theory-that autonomic state functions as an organizing platform shaping perception, emotion, and relational behavior-was not empirically disproven in the critique.
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1 March
Researcher of social media, privacy and youth culture; founder of Data & Society and author of It’s Complicated.
Current household debate: Who bullshits more - GenAI or politicians? Related
Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
RE: https://phpc.social/@stefanzweifel/116149086800020733 Our group has been hit by the DeutscheBahn curse: Were stuck at a German operated train station for 2 hours. Let's see if we arrive in the evening. Related
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
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 Rick Beato (@rickbeato), a musician, music educator, producer, songwriter, and host of a YouTube channel that celebrates great musicians & musical ideas, and helps millions of people fall in love with great music all over again. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:44 - Guitar solos 4:43 - Gypsy jazz and Django Reinhardt 6:14 - Bebop jazz 10:27 - Perfect pitch vs relative pitch 15:04 - Learning to play guitar 38:34 - Miles Davis 44:01 - Bass guitar 45:08 - Greatest guitar solos of all time 1:14:23 - 27 Cl… Related
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Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
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Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
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With Claude, I've built a host of software like this. Mostly small tools for myself — programs that instantly append copy buffers to text files (I keep a running file of nice things people write to me called notapieceofshit.txt) or quickly perform live currency conversions.
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I don't use Patreon or Substack, I built my own platform atop Memberful.
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28 February
Founder and CEO of the search engine DuckDuckGo, and co-author of the books Traction and Super Thinking.
🆕✍️ There should be a citizen-led path to amend the Constitution. Congress won't reform itself, but a citizen-led amendment path could. gabrielweinberg.com
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Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
All packed and ready for #laraconeu next week. Tomorrow will be the long train travel day. Fingers crossed I make it through Germany. Related
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.
Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.
Obviously I strongly support Anthropic's position here. Quoting @AnthropicAI A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Anthropic Related
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
One thing I love about Anthropic is that our hiring process often includes a disclaimer that we will absolutely do something that zeros our equity if we think it's the best thing for the world. We are not anywhere close to that here—DOW can only block us from DOW contracts—but Quoting @AnthropicAI A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Anthropic Related
Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
For the better part of a decade, I've been writing that the US government's restrictions on Chinese tech companies were unstrategic, poorly explained, and based in caprice (https://t.co/Ohrn9qFtIL). Now it looks like the administration is turning these controls on American firms Quoting @deanwball Think about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind with arbitrary other companies. In other words, every operating system vendor, every manufacturer of hardware, every hyperscaler, every type of firm the DoD cont… China America Related
Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.
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A response to Dario Amodei on AI & clinical trials
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The current success rate for a drug entering clinical trials is only about ten percent, meaning 90 percent of all drugs fail.
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Psychotherapy
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Lastly, the duration of a clinical trial does not merely determine how fast an individual therapy reaches patients. It also shapes which diseases attract serious investment and which do not.
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But remember that such data can only come from trials in people (mice are nice, but most animal results simply do not translate.)
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Trials serve two distinct functions: validation — confirming whether a drug works and is safe — and learning, or generating biological data to refine our understanding of a disease, a compound, and the relationship between the two.
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Even if AI can help design more effective drugs, timelines will not compress until we solve the operational and regulatory bottlenecks of trials.
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Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
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🌻 AI vs. the pentagon
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It's hard to control a technology once you release it upon the world.
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AI alignment
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Many AI researchers are overly focused on risks from model misalignment, and will be in for a rough surprise when havoc arises from other layers of the stack.
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On the default path, I think AI will do more to threaten civil liberties than to preserve them.
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Writes Nintil, long researched essays on metascience, biology, economics and whatever he has decided to read the literature on.
27 February
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.
Amazing example of what game design iteration and pivoting actually look like: youtube.com
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Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.
Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.
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.
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
26 February
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
This is our third time out with Local-First Conf! In past years we've thoroughly explored some core topics like sync engines and CRDTs. In 2026, we're broadening into areas like identity, e2ee, malleable software, and open-weight models. Related
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
Author of the open source projects MessagePack, Fluentd and Embulk, and co-founder and chief architect of Treasure Data.
AIに膨大な知識を広く探索させるには、探索範囲を狭めないように指示する知識が必要。Aが良いと思っているがBも良いかも？と思っているときに、それらを包含する「Dを検討して」と指示するセンスが必要。そうすると第三のオプションCが提示される余地がある。これでAIの知識を効率的に取り出せる。 English, from Japanese To have AI explore vast knowledge broadly, it needs instructions not to narrow its search scope. It requires the sense to instruct "Consider D" when thinking "A is good, but maybe B is also good?" This leaves room for a third option, C, to be presented. This allows for efficient extraction of AI's knowledge.
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25 February
Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.
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).
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
LLMs Anthropic startups
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At Anthropic, we don't build for the model of today, we build for the model of six months from now. And that's still my advice to founders that are building on LLMs.
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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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Being a great listener when people speak. Deep insights about understanding, connection, helping people express themselves, overcoming assumptions, the ethics of gossip, and more. Specific techniques for the support response, encouraging elaboration, and keeping it balanced. You can’t be ethical without being a good listener. When people say, “I can’t talk right now,” what they really mean is “…
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24 February
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.
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Attack of the Zombie Tariffs
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Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
23 February
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.
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.
The Connectors screen in WP 7.0 would really benefit from encrypted options unless we want to expose those API keys to anyone with access to wp-admin/options.php Related
American budget-travel writer who publishes as Nomadic Matt. Author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day; runs nomadicmatt.com, a long-running site of destination guides, packing advice and gear recommendations.
Don’t Visit Ko Lipe After 19 years, I finally went back to Ko Lipe, the Thai island I spent close to a month on in 2006. Back then, it was one of those super off-the-beaten-path destinations that few but the most intrepid travelers visited…
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Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
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.
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
Hey friends! If you only follow me here, you're missing a lot of delightful messages I share with the world on ALMOST EVERY OTHER NETWORK. I don't like X because Elon Musk is an asshole AND behaves like a fascist. Catch up with me anywhere. Ciao! 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.
Canada could have won gold if they had just agreed to become the 51st state. Quoting @Sportsnet Team Canada comes away with silver in men's hockey 🥈🇨🇦 #MilanoCortina2026 Related
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Some Silly Z3 Scripts I Wrote As part of writing Logic for Programmers I produced a lot of “chaff”, code samples and sections I wrote up and then threw away. Sometimes I found a better example for the same topic, sometimes I threw the to…
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22 February
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Last year Mark Russinovich and I wrote a paper on how Software Engineering will redefine the profession, and how early in career engineers may see an “AI Drag,” while seniors will see a significant boost. This paper was published today in the Communications of the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery The real story though, is that we propose a program where companies must invest deeply in our EiC pipeline, not just hiring juniors but giving them formal *preceptors* (modeled after nursing) such that we create a strong pipeline of new senior engineers to take on the coming industry challeng… dl.acm.org
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American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
When @evanyou cooks, we all win 🚀 Quoting @evanyou I haven't been this excited building a thing for a VERY long time. Maybe even more excitement than when I was building Vite. Related
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.
A #cosmicdistanceLadder post on the many ways we project our planet onto a plane. No projection can faithfully reproduce *all* the geometric features of a sphere, so each projection is a compromise; but some projections are still preferred for specific applications. instagram.com
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Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.
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We're in Triage Mode for AI Policy
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History has shown very extensively that, left to their own devices, even if something could be done safely, people in a hurry will find all sorts of ways to f*** things up.
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data centers
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I think frontier AI auditing (covering both safety and security) is both urgently needed and doable, and can help avoid extreme concentration of power, since it introduces external oversight into the decision-making of people with a "country of geniuses in a datacenter" at their disposal.
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We need to accept that at best, we will just barely avoid some of the worst case scenarios (e.g., an AI-enabled biological weapon that kills billions, a rogue AI takeover, or stable global totalitarianism enabled by AI), given the current pace of AI capabilities relative to the pace of governance.
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Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.
Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.
21 February
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Software engineer who worked on Chrome and Polymer at Google, and writes about the web, emoji and Elm at meowni.ca.
Hi! I made a Chrome extension that highlights creeps from the Epstein emails. Depending on how much news you read on your computer, enabling it might be really depressing. 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.
Even though I don't listen to EDM I'm really rooting for this guy because we share a name and his fans often send me messages about how great "my" music is. Quoting @tynanofficial can't believe it's already been one week of tynan time 🥲🥲🥲 Related
Chancellor of Germany since May 2025; leader of the CDU.
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.
20 February
Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
This one with Andrew was great fun. One commentator even said, "Golden nuggets in this whole interview!" You be the judge: youtube.com
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Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
https://t.co/beSDEH3RUX Looking forward to speaking with @jburnmurdoch at this event next Tuesday in London 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.
The Bao Bun pivot was world class, but the hand gestures were the real star of the show. Love the opening nose tap to show he's confident but still open to suggestions. Lots of other gestures including clarifying order quantity without slowing down the order. Quoting @Johnfis08605918 Chinese in Dubai Marina ? Oh go on then. Bosh Related
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
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.
yay for automatic prefix caching! just set a single cache control field at the top level of your request body. note that you do still need to structure your prompt templates to benefit from prefix caching though. Related
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
19 February
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
A Motorcycle for the Mind Hey, this is Nivi. You’re listening to the Naval Podcast. For the first time in recorded history, we are not at the same location. I am actually walking around town and Naval might be doing the same, so there might be s…
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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.
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
Two weeks from today, on March 5th, I'll be hosting a webinar along with Morgan Housel to discuss: How to Build Wealth Simply and Spend it Wisely If you care to join us, and I hope you do, here's the link: us06web.zoom.us
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Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
What I Have For You The principles and tools that I’m passing along are about life, work, economics, and investments because those four areas are the ones I’ve worked hard on, developed principles for, and have a built t
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The Big Dangers of Big Bubbles with Big Wealth Gaps Since I have been a global macro investor for over 50 years, and learned a lot of lessons from history, naturally a lot of what I pass along is about that.
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Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
OSR questioning the Covid Inquiry's claim that modelling 'established' 23,000 fewer deaths if mandatory lockdown imposed a week earlier on March 16th. In fact this estimate is not only very uncertain, but also assumes voluntary measures were brought forward a week, to March 9th Quoting @StatsRegulation We have today written to the Covid-19 inquiry regarding the presentation of statistical modelling in the Executive Summary of its Module 2 report👇 Related
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
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If you want my advice about how to do these things well to help you be successful at investing, I recommend the Dalio Market Principles course which is put out by the Wealth Management Institute of Singapore.
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18 February
Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.
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Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
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.
Sonnet 4.6 is a big upgrade over 4.5. And it has 1M context! It's also versatile across classification, coding, computer use, autonomous agents by adjusting effort and thinking modes. Quoting @claudeai This is Claude Sonnet 4.6: our most capable Sonnet model yet. It’s a full upgrade across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design. It also features a 1M token context window in beta. Related
Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI, and author of Co-Intelligence. Writes One Useful Thing, where the claims are dated and testable because the thing they describe keeps changing under them.
Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.
The people in AI-generated videos seem conscious. Imagine a video generator that runs in real time and shows a man in an empty room. You can talk to him; he talks back. He paces around, gets bored, eats, asks questions. Is this a "video model" or a simulated universe? Related
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
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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Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.
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Empiricists vs. Extrapolators
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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.
Notes on clarifying man pages Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what makes a good man page. I’ve spent a lot of time writing cheat sheets for tools (tcpdump, gi…
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17 February
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
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.
I built an alternative to all the big players that can run fully local, where people own their data. I get hate. I picked OpenAI because they gave me better answers about encryption, responsibility and safety concerns for what I want to build next. I get hate. Quoting @mitsuhiko.at Reading some of the takes about Peter here and on X feels less like criticism and more like people shadowboxing their own hatred towards AI. Maybe good to remember that Peter is a real person and one that I know quite well. The criticism thrown his direction from some people is heavily misplaced. OpenAI Related
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
RE: https://phpc.social/@swiss_laravel_association/116086206827525434 I will do a talk about Mago (https://mago.carthage.software/). If you're in Zurich join us, it will be fun. Related
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
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.
Research psychologist, instrumental in founding the field of naturalistic decision making; developed the recognition-primed decision model, the PreMortem method and the ShadowBox training method, and wrote Sources of Power and Seeing What Others Don't.
Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
American social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.
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Why the World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kids
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Addiction
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Like any addictive consumer product that routinely exposes users to graphic sex, extreme violence, and anonymous sexual predators, social media in its current form causes a variety of harms to people of all ages. But we allow adults (often defined as age 18) to make decisions that are bad for them.
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I cannot support any law that includes a “parental consent” exception—it defeats the central purpose of the law by dropping parents and children straight back into the same collective-action trap
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Sixteen is also roughly the age by which a majority of adolescents have completed puberty: a sensitive period of neural reorganization during which it is extremely important to protect the brain.
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Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.
LLMs energy
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Both estimates make me think that the concern about global energy demand for LLMs is over-blown.
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Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
16 February
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.
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
Thank you for the warm welcome, @ncbn. It’s exciting to witness Andhra Pradesh’s growth being accelerated through AI, technology, and innovations across health, agriculture & education. Quoting @ncbn Technology must serve humanity. Our Real Time Governance System (RTGS) is transforming lives across Andhra Pradesh - delivering speed in governance & ease of doing business in real time. Grateful for my 1990s meeting with Mr. Bill Gates, which inspired this tech-driven citizen empowerment. Delighte… Related
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
Sigh, this post is getting basic facts wrong! 2nd print is India, 3rd print is by Toshi Yoshida (his son). I love Hiroshi Yoshida: Here are some from the series, including Niagara Falls, Mount Rainier, an alternate version of the Grand Canyon, and El Capitan in Yosemite. Quoting @artenpedia Hiroshi Yoshida - Color woodblock prints from the series United States of America. Related
Semiconductor analyst; writes Fabricated Knowledge on the chip industry and the companies in it.
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.
American budget-travel writer who publishes as Nomadic Matt. Author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day; runs nomadicmatt.com, a long-running site of destination guides, packing advice and gear recommendations.
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
So @steipete racked up such a big bill with OpenAI that he has to go work there to pay it off? :p OpenAI Related
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
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Take a hard game, and make it shorter
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It's interesting that the Shorter hobby businesses all draft off superstars in the legacy hobby, but make their vast majority of their money from people who will of course never come close to the level superstars - you'd still go to pickleball and talk Nadal vs Federer, you'd still go to Top Golf and make Tiger Woods jokes.
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You may be less aware that this is affecting real world business models.
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Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.
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The Constitution is not a bargaining chip for a budget negotiation
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And that risks giving the impression that basic constitutional rights and restraints on police and executive power that date back to the Founding are, actually, negotiable.
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An administrative warrant is just a way for a law enforcement officers to memorialize a hunch on paper.
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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
Writes Nintil, long researched essays on metascience, biology, economics and whatever he has decided to read the literature on.
A first glimpse of non-duality At a recent retreat, I found myself sitting on a cushion facing a wall while my meditation partner sat to my side, outside of my visual field and started reading to me "From You to Infinity", pointing-out instructions f…
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Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
An update on upki This post provides an update on the Canonical-supported upki project, which brings browser-grade Public Key Infrastructure to Linux through the efficient CRLite data format, with the core revocation engine now functiona…
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15 February
Designer and technologist; author of The Laws of Simplicity; former president of the Rhode Island School of Design; formerly at the MIT Media Lab.
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.
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.
I can't believe I'm discovering the Apple Shortcuts just now. In one click it can now get my computer ready for screen recording -- it opens VS Code, web browser + recording app, and resizes the windows to fit a specific aspect ratio. The app is bundled with every Mac and iPhone since 2021. Be sure to check out the included library of pre-built shortcuts and automations for inspiration. Related
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.
What Happens after Crossing the Finish Line When a seasoned founder sells their company, they are transformed from a highly productive member of society into a depressed money manager. Meanwhile, the goods and services of their former company are degraded by the…
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14 February
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.
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.
13 February
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
You vibed an app, for an audience of one. Add it to Tiny Tool Town. But You know what Tiny Tool Town REALLY needed? *TIKTOK MODE* Why not mindlessly scroll awesome vibe coded apps rather than videos? Maybe one will help you or someone else! go hit **https://tinytooltown.com** and tap "SHORTS" for TikTok/Shorts/Reels Mode Related
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
Mastodon This is an interesting read about "outcome engineering" from the CTO of Onebrief, Cory Ondrejka. o16g.com
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Bluesky This is an interesting read about "outcome engineering" from the CTO of Onebrief, Cory Ondrejka. o16g.com
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Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
The voluntary nature of Internet standards means that the biggest power move may be to avoid playing the game. Let's take a look. mnot.net
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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.
Had an amazing two days speaking to thousands of developers on how to navigate the uncertain future. One thing that really struck me though was the number of times people said things like I read your book in high school or I learned this language from your video, and now these folks are senior engineers at big companies I’ve only been doing this for like what, five years? Crazy 👴 Related
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.
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Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential”
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My one little bit, the one little bit of of fundamental uncertainty even on long time scales is this thing about tasks that aren't verifiable. Like, planning a mission to Mars, like, uh you know, doing some fundamental scientific discovery like like CRISPR, like, you know, writing a writing a novel. Hard to hard to verify those tasks.
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data centers
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on the basic hypothesis of you know, as you put it, within 10 years we'll get to, you know, you know, what I call kind of country of geniuses in a data center. I'm at like 90% on that. Um and it's hard to go much higher than 90% cuz the world is so unpredictable.
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the goal is not to teach the model every possible skill within RL just as we don't do that within pre-training, right? Within pre-training, we're not trying to expose the model to, you know, every every possible you know, way that words could be put together, right? You know, we're it's it's rather that the model trains on a lot of things and then and then it reaches generalization across pre-training, right?
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I think there's something going on that pre-training it's it's not like the process of humans learning. It's somewhere between the process of humans learning and the process of human evolution.
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I will tell you though what the most surprising thing has been. The most surprising thing has been the lack of public recognition of how close we are to the end of the exponential.
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Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
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When Long-Term Investments Finally Pay Off
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12 February
Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
Wild market. We haven't seen anything like this since the dotcom bubble burst. Over the last 8 sessions, 115 stocks in the S&P 500 have decline 7% or more in a single day. The average drawdown when that happens is 34%. Right now we're 1.5% below the all-time high. Related
Wait, the bathrooms at a festival cost how much??? We peeled back the curtain for a behind the scenes look at the biggest event in wealth management. Related
Cyborg anthropologist and UX designer; author of Calm Technology and co-founder of the geolocation startup Geoloqi.
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
Two weeks of real-world use on Firehose, my email triage prototype. • 572 emails automatically labeled • 77% coverage (confident labels) • 98.2% accuracy on confident ✨ Related
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.
Environmental writer and campaigner; author of Six Degrees, The God Species, Seeds of Science and Our Final Warning.
Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.
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.
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.
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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OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491
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So, I feel we, as a society, we need some catching up to do in terms of understanding that AI is incredibly powerful, but it's not always right. It's not, it's not all-powerful, you know?
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But I don't want to, like, pull that down because every time someone made the first pull request is a win for our society, you know? Like, it… Like, it doesn't matter how, how shitty it is, y- you gotta start somewhere.
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If you get really good at coding that means you have to be really good at general purpose problem solving. So that's a skill, right? And that just maps into other domains.
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I actually think vibe coding is a slur.
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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.
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OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491
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America
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there’s also within that excitement, and within everybody talking just to each other, there’s a dismissal of the basic human experience across the United States and the Midwest, across the world.
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there’s like a line to walk between being seriously concerned, but not fearmongering because fearmongering destroys the possibility of creating something special with a thing.
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coding agents
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It’s actually how good they are at programming is almost a burden in their ability to empathize with the system that’s starting from scratch. It’s a totally new paradigm of, like, how to program. You really, really have to empathize.
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it’s probably most likely the case that the intelligence of the model is not degrading. It’s in fact you’re getting used to a good thing.
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my criticism of MoltBook is that I believe a lot of the stuff that was screenshotted is human prompted. Which, just look at the incentive of how the whole thing was used. It’s obvious to me at least that a lot of it was humans prompting the thing so they can then screenshot it and post it on X in order to go viral.
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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.
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Speed Can Reindustrialize America
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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
OpenAI
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microgpt “hallucinating” a name like “karia” is the same phenomenon as ChatGPT confidently stating a false fact.
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Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.
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Chaos and Misallocation under Price Controls (with 2 co-authors)
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The quantity reduction is not the main cost of price controls. The misallocation is.
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benchmarks
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We show that equilibrium generically occurs at neither the Harberger nor Glaeser-Luttmer benchmark. Cost-minimizing suppliers drive allocations to vertices, not interiors. Corners are not an assumption but an outcome about what cost-minimizing suppliers choose. The correct benchmark is corners, not random, and corners generate qualitatively different welfare properties: losses far larger than either efficient or random distributions, and discontinuous jumps from small parameter perturbations.
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This paper shows that feast or famine, not modest belt-tightening, is the generic outcome of price controls.
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These corner allocations create a distinct source of cross-market misallocation, separate from the aggregate quantity loss (the Harberger triangle) and from within-market misallocation emphasized in prior work.
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11 February
Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.
I love how on @googledrive you tell it to download some files and then if you change wifi network it 1) throws away all the progress and 2) you need to tell it to download again.... Thus faithfully re-creating the 1995 browser download experience. Related
Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
Can confirm. Best job ever. Quoting @staysaasy You can’t imagine how great it was to be a pizza delivery guy in 2005. Entire families would celebrate your arrival like you were Santa Claus. You’d have to navigate via map like a pirate. Cops never messed with you. You’ve never seen a pizza delivery guy pulled over on the side of the road. You go… Related
Writes Useful Fictions on agency and how to get better at things; a former appellate lawyer and the top-ranked woman in professional poker in 2017.
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
This makes me really happy that a random blog post I wrote has helped someone. Keep writing about your learnings everyone! Your personal blogs help people. 😍 Quoting @alexunpacked.bsky.social Thank you so much for this post. I wiped my Mac and it ended up stuck in a boot loop, and reinstalling macOS would just hang for 4 hours. I also tried an Apple Configurator restore, but that failed too. The thing that finally fixed it was downloading the OS from IPSW. Now it’s working normally again Related
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.
Author and journalist writing on food, plants and consciousness. Professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of its Center for the Science of Psychedelics.
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a panoptic exploration of consciousness—what it is, who has it, and why—and a meditation on the essence of our humanity.
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Over thirteen lessons, you’ll learn about the past, present, and future of meat, from the ways animals and humans are treated in meat processing plants to emerging meat alternatives.
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filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to take a fresh look at our efficient yet vulnerable food system.
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10 February
Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.
Since nobody else is talking about AI these days, check out my conversation w/ @azimshariff, sponsored by the International Telecommunications Society & the Munk School. It’ll be fun! (Azim and I disagree about a few things.) February 19, 9:30–10:30 AM EST eventbrite.ca
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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.
Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
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Furthermore, I believe it’s very unlikely that space-based manufacturing or mining could be lucrative enough to fund the venture.
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Today, exploding demand for power-intensive AI applications provides enough of an upside to justify producing components in space, providing the economic engine necessary to justify and fund the trillions of dollars necessary to build and sustain space factories.
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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
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Space AI: I guess we’re doing Moon factories now
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Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
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Firehose authentic use
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9 February
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.
Bought a broken Grizzle-E duo charger on ebay, assuming I could probably figure out how to fix it. The problem was that it was missing the cable between the two boards. Asked @UnitedChargers support for info on how the pins on the two boards should be connected, or to buy a new cable to connect them. They wouldn't help, so a guy on Reddit took photos of his for me. Three wires later and it works perfectly and I can charge both EVs at once. Related
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
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.
It's sort of amazing how quickly you can do things now. I wanted to try writing an alphazero-style AI for Azul. With no AI background, it took me maybe 2-3 hours to (2-3 days wall clock) to beat the best public AI I could find, training on my laptop CPU: Related
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
All laws are local This week on my podcast, I read All laws are local a recent post from my Pluralistic.net blog, about the ephemerality of our seeming eternal verities. In other words, things that seem eternal and innate to the human con…
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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.
I tried to fix a point of interest which is in the wrong place. Apple Maps -> You can't fix anything. Google Maps -> Your edit suggestion is wrong (it's not). OpenStreetMap -> You need a PhD in GIS. I can't help but think we still have a fundamental problem making better maps. Google 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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Is the craft dead?
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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.
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Do subsidies make meat much cheaper?
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French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.
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CrossOver - to run Windows App on Mac (it's a paid product).
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Squoosh - Image compression
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Plausible - For ethical analytics
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Netlify - To preview my pull requests
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For other games, I rely on xCloud (Xbox's cloud gaming platform) Xbox Elite Controller Series 2 is my controller.
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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.
8 February
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
Mastodon Watching the snowboard men’s big air event at the Winter Olympics. I remember when 1080 spins were seen as a big deal and here we have 1980 spins. Incredible! Related
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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Virtual Desktops on Windows aren't used enough. Mac has the "maximize to Virtual Desktop" button so I did a similar thing for Windows. Please go test it and file issues. SHIFT-CLICK on the Maximize button will maximize a window to a new Virtual Desktop. Also a hotkey. github.com
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Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
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7 February
Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
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Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
In this podcast based in Poland we also discuss why I recommend investors outside the US choose a world fund like VT/VTWAX as opposed to VTI/VTSAX, and why the time may be coming for Americans to do the same. Quoting @J_Lempart 🔥I sat down with @JLCollinsNH – author of The Simple Path to Wealth – to talk about FU money, financial independence, and why boring index investing can buy you a life on your terms. We covered: ✅How living on 50% of his income bought JL decades of freedom ✅What FU money really is (and isn’t) ✅Why… America Related
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
I was on The Talk Show with @gruber, and took a (micro) beating for celebrating AI. It didn't make a dent in my enthusiasm. It's here, we're going to use it, no matter what. Let's use it well. I wish I'd threaded them, but start here if interested: mastodon.social
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Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
6 February
Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
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.
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
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Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
New Podcast Release: Jennifer Wallace In the latest episode of Lives Well Lived, the podcast I co-host with Kasia de Lazari-Radek, we speak with journalist and author Jennifer Wallace about her new book: Mattering: The Secret to Life of Deep Connection and…
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Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
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Failure is a good thing because it teaches us another way of how it's not to be accomplished.
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I have a strong feeling Claude Code will adopt this methodology eventually into the main loop.
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It's that the value of agentic coding comes from how you configure and constrain it, not from the raw code generation.
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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.
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
5 February
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
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.
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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.
Neuroscientist and novelist writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence and culture in the newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective.
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.
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.
Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.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.
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.
Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
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 particularly like to combine this with slower, more thoughtful models like Amp's deep mode (which is basically just GPT-5.2-Codex) which can take upwards of 30+ minutes to make small changes. The flip side of that is that it does tend to produce very good results.
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Agents are good at using gh (GitHub CLI), so I manually scripted a quick way to spin up a bunch in parallel to triage issues.
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The command palette that ships for macOS in Ghostty today is only very lightly modified from what Gemini produced for me in seconds.
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4 February
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
Right now, companies are hawking new AI features. They're not built for users -- they're built to satisfy management and investors. I'll know they're serious when they start pushing new features that *happen* to use AI, but are designed to solve specific problems. Related
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
Environmental writer and campaigner; author of Six Degrees, The God Species, Seeds of Science and Our Final Warning.
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.
Founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group; wrote Inspired, Empowered and Transformed on how product organisations work.
Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.
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.
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.
Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
Thank you! ❤️ Quoting @readcurious.xyz Our book of the month for February is "Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir" by @craigmod.com—a superb, closely observed meditation on life, tradition, friendship and loss while hiking the ancient pilgrim trails of Japan's remote Kii peninsula. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur022-cra... 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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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
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Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
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Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.
Speaking at NYU this Thursday, Feb 6, at 4:45, join me if interested in 'Network Science as a Falsifiable Discipline: From Graphs to Testable Laws' law.nyu.edu
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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.
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You still have to have to fight against the Apple blue-bubble brainwashing, but once you do you'll never go back.
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I believe this is the watch great watchmakers would make today, given that back in the 1800s they were using all available technology.
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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.
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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.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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Anyway, I've been very impressed with NVIDIA GeForce NOW.
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The Moonlight client is available for virtually every platform: Mac, iOS, Android, and of course Linux. That means no need to dual boot to enjoy the best games at the highest fidelity.
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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
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This is what it means to read a short story collection from an absolute master at the absolute peak of his powers. He can slide you frictionlessly between Icelandic troll tragedies to lethal drone-leopard romantic agonies to battles of the gods and the cigar box that has the universe inside of it. All with the lyricism of Bradbury, the madcap wit of Sturgeon, the unrelenting weirdness of Dick, the heart of Tiptree and the precision of Chiang.
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2 February
Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.
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.
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
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.
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
1 February
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
Bluesky A great article from @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social on building a vertical micro frontend architecture. This very much resembles what I’m working on for the upcoming Kong Konnect architecture enhancements, including view transitions, pre-warming apps, and more blog.cloudflare.com
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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
Threads’ margin is the Eurostack’s opportunity This week on my podcast, I read “Threads’ margin is the Eurostack’s opportunity,” a recent post from my Pluralistic.net blog, about the tactics that digital sovereignty advocates can deploy to counter Meta’s (further) e…
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Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
Hey @steipete - you must be going through heaven and hell right now. What a blessing and curse to upheave the whole world's attitude towards AI. I'm so impressed and happy that it's you who did it. Keep going. Related
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.
President of the VideoLAN non-profit and one of the lead developers of the VLC media player; active on the project since 2005.
Economist; Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017.
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
Baby Steps I worked on Baby Steps, with Gabe Cuzzillo and Maxi Boch, from late 2019 to 2025. I don't really have enough distance from it to explain what it is or why you should play it. Here's some press if you're curious to know…
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31 January
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
Social media companies baking fake notification indicators into their favicon is borderline abusive behaviour. Related
Founder and CEO of the search engine DuckDuckGo, and co-author of the books Traction and Super Thinking.
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
Automatic programming In my YouTube channel, for some time now I started to refer to the process of writing software using AI assistance (soon to become just "the process of writing software", I believe) with the term "Automatic Programming"…
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President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
Last night I saw, “MELANIA,” for the second time. The audience loved it, and so do I. Check it out — A MUST SEE! amazon.com
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Writer of MacSparky and author of the MacSparky Field Guides on Apple productivity software. A lawyer for 30 years before going full-time on the site, he co-hosts the Mac Power Users and Focused podcasts.
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However, I frequently run the Dia browser these days when I need a Chrome-based browser.
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That said, the last six months I’ve been primarily using Claude. I’ve been really happy with it.
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I’m using my collection of Field Notes more aggressively than ever. I carry them in my pocket.
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Also, for several years now, I’ve been using Plotter stationery. I’m still loving it.
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30 January
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
Local-First Conf is back in 2026 for a third installment. This year we'll double down on what's worked in the past... but do a few things differently. Related
Designer and technologist; author of The Laws of Simplicity; former president of the Rhode Island School of Design; formerly at the MIT Media Lab.
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
Follow Your Passion (But Not Like That) Reading Time: 6 minutesA while ago, I asked my Twitter friends to tell me what the most annoying and most infuriating piece of entrepreneurial advice is that they ever received. And overwhelmingly, “follow your passion”…
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Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
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Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
29 January
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.
Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.
Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
Co-founder and CEO of Until, a reversible-cryopreservation company, and previously the founder of the Longevity Fund.
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but ice sort of forms through a process of random nucleation and then extension. And this is cool because you can uh modulate the like sort of nucleation the rate of nucleation and extension to then modulate the probability of ice formation.
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but I think that the thing that a lot of people will face is just like this question of like is it worth you know traveling so far to give up my current social context and that will put a limit on like how much people want to use this for
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But right now like there's no way to press pause on their biological time. So like what if you had an ambulance of the future, right? Like what if you could take someone who is on their deathbed and um you know find some way to you know just sort of hibernate them basically until um the sort of critical cure for their disease comes online.
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I think longevity is interesting because it feels like an area where there's a social blind spot around something and I find those very interesting.
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I think longevity and aging kind of occupy this weird realm where because they're not like explicitly diseases in a way that's fully socially recognized yet they're not seen as valid to work on but like that's not really for I think technical reasons on some level it's more for like classification reasons
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Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
The cults of TDD and GenAI I’ve gotten a lot of flack throughout my career over my disdain towards test-driven development (TDD). I have met a lot of people who swear by it! And, I have also met a lot of people who insisted that I adopt it, too,…
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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.
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Which brings me to the film adaptation of Inherent Vice, that widely-disliked, subtly-championed shaggy stoner LA noir that confused critics and rankled fans and also happens to be the best movie Paul Thomas Anderson has ever made.
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the Coen Brothers' Raising Arizona, which is, I will argue without apology, the greatest film they ever made.
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If I was put on the spot to name the greatest movie of the 21st century, I would probably say Michael Hanneke's Amour, an achingly moving, relentlessly unpleasant portrait of an elderly couple sinking into illness and senescence, forced into making the grimmest decisions possible.
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28 January
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
27 January
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
I’m deeply sad to learn of the passing of Dr. Bill Foege. Bill was a towering figure in global health—a man who saved the lives of literally hundreds of millions of people. He was also a friend and mentor who gave me a deep grounding in the history of global health and inspired me with his conviction that the world could do more to alleviate suffering. Bill and I often talked together about the future of global health. The legacy of his career is that many of the remarkable developments to come will have his imprint all over them. gatesnot.es
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Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI, and author of Co-Intelligence. Writes One Useful Thing, where the claims are dated and testable because the thing they describe keeps changing under them.
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
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.
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.
Gosh this is like a quiet safe haven here. X went completely batshit crazy. Crypto shills attacking me, my account doubling in follower numbers overnight. What a day. crypto Related
It certainly helped. Quoting @orta.io It's not true but it's funny to imagine that mine and @steipete.me's Claude Code Anon meetup on the 19th is what helped Clawd literally turn a corner on popularity. Related
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
I always have a great time chatting with John @Gruber, but it's even better when y'all get to listen, too. daringfireball.net
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Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
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.
26 January
Designer and writer; design director of NYTimes.com, later a principal designer at Adobe, and author of the Subtraction.com blog.
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.
Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
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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 Nintil, long researched essays on metascience, biology, economics and whatever he has decided to read the literature on.
Neuroscientist and novelist writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence and culture in the newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective.
25 January
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
Mastodon Yet another blog post. Two in a week is a new record for me. A quick guide to rescuing a locked MacBook Pro. marclittlemore.com
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Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.
Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.
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What you want to do is say what made you cancel? In other words, what about the product or situation or whatever caused the cancellation? Just phrasing it that way, you get much better results.
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So let's suppose you add 100 customers a month and you have 5% cancellation. So 100 divided by 5% is 2,000. So a company like that will never have more than 2,000 customers.
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Marketing grows only as fast as you can improve marketing. We all know that's quite hard actually. It's linear. It's hard to find new channels that aren't trivial. Like, it's hard. Of course, we're going to do it, but like it it's hard. Whereas, cancellations grow automatically as you grow, right? So, cancellations always overtake marketing for this reason.
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They actually had the budget and bought the stupid thing. Then they went through onboarding and invested their time etc etc. That is a crazy gauntlet that almost no one gets through.
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there's a there's a series of of questions that I ask to to diagnose why is growth slowing in this order because it's one of these things where the first one that's a problem, if you don't fix that, it doesn't matter if you fix one of the ones below.
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British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
Rescuing My Bricked M1 MacBook Pro Back in 2021, I joined a logistics startup called Beacon. I didn't stay long, but I walked away with a company MacBook Pro M1. It should have been sent back, but a major family health emergency happened at the same time…
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Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.
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The ORS is a brief, 4-item measure designed to assess areas of life functioning known to change as a result of therapeutic intervention. It takes less than one minute to complete and score.
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The SRS is a brief, 4-item measure designed to assess the therapeutic alliance. It provides immediate feedback on the quality of the relationship and allows for course correction in real time.
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Freelance research analyst and writer of the blog Aceso Under Glass, known for 'epistemic spot checks' of non-fiction claims.
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I only checked a handful of youtube reviewers, but my favorite is Jennifer Wang, who seemed properly autistic about clothing quality and understanding that there are multiple places on the pareto frontier one might choose to occupy
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ThredUp was amazing when it was in the "VC free money" stage, but their return policy tightened up and it's now merely okay.
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24 January
Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
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Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
The Harding Prize for Trustworthy Communication is now open for entries until 15th February. We are looking for examples that inform people engagingly, without trying to persuade them what to think or do. Each Harding Prize is worth £3,141.59... wintoncentre.github.io
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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.
President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
I have been briefed on the Record Cold Wave and Historic Winter Storm that will be hitting much of the United States this weekend. The Trump Administration is coordinating with State and Local Officials. FEMA is fully prepared to respond. Stay Safe and Stay Warm! President DJT Quoting @NWS Take this storm seriously, folks. Moderate to major impacts are expected from the Central US through to the Northeast today through the weekend. - Hazardous to impossible driving conditions are expected. Avoid travel if at all possible. - Widespread closures and disruption to infrastructure may als… America Related
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.
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One good Yohji piece annihilates three seasons of hype drops.
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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.
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My favorite brand is Yohji Yamamoto
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Extreme Cashmere — Dutch brand making oversized, genderless cashmere knits. Their pieces are numbered instead of named.
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Milbon Curl Mousse keeps curls hydrated and defined.
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Muji storage for organization.
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USM Haller storage — long-term investment worth saving for.
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23 January
President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
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Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
Can an algorithm learn your life priorities when sorting email? In the first phase of my “personal information firehose” reseach, I trained an embedding-based classifier: adamwiggins.com
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What do YOU think, fellow @Tesla owners? I personally disagree with almost everything the company has changed about the cars in the past few years. Bring back more physical controls and don't make people fuck with a touchscreen while driving. Keep autopilot because people want to control their own speed and lane selection sometimes, and so much more. Or watch the sales keep going to competitors. If I had to replace my 2023 model Y right now, a used one would be more valuable than a new one. Related
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Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
I've had fun helping BBC Ideas produce this animation, which attempts to explain Bayesian ideas in 4 minutes. I hope you like it - I really like the animators style. bbc.co.uk
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Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
tonight's TBOT event with motoyuki shibata was sold out, but I added a few more ticket spots; 19:30 @ dandelion chocolate Kuramae: tbot.peatix.com
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Musician and writer; answers readers' questions weekly at The Red Hand Files, and fronts Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
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Suffering is the essential and nourishing ground from which all the delightful gifts of life emerge.
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Design engineer and illustrator; makes visual essays on programming, anthropology and what language models do to the way people write.
22 January
Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.
A game idea should be at least 90% mechanics and less than 10% story. Any more than 10% story is a red flag. Related
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.
Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.
Speaking today at 10am EST/4pm EU about our Nature on String Theory and the Brain and the Lognormal Connectome. ...at the U of Cambridge Making connections- brains and other complex systems lecture, Sign up here to watch here: https://t.co/lxigtmZDjJ Photo by Peter Puklus Related
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Back when the Fourth Amendment was enacted, the most fundamental remedy for an unlawful government entry into your home was a civil suit for trespass against the officers.
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Even if the policy is unconstitutional, as it seems to be, a person who is illegally searched probably can't sue ICE for violating their constitutional rights.
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Given the focus in Coolidge, Shadwick, and Payton on the fundamental role of warrants in inserting a judicial check on the executive, it seems out of place to say that this can be satisfied by the executive checking itself.
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Alignment researcher at Anthropic; co-led OpenAI's superalignment team until 2024, and writes Musings on the Alignment Problem.
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Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
Agentic development basics In my last post, I suggested that you should start using Claude in your software development process via read-only means at first. The idea is just to get used to interacting with the AI, seeing what it can do, and seei…
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Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
21 January
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
Mastodon I want 2026 to be a year where I start blogging on my own site again. I've finally published a blog post after it sitting in draft for 4 months. Only a year after my last blog post. 🙈 marclittlemore.com
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Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.
Prefer to design from imagination and play, not spreadsheets. Spreadsheets round off too many spiky bits and kill serendipity. Related
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.
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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.
Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.
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I use simplelab to test the water.
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These are in the Blueprint stack including Essential Capsules and Longevity Mix
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The Blueprint system combines a water-based, residue-free, peptide serum and shampoo.
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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.
High Praise, thanks Federico! It's been years since I had so much fun building something. Defo feels like living in the future. Quoting @viticci.macstories.net An open-source AI agent running on my Mac mini is the most fun I've had with AI in a while. Clawdbot by @steipete.me is an AI assistant that you can infinitely tweak. Runs in any messaging app, has access to skills + shell, and it can improve itself. My story: www.macstories.net/stories/claw... Related
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
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Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
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Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
The Open Web means several things to different people, depending on context, but recently discussions have focused on the Web's Openness in terms of access to information -- how easy it is to publish and obtain information without barriers there. mnot.net
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Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
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Canonical’s LXD works out-of-the-box on Ubuntu, and is a great way to sandbox an agent into a disposable environment where the blast radius is limited should the agent make a mistake.
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Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
Code is a liability (not an asset) This week on my podcast, I read “Code is a liability (not an asset),” a recent post from my Pluralistic.net blog, about the bad ideas behind the drive to replace programmers with chatbots. Code is a liability. Code’s ca…
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