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16 April
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
Law professor at Berkeley and the leading scholar of the Fourth Amendment as it applies to computers; writes at the Volokh Conspiracy.
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
x.com New blog post out today! The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Social Security Link to full article in the comments below Related
Blog The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Social Security In the world of very early retirement, we tend to ignore one of the most important things for normal retirees: the Social Security program. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great thing for the 73 million people who currently…
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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
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.
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
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.
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Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
https://t.co/JQTg7cNIIe happening right now! I'll be on at 2:45 PM ET with @starkness and @AlexLi98 to talk about The Forest and the Trees: Bitcoin's Future in the Era of Quantum and AI Related
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
Just awesome! 🤩 20 years later and meeting Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSON again! ❤️🔥 #JSON #Achievement #Grateful #Career Related
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
AI cybersecurity is not proof of work The proof of work is the wrong analogy: finding hash collisions, while exponentially harder with N, is guaranteed to find, with enough work, some S so that H(S) satisfies N, so an asymmetry of resources used will see th…
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Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance and Business Valuation as an adjunct professor at MDI Gurgaon. He writes the Fundoo Professor blog about investing, moats and mental models.
Proud to see an ex-student’s photo on the cover page of ET. For the right reasons. 😊 @jaycee77 Related
Founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group; wrote Inspired, Empowered and Transformed on how product organisations work.
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Build to Learn vs Build to Earn
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15 April
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
Semiconductor analyst; writes Fabricated Knowledge on the chip industry and the companies in it.
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
help there is too much to learn about and it is all rather interesting Related
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
What an amazing couple days at #MicroConf 2026. Here’s a video recapping some of the highlights 👇 Quoting @MicroConf That's a wrap on #MicroConf US 2026 in Portland! Couldn't make it? Here's everything you missed: Related
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
The malleable computer Open source promised that users would be free to change whatever code they were running. The reality, however, is that hardly any of them ever did — it was simply too hard. Now, with AI, it suddenly isn't. This is very…
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Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.
Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
This is a good high-level call to action in a post by @conduition_io on isogeny-based cryptography It comes after a fair amount of detail and math, but you can skip past that part if you're just interested in what could be done for *long-term* post-quantum Bitcoin: Related
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
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.
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.
Brainwashing for Confidence My mom brainwashed me to be confident. She told me over and over that I was great and destined for great things. And it worked. To this day, when I lose or make a mistake, I get mad, but I always wind up where my mother…
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Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.
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Freelance research analyst and writer of the blog Aceso Under Glass, known for 'epistemic spot checks' of non-fiction claims.
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Church Planting: Lessons from the Comments
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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.
14 April
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
.@TheCraigHewitt takes the stage to close out #MicroConf 2026 talking about how to run a SaaS in a post-software / agentic world. SaaS Related
Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
Its fun to work with Clint. We used to use graphviz dot files to power our software factory Clint went hunting a missing backslash in a DOT pipeline and came back with an entire language. Dippin replaces DOT for authoring AI pipelines Related
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
one of my favorite games from the last few years Quoting @hairyheartstudio.bsky.social Anthology of the Killer is OUT NOW on PS5 and Nintendo Switch! The groundbreaking and dreamlike, IGF Nuovo-winning horror-comedy series from legendary auteur thecatamites, is finally on console! Play once and remember forever. Related
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance and Business Valuation as an adjunct professor at MDI Gurgaon. He writes the Fundoo Professor blog about investing, moats and mental models.
https://t.co/JGsnEXIi3l Looking forward to doing this again. New cases. Expanded course. Bigger venue. @FLAMEUniversity Related
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
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Software architect and futurist; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF, and has written about robocars for two decades.
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Self-driving cars seem to be just more cars, and people who dislike cars don't love that. But the electric robotaxi offers much more potential
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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.
Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.
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Yesterday, I spoke with Mike Solana of the excellent newsletter Pirate Wires, one of the best places anywhere to find some truly heterodox takes about the relationship between tech and politics.
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13 April
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
.@einarvollset takes the stage to talk about how to know the right time to sell your SaaS at #MicroConf US, 2026. SaaS Related
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
a stablecoin is in no way a bearer instrument ownership records are kept in a smart contract completely controlled by the issuer i'm not sure where this idea came from, but it's not helpful when thinking about regulation or responsibility. Related
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
The role local-first can play in the software industry: encourage us all to think longer-term. Quoting @localfirstconf "Am I empowering my users to take their data and go to where they need to go when the time comes for that?" @_adamwiggins_ Related
Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.
Machine-learning researcher at Cursor working on post-training for coding models; a professor at Harvard and then Cornell from 2016 to 2026, and a researcher at Hugging Face from 2019 to 2024.
Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. Writes Eating Policy on why governments cannot do what they decide to do.
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.
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.
Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.
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What Is Second Language Acquisition?
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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 populism's warning shots
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That's why I don't think accelerationist steamrolling will work. The only way this conflict resolves peacefully is some kind of grand bargain: a flagship policy plan that directly addresses the public's top fears about AI and meaningfully redistributes the gains.
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AGI
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Backlash is also the inevitable consequence of AGI-pilling the nation.
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From now until forever, most people regulating, protesting, and talking about AI will not be interested in AI per se, but rather how it impacts their preexisting belief systems and political agendas.
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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.
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Integrated information theory: the good, the bad and the misunderstood (with 6 co-authors)
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Fifth, for IIT to fit with current successful theories in fundamental physics, a reformulation in terms of continuous fields would be needed.
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Fourth, so far only proxies for IIT measures have been computed, and not approximations.
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Second, we describe with nuance the distinct flavour of panpsychism implied by IIT - whereby space (and time) are tiled with substrates of (proto-) consciousness - and find this is not problematic for the theory.
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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.
Mechanical sympathy Weaver, seen from the Front, Vincent van Gogh, 1884 Something that’s been floating around in my head lately is the idea that I don’t know any truly good engineers who are also not good at at product design.…
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Design engineer and illustrator; makes visual essays on programming, anthropology and what language models do to the way people write.
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
12 April
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.
German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
Genomics researcher and investor; writes The Century of Biology on where biotechnology is actually going.
Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.
Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.
Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks. One of my gifts/curses is an endless fixation with how processes can be optimized. For a brief moment early in my career, that was focused on improving how humans collaborate, but that quickly switched to figuring out h…
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Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.
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.
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".
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
11 April
Ruby and Rails core committer known online as "tenderlove"; maintains Nokogiri and works on Ruby performance.
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.
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
This update expands editorial workflows with new experiments for Content Classification and SEO-friendly Meta Description generation, adds bulk Alt Text generation in the Media Library, and improves extensibility and reliability across the plugin. https://make.wordpress.org/ai/2026/04/10/whats-new-in-ai-0-7-0/ #WordPress #AI #OpenSource 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.
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
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20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job
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Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
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I am quoting Raymond Aron, who wrote a very important book published in the 1960s called Peace and War
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10 April
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
- Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am sharing a photo in the hopes that it might dissuade the next person fr…
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Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.
Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.
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).
Cyborg anthropologist and UX designer; author of Calm Technology and co-founder of the geolocation startup Geoloqi.
It was a great honor to speak at @AXIS_Tokyo and provide a workshop on #CalmTech. Thank you to everyone for a meaningful experience. Quoting @nobi 3月4日に AXIS Gallery @AXIS_Tokyo で行われた Amber Case @caseorganic を招いての #CalmTech イベントレポートが @mui_labo のページに掲載されていました： https://t.co/tLO4IkEkVg 3月末には掲載されていたようですが今頃気がつきました💦 Related
Programmer and writer; specified JSON, wrote JavaScript: The Good Parts, JSLint and How JavaScript Works.
Ruby and Rails core committer known online as "tenderlove"; maintains Nokogiri and works on Ruby performance.
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.
State of Agentic Coding #5 with @mitsuhiko.at is live. In this episode: - death of the IDE premature? - what's with all the bugs - will future models fix yesterday's AI code? - token abuse, slowing down, and more! YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCpY... Spotify: open.spotify.com
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Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
Software is crashing again today. The two-day move from Wed-Thursday was a complete outlier. We've never seen the S&P 500 up that much with software down that much. Related
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
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.
Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
In the last few weeks, Trump has done more for the worldwide adoption of electric vehicles than any previous US president. Congratulations. Related
In 2026, kids skating in public spaces isn’t annoying - it’s FUCKING WHOLESOME, carrying on a 40+ year legacy, and certainly should not be considered any kind of crime. Related
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
9 April
Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
Founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group; wrote Inspired, Empowered and Transformed on how product organisations work.
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
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 historian Lars Brownworth all about the Vikings, from the start of the Vikings Age to the conquest of Europe and beyond. This was an epic & mind-blowing conversation. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 1:17 - Introduction 2:37 - The start of the Viking Age 12:30 - Viking military strategy, tactics & technology 26:13 - Ragnar Lothbrok 35:40 - The Great Heathen Army 40:23 - Rollo and Normandy 50:34 - Viking religion and Valhalla 1:01:06 - Viking explorers 1:06:13 - Vikings in North America 1:19:35 - Vi… Europe America Related
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Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.
Engineer who worked on the Linux kernel and helped launch Android at Google; author of Linux Kernel Development and Linux System Programming.
The article also cites a shared interest in libertarian politics and PGP as if that doesn't describe everyone on the Internet in the 90s The linguistic analysis is interesting but you can't use it to single out one individual Quoting @robertgraham Hi. Professional C/C++ programmer here. The open-source code I can find written by Adam Back and Satoshi Nakamoto don't look remotely similar. Back's code looks typical of academic Unix programmers who also hack their code to run on Windows. Satoshi code was written by a professional Windows progra… Related
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.
Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. Writes Eating Policy on why governments cannot do what they decide to do.
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other.
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Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
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This book is a beautiful capstone to a brilliant career that defined the fight for cyber rights, and a deep, accessible dive into the defining tech and human rights battles of this century.
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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code.
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these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code.
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8 April
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
it's so true Quoting @hollygramazio.bsky.social gelatoooo Related
Front-end developer and writer on Svelte, Vue, CSS and WordPress; blogs at joshcollinsworth.com.
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.
Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.
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.
Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
“Good protocol design requires balancing the tensions of ideology and practicality.” Fantastic read on federation, p2p, and software people actually want to use: pfrazee.com
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Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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I know this from experience because I've been trying to build a lot of other businesses since. And some of them have been moderate successes, even good successes, none of them have been Basecamp. It's really difficult to do that twice.
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And I have no shame in saying that Base Camp was the best idea objectively in terms of a business that we've ever had.
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Linux
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But I have come to realize that as a web developer, Linux is just better. Linux is just better. It's closer to what I deploy on. The tooling is actually phenomenal.
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anyone who's working with the web, who's working with Ruby, who's doing DevOps, they should be on Linux because first of all, that's closer to what we deploy.
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Mojito Island is a mirage. It always was. There is no retirement for ambitious people. There is no just sitting back on the beach and sipping a mojito for what? For two weeks before you go damn crazy and wanna get back into the action?
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I think that's the other big misconception that some people have about wealth is that they conceive of it as some sort of checkpoint. Like once you've made it, then you can just kick back in leisure as though that was happiness.
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It may no longer have as much economic value as it once did. I think that I'm quite convinced is true that we perhaps have seen the peak.
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So, I do think it is correct for the average programmer to think maybe we've seen the best of the golden days.
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The joy of a programmer, of me as a programmer, is to type the code myself. If I elevate myself, if I promote myself out of programming, I turn myself into a project manager. A project manager of a murder of AI crows as I wrote the other day.
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I have been hyper accelerated as a programmer. It's a different kind of programmer, but it still has the same affinity to aesthetics, at least when I'm producing Ruby code.
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Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
7 April
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).
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
Wrote down how I recently tried to add a "remaining characters count" to a Filament PHP text input. stefanzweifel.dev
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London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
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Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
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Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. Writes Eating Policy on why governments cannot do what they decide to do.
Author of the open source projects MessagePack, Fluentd and Embulk, and co-founder and chief architect of Treasure Data.
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.
This life is fucking amazing. I'm so grateful to be alive, with all of you on this miracle of a planet. Oh and I'm sorry if I fuck things up sometimes. I'm a flawed human. But I promise to do whatever I can to try to add some more understanding and love to this world. After the world leader convos I get attacked intensely by all sides, and many disparate online communities. It has led to some really low points for me mentally. But I don't matter. I'm listening. I'll do better. And I'll try to find the strength to do more of them, always with rigor and backbone, seeking to truly understand. An… Related
Scientist and writer on quantum computing, memory systems and metascience; co-wrote the standard quantum computation textbook and wrote Reinventing Discovery.
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Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than us
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and in some sense Darwin's genius wasn't in having that idea. It was understanding just how central it was uh to to to biology.
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the point is that where we always get bottlenecked is where the the previous processes and and and heuristics don't apply. Right? Like that's almost sort of definitionally what causes the bottlenecks.
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And like, this idea that people have that that that Newton was um sort of the the first modern scientist is is somehow wrong. He I mean, it's there's some truth to it, but he really had this very different way um of of looking at the world that was part sort of superstitious um and part modern. It was a funny hybrid.
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And so, you have what seem like three very different disconnected phenomena all being explained by this one set of ideas.
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his expertise seems to be getting in the way. He knows so much, he understands so much, um and then he's not able to let go of these these things.
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Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
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Martin Fowler & Kent Beck: Frameworks for reinventing software, again and again
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Um I think another similarity is I mean, the core notions uh behind Agile and extreme programming are solid and good, but a huge snake oil industry appeared around it, the Agile industrial complex as I like to refer to it. Um and that will happen. That is happening with AI right now, and it's often hard to see the difference between where is the snake oil and where is the real stuff.
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one of the things that I took from that was to use this tool well, you have to learn how to use it well, which was also something very true of object orientation.
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My skepticism has to be absolute and total, which means I have to be skeptical about my skepticism. And that requires that curiosity.
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but the thing about AI is that, you know, all of many of these things we were talking about how important they were and how valuable were and trying to persuade people of the importance of them. Yes, even the internet. That may sound surprising, but there were people who would weren't thinking that was important. Um but AI, there's kind of no argument about how important it is. People can't can I mean, you cannot put blinkers on to deny the importance of this thing.
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Well, nothing has hit with the magnitude of AI. That's I mean, this is a a whole size difference from anything that we've faced before.
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Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
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Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.
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AI and jobs
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Yeah, AI is an amplifier. And if uh if you're young and learning quickly, AI is going to amplify that or can amplify that. So, I I personally think this is this is the golden age of the junior programmer.
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That's a You know, people want the answer, and the answer is changing. So, you can't possibly in this environment have the answer. Now, that's the bad news. The good news is nobody else has the answer either. So, you're just as smart as everybody else because you're just as ignorant as everybody else.
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Yeah, what what's the smallest experiment I can run to verify to my own satisfaction and everybody's level of satisfaction is going to be different whether or not this claim is true. That's That's the skill that is suddenly in the last year become a thousand times more valuable is that skill of saying, "What's the least I can do to validate for my to my own satisfaction whether this claim is true?
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So, as seniors, I figure it behooves us to demonstrate not just how to use these tools effectively, but how to figure out how to use these tools effectively, cuz that's a whole different set of skills.
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And one of the things I noticed is for 25 years we've kind of had the answers. Somebody comes to us and says we have too many bugs or like, all right, well, here's how you write tests. Oh, I can't write tests. Well, here's how you design so you can write tests. It's just kind of press play uh on the recorder. And the thing that's changed is at this moment nobody knows the answers to anything.
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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.
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Borrow-checking surprises
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0058: borrow-checking surprises, books, links
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Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.
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dcmake: a new CMake debugger UI
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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.
Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.
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This book is so full of wisdom and insight. I pulled down my copy just now and it's filled with underlines and margin notes.
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I discovered Campbell's work during that great transitional period of my life (in my early 30s, when I left the wrong career and the wrong relationship, and set sail into the unknown) and it has been a mainstay ever since.
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This is one of the most extraordinary memoirs I've ever read.
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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.
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Many of the indicators I use to track unfolding events are explained in Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order. I especially recommend Chapter 6, “The Big Cycle of External Order and Disorder,” and, if you are interested in the unimaginable-in-peacetime investment-related developments that typically happen during wars, I recommend Chapter 7, “Investing in Light of the Big Cycle.”
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Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
I'm curious about this as well. @business can you please be more specific in your reporting? just saying "stablecoins" without referencing which issuer or which chain isn't acceptable. bloomberg.com
Quoting @matthew_d_green I’ve seen reports that Iran is demanding payment in stablecoins for Hormuz transits. Does anyone know the addresses or chain details? Related
Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
Creative coder behind neal.fun, a site of interactive web experiments including Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Deep Sea and Absurd Trolley Problems.
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Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.
Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
Nilo has officially launched its Open Beta. 🚀 Nilo is transforming how games and virtual worlds are built and prioritizes the creator's experience above all else. I’m a proud supporter 👉 Try it now: https://t.co/OtxIWqKkcB 👾 Join the Nilo Discord: discord.gg
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I don't think the continuation of the species is some niche, selfish lifestyle choice, nor do I think people without children should have to constantly absorb the consequences of a structure that isn't helping either of us.
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Whenever humans experience situations where we are closer to our animal selves than usual (needing to use the bathroom, having periods, giving birth, raising a baby, being sick), we usually behave as animals do: instinctively, urgently, and impolitely.
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I no longer think the problem is individual behavior so much as structural failure: a world with so little margin, tenderness, or infrastructural mercy that people are forced into constant friction.
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Director of strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology; an OpenAI board member until November 2023, and writes Rising Tide.
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The term “AGI” is almost useless at this point
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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.
On Programming Joy and Octocat While GitHub has been busy losing its last nine of availablility, I’ve been thinking about how the internet used to be. Not the internet people talk about from the 90s, but the internet that we used to have even 1…
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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Give the new Dell XPS series, or any of the other laptops shipping with Panther Lake, a try. I think you'll be as impressed as I've been.
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Intel really delivered with Panther Lake.
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German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
Intl can localize units, too! (#tilPost) Today I learned that Intl allows you to format numbers with currencies or units! console.log( new Intl.NumberFormat("de-DE", { style: "currency", currency: "EUR" }).format(123456789), ); // "123.456.789,00 €" console.lo…
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Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
Not Normal This week on my podcast, I read Not Normal, my latest Locus Magazine column, about the surreal and terrible world we’ve been eased into thanks to anti-circumvention laws. If you were paying attention in 1998, you could…
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Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. Writes Eating Policy on why governments cannot do what they decide to do.
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.
NASA Elements of Engineering Excellence I stumbled across this report from NASA, “Elements of Engineering Excellence”, published in 2012, The inspiration for this paper originated in discussions with the director of MSFC Engineering in 2006 who as…
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Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
In the Atmosphere The mascot of ATmosphereConf is a goose, accompanied by the motto we can just do things. I thought about this line often while I was in Vancouver for the event. Everyone was active: writing, managing communities, buildi…
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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
Farzapedia, personal wikipedia of Farza, good example following my Wiki LLM tweet. I really like this approach to personalization in a number of ways, compared to "status quo" of an AI that allegedly gets better the more you use it or something: 1. Explicit. The memory artifact is explicit and navigable (the wiki), you can see exactly what the AI does and does not know and you can inspect and manage this artifact, even if you don't do the direct text writing (the LLM does). The knowledge of you is not implicit and unknown, it's explicit and viewable. 2. Yours. Your data is yours, on your loca… Quoting @FarzaTV This is Farzapedia. I had an LLM take 2,500 entries from my diary, Apple Notes, and some iMessage convos to create a personal Wikipedia for me. It made 400 detailed articles for my friends, my startups, research areas, and even my favorite animes and their impact on me complete with backlinks. But,… LLMs Related
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
Saw a writhing ribbon snake mating ball today - very active with the warm weather! (Don’t watch if you have a snake phobia… it was a lot in person, 😝 🐍) Related
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
Wow, this tweet went very viral! I wanted share a possibly slightly improved version of the tweet in an "idea file". The idea of the idea file is that in this era of LLM agents, there is less of a point/need of sharing the specific code/app, you just share the idea, then the other person's agent customizes & builds it for your specific needs. So here's the idea in a gist format: https://t.co/NlAfEJjtJV You can give this to your agent and it can build you your own LLM wiki and guide you on how to use it etc. It's intentionally kept a little bit abstract/vague because there are so many directio… Quoting @karpathy LLM Knowledge Bases Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating knowledge (stored as mar… LLMs Related
Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites.
How I remember link and image Markdown syntax Image and link syntax in Markdown are pretty similar and it can be hard to remember which text goes where. To help me, I have a few handy mnemonics. As a reminder, here is the syntax for a link: [link text](https://webs…
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Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
Creative coder behind neal.fun, a site of interactive web experiments including Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Deep Sea and Absurd Trolley Problems.
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).
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
I'm backing Obama for national parent. Quoting @BarackObama It was inspiring to watch the Artemis II launch yesterday — @NASA’s first crewed mission around the moon since 1972. Our space program has always captured an essential part of what it means to reach beyond what we thought was possible, and I hope the four brave astronauts on this mission will inspi… Related
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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Something I've been thinking about - I am bullish on people (empowered by AI) increasing the visibility, legibility and accountability of their governments.
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German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
My take on Bitcoin and quantum computing: https://t.co/bq2HdAsnXQ tl;dr: I think the risk is high enough to warrant prioritizing designing, implementing, and evaluating post-quantum signature schemes and consensus upgrades in Bitcoin now. Related
Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.
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.
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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The Legible Society
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Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
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The Increasing Risk of Building in Public
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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
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Definitely recommended, written at the very end of the apartheid era which gives it yet another angle of interest.
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I had been looking for a book on this topic for a long time, and finally I found the right one in a South African bookshop.
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We keep on learning lots about the Maya, and this is the best book to follow what has been going on.
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This one is well written, broad in scope, and yet rich in detail, treating the covered era as a living, breathing time in human history.
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A very useful book about the history of proving math theorems by computer.
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Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
LLM Knowledge Bases Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating knowledge (stored as markdown and images). The latest LLMs are quite good at it. So: Data ingest: I index source documents (articles, papers, repos, datasets, images, etc.) into a raw/ directory, then I use an LLM to incrementally "compile" a wiki, which is just a collection of .md files in a directory structure. The wiki… LLMs Related
Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
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Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.
Beware the ides of March? That was true in 2026 as the month started with war, with questions about how long and to what end, and ended with war, and the same questions. Oil prices were up, stock prices were down, but the market was remarkably well-behaved. bit.ly
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Neuroscientist and novelist writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence and culture in the newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective.
Creative coder behind neal.fun, a site of interactive web experiments including Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Deep Sea and Absurd Trolley Problems.
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
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Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
High time we got Steve onstage for Local-First Conf! Quoting @localfirstconf Want to learn about a radical local desktop app that takes advantage of local-first principles for AI? Things that might be impossible (or very dangerous!) in a regular web app suddenly are possible. Then come listen to @tldraw founder @steveruizok speak at Local-First Conf 2026. July 12–14, Berlin Related
Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.
A Potential Termination Event Cascading failure across the global food system is a real and horrific possibility, which most governments are doing nothing to avert. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25th March 2026 The fate of environment…
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Co-founder of Ethereum. Publishes long essays on mechanism design, governance and what cryptography is for, and returns to earlier positions to say which parts they no longer hold.
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.
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.
Co-founder of Ethereum. Publishes long essays on mechanism design, governance and what cryptography is for, and returns to earlier positions to say which parts they no longer hold.
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Sandboxing To keep my LLMs in check, I do most of my LLM usage from inside of a sandbox. I use bubblewrap for this.
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I gave pi a skill for using the search engine SearXNG (which aggregates many search engines together at the same time), and one for calling into a daemon that I wrote that gives it access to read my email and Signal messages, and send-to-self, and send to others only with human confirmation.
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The verdict: pi plus a basic searxng skill outperformed Local Deep Research. Also, pi is just much more configurable: I can easily just tell it to use not just internet searches, but also my own world_knowledge directory.
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Its responses are, in my view, pretty bland and not very high-quality. I did a side-by-side test of asking Local Deep Research a question, then asking pi the same question (telling it to use searxng to make as many internet searches as needed), and I fed both outputs into an LLM to ask which is better.
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I was not impressed with the DGX Spark; it's described as an "AI supercomputer on your desk" but in reality it has lower tokens/sec than a good laptop GPU - and on top of that, you have to figure out the networking details of how to connect to it from your actual work device etc.
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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.
Humans just launched into space, on their way to the moon (flyby around it). It'll be farthest humans have ever traveled into deep space 🤯 Congrats to all the incredible engineers & teams involved! LFG!!!!!!! Related
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.
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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.
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.
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.
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. Writes Eating Policy on why governments cannot do what they decide to do.
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.
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
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.
Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.
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the question about how big it can possibly grow nobody knows really. But it's actually not fruitful to pontificate on that.
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if you try to do a really good job at every company you've been working well with all the people that you work with, including your own team, your peer, whatever it is. Over time, very slowly, you accumulate a decent reputation in people's mind.
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There may be a lot of AI things that's going on right now, right? Uh eventually some of these things will consolidate, some will go under, some will become really awesome solutions and all that stuff. And so, but the the market will sort it out.
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Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
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Focus on making great computers with great user experiences above all else, and you can trust that every other major goal will follow: profit, market share, expansion, impact, and benefit to the world.
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Apple leads the industry in these values, but leading doesn't always mean excelling.
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Immense scale, soulless optimization, and an insatiable thirst for growth dominate its behavior and discourse, leaving little room for the spirit and principles embodied by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Chicago vs New York Pizza is the Wrong Argument It’s April Cools! It’s like April Fools, except instead of cringe comedy you make genuine content that’s different from what you usually do. For example, last year I talked about The best introductory…
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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.
Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.
Arguing with @cursor_ai over whether it can in fact use `ssh` or not is peak Douglas Adams Related
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
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.
just noticed it's How DNS Works' 4th birthday soon! wizardzines.com/zines/dns/ it's still one of my favourite zines, and it comes with a free ★★ playground ★★ at messwithdns.net where you can create DNS records and see what happens! Related
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.
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It's not pleasant, but it is skillful, and strange, and makes me interested in Piserchia's other books.
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If I say it reads a bit like fanfic for Neumeier's own work, that sounds like I'm damning it, but I actually enjoyed it, because, I wanted good things to happen for those characters, who'd had drama enough and to spare.
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30 March
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
Anyone at @github know the status of https://t.co/gTNB5bddt3 ? Being unable to give fine-grained read:packages permissions is a pretty big blocker for agentic work. Really want to avoid using a classic PAT which gives way too much access! Related
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
29 March
Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
American front-end engineer and design-systems specialist; built the Pantsuit design system for Hillary for America and has worked at Slack and IBM.
Hotline Bling. Quoting @barackomamba.blacksky.app Here’s my thing: If you could get rid of any hit song ever, what would you get rid of? Because I feel like Crossroads, I’d want to get rid of because it scared me as a kid but it’s a load bearing hit but Big Poppa, I could get rid of that and no one would miss it Related
Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.
The agentic passive voice. At some point, you will have learned about the passive voice, where the actor in a sentence is unclear. For example, my software didn’t compile. That’s a good example of the passive voice. However, you might…
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Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.
Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.
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2026 has been the most pivotal year in my career… and it's only March
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AI makes programming so cheap that only the rich will write code by hand.
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There's a huge, growing gap between open weight models and the frontier. Models you can run yourself are toys.
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AI is now highly skilled at programming, and better than me at almost every programming task, with inhumanly-low defect rates.
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Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."
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Chip Huyen: Building when it feels like there's nothing left to build - The Pragmatic Summit
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So, I think of them as the top of the long long tail long tail problem. Like, something very common issues that a lot of people experience. AI will get really good at it. And over time AI will cover more more edge cases, but the edge cases will never go away.
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The product you build is just solving a problem. So, is that like is the more you do that, the better you become at problem solving. And one thing I do believe that it will never change that there will always be problems to solve.
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And the more you build, right? The more you put things out there, you remove the need for imagination. You can say, "Okay, now I like that website. Do that for me."
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if you can describe a style, AI can generate it. And the same with software. If you can describe a software, then AI can build it for you.
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I feel like now I can build anything I want. But at the same time, anyone can build anything I want. So, what is the incentive structure for me to do anything?
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Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
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This is a beautiful, dynamic and amazing turntable.
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My favorite awesome tech backpack. I Love this brand.
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Yep, another Apple product, but the best smartwatch for Apple Ecosystem.
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I'm sorry Apple, but in sound and quality Bose are the #1.
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My favorites after suffer the Apple Airpods Max deception. Bose QC, the best Headphones ever.
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28 March
Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.
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Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.
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Chancellor of Germany since May 2025; leader of the CDU.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, lieber @Stephan_Toscani, zur Wahl zum Spitzenkandidaten der @cdu_saar für die Landtagswahl im kommenden Jahr. Wir werden gemeinsam dafür kämpfen, dass die CDU wieder Verantwortung für das Saarland trägt! English, from German Congratulations, dear @Stephan_Toscani, on your election as the lead candidate of @cdu_saar for the state election next year. Together we will fight to ensure that the CDU once again bears responsibility for Saarland!
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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.
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Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.
Founder of Pinboard; writes Idle Words — talks and essays on the web, aviation, politics and travel.
Artemis II Is Not Safe to Fly “Our test facilities can’t reach the combination of heat flux, pressure, shear stresses, etc., that an actual reentering spacecraft does. We’re always having to wait for the flight test to get the final certification th…
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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.
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.
It’s Time to Build… Assets? One of the main reasons for the decline in goods and services in the United States, and to a lesser extent, the world, is the financialization of our economies by excessive money printing. Let's break that down into sim…
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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
LLMs
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The LLMs may elicit an opinion when asked but are extremely competent in arguing almost any direction. This is actually super useful as a tool for forming your own opinions, just make sure to ask different directions and be careful with the sycophancy.
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Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
tar: a slop-free alternative to rsync So apparently rsync is slop now. When I heard, I wanted to drop a quick note on my blog to give an alternative: tar. It doesn’t do everything that rsync does, in particular identifying and skipping up-to-date files, but…
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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.
27 March
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
Saw this on the shelf at a vintage store and went nah, come on, that's pointless even for me. Then went back for it an hour later. Store claims it's tested, but we'll find out when my Meco Star Wars 8-track gets here from eBay. Related
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.
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Front-end developer and writer on Svelte, Vue, CSS and WordPress; blogs at joshcollinsworth.com.
Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
Nothing New to See Here A founder told me seasoned engineers keep saying AI-built software is not possible. I've heard this exact story before - about the Internet, the Web, SaaS, and mobile.
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Creative coder behind neal.fun, a site of interactive web experiments including Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Deep Sea and Absurd Trolley Problems.
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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 technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.
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Endgame for the Open Web
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Meanwhile, others like Spotify and Netflix leverage their dominant positions in the market to coerce creators to abandon open podcasts entirely, in favor of proprietary formats that require listeners to be on those platforms — locking in both creators and their audiences so they are stuck as they begin the enshittification process.
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As publishers see the danger from AI bots expand, they retreat to putting more and more content behind either password protection or payment walls or both, leaving the only publicly-accessible content to be AI-generated slop; open resources like research work, scientific analysis, and fair use of content all suffer as a result of people responding to the bad actors, since legitimate uses of open content are no longer possible.
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Whether or not they succeed is going to be decided by decisions that we all make as a community in the coming months.
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Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
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.
26 March
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
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Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
Founder of Pinboard; writes Idle Words — talks and essays on the web, aviation, politics and travel.
New Martian Writing If you've enjoyed my writing about space over the years, I invite you to subscribe to my new substack newsletter, titled 'Mars for the Rest of Us', where I've been posting weekly essays on topics around Mars exploration…
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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.
Standards editor known as Hixie; edited the HTML and WHATWG living standards for many years and worked on Flutter at Google.
British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.
Bootstrap Icons as CSS variables Using icon fonts in HTML markup is still very popular, despite their many drawbacks. Using them means even if you only use a single icon, you still need to load the font file and the CSS for that entire icon set which c…
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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
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Model capabilities and four minute mile
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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.
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
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Why tech bros are obsessed with "taste"
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Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
ntpd-rs: it's about time! Ubuntu is transitioning to the Rust-based ntpd-rs as its default time synchronization utility, replacing chrony, linuxptp, and gpsd to deliver a unified, memory-safe solution for NTP, NTS, and PTP. This move, in partner…
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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.
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I really love the material, they're comfortable, they hardly ever need a wash, and they last forever!
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Away is my go-to brand for durable, quality luggage. Their hard shell carry-on suitcases are lightweight and fit perfectly into overheard bins, ensuring you have plenty of room for all your gear while still letting you travel carry-on only.
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Kindle
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Personally, I prefer physical books when I travel. However, I can't argue against the convenience and simplicity of the Kindle.
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GoPro
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If you want something better than your phone but still easy to use, get a GoPro. They're durable and take incredible photos and videos without a steep learning curve.
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The wireless Bose QuietComfort 45 headphones are fan favorites and my go-to brand. They are comfortable, rechargeable, and do an amazing job at removing background noise.
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25 March
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
Something most strong film directors have in common is that they can do all of it at a pro level - write, handle cameras, compose music, edit, create props, etc. It is only by getting into the details that you can develop deep enough taste to do great work. True in other work too Related
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.
Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
Criticism of Disney Adults is a response to a deep American ill, but I'd argue it's also partly self-recognition. I wrote about tripping on mushrooms at Disneyland, the ideology baked into every Disney movie and park, and what Disney lovers and haters have in common (link below) America Related
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
It is rare to meet someone who actually knows what they think and acts on it Related
Most people, myself included, will often let the opinions of others decide what we should do—if there is no one around, we will even fantasize what others would think and let that decide it. Related
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Basecamp becomes agent accessible In the past 18 months, we've experimented with a ton of AI-infused features at 37signals. Fizzy had all sorts of attempts. As did Basecamp. But as Microsoft and many others have realized, it's not that easy to make some…
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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.
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
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.
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.
Apple updates be like “8 new emojis” 1.2GB… Related
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
Been using Zero for a mid-sized personal app, syncing to both a React web front end and an Expo iOS app. Fast, easy to use, reliable. Recommended. Quoting @aboodman Zero to 1.0 After two years of work, 50+ releases, thousands of commits, and hundreds of bugfixes, we are officially declaring Zero stable and ready for production workloads. JavaScript Related
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
LEGO Minifigure – 1000 Piece Puzzle Another puzzle down, and this LEGO minifigure one kept pulling us back to the table. Tricky in places, fun in others, and somehow the perfect excuse for the kids to stall homework just a little longer. jeffpaul.com
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Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
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Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
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Worse, you realize that the gazillions of unit, snapshot, and e2e tests you had your clankers write are equally untrustworthy. The only thing that's still a reliable measure of "does this work" is manually testing the product.
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You can give it a Bash tool so it can ripgrep its way through the codebase. You can give it some queryable codebase index, an LSP server, a vector database. In the end it doesn't matter much. The bigger the codebase, the lower the recall. Low recall means that your agent will, in fact, not find all the code it needs to do a good job.
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And organizations have super high pain tolerance. But human-made enterprise codebases take years to get there. The organization slowly evolves along with the complexity in a demented kind of synergy and learns how to deal with it. With agents and a team of 2 humans, you can get to that complexity within weeks.
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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
LLMs
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One common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models. A single question from 2 months ago about some topic can keep coming up as some kind of a deep interest of mine with undue mentions in perpetuity.
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Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
A eulogy for Vim Vim is important to me. I’m using it to write the words you’re reading right now. In fact, almost every word I have ever committed to posterity, through this blog, in my code, all of the docs I’ve written, emails I’ve s…
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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.
Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
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I’ve read it at least a half dozen times since. I’ve listened to it on Audible twice.
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24 March
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.
Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.
Winning is rare for active investors (retail or institutional), and even with the few who win consistently, separating luck from skill is tough to do, and there are broad differences in market views and investing approaches. Related
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Historian of invention; writes Age of Invention on where the Industrial Revolution actually came from.
Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.
Leave Tyrants in the Ground By unhooking ourselves from fossil fuels, we release ourselves from a world of harm. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th March 2026 I realise this is a serious breach of etiquette. But could we perhaps aba…
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Creative coder behind neal.fun, a site of interactive web experiments including Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Deep Sea and Absurd Trolley Problems.
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American front-end engineer and design-systems specialist; built the Pantsuit design system for Hillary for America and has worked at Slack and IBM.
People mock having a printer… until they need one. Quoting @solomonrmissouri.com i have a printer cash stamps checks and bar soap Related
Because most mobile websites have abysmal UX and I’m not downloading an app for one thing. Quoting @johnathanperk.bsky.social Somebody said millennials usually use their laptops (instead of smartphones) for major purchases, including booking flights. I can’t stop thinking about this. Related
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
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.
I'm hanging 40 pictures on my wall in a grid, so I made a little thing to space them all out, and then you click projector mode and it projects the nail holes on the wall. tynan.net
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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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When People Say They Want to Send Their Kid to a Good School, They Usually Mean Schools Without "Bad Kids"
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Simply creating artificial separation between different students is not a strategy for “educational excellence.” It’s just segregation.
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You can staff a school with the best teachers on earth, give them unlimited resources, and wrap the place in every evidence-based intervention imaginable, and it still won’t work if students are resistant, disengaged, or actively hostile to the enterprise.
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Education is not something that can be done to someone; it’s something that requires at least a minimal act of will from the learner, and no reform agenda can engineer that away.
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Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
[RIDGELINE] A Return to Nagasaki Ridgeline subscribers — I love Nagasaki. The more I visit, the more I love it. It’s a city with a historical and cultural depth and complexity you don’t find in most big cities, let alone mid-sized cities. It rewards mu…
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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.
23 March
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
I was so pleased to be part of a great team writing a commentary on the draft FDA guidelines on Bayesian clinical trial designs. Should have been done 30 years ago, but better late than never Quoting @JAMA_current 💬 Perspective: Bayesian methodology supports efficient, flexible clinical trial designs; FDA guidance encourages prespecification and sensitivity analysis of priors. @f2harrell @d_spiegel Related
Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.
It's underappreciated how little freedom you have while designing a game. You can't just make what you want. You have to to make what works, and you don't get to choose that. Related
Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.
I’ve been working on a little simulator for MeshCore, written entirely using Claude Code. I was hoping some MeshCore devs might take a look and let me know if there are features they could use. https://github.com/matthewdgreen/meshcore_sim #meshcore Anthropic Related
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
New Course Everyday Energy is now available! https://t.co/kxOmaOsSAC Better energy. Smarter effort. Less burnout. This course helps you understand how energy works so you can stay productive without feeling constantly drained. energy Related
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.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
I met up with @jacksondahl in Copenhagen and had a conversation about the value of lingering in confusion, using constraints to enable more creative work, how I journal, why love is like eating dogs, and many other things. You can find a recording below. Quoting @jacksondahl Henrik Karlsson returns to Dialectic. One of my 2025 highlights was meeting one of my favorite writers in Copenhagen and interviewing him on my fairly new podcast. It was a fan favorite. This conversation may have topped it. I talked to @phokarlsson about smashing mental models, navigating confusio… 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.
x.com Here's my conversation with Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, the most valuable & one of the most influential companies in the history of human civilization. It is the engine powering the AI revolution. This was a fascinating & inspiring conversation, in parts super-technical on engineering of every part of the AI stack, memory, power, supply chain (TSMC, ASML, etc), in parts about leadership & psychology, and in parts personal & philosophical about life, consciousness, mortality, and human nature. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:33… Related
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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.
Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.
Direct link to today’s podcast episode: After Venezuela and Iran… Is Greenland Next? Both audio and recommended additional reading: powerandconsequences.com
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Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
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.
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
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From error-handling to structured concurrency
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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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I think NVIDIA, both NVIDIA and TSMC are two of the greatest companies in the history of human civilization.
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Founder and CEO of the search engine DuckDuckGo, and co-author of the books Traction and Super Thinking.
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
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.
It was an honor to hang out with Jensen Huang, CEO of @nvidia, and do a long-form podcast with him. Really fun & fascinating technical deep-dive conversation on & off the mic. One of the most brilliant & thoughtful human beings I've ever met. NVIDIA is the most valuable company in the world by market cap and is the engine powering the AI revolution. Podcast probably out tomorrow (Monday) unless I get stuck in too many interesting conversations while running around in SF ;-) PS: I haven't checked my messages in days. Sorry for slow replies 🙏 Trying to stay deeply focused at in overwhelmingly… Related
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.
Chancellor of Germany since May 2025; leader of the CDU.
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.
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American front-end engineer and design-systems specialist; built the Pantsuit design system for Hillary for America and has worked at Slack and IBM.
Been weird (i.e. neurodivergent) my whole life, and it improved immensely when I stopped trying to explain myself to people who are determined to misunderstand me. Quoting @smashfizzle.bsky.social If you’re a “weird” or “othered” Black Girl, the best advice I can give you is not to argue with people who have not had that experience about your experience. They will not get it, they will not try to, and your frustration won’t lead to understanding or peace. You know who you are. That’s enough. Related
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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
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Researcher on developer productivity; co-wrote Accelerate and the DORA research, and created the SPACE framework.
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Or like all of the the things that we have structured process around to try to make things more uniform are often the things that slow us down.
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so many times that process has been managed by humans because you're selecting the right candidate build and you're verifying it and you're thinking, you know, you're figuring out cherry picks and then you like rebundle and then you send it out and that doesn't scale if you have one or two or a handful of people trying to make group decisions and do group sense making.
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And not only that, but like humans were already a bit of a bottleneck in the review process. Now it can be worse because things that we fairly straightforward changes that some companies had automation around reviewing, they've removed that reviewing because if AI is involved and they're worried about the verifiability or the reliability of the code.
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There were a handful of people probably managing a security review process or a launch process or a deployment process or, you know, sometimes reviews were a little slow and they got backed up. Well, now we just threw gas on the fire and so all of that is a problem.
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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.
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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Kim Christie started working on Starlette in 2018 and it quickly became my favorite out of the new breed of Python ASGI frameworks.
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Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
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His book Burn Bright, Not Out - co-authored with Django De Gree - is what I wish had existed a long time ago.
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Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
Lesson Three: Rhythmic Productivity—A More Humane Way to Work https://t.co/Fr25MZlHgF Human energy and focus fluctuate, yet many productivity systems assume a steady state. This piece looks at how aligning work with natural rhythms can improve performance and sustainability. energy Related
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I've read so many articles in the past year from developers talking about how much more productive LLMs have made them at work. You know what I can't recall a single one of them mentioning? Getting a raise because of it. LLMs Related
American front-end engineer and design-systems specialist; built the Pantsuit design system for Hillary for America and has worked at Slack and IBM.
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Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
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".
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.
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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.
[RODEN] Meditation, Language, and LLMs Roden Readers — Hello! It’s me, Craig Mod. Author of TBOT (amzn | bkshp). Poking my head out into newsletter land. This? Roden, a newsletter you signed up for at some point. Perhaps last week, perhaps fourteen years ago…
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Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
Signed, the guy who personally donated $1M to Donald Trump. Eid Mubarak. Quoting @tim_cook To everyone around the world marking the end of Ramadan, wishing you a blessed Eid al-Fitr with friends and family. Eid Mubarak! Related
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.
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.
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
Lesson Two: Life Doesn’t Need to Be Exhausting https://t.co/5iviwzvI4A It’s easy to assume that if you’re not tired, you’re not working hard enough. I don’t think that’s true. In this article, I share a different way of looking at effort. Related
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.
https://t.co/9sLQvgKr3Z the Iran-Russia combination suggests that a quagmire looms #OOTT Russia Related
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
My blog for OSR about the revised Code of Practice, and the importance of trustworthiness Quoting @StatsRegulation In our latest guest blog, leading British statistician, @d_spiegel explores why trustworthiness, not trust, should be at the heart of statistical communication 👇 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.
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Um we are seeing a lot fewer sort of pure AI solutions now where um they are just one shots the problem. Um so so there was there was a month where that happened and and that has stopped.
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you know, right now we're going through uh an in um an cognitive version of the Copernican revolution where we used to think that human intelligence is the center of the universe. And now we're actually seeing that there's there's very different types of intelligence um that that that are out there uh with very different strengths and weaknesses.
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So, you you can't look at any given scientific achievement purely in isolation and give it an objective grade without being aware of the context both in the the past and the future. And so it it it may never be something that you can just reinforcement learn the same way that that you can for much sort of more localized problems.
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So, we're now in a situation where suddenly people can generate thousands of theories for a given scientific problem. And now we have to to verify them, evaluate them and this is something which we we have to to change our structures of science to actually sort this out.
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Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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I kind of went from 80/20 of like, you know, uh to like 20/80 of writing code by myself versus just delegating to agents. And I don't even think it's 20/80 by now. I think it's a lot more than that. I don't think I've typed like a line of code probably since December basically.
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Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
New Free Lessons: Lesson One: The Human Energy Crisis https://t.co/rVWy6rrYG2 It’s easy to blame ourselves when we feel low energy, but I’m starting to think the problem is larger than that. This post looks at what might really be going on. energy Related
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
Pico Names One of the things I love doing is naming things. Whether it’s for products, or things that I encounter daily, it’s a habit. Fifteen years ago, I started a list for our new dog, Pico. My wife and other family members joi…
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Neuroscientist and novelist writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence and culture in the newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective.
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
Nakaya Aka-Tame Fountain Pen I recently acquired a new Fountain Pen: The Aka-tame from Nakaya. It is my first Japanese fountain pen, and also my first urushi pen (more on this later). After writing a few pages with it, I wanted to write down a few…
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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.
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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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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Anything that you're maintaining over the longer term, the code quality does start really really mattering.
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And what you can do if you've got one of these conformance suites is you can give it to a a good agent and say, "Write code until this test suite passes." And it kind of will.
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just cuz the test suite passes doesn't mean that the web server will boot. You know, there's there's always a chance that when you actually try in the real world, something's not going to work.
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Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
Related UI elements should not appear unrelated I know, I know, this sounds controversial. But hear me out. A few years ago a new trend in UI design emerged where related elements would appear more and more detached and unrelated to the things they are meant to point…
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Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
One of the paid @Google results for "claude code" right now is a nefarious @squarespace site pretending to be the host of Claude Code installer commands. @claudeai Anthropic Google Related
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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Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
This Mac app bug is one of the single most enraging bugs I've encountered in years! It's in all of the betas too. You get someone's @ mention randomly added to the chat when you press "Enter" and you have to click to get rid of it (and then it will come back on the next message). Quoting @benthompson Mac app: if you @-mention someone in a group chat, the @-mention is just permanently stuck in the UI and enters itself into the chat if you press Enter iPhone app: tweets only unfurl at half-height, making them unreadable. Mac bug debilitating. Related
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
Just posted @marsedit 5.4 with native macOS Versions support, Share Extension improvements, and a bunch of bug fixes. redsweater.com
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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.
Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.
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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Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
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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.
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Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.
Gas-Lit If it is sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that’s because there isn’t one. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th March 2026 These are burning, smo…
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To help find relevant RFCs no matter what your network connectivity, https://rfc.fyi now implements a service worker that caches the data locally for offline use, and can be installed as a Progressive Web app (PWA) -- i.e., you can install it to your iOS or Android home screen. Note that it still points to online-only RFCs at the RFC Editor site. Related
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.
Writes Nintil, long researched essays on metascience, biology, economics and whatever he has decided to read the literature on.
Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
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German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
ONCE (Again) The original concept for ONCE sought to sell self-hostable web apps for a one-time fee. That didn't work. Sure, we recouped the investment on Campfire, our chat app, but that was it. You gotta listen when the market tel…
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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.
Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.
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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.
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.
The equity risk premium (ERP) is an essential ingredient in hurdle rates in corporate finance, discount rates in valuation and expected returns in financial planning. In 2009, I pulled together everything I know about the ERP, in a paper that I have updated every year since. My 2026 update is now available to download and it is written for practitioners. papers.ssrn.com
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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.
Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.
Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
Building software in 2026 — insanely, improbably, we've all been given the equivalent of a nuclear reactor for $200/mo; it's wild that technology like Claude Code is so evenly distributed, so quickly: craigmod.com
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Indian software engineer working on Android and React; writes about his setup and side projects at ishubhamsingh.dev.
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.
Indian software engineer working on Android and React; writes about his setup and side projects at ishubhamsingh.dev.
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Ruby and Rails core committer known online as "tenderlove"; maintains Nokogiri and works on Ruby performance.
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
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.
Bluesky Happy Pi Day! In a certain sense, π is not a constant, but a variable. Using our usual Euclidean distance, it is 3.14159… but applying other L^p norms on ℝ², half the unit circle's perimeter will give other values. For instance, at p=1 (taxicab geometry), “π” = 2√2. At p ≈ 2.2, it's 3.20. Related
x.com Happy Pi Day! In a certain sense, π is not a constant, but a variable. Using our usual Euclidean distance, it is 3.14159… but applying other L^p norms on ℝ², half the unit circle's perimeter will give other values. For instance, at p=1 (taxicab geometry), “π” = 2√2. At p ≈ 2.2, it's 3.20. Anyway, the video I was hoping to have out this day will be out closer to the 20th. Some call it “missing your deadline”, but I prefer to think of it as giving the L_{2.2} norm a little love. Related
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
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".
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.
Cheng’s experiment is cool! Especially this: “instead of starting with easy sudoku puzzles data and gradually ramping up toward harder ones, the training runs that start with harder puzzles and end with easy puzzles always fare better, and also fare better than mixed difficulty sampling” Quoting @_chenglou I’m very happy to present my toy research project: Sotaku! It's a neural net that automatically discovered the rules of sudoku and learned to solve them, achieving a new state-of-the-art score of 98.9% on one of the hardest sudoku datasets, while being agnostic to the game, and beating all other su… Related
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
This is what more people need to understand about migrating to AWS. @CloudflareDev’s pricing may not be transparent for Enterprise, but the DX is unmatched. Why piece together 8 things I need to make it “kinda work” when with Cloudflare it’s a couple lines in the config? Quoting @evanyou @JLarky With 3x the effort and worse DX Related
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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players who are also commentators give better commentary than people who are just commentators. Stock analysts who never invest have zero skin in the game.
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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.
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
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As you’ll see below, this is not a printer that will be easy to deal with on a Mac. It will be a purchase you regret.
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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
good sthuff Quoting @enigmastud.io NEVER FORGET - WHEN THEY FIND YA☘THEY'LL GETCHA The Games From Ireland Steam Event! Check out some COOL IRISH GAMES discounted all week, including the deepest discounts ever on ENIGMA|STUDIO games. (Huge bualadh bos to @imirt.bsky.social for such a monumentally cool achievement! Please follow them!) Related
Neuroscientist and novelist writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence and culture in the newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective.
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