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13 May
Founder and CEO of the search engine DuckDuckGo, and co-author of the books Traction and Super Thinking.
I worked with Sidra on countless designs to get these shoes just right, and couldn't be happier with the way they turned out. A genuine collaboration with another team that cares about every detail. Get the DuckDuckGo x Atoms collab here: duckduckgo.com
Quoting @duckduckgo.com DuckDuckGo x Atoms When it comes to privacy, DuckDuckGo walks the walk. Now you can too, with the DuckDuckGo x Atoms shoes collab. Wear the world's most magically comfortable, lightweight shoes while repping DuckDuckGo. Shop now: duckduckgo.com/collaborations Related
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.
Mythos evals from XBOW and UK AISI: • UK AISI: Mythos completed a 32-step network attack (est. at ~20 hrs for experts) in 6/10 tries. First model to solve their e2e cyber ranges! • XBOW: "token-for-token, unprecedented precision" Read more: https://t.co/hD6G6DvALg, xbow.com
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Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Burned $91.34 with Claude Code /goal in 3.5 hours Unreal, It was able to reverse engineer my Amaran bluetooth lights so I don't have to use the crappy app Anthropic Related
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
I am noticing a really interesting trend: my friends who are not technical are getting much further with open claw (etc), etc than my friends who are technical. it seems that the ability for us to imagine the limits is artificially causing limits that are not there for folks who are not imagining limits. have you seen the same thing? Related
Writes Useful Fictions on agency and how to get better at things; a former appellate lawyer and the top-ranked woman in professional poker in 2017.
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
Cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute; writes Ground Truths on biomedical research, and wrote Super Agers and Deep Medicine.
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.
Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
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.
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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.
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Why Anthropic’s ultra-dirty deal shouldn’t surprise you at all
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Anthropic
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It was already clear a while ago that Anthropic mostly do not care about climate, environment or air pollution in any material way, even if they care a little bit more about bad PR than Elon Musk does.
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data centers
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there is nothing fundamentally inherent to the concept of a building full of computers that causes choking air pollution, water impacts and climate change.
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data centers
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The fundamental drivers of this change are panic and impatience, and that is what is behind the worst impacts of data centre growth, including a material risk to decarbonisation and climate action.
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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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🌻 notes on AI, labor, and China
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Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.
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TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg
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I think early on we decided that we want to have a team of people design this language, not just one.
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Well, like I said, I mean the the overarching thing was this: power and productivity of C++ with the ease of use of Visual Basic in a sense, right?
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And so, we kind of realized at that point, too, that maybe it's not a great strategy to to place your your development platform bet on on technology that's licensed from a competitor.
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It was just better than all the competition. It was faster. It was smaller. Um it was more interactive and it was also cheaper. So, it was like 10 times better at a tenth of the price of the of the competition, right?
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That was always the idea, and that that goes back even to the predecessor of Turbo Pascal, this idea that it's not just a compiler. It's an experience, right? I mean, you don't just compile your programs. You also edit them. You also run them. You also debug them. You also have a runtime library. It all has to like fit together.
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Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
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.
12 May
Ruby and Rails core committer known online as "tenderlove"; maintains Nokogiri and works on Ruby performance.
Internet linguist; wrote Because Internet, on how language changes online, and co-hosts the Lingthusiasm podcast.
Public transit planning consultant; wrote Human Transit and argues that a network's shape follows from what a city decides it wants.
Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.
Software architect and futurist; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF, and has written about robocars for two decades.
Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
Micron just went on an all-time heater. Today at the open, Micron was the 10th largest stock in the S&P 500. Over the last five years, the average rank was 89. It ran from 127 last April to 10 today. Chart by @mattcerminaro Related
Ruby and Rails core committer known online as "tenderlove"; maintains Nokogiri and works on Ruby performance.
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Over the last 3 months I lost 300 followers (about 10%). I wonder if these were bots. I feel like within the last year Twitter engagement has gone from quite good to almost nothing. It sometimes feels like I'm shadow banned. Has anyone noticed the same? Related
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
LOL, the kid has no idea it's the other way around! I was the one starstruck to meet Nicole for the first time. Quoting @nicolesullivan.bsky.social Every day I grow less smart and less cool according to my my near-tween. However, today I was briefly cool again: 10yo: mom, you know @wesbos.com? 😳 Me: yeah? 10yo: but does he know you? Me: yes! What do you think, I’m stalking him??? Related
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.
Honestly The Ring is strange. There's a movie tape. Then a phone call. Which is connected to a girl in a well. Who comes out of the TV. Lotta different home appliances involved. Related
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
I added a ~90 minute demo video of using DotFriedRice. It covers configuring and installing it too. It's a niri / Arch desktop environment with modern CLI tools. The CLI set up works on any Debian / Arch based distro (WSL 2 included) and macOS! github.com
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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.
“Used actively and with intention, AI is more than a functional productivity tool. It advances what a single person can take on: a young professional fluent in digital tools for research, analysis, and execution can now do work that once needed a team Think of AI as a huge, tireless brain holding answers to almost any question. But what to ask, within which constraints, and what to look for in the answer, is the part only the human can direct. Framing the right problem requires giving AI the right history and concerns. The quality of the answer is, in the end, governed by the quality of askin… Quoting @riteshmjn Listen to Ashish if you dont want to listen to me. 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.
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.
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Magit is still the best thing going. For now.
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Electron isn’t good. But it’s always been good enough.
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But Claude isn’t just a replacement-level SwiftUI developer. Claude is actually good.
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11 May
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
Sell the Truth Hi, you’re listening to the Naval Podcast. This is his regular co-host, Nivi. There are only two skills you have to have in life: How to build and how to sell. Today we’re going to talk about the sales side. Naval is a…
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Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later joined Tailscale.
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Typing is for suckers. Voice ftw. What are you using for dictating? I've been going back an forth between superwhisper and the built in MacOS one Also testing a few others like Tuna Related
Public transit planning consultant; wrote Human Transit and argues that a network's shape follows from what a city decides it wants.
Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
I'm giving a talk at the Media Lab today at 4 PM ET titled Money, Power, and Machines: Designing the Future of Finance for People (E14-633) If you want to join, come 5 minutes early to 75 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA, or if not local email me for the zoom link! Related
American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
This works really well btw, at the end of your query ask your LLM to "structure your response as HTML", then view the generated file in your browser. I've also had some success asking the LLM to present its output as slideshows, etc. More generally, imo audio is the human-preferred input to AIs but vision (images/animations/video) is the preferred output from them. Around a ~third of our brains are a massively parallel processor dedicated to vision, it is the 10-lane superhighway of information into brain. As AI improves, I think we'll see a progression that takes advantage: 1) raw text (hard… LLMs Related
Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF. His 2010 meta-analysis established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment; he has argued ever since that "evidence-based therapy" is used as a marketing term.
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.
Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
Mockups Were Never the Hard Part With AI, anyone on a team can generate mockups in minutes. That was never the hard part. The difficult work is, and always has been, maintaining coherency and intention across a product so it works for people, not the o…
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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.
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
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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.
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
not sure why the link is broken now, but here 's the right one. it was really fun!! thanks for having me @jacksbridger 🤩 also shout out to @boristane who I mention in the first two minutes 🌈 scalingdevtools.com
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Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.
Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.
Hear This Radical Listening could transform our politics and block the rise of the far right. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th May 2026 Most people have made up their minds, and nothing you can say will change the…
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Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
I looked through Common Crawl and found over 500,000 parseable RSS/Atom feeds, confirming that Web feeds are still a major part of the Open Web. But most aren’t high quality, and autodiscovery often points users at stale or abandoned feeds. mnot.net
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Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Switching to Linux has been great. With Windows 10 (Pro): ❗️ Webcam's settings would always get reset semi-randomly ❗️ The date from the clock would frequently disappear ❗️ Mic's volume would often get lowered ❗️ Forced updates None of these issues exist with Arch Linux. Arch Linux Related
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
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Practice method, not results. METHOD NOT RESULTS.
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The New Age community, where people pretend to be benevolent Teletubbies, but behind the scenes are as money-hungry, power-seeking, and gossip-spreading as anyone.
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Almost any time I hear that someone has had a damaging experience with meditation, I find that it's because they're violating this rule.
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I think it's one of the most important warnings in contemplative practice, a warning sticker that should go on every single meditation book.
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10 May
Founder and CEO of the search engine DuckDuckGo, and co-author of the books Traction and Super Thinking.
🆕✍️Principles almost always have exceptions, often when they conflict with other principles (Rule 5). When principles conflict, a priority stack usually decides which one wins. gabrielweinberg.com
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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.
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.
Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.
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Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.
Building a Knife Making Station, Part III My wife wants a new headboard, after we got rid of our traditional mattress in favor of an adjustable one (because we are old…make fun all you want, I haven’t woken up in the middle of the night since it was set up a mo…
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Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.
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Is Europe in Economic Decline?
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Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.
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Codex-maxxing
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Files force the agent to compress experience into a form that can survive the thread.
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ambition
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Execution is only as good as the goal and the verification you give it. Ambition without verification is just a wish.
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Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible, and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, who advises companies on corporate governance and mission protection.
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How Anthropic, Costco, and Patagonia all build incorruptible companies | Eric Ries
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Was it ever the right time? No, it is never the right time to do this. If you put this off, you will eventually find yourself in a situation where you can no longer do it. You will have lost the leverage. Success will not protect you because success is what makes you a target.
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startups
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According to Harvard Law School, among venturebacked companies that have the standard best practices set up that you got from your lawyer, okay, only 20% of founders are still the CEO 3 years after going public.
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If you don't get this right, no other decision you make about your company will matter for the long term because you're not going to be the one making it.
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all kinds of famous companies where the thing that destroyed them was not competition. It was not someone else came up with a better product. No, their very success became a liability because the more golden the goose, the greater the temptation to butcher.
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I call it the force that no one controls but everyone obeys that tends to drag organizations down into mediocrity to the point that we lose control of them. Now, sometimes we lose control of them because we get fired.
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Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
Web Feeds in 2026: A Survey I looked through Common Crawl and found over 500,000 parseable RSS/Atom feeds, confirming that Web feeds are still a major part of the Open Web. But most aren’t high quality, and autodiscovery often points users at stal…
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9 May
Writer and consultant on technology, organizations and history; founded the blog Ribbonfarm and now writes the Contraptions newsletter.
Ribbonfarm has been resurrected as a museum blog with an AI curator. Details: https://t.co/InHymQ7kS3 The old reading experience is preserved intact, with significantly improved speed and cleaner reading layout, but there’s now a lot more intelligent scaffolding for exploring. 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.
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".
Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
What do people like for token-intensive workflows for personal projects? With a semi-autonomous workflow, I can exhaust a week's quota on the $200/mo codex plan in ~10 minutes of my time. If I'm in the loop, I get ~10x(?) the productivity per token, but it's time inefficient and Related
Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
"the model proved a result that in my assessment would have made a perfectly reasonable chapter in a [math] PhD thesis. It did this in a total of a couple of hours, with a few prompts from me that contained no mathematical input whatsoever." Quoting @wtgowers I've recently got in on the act of getting AI to solve open problems in mathematics. More precisely, I gave some questions asked by Melvyn Nathanson to ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to which I have been given access, and it answered them. 🧵 Related
Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.
Patriarchal Rents Patriarchy doesn't just puff up men's egos, it also enables extraction - labour rents, kinship rents, exclusion, and impunity rents.
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Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.
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Stop Microlooting the Tax Code
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8 May
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.
New Post on https://t.co/1ubXCLJytr — Advice For an Appalachian Trail Newbie Related
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
Self-taught home cook and food writer who has run the Smitten Kitchen recipe site since 2006; author of four cookbooks.
raspberry swirl cheesecake bars While I’m not from a cheesecake family — it is never unwelcome, but we are more deeply devoted to things like pastry creams, chocolate pudding, and stellar coffee cakes — I married into one, which means that even though…
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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.
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British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.
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.
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Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
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.
Geneticist at Harvard; reads ancient DNA to work out how populations moved and mixed, and wrote Who We Are and How We Got Here.
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David Reich – Bronze Age shock, the Neanderthal puzzle, & the sudden spread of farming
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And really from a statistical point of view, what happens at these times of migration is there's just huge fluctuations in frequencies, and these are extremely uninformative times for looking and detecting natural selection.
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It may still be the case, and I guess it is, that immune traits are the most selected category, but is not at all the case, and in fact, we can prove it's not the case that behavioral traits are not selected.
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our cartoon picture is that the big transition is farming, but the genetic data, the biological readout is saying our genome is reacting much more strongly to this these events that happened 5,000 years ago.
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Uh and 98% of it is other factors, especially genetic drift. So it's overwhelmingly migrations and population structure causing fluctuations in frequency.
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In fact, multiple analyses we do suggest that the genome is vibrating with natural selection, and uh there's all sorts of weaker effects that are there that would be picked up in larger studies even than we've done. Uh and that uh in fact, almost every position in the DNA is uh correlated to a position that in being dragged in one way or the other uh by natural selection. Instead of being quiescent, natural selection is everywhere.
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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
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How to build a lunar mass driver
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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
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The result is something that's beautiful, sharp, critical and lingering. Long after I closed the cover, I found myself mulling over the delicate ways that Lai raised the contradictions, sorrows and beauty of queer love, racial identity, camaraderie, self-control, and self-indulgence. Lai's characters have no answers, only questions that can never be fully resolved. Instead, these questions are the defining puzzles, defeats and triumphs of their lives.
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7 May
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
Public transit planning consultant; wrote Human Transit and argues that a network's shape follows from what a city decides it wants.
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 saw this review of "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" and it's the best feeling when someone got exactly what I'd hoped they'd get from the zine wizardzines.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.
Tim Cook will be stepping down as CEO of Apple on Sept 1, 2026, after fifteen years atop the company. He has been critiqued for being too cautious, but I celebrate his restraint in my post on his tenure. bit.ly
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Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
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.
German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
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The agent principal-agent problem
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6 May
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.
Here's my conversation all about @FFmpeg, the legendary open-source software powering most video on the Internet. In the episode, I talk with Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya. JB is lead developer of VLC and Kieran is FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous @FFmpeg account on X. VLC (@videolan), by the way, is also a legendary piece of open-source software: it's a video player that can open basically anything & has been downloaded over 6 billion times. I think both FFmpeg and VLC are two of the most important and impactful software systems ever created,… Related
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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.
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
DotFriedRice now has a custom fastfetch output. I decided to do this during my lunch break today. I like how fastfetch itself comes with ~35 config examples, certainly used those as inspiration! Related
Software engineer who worked on Chrome and Polymer at Google, and writes about the web, emoji and Elm at meowni.ca.
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
deepsec is very cool! I ran it against our main backend repo at @khanacademy and it found some really interesting edge cases. Spun up an agent team in Claude and addressed all the high-impact issues. This likely would've been a multi-week, or month, effort otherwise! Quoting @vercel_dev Introducing deepsec, an open source coding security harness. • CLI-first • Sandbox-based scaling • Pluggable coding agents • Designed for large-scale repos • Use AI Gateway or your own subscription After months of successful internal use, we put it to the test on some of the largest open source cod… Anthropic Related
Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
It was always clear that Anthropic would get compute if they needed it. Demand finds supply. Quoting @claudeai We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity. This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API. Anthropic Related
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.
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.
Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
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.
you get more compute. you get more compute. you get more compute! Anthropic 🤝 SpaceX Quoting @claudeai Effective today, we are: 1) Doubling Claude Code’s 5-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, and Team plans; 2) Removing the peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max plans; and 3) Substantially raising our API rate limits for Opus models. Anthropic Related
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
excited to announce that Wizard Zines is now shipping Canadian orders from Canada! now shipping is cheaper & there's no risk of being hit with duties get your zines at wizardzines.com
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Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.
“Study the greats and become greater.” –Michael Jackson Quoting @BrianRoemmele Bob Fosse in Little Prince movie, 1974 had a massive influence on Michael Jackson. Related
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
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.
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.
some thoughts on working with ai models • context as infra • taste as config • verification for autonomy • scaling via delegation • closing the loop eugeneyan.com
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Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.
There’s something ominous about the speed with which the entire world has marched to require identification on platforms and, as I expected, begin the process of banning anonymous VPNs. Related
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.
Concurrent, atomic MSI hash tables Readers will be familiar with Mask-Step-Index (MSI) hash tables, a technique for building fast, open-addressed hash tables in a dozen lines of code. If multiple threads or processes access an MSI table with at least one…
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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.
British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.
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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An excellent book, one of the two best books on a single Native American tribe I have read.
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A very good look at the negotiations behind the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and just how driven by national self-interest they were, including colonial motives from the major colonial powers, who wished to retain stronger rights to put down uprisings.
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An excellent and engaging book, which even serious fans can learn from.
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There is also Devon Cox, Beyond Beauty: A Portrait of John Singer Sargent
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An excellent and engaging book, which even serious fans can learn from.
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Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.
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The TL:dr summary of the key points might whet your appetite for all of the fun stories and anecdotes in the book. Enjoy!
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5 May
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.
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.
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
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.
Software architect and futurist; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF, and has written about robocars for two decades.
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
Creative coder behind neal.fun, a site of interactive web experiments including Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Deep Sea and Absurd Trolley Problems.
I’m looking for the first full-time developer for https://t.co/nprGVKUWBn! You’d work with me on making new web projects and games for the site. Preferably in nyc If anyone is interested or has leads dm me or email hi@neal.fun! Related
Chancellor of Germany since May 2025; leader of the CDU.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, lieber @jensspahn, zu Deiner überzeugenden Wiederwahl zum Vorsitzenden der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion. Die @cducsubt ist mit Dir an der Spitze auch weiterhin eine starke Stütze der Bundesregierung und Taktgeber in der parlamentarischen Arbeit. Ich freue mich auf die weitere Zusammenarbeit! English, from German Congratulations, dear @jensspahn, on your convincing re-election as chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. With you at the helm, the @cducsubt will continue to be a strong pillar of the federal government and a pacemaker in parliamentary work. I look forward to our continued cooperation!
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Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.
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.
Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.
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How to make friends
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That said! I don't believe you need a group for the activity partners you're looking for. I don't even think you need friends per se for these day-to-day adventures.
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Perfect friends are not possible. Instead of wondering how to change them, perhaps try being just a tiny bit more patient, and see how they might end up surprising you.
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You see, I don't think making friends is hard after your 30s. And, I made several of my best friends after they got divorced.
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Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
Intermezzo bag I've been reading the new Sally Rooney novel, Intermezzo. It's really beautiful. The perfect kind of novel to read slowly. She manages to write prose that's engaging at the micro and macro levels - beautiful sentences,…
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Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
President of the VideoLAN non-profit and one of the lead developers of the VLC media player; active on the project since 2005.
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
4 May
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
‘Nothing Ever Happens’ Is Over You’re listening to the Naval Podcast. This is Nivi. There’s no set topic for this episode—it will be a potpourri. The Fully Interconnected Startup Naval, how are you using AI at Impossible, your current company, to cha…
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Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
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Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF. His 2010 meta-analysis established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment; he has argued ever since that "evidence-based therapy" is used as a marketing term.
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.
In 3 weeks at the next Devtools Toronto: traces.com - share agent coding sessions polarity.so - sandboxes for agent testing superuser.app - agents in your team chat tidra.ai - AI code maintenance at scale docsalot.dev - docs agents can read codepathfinder.dev - trace vulns across your codebase Related
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.
One consequence of Mr. Buffett taking a back seat is that we now get to learn from the people who have moved into the front seat. For the longest time, Ajit Jain operated undercover. Now he is teaching the world how he thinks about pricing risk. Berkshire’s role as a teacher of business and investment management is far from over. Quoting @TrungTPhan Ajit Jain was asked when Berkshire Hathaway will start insuring ships in the Strait of Hormuz. “Depends on the price” Related
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
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.
Designer and technologist; author of The Laws of Simplicity; former president of the Rhode Island School of Design; formerly at the MIT Media Lab.
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.
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How to choose a grind setting
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Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
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.
3 May
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.
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.
Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
"The only funding model I've seen work [for open source] is the most ancient one, which is patronage." open source Related
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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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
Comrade Trump This week on my podcast, I read Comrade Trump, a recent column from my Pluralistic newsletter, which will be syndicated in The Nerve. All of which means that my experience of the Trump years is decidedly weird. On the o…
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Cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute; writes Ground Truths on biomedical research, and wrote Super Agers and Deep Medicine.
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
$40/hr to train AI with zero interview? If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. 🕵️♂️ Related
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.
Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.
Get the Money out of Politics There’s a really simple way of ensuring that politics belongs to the people, not to the ultra-rich. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th April 2026 How do we know whether political funding is corrupt? Mostl…
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Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
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Reflections on AI-assisted Programming
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We owe a debt, not to companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google, but to the authors of the free public raw materials that were used to train AI.
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Skill-wise, most software developers, as long as they are willing/able to pay for AI assistants, are on the same page now.
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Going forward, I think the future will be filled with software abundance, or, more accurately, I'd call it "software proliferation". That is, centralized development will be history. Software will be highly personalized, especially for open source software.
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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.
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How to Work and Compound with AI
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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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Netizen
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Slowly the culture around me changed, so now it seems I need to explain my strange behavior — why I don't monetize everything like everyone else.
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Like picking up trash where you walk, even if the rest of the world is full of litter. You keep doing what you can to make things better.
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Writes Nintil, long researched essays on metascience, biology, economics and whatever he has decided to read the literature on.
There was only mom One morning I got a call from my younger brother Jaime. He was crying. He tells me my mom’s health, which had been slowly declining over the past month from advanced cancer, had reached the point where not much time was…
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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.
Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.
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There is no perfect SAK, but the Compact is the best SAK. And this is not a "smartest Kardashian" scenario. Over the years I have genuinely loved carrying the Compact. Adding the pocket clip and the excellent PDW scales has made it one of my most frequently carried items.
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If you haven't found Jon Gadget on Youtube, you need to go subscribe now.
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2 May
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
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.
In April 2026, US equities saw light in the midst of war and chaos. The S&P 500 rose 10.43%, its best month since April 2020, coming of COVID lows, and the ERP for the index dropped to 4.37%. The market was right then in being upbeat about the future. Is it right again? damodaran.com
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Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
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.
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".
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
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You can judge a book by its cover
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Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.
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.
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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I been through so many air sensors, and I really think this is the best one so I bought one for living room and then another one for bedroom, and will get another one for my coworking
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1 May
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.
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.
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
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.
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
Writer and education-technology critic; published Hack Education for a decade and wrote Teaching Machines.
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.
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/yO3cS8Aado there is a way out of the Strait of Hormuz, if you think about it carefully… 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.
With this lineup of speakers, this promises to be very interesting. Quoting @jdlichtman The Future of Mathematics Symposium is being held on May 1st-2nd! We have a truly exceptional group of speakers, with multiple Fields Medalists including Terence Tao. Tune in for livestream 9am-5pm PST (link below) Related
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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Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
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.
Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.
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Take your time
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Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.
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The exact wrong lesson to learn from data centre infrasound fears
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There are simply too many data centres being built, and they're too big, being built too fast.
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Reformation is impossible for AI data centres, at least, not without a massive change of course and an ideological reckoning.
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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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Dairy cows make their misery expensive (but their calves can’t)
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if we can't solve the sadist problem in nursing homes I don't see how we can assume it's solved in cows.
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I have a pet theory that removing the option for antibiotics forces farms to treat animals better, because bad conditions engender disease and without the quick fix of antibiotics that can get very expensive.
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An advantage cows have that egg chickens lack is that stress immediately and measurably decreases their economic productivity.
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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.
There’s No Minimum Angel Check Size I remember one time I had this guy call me up, wanted to pitch me, right? Wanted to sell me stock. So I let him. I got every fuckin’ rebuttal outta this guy, kept him on the phone for an hour and a half. Towards the end…
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Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
I can't cancel GitHub Copilot Back when Copilot first came out, I immediately disliked it. But I decided to give it a fair shake and tried to evaulate it in good faith. I wasn’t interested in paying for it, but they had a form for FOSS community mem…
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30 April
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
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.
excited to share this and help everyone be more cyber secure Quoting @claudeai Claude Security is now in public beta for Claude Enterprise customers. Claude scans your codebase for vulnerabilities, validates each finding to cut false positives, and suggests patches you can review and approve. Related
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
Creative coder behind neal.fun, a site of interactive web experiments including Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Deep Sea and Absurd Trolley Problems.
Sometimes you need to let an idea grow in the back of your head for 7 years before making it Quoting @nealagarwal I present to you - Cursor Hats Related
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.
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 Article: I Wrote Ultralearning. This is What I’d Change Because of AI https://t.co/SmHV6OuKYC When I wrote Ultralearning, AI wasn’t part of the conversation. Today, it changes how we research, practice and get feedback, but not the fundamental effort required to learn. Related
Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.
Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.
Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr? If you followed along with the recent joyful celebrations of the Artemis cruise around the moon, and took a moment to dive into the photographic archives of the mission, you might have noticed that all of the original i…
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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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With that disclaimer out of the way, this is a great book, which simultaneously illuminates some very, very important phenomena, and is very well-written.
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Mind candy fantasy: sequel to The Ninth Rain (in my backlog; suffice to say: good), and continuing the high standard of that book.
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I can have no opinion about whether the translation is accurate, but it is pretty good English verse.
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29 April
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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Creative coder behind neal.fun, a site of interactive web experiments including Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Deep Sea and Absurd Trolley Problems.
we're watching king kong vs godzilla right now Quoting @nealagarwal Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now, enjoy :) Related
Neuroscientist and novelist writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence and culture in the newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective.
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
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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Co-founder and partner at Union Square Ventures in New York. Has written the AVC blog almost every day since 2003, on venture capital, startups, music and crypto.
I took a walk around the Union Square neighborhood a couple of Fridays ago with our new partner @mignano and we recorded it so everyone can listen to our conversation. We talked about the past, present, and future of startups, VC, and NYC. Quoting @mignano Fred Wilson is one of the greatest VCs of all time. He is also my new partner at @USV and I'm lucky to say that. We've known each other for years, but becoming partners felt like a reason to get to know him even better. So a few weeks ago, we walked around Union Square and caught up about what @fre… startups Related
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
interesting thread on currency history and what might be in store with the yuandollar Quoting @izakaminska 🏴☠️1/ If what I think is happening is really happening, then I can make some predictions. Especially about incoming European problems. But first an important side story, which also relates to the “special relationship”. What a lot of people don’t know is that when Minos Zombanakis, the father of… Related
Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.
Alternating Current If this crucial circulation system shuts down, the civilisational impacts will be irreversible. So why isn’t it a top priority? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 23rd April 2026 The poor and middle pay taxes,…
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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.
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.
Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.
A special week: I had the privilege of seeing two outstanding Hungarian scientists I deeply admire—Katalin Karikó @kkariko and Réka Albert—inducted into the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC. Join me in congratulating them both! @theNASciences America Related
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
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Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
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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28 April
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
I have so much more to say on this subject, but this book is done now because I believe short books are useful. So the conversation continues on the website: Related
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.
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
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.
Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
Can someone at OpenAI help me with an account issue? I'm doing non-security testing and constantly getting flagged for doing "cybersecurity" work. I did the approval / ID scan on my personal account, but my work account is in an infinite loop and I can't use codex/GPT at work. OpenAI Related
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
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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Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
The earliest DOS source code was found on printer paper in Tim Paterson's garage so we've open sourced it on 86-DOS 1.00’s 45th anniversary! This is next-level software archaeology for preservation, and plain ol’ curiosity. #DOS #RetroComputing opensource.microsoft.com
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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
Kennedy supporting Trump's maths: a great example for teaching school students about percentage change. youtube.com
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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
If you ever wondered who can shit talk the most shit the fastest, @bcantrill or me, here is your chance to find out. (What you can't see: I'm wearing an "0x Engineer" t-shirt by Oxide as we record 😍) Quoting @heavybit On episode 89 of @o11ycast, Ken Rimple and Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) sit down with Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill) of @oxidecomputer. They explore Oxide’s mission to bring cloud-like infrastructure to on-prem environments and unpack why owning hardware is making a comeback. Tune in! Related
Software Factory Meetup, day after tomorrow, get on it. I'll be there too. 🍻 Quoting @PeterBell Agentic software engineering: - How do I get agents to generate quality code? - How can I automate the verification of the generated code? - How can my team build a robust software factory to accelerate velocity? - The first 20% is easy - how can I help the rest of my product, engineering and QA or… Related
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.
Prisoners’ dilemma and red queen come back in new avatars. Quoting @AiwithYasir 🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now. The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid of… Related
Law professor at Berkeley and the leading scholar of the Fourth Amendment as it applies to computers; writes at the Volokh Conspiracy.
Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite.
Major new release of rqlite (https://t.co/hzLPmWFhl1) - the lightweight, fault-tolerate database built on SQLite - v10 out now. Includes more robust clustering, better SQLite WAL handling, and a new built-in console application for easy management. github.com
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American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
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.
Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.
(One) Good AI Is Here The cultural battles over AI have broken down over predictable lines in the past few years, with critics rightfully calling out the big AI platforms for training on content without consent, recklessly building without c…
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Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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27 April
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
How is it possible for Iran to collect dollars? Quoting @IranIntl_En The Central Bank of Iran has opened four accounts in rials, yuan, US dollars, and euros to receive toll payments collected by the Revolutionary Guard's Navy, a senior lawmaker said on Monday. Parliament will move to make the toll system binding law at its first session by approving a bill titled “H… Related
Founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group; wrote Inspired, Empowered and Transformed on how product organisations work.
Build To Learn FAQ In our last article, we argued that especially in the age of AI, we are all builders, but that there is a very meaningful difference between building to learn (known as product discovery) versus building to earn (known…
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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.
Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system.
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
An amusing side effect of using LLMs when working at @khanacademy is that occasionally they're like "You're trying to cheat, aren't you?? No cheating allowed!!" (Clearing the chat and using more authority usually works well!) LLMs Related
Game designer and director of the NYU Game Center; made Universal Paperclips and writes Donkeyspace.
Law professor at Berkeley and the leading scholar of the Fourth Amendment as it applies to computers; writes at the Volokh Conspiracy.
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".
Web standards author and speaker; wrote the CSS: The Definitive Guide series and co-founded the An Event Apart conference.
Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.
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.
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
Law professor at Berkeley and the leading scholar of the Fourth Amendment as it applies to computers; writes at the Volokh Conspiracy.
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
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.
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.
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A (shorter) Three Horizons Framework for Government Reform
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The forty-page PDF used to feel intolerable. The well-designed web form will start to feel that way too, and faster than the last transition did.
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AI is not only an exogenous shock that government will have to absorb. It is also moving the bar on what counts as acceptable service in the first place.
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Extending the lifespan of a brittle system just means the system eventually fails more spectacularly.
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Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
The future of AI in Ubuntu AI tools are becoming ubiquitous. Adoption across the tech industry has been mixed, both in terms of which projects are embracing “AI” technologies, and in how companies are structuring their adoption This p…
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26 April
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
So many interesting things in this image. - X tells who blocked you! - Allows people to view the post, but not engage. - Alright, I've been a fan of this person for so long, but suddenly disappeared! - Not sure what happened! Anyway, hopefully things should turn out for well! 🥹 Related
Today's Community Office Hours I started was fun! 🤩 Built some super cool stuff including: - A portal for Cats in Tech for members! - A portal for SSoC that tracks Live PRs getting merged! - A certificate distribution engine for comms! Happy to chat with you all on these! 💪🏻 Related
Law professor at Berkeley and the leading scholar of the Fourth Amendment as it applies to computers; writes at the Volokh Conspiracy.
Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.
Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.
Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, which he started in 2011 while studying product design at Stanford.
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How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO)
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the more that we could build a platform uh around our business, the more that we could build an ecosystem with creators and developers, the harder it would be for folks uh to to just copy that.
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15 years ago we essentially learned that software is not a moat, right? Which is something that everyone is discovering today with AI, right?
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as we look forward to, you know, sort of these next generation form factors, things like glasses, there's going to be a whole new set of opportunities and a whole new surface for people to build generational consumer companies.
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what really mattered was connecting you to the right people. And so, if you could just connect someone not to all their friends, but to their best friend, to their partner, to their spouse, the people that they cared most about in the world, that that that's where the majority of the value is in the network.
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And I think people don't spend nearly enough time thinking about, you know, distribution and figuring out distribution. And that seems to me uh to be a huge differentiator.
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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.
25 April
Law professor at Berkeley and the leading scholar of the Fourth Amendment as it applies to computers; writes at the Volokh Conspiracy.
Founder and CEO of the search engine DuckDuckGo, and co-author of the books Traction and Super Thinking.
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
Cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute; writes Ground Truths on biomedical research, and wrote Super Agers and Deep Medicine.
Chancellor of Germany since May 2025; leader of the CDU.
Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.
Chancellor of Germany since May 2025; leader of the CDU.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zur Wiederwahl zum Vorsitzenden der CDA, lieber @RadtkeMdEP! Die @CDU muss auch weiterhin die starke Stimme der arbeitenden Mitte in unserem Land sein. Dafür braucht es auch weiter eine starke CDA! English, from German Congratulations on your re-election as chairman of the CDA, dear @RadtkeMdEP! The @CDU must continue to be the strong voice of the working middle class in our country. This requires a strong CDA to continue!
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Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.
Join us-- Physical Network Satellite at @NetSciConf in Boston! Quoting @__jymmt__ 🚨One week remaining🚨 Call for contributions to Physical Networks, IV Edition @NetSciConf , Boston is still open. 🗓️ June 2, 2026, 14:30~ Confirmed speakers: @masonporter , Jörn Dunkel, Katia Bertoldi, Xiangyi Meng, @ivanbonamassa Submit by 30 April 2026: physnet@ceu.edu Related
Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
Best Cook take of the week Quoting @drbarnard After way too many nauseatingly positive takes on Cook’s tenure, this is exactly the post I needed to close out the week. 👏 @andrewsharp (and by extension, @benthompson) Related
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
New post! "You should try contra dancing" I took a break from managementposting to pitch you all on my favorite niche activity: Related
Economist at George Mason University. Writes Overcoming Bias on prediction markets, signalling and the far future, and wrote The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.
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Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.
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in which more paths are charted towards code independence
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JavaScript
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As the software industry is largely driven by trends and fashion, React's "cool factor" led to a mass amnesia regarding how to make normal, well-designed web apps made of HTML with a sprinkling of scripting on top and everything became one big tangled, brittle mass of Javascript that completely keeled over when scripting wasn't available.
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When a company dominates the market, they capture not only their own users but even the imaginations of people actively resisting them.
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We shouldn't replace Github with one site at all; we need the strength and resilience that only comes with diversity
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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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My brave new code-signing world
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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
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Ada Palmer may just be the most bewilderingly talented person I know: a genius sf writer, incredible librettist and singer, wildly innovative educator, and a leading historian of the Renaissance, and last year, she published her magnum opus, Inventing the Renaissance, a stunning book about so much more than history
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24 April
Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
There is nothing about this that is amazing. It was predicted endlessly, and those predictions were dismissed by people citing the fact that big companies opposed these measures. They opposed them because while their relative position is stronger, the pie is now smaller. Quoting @AdamThierer truly one of the most amazing developments in trans-Atlantic tech policy over the past 20 years is the way that Europe set out to regulate US tech giants into the ground, but only made them more dominant as a result. This Economist headline really says it. Related
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
The WordPress AI plugin 0.8.0 is now available! Highlights in this release: • New Refine from Notes experiment to automatically apply editorial feedback • New AI dashboard widgets • Integration with Gutenberg Guidelines • Image Generation promoted to a stable Feature make.wordpress.org
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Software architect and futurist; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF, and has written about robocars for two decades.
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".
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
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.
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
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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.
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.
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".
Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.
Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.
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Why would ChatGPT "confess" to a crime it didn't commit?
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Canada and much of Europe have adopted different interrogation techniques — such as the PEACE method — which emphasize collecting reliable information over coercion. These approaches still garner confessions; they’re just more reliable.
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A confession, though, will sometimes preclude police from doing the very sort of investigation that would prove the confessor’s innocence.
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The Reid technique works at getting confessions. But it’s less successful at getting accurate ones.
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Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
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You should try contra dancing
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Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
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 SpaceX IPO is coming, and it will be a doozy, a futuristic company (spaceships, satellites and AI), a founder who will keep things interesting (Musk) and a price tag that may make it the most highly priced IPO of all time. bit.ly
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23 April
Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.
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.
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
It's astonishing how much time in my day I spend typing in two-factor codes, picking the right Google account, and otherwise trying to convince the computer that I am who I say I am. I believe we can do better. Would love to see a talk submission if you're working on this. Quoting @localfirstconf "It's been a kind of a good deal to say like, look, I'll just let Google manage my identity and then I can click the login with Google button everywhere. But it's a little bit of a deal with the devil. " @_adamwiggins_ Google Related
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
TBOT in ebook form is $1.99 again (for a limited time!): kindle: amzn.to/4cBzZkU bookshop: bookshop.org
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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 Article: How to Motivate Yourself to Exercise Regularly https://t.co/vYVSte9v6Y I’ve noticed that motivation to exercise comes and goes, but consistency depends on something else entirely. In this article, I try to unpack what that is and how to work with it. Related
American budget-travel writer who publishes as Nomadic Matt. Author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day; runs nomadicmatt.com, a long-running site of destination guides, packing advice and gear recommendations.
Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.
Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
22 April
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
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.
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.
American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.
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.
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.
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.
Social scientist turned small-scale farmer; wrote A Small Farm Future and argues against the case for feeding the world from factories.
Food, energy, capitalism, collapse Apologies that I’m not finding much time at the moment to write new blog posts, a situation that will probably continue for a while. Well, here’s one anyway, chiselled out from a couple of hours of idling on the interne…
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American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.
Author of the open source projects MessagePack, Fluentd and Embulk, and co-founder and chief architect of Treasure Data.
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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What you can do in a decade
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In one year you'll probably mostly be thinking and doing what you think you'll be doing in a year today. In a decade, EVERYTHING can change.
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The only lasting path to satisfaction, happiness, skin in the game, maximizing learning, is to really study everybody's game, define your own, and then play it to the best of your ability.
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the world is run by people no smarter than you - and even people that genuinely mean well, end up only prescribing games that you don't want to win.
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Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
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Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann
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You're building higher-level business logic, actually I think it's just fine for people not to care about memory management.
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And now suddenly people are building databases on top of object stores, for example. And now the replication happens at the object store level, no longer at the database level.
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generally, like you just want the the cost and the computing capacity to be roughly proportional to the load that you have. And at the low end, that means actually being able to scale down to something that is extremely cheap to run.
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Scalability is just like what mechanisms we have for dealing with changes in load. If load increases, how can we add computing capacity to a system, for example, so that the system still continues working?
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for me, reliability means fault tolerance primarily. So, meaning that a system should, on the whole, continue working even if like a network link is interrupted or a node crashes or something like that.
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