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16 June
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.
exciting to read about this work on rv, uv has made Python so much easier for me Quoting @indirect.io I wrote a history of rv until now, what we've released, and what our plans are andre.arko.net/2026/06/13/rv-… Related
Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
Researcher of social media, privacy and youth culture; founder of Data & Society and author of It’s Complicated.
I have a new book coming out this fall and now I’m getting SLAMMED with GenAI invitations to join their book community (for a fee of course). I doubt I’m alone. But what I can’t work out is how the economy of these pay-to-play networks is working. Has anyone investigated? Curious minds want to know. Related
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
One of the worst things you can do to your code is to hide a design decision. A common example is compressing design decisions into a boolean. A boolean parameter looks harmless. It is just one extra argument. 👇 Related
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
Lololol. When people on the internet don’t understand the difference between paper money and making money 🙄🙄 Quoting @typesfast With today's 20% SpaceX pop, Elon made more money today than Warren Buffett made in his entire career Related
Art critic, broadcaster and author; wrote on art for The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph and presents BBC art documentaries. Author of Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane.
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.
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
Telemetry is a product decision. These are not your old school infra logs and metrics; this is not your system exhaust pipe, spewing crap into the sky. The trace is all you need. But the trace must be part of the product. The trace is your source of truth. Quoting @mykola I think as LLM computer use gets increasing capable we are going to see a massive rise in the popularity and significance of telemetry. @mipsytipsy and honeycomb are way early yet, this will generalize. Think games or movies or lives as nested event streams. If you can see that, you can see why I’m… Related
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
Editor at Works in Progress writing on architecture, urbanism and housing policy, and a fellow of the Centre for Policy Studies and Create Streets. Has worked in think tanks, academia and government in Britain.
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Europe's housing shortages are even worse than America's
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But this effect is far too small to explain the increase in house prices in Europe since 1914, when, after all, most urban continental Europeans lived in flats.
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Europe
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I suspect the same is often true in the rest of Europe: NIMBYism is the ultimate reason why the French and German states don’t solve their housing shortages through unbanning densification, but since the claims of the NIMBYs have been preemptively conceded by everyone, NIMBYism has basically remained latent.
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In fact, zoning was invented in Europe, in Germany and Austria-Hungary, in the late nineteenth century.
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In fact, European housing shortages are generally worse than America’s.
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Without densification restrictions, housing shortages will only ever be serious in cities where land is really intensely scarce, as in Hong Kong.
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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.
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Immortality Sounds Pretty Good, Actually
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But there’s no overall narrative arc—it’s just been one thing after another.
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But when I think about all the goals I have in my life right now—finish this Substack, get the house ready for some visitors, prepare a course for next year, write a paper, etc.—none of it is driven by an appreciation of my mortality.
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There are things that we naturally take pleasure in—such as friendship, sex, and Italian food—and while we can become sick of anything if continually exposed to it in large doses, we don’t get tired of these things if they are properly distributed in time.
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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.
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Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmer
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Europe
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Machiavelli is the first person that we have ever in the European tradition to suggest that it could be viable for there to be more than one political party in a state at the same time.
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And so his power base was fragile vis-a-vis untruth. And for him because of the specific shape of his power and then the specific way he handled his contradictions, that did hurt him.
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They fell because half of what happens in the world is never in our control. And you can do everything right and it's out of your control, but we have to evaluate what would have happened and therefore we should imitate them, because everything they did was right.
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Europe government
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And soon we have a precedent that every new pope feels he has the authority to knock down every pawn upon the chessboard if he feels like it. Once that is the norm, even a fairly nice pope still inherits the idea that the pope is going to overthrow and replace governments. And this creates a unique instability within Italy that no other part of Europe is subject to
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government
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When you break that, when you overthrow the ruler, when you dissolve the republic, when you put in a new thing, it doesn't have that same staying power. And so, it's very common when there's one regime change for there to then be five regime changes rapid-fire over and over.
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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.
Gear reviewer who publishes long-form hi-fi audio and camera equipment reviews, plus video reviews, at stevehuffphoto.com.
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THIS IS WHY I FEEL it is one of the best HiFi products ever made. Because of what it brings for the money. Because it will bring so many new people into the hobby.
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The AGD is a stunning work of audio art that has gorgeous casework and is deathly silent as well, zero noise.
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15 June
Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.
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.
Technology journalist; writes Understanding AI, after reporting at Ars Technica, Vox and the Washington Post.
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
Music critic of The New Yorker since 1996 and author of The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This and Wagnerism.
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.
Economist at Brown; writes ParentData and the books Expecting Better and Cribsheet, reading the evidence behind pregnancy and parenting advice.
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
What I’ve Learned From Selling 500,000 Books I recently reached an incredible milestone – 500,000 books sold across 8 titles. That includes 5 self-published Kindle ebooks, 1 co-authored book, and 2 traditionally published books, all released from 2017 to 2023. Her…
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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.
The new @pebble watch is an unbelievable product. Two days in and I've already made my perfect watchface. 30 day battery life too! @ericmigi Related
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.
Short I think what happened, I had two competing feelings at the time. One was: I feel so ashamed for doin Related
Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.
Revised rules of engineering leadership. From early 2014 through late 2020, I was working in hypergrowth environments, which are challenging, but also educational. The most valuable feature of hypergrowth is that your mistakes reveal themselves next month rath…
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Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
Public transit planning consultant; wrote Human Transit and argues that a network's shape follows from what a city decides it wants.
Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.
Reality Be Damned The policies of both Reform UK and the Conservatives would destroy a million jobs. In return, they offer imaginary employment in a fantasy industry. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th June 2026 Really? Yo…
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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
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Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
Something is wrong with my Claude Code and I can't figure it out... The latest model I can use is Opus 4.5. It claims that updates are available but Homebrew says I'm on the latest version. I've tried re-installing and clearing my .claude directory to no avail. I couldn't have used Fable last week even if I tried 😢 Any ideas? Anthropic Related
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
x.com If you lived through the era when sysadmins stopped handcrafting server pets, what's happening now should feel eerily familiar. Nondeterminism will require more engineering discipline, not less. This is our best chance to take our engineering values mainstream. charitydotwtf.substack.com
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Newsletter AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now.
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Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
Once you know enough that anybody else might call you an expert, you would never consider yourself one. Quoting @asmartbear Becoming "an expert" is something that happens along the way. It’s not the goal. It’s not a prerequisite. And by the time you get there, half of what you know is outdated, and sometimes you’re unsure which half. So don’t worry about being an “expert.” Related
Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.
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".
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LLM councils show groupthink
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Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
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Does the Rule of 40 Work for Hardware?
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Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.
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A good book sweeps a corner of your brain. Clears out a stale assumption. Disturbs the ecosystem of old ideas you've been letting accumulate rent-free.
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Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.
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For my local setup, I'm currently using Pi as the agent harness and LM Studio as the inference server
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For my local setup, I'm currently using Pi as the agent harness and LM Studio as the inference server
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I've so far been using gemma-4-26b-a4b LM Studio implementation as my default local model.
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Gemma-4-12b-qat just came out but I've already also really been impressed with its performance relative to its size.
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The idea that local models were severely lagging behind was largely true until, for me, the release of GPT-OSS.
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Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.
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While Airdrop works very well between Apple devices, it can be kind of annoying to transfer files between either my Mac or iPhone and my Windows PC when I need to. The Blip app helps bridge that gap and is free and easy to use. I've actually started using it more often between my Apple devices as well than I use Airdrop now.
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Laravel Forge is an amazing service offered by the Laravel team to provision and manage servers. I use it for both my personal and work related servers.
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For some projects I've started to use Hetzner for vps hosting. I've found you can get more powerful servers for a cheaper cost than with providers like DigitalOcean.
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I've only used Laravel Shift a few times, but each time I did it saved a lot of time upgrading my Laravel projects.
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To track exceptions in production, I've found Flare to be very helpful.
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14 June
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.
Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.
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Economist at Brown; writes ParentData and the books Expecting Better and Cribsheet, reading the evidence behind pregnancy and parenting advice.
Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.
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The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more)
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if you're truly ambitious, burn your resume. If you and if you define your ambition in the eyes of your consumer, not your peers, you're not trying to win awards and respect from your peers.
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in the Peter Teal sense it's almost a moral arbitrage because there's something in our gut as a product you you became a founder an entrepreneur because you wanted to go be an innovator and so it can feel like a beatdown that your path to innovation starts with copying other people's work
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And we have to accept that that new idea is probably going to fail. It's a reason to try it for people, but it's probably going to fail.
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And I like to say we we don't we haven't earned the right to innovate on the camera until we are the world's leading PhD on the best mobile cameras that already exist.
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we have these instincts like in our gut, these human level instincts that are pretty much always right. And then we put these ideas on top of the instincts that are usually wrong. And my rule of thumb is your instincts are right 95% of the time.
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Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses. Co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm and author of the book Marketing for Developers.
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We have a communication problem
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Writes Nintil, long researched essays on metascience, biology, economics and whatever he has decided to read the literature on.
13 June
Founder and CEO of the search engine DuckDuckGo, and co-author of the books Traction and Super Thinking.
No, everyone is not using AI for everything. gabrielweinberg.com/p/people-are... People are consuming AI like they eat meat: some are embracing it, some are limiting their use of it, and some are avoiding it altogether. Related
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
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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.
SpaceX will help expand humanity out to the stars. It makes me excited for the future! Huge congrats to Elon and the SpaceX team 👊 Related
Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.
American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
Tibo’s points may be valid, but they are not reasons to never sell. If you know what you’re signing up for, pocketing $8M is worth some sacrifice. His post actually points to better advice, which is: don’t agree to aggressive performance milestones. Quoting @tibo_maker if you're selling your startup - don't I sold my startups for $8m & I'll never sell again quick context: I sold Tweet Hunter and Taplio for $8m in 2024. $2m upfront, the rest as an earnout based on performance - on paper, a dream exit in reality, 3 things broke me first, I gave up my baby. the prod… Related
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
this statement is true, but it all comes down to: "What does quality mean, in this particular circumstance?" talking about "fast" and "slow" is toddler-level reasoning, and it irks me when the AI debate gets so wrapped around that axle. Quoting @awscloud @honeycombio Quality first, quantity second. Hear how @mipsytipsy built it on the AWS for Software Companies podcast. Related
tfw AWS posts something you recorded at AWS:reinvent EIGHT MONTHS AGO, with no indication that it was not recorded last week. It's not that I don't stand behind what I said....Or maybe it is? I don't remember what I said, it was eight months ago. Quoting @awscloud The real bottleneck was never writing code. It's releasing it, debugging it, & keeping it running well. So when @Honeycombio CTO Charity Majors set a productivity target, she didn't chase 10x. She chose 2x, & built from there. Related
I have a not-so-secret love for advice columns. Which is why I just started writing one for @StackOverflow, every other Friday for the next 3 months. First column is up -- "Paging Charity! How do I get my leaders to stop running teams into the ground?" stackoverflow.blog
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American historian of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust; author of Bloodlands, On Tyranny and On Freedom, and writer of the newsletter 'Thinking about...'.
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Sky Defense: Bringing it Home
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Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
Cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute; writes Ground Truths on biomedical research, and wrote Super Agers and Deep Medicine.
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Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.
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Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
In awe of SpaceX and its story - past, present and the future. You can think about it in 10+ different ways and continue re-blowing your mind in circles. Huge congrats to the team! 🚀 Related
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
The Raven Tattoo I've long been envious of my friends with sweet sleeve tattoos. It's a cool place for a tattoo.... chriscoyier.net
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Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later joined Tailscale.
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
You can finally power on a Mac remotely Apple FINALLY lets you turn on your Mac remotely, without having to press the power button. In the media, articles suggest it's a reaction to Mac mini power button complaints. While I agree the M4 mini's power button is…
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American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
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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.
Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
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.
Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
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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Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
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Everything on the internet is a "show"
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Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
It is a really good skill Quoting @vitromancer @harper this is with thrifty skills today, 3 parallel fable orchestrators didn't come close to using my 5h. unreal. Related
Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.
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Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.
Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.
Marriage and family therapist working from attachment theory and emotionally focused therapy. Author of Secure Love and the person behind The Secure Relationship.
Technology journalist; writes Understanding AI, after reporting at Ars Technica, Vox and the Washington Post.
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.
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.
Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein, a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025, and host of the Plain English podcast.
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
Programmer; founded comma.ai and tinygrad, and was the first to unlock the iPhone.
Designer and technologist; author of The Laws of Simplicity; former president of the Rhode Island School of Design; formerly at the MIT Media Lab.
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
Went to Cali for a fun party in the woods. Was able to hang with friends and talk about the future. Highly recommended. Related
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
We really gotta stop normalizing the whole full on speakerphone FaceTime call in a restaurant thing. Put the phone to your ear sir Related
Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.
Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.
Boss move. Quoting @mayor.nyc.gov When James Dolan cancels the watch party outside MSG, we bring the watch party to you. Thanks to the @nba.com, Knicks Game 4 is now playing on dozens of LinkNYC screens across our city. LGK. Related
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
For some reason, @Jason neglected to mention in the summary below that I also do a very poor impression of Bono near the end of this (otherwise very engaging) conversation. Thanks for having me back @ThisWeeknAI! Quoting @ThisWeeknAI "If you had a great tutor, you wouldn't sit down and say please write my paper for me." - @stevenbjohnson The first generation raised on ChatGPT booed AI at graduation. Three founders unpack why, plus Apple's brand new Siri, NotebookLM's biggest update, and whether anyone "wins" the agent race. Thi… Related
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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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Without hope of resolution
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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
I've been thinking about the booing at college commencements & wondered: what advice would I give a 22yo for the age of AI? thinking back to my own graduation into the pandemic, I think the #1 thing is having the right disposition toward change Related
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.
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Technology journalist; writes Understanding AI, after reporting at Ars Technica, Vox and the Washington Post.
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
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.
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
Art critic, broadcaster and author; wrote on art for The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph and presents BBC art documentaries. Author of Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane.
Thrilled to hear that Barnes & Noble have selected Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found as one of their best books of 2026! barnesandnoble.com
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Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
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Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
So excited for this conversation! Join us! Quoting @timoreilly I’m chatting live with @harper Reed tomorrow at 9 am PT if any of you are interested. It’s a text based Q&A; only Harper and I will be live, but would love to channel your questions. If you can’t join, ask them here and I’ll lob the best of them at him. 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.
@quantabooks.org just released their first book, on the story of Lean by @kevinhartnett.bsky.social. It's a great story, about a pretty significant part of what's happening in math right now. quantabooks.org
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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.
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.
Suppose you wanted to reinvent the idea of Shannon Entropy for yourself. This puzzle is a good place to start (Full video on YouTube). Related
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
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.
My @ProSyn #InsiderInterview with Philippe Aghion is now freely available here: https://t.co/q1pjSpE81D We discuss creative destruction and competition, reviving European dynamism, China, AI, and more Europe China Related
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
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Economist; Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017.
Looking at today's headlines on inflation I want to re-up this. Is a peculiarity that 100% of the jobs focus is 1-month while majority of inflation focus is 12-months. If May-25 jobs was 400K & May-26 was 300K the 12-month number would go down but no headline or even line in the article would be "job growth stalled in May". Quoting @jasonfurman I mostly avoid media criticism because the reporters that write these stories 100% understand all the issues I'm raising and are consistent over time. But I wish the editorial choices would move away from a focus on 12-month changes, reversing headlines and subheads. inflation Related
Three things about today's inflation report: 1. 12-month inflation increased (because May-26 > May-25) 2. 1-month inflation slowed (because May-26 < Apr-26) 3. Inflation came in below expectations. Here is core. inflation Related
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Nontrailing separators do not spark joy This is valid JSON: { "a": 1, "b": 2, "c": 3 } This is invalid JSON: { "a": 1, "b": 2, "c": 3, } The difference is the last comma. The JSON grammar specifies that a comma can separate two members of an object but not po…
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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.
Chancellor of Germany since May 2025; leader of the CDU.
Herzlich Glückwunsch, lieber @kaiwegner, zu Deiner Wahl zum Spitzenkandidaten der @cduberlin! Berlin braucht auch weiterhin eine starke CDU und Dich als Regierenden Bürgermeister im Roten Rathaus. English, from German Congratulations, dear @kaiwegner, on your election as the top candidate for @cduberlin! Berlin continues to need a strong CDU and you as Governing Mayor in the Red City Hall.
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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
The main problem with many function arguments isn't the number of arguments per se. Rather, it's why a method needs all those arguments. Related
Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.
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Manufacturing requirements are killing cell and gene therapy
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Until manufacturing and regulatory risks become easier to underwrite, capital will keep drifting away from one of the most promising technologies of the last century.
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Excessive manufacturing requirements are a pervasive problem, especially in the field of cell and gene therapy and they are killing countless of promising medicines before they ever reach patients.
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Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
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Principled Thinking and AI Need to Go Together
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I believe that the path to success is best achieved by putting the best human intelligence together with the best artificial intelligence and that the way of thinking I am describing here is essential to understand and use in the new human/artificial intelligence era.
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What this process can now do in creating understanding of the timeless and universal cause:effect relationship and enhancing and systemizing whatever one is thinking is mind-blowing. I believe that you will either stay at the cutting edge of doing this or you will be uncompetitive.
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To be clear, these criteria are not best derived by looking at what would have worked in the past and assuming that it will work in the future—i.e., data mining—or simply asking an AI what to do. They are based on logical understandings converted into decision-making systems.
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Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company he started as Facebook in 2004.
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“Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg
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it's not just like there's some factory somewhere that you can pay to produce the the data like you actually need to invent new novel scientific approaches
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I think in a lot of ways the data is actually even more of a constraint and um because if you look at like the scale of these models compared to language models they're smaller but they're smaller because the amount of data is less
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I mean it's not actually clear that we couldn't run it as a business if we wanted to. I just think that we'll have a bigger impact by getting this in more scientist hands quicker
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And again, I mean, the the theory isn't that we're going to cure the diseases. We're not. um it's that we want to help accelerate the pace of progress for the whole scientific field.
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But still, I thought that by the end of the century was a stretch. Now, I think it's like uh too conservative.
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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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🌻 the old world is dying
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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.
🎨 hunk v0.15.0 is out: - supports git --color-moved - transparent backgrounds - color token fixes - more themes - Sapling support (it's a VCS from Meta) also now there's a website → hunk.dev
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Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
you can do the same thing with open models as well. plan cheaply with claude code, and then execute CHEAPly with open models. it runs. Quoting @harper thrifty ships as a Claude Code plugin. Use it!! /plugin marketplace add 2389-research/thrifty /plugin install thrifty@thrifty use it when the task has separable work, clear acceptance criteria, and enough execution volume to make delegation worth it. offload each sprint to the weakest model that ca… Anthropic Related
If you wanted to try out fable but are scared of blowing away your token budget do we have a skill for you! Its called Thrifty. It makes things cheaper. We built thrifty for claude code around a better split: strong model plans → cheap model executes → gate verifies. Anthropic Related
Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
I'm doing a reading in Asheville tomorrow night. We've already maxed out on RSVPs but you can still attend; hope to see you there: malaprops.com
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AGI is officially here. Quoting @jasonfurman AI is truly charming. AGI Related
Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
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Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
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.
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
What should I talk about at MicroConf Iceland this fall? I’m looking for ideas for a 35-minute main-stage talk. A couple constraints: • No early-stage validation or “how to launch” topics • No AI talks, I’ve covered that ground plenty What are you thinking about these days? What’s a topic you’d want me to unpack? (Even if you’re not attending, the talk will be on YouTube a few months after the event.) Related
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Being able to swap windows and rotate panes in tmux is handy. You can do leader + < and swap a window to the left or right in the menu. You can also do leader + { and leader + } to rotate panes. There's also leader + space to cycle pane layouts. nickjanetakis.com
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Cyborg anthropologist and UX designer; author of Calm Technology and co-founder of the geolocation startup Geoloqi.
Excited to see @mui_labo highlighted by the Government of Japan! Quoting @nobi The Japanese government is lending its support to Calm Tech products from @mui_labo in Japan, helping bring a quieter and more thoughtful vision of technology to the world. government Related
Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."
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.
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
One of the most common naming issues I tend to see are generic placeholder names like Utils, Misc, or Helper. Names aren’t just passive labels. Names influence future behavior and perspective. A vague and imprecise name — like Utils — will attract code of those same qualities. Related
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
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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.
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
Also, the new @NotebookLM research agent has the full context of the project you're working on—current sources, chat history, etc—so you can do nuanced research prompts like: "given everything we've reviewed so far, what topics are we missing? Find me sources on those topics." Quoting @joshwoodward The new killer NotebookLM feature: easily being able to expand your search beyond your own source files Then, with today's update, you can also make new output formats: PDFs, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, charts, etc. We want NotebookLM to keep helping you do better research Related
Climate scientist and energy systems analyst; writes The Climate Brink with Andrew Dessler and leads climate research at Stripe.
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Plateauing CO2 emissions have slowed atmospheric growth
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That being said, we still expect some weakening of carbon sinks in a warmer world - something we have started to see in the data.
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But broadly speaking we expect atmospheric CO2 to keep growing until we cut emissions pretty substantially (e.g. to <50% of current levels).
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Either way, atmospheric CO2 is better seen as a lagging rather than leading indicator of changes in emissions, as it is harder to see the effects of emissions reductions on concentrations over shorter time periods.
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Historian of maritime strategy at the US Naval War College; wrote The Wars for Asia and works on why continental and maritime powers fight differently.
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Sarah Paine - Why Putin and Xi can't escape geography
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And what's fascinating is today when China claims whatever its historical lands are, they either choose the Mongol Yuan Dynasty or the Manchu Qing Dynasty when the Han were subjugated people.
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And uh genocide is what happens to the losers in continental warfare. And apparently in our own day, the Uyghurs are slated for genocide.
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And Russia's never had a commerce-driven economy. China much more so under Deng Xiaoping, but recently Xi Jinping has been privileging the crony sector over the private sector and neither one has stable government institutions.
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So, China and Russia certainly have maritime ambitions, but I'm not clear they actually understand what goes into a full maritime paradigm.
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It turns out maritime powers are the exception and continental powers are the rule. Why? Cuz maritime powers, if need be, can defend themselves primarily at sea with their navies. Whereas, a continental power simply cannot.
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General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
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Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
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a more common trait that's related in the entrepreneurial world is obsessive learning like constant learning because the disruptions that allow for the technology waves that allow for companies to be disruptive and take market share from an incumbent are all tied to something dynamic that's happening on the edge.
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I'm suggesting you should understand the really old stuff, the history, because it's differentiating and shows a passion and it gives you a great frame of mind, but you also want to really understand the new edge. If you do both of those things, like you're I think you're a power player in your field, you know.
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We do live in a world where information is really cut up, but we also live in a world where you can have access to more information than you ever could. And that's even more true now with LLMs.
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you got to be really conscious of the consequence and not get too deterministic about a single metric or a single variable and know what's important and what's on top.
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I would describe complex systems as multivariable nonlinear systems. And multivariable nonlinear systems are very hard to predict. They can behave one way for a long time and then one variable can switch and they can behave another way.
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Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.
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Silence Is Not Necessarily Violence
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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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All told, this is a read-in-one-sitting thriller that does as much to illuminate the workings and dynamics of patriarchy and religion as any gender studies class. It's peak Kritzer (so far), and that's saying something.
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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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This is a super exciting release - Claude Fable 5 is the same underlying model as Mythos but with added safeguards. The benchmarks are great and it's SOTA on everything by a margin but I'll add that *qualitatively* also, this is a major-version-bump-deserving step change forward
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Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
An honor to interview the novelist Benjamín Labatut about Von Neumann, his conversations with Demis, and what the AI industry misses — "Literature tries to weave the rainbow back together. It involves irrationality; it involves all of those things that science has, by its own method, left out. Literature presents a messier, darker, and perhaps more complete, if less powerful, perspective on the world." youtube.com
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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.
Alberto Alfarano, François Charton, Yongzheng Jia, Kristin Lauter, Cathy Li, Emily Wenger, are launching a challenge at SAIR on how efficiently neural networks can perform modular arithmetic: Related
Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
American software engineer working across web, mobile and TV platforms; writes at sean.is.
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Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
At my favorite café, they don’t have any signs on the doors of the toilet to make sure all new guests have to ask around when they need to use it, and so have an excuse to talk with others. Related
Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
It's actually super important that the Siri demo was kind of slow, because it emphasized it was real. Would be even better if it were live, though. 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.
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
The most significant update to @NotebookLM in the three years since we launched. I’ve been using it for past two months and it is absolutely transformative for research. Rolling out to Ultra users today, support for more tiers to come. Quoting @Gemini_Notebook Introducing a more powerful NotebookLM 🚀 Massive upgrades deliver agentic capabilities in chat, more advanced reasoning, and a suite of new output formats. Tackling complex, multi-step research problems has never been easier. Rolling out now to Google AI Ultra subscribers. Related
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
American social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.
Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.
Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.
Vampire Capital The highly lucrative trade in children in care reveals another level of cynicism altogether. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th June 2026 Bring your suitcase, your bin liner, your dumpy bag. They’re handin…
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Standards editor known as Hixie; edited the HTML and WHATWG living standards for many years and worked on Flutter at Google.
American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.
Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
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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.
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I Didn’t Post About Your Cause
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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.
Honored to receive the Euler Award, the @netscisociety's highest recognition. It was particularly meaningful to receive at the 20th anniversary meeting of the @netscisociety surrounded by the students, postdocs, collaborators who made this possible. Let us continue the journey! Related
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later joined Tailscale.
Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.
I’m really having trouble imagining anyone at any point in history saying the word “knickerbocker” with a straight face, it just has such a funny mouthfeel Related
Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.
Founder and CEO of the search engine DuckDuckGo, and co-author of the books Traction and Super Thinking.
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Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
Game designer and programmer, co-founder of id Software and co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. Now runs Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.
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Programmer; founded comma.ai and tinygrad, and was the first to unlock the iPhone.
Economist at Brown; writes ParentData and the books Expecting Better and Cribsheet, reading the evidence behind pregnancy and parenting advice.
Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone at Apple, founder of Nest, and author of Build.
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Tony Fadell: How to build real taste (and why AI makes it matter more)
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And so, I always kind of start with okay, where's our current pain and are there new technologies to solve that pain?
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the way you get best context is by having sensors properly placed around the home that don't necessarily invade privacy, but allow you to pick up a lot of comings and goings and who's who in the room and your voice and these kinds of things.
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And when I mean micromanaging, it means micromanage the decision, not necessarily operations of doing it.
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And if you're doing a 1.0 and the world hasn't seen you, you're not going to get that from consumers, ever. You have to ship it, and you have to build the entire kind of ecosystem so those consumers see it in the fullness so that when they do the evaluation and they spend their own money, then you're getting real feedback.
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And so, if most of your decisions are going to be opinion-based decisions for a 1.0, you have to have one or two or a very, very small set of people who are in charge with making the opinion-based decisions
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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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Crema is rubbish, 2026 edition
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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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Vultr basic $10/month public server
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Bunny CDN for m.sive.rs media files
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Netim domain registrar
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Kagi for ad-free spam-free search
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Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
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.
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
Across the 241 SaaS companies I'm invested in, less than 5% had any notable social media audience when they started (or have built one since). As a data point, about 22% of them are doing 7 or 8-figures of ARR. If you want to do SaaS, build your network, not your audience. Quoting @Shpigford real talk: having a decent sized audience *helps* but is by absolutely zero means a guarantee that anything succeeds/works/makes money. have put out TONS of things that got all of about 3 people to actually sign up for. SaaS Related
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
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Cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute; writes Ground Truths on biomedical research, and wrote Super Agers and Deep Medicine.
Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.
Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
Chancellor of Germany since May 2025; leader of the CDU.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, lieber @DennisThering, zur Wiederwahl zum Vorsitzenden der CDU Hamburg. Der heutige Landesparteitag hat gezeigt: Die CDU in der Hansestadt bleibt auch in den kommenden Jahren gut aufgestellt! English, from German Congratulations, dear @DennisThering, on your re-election as chairman of the CDU Hamburg. Today's state party conference has shown: The CDU in the Hanseatic city remains well-positioned in the coming years!
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Herzlichen Glückwunsch, lieber @danielpetersMV, zu Deiner Wiederwahl zum Vorsitzenden der CDU Mecklenburg-Vorpommern! Gemeinsam werden wir in den kommenden Wochen für ein starkes Ergebnis für die @CDUMV bei den Landtagswahlen am 20. September kämpfen! English, from German Congratulations, dear @danielpetersMV, on your re-election as chairman of the CDU Mecklenburg-Vorpommern! Together we will fight for a strong result for the @CDUMV in the coming weeks in the state elections on September 20!
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Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.
Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.
Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
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.
“the small investor always finds out last. no Bloomberg terminal. no management access. no early warning.” @Moneylifers gave early warning about problems long ago at a cost every investor can afford. @suchetadalal Quoting @shubh19 In 2015, a jewellery guy from Bengaluru bought one of the world's largest gold refineries in Switzerland for $400 million his name was Rajesh Mehta his company: Rajesh Exports two years later, REL showed up in the Fortune 500 list ranked above Meta, Nike, and McDonald's. an Indian jewellery company… Related
Programmer; founded comma.ai and tinygrad, and was the first to unlock the iPhone.
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
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Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
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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.
Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
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Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Every developer should volunteer for a non-profit on the side these days. There’s unlimited things to do, a magic tool for your knowledge that accomplishes things in minutes, and you learn a *ton* about a huge undervalued chunk of the world. Related
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.
Chancellor of Germany since May 2025; leader of the CDU.
Der Westbalkan gehört in der Perspektive zur Europäischen Union. Dass wir seit 13 Jahren keine Mitglieder mehr aufgenommen haben, zeigt auch Versäumnisse der EU. Präsident Macron und ich haben einen konkreten Vorschlag unterbreitet, wie wir jetzt in die nächsten Schritte gehen. Die Europäische Union muss zeigen, dass sie erweiterungsfähig und erweiterungswillig ist. English, from German The Western Balkans belong to the European Union in perspective. The fact that we haven't admitted any new members for 13 years also shows failures on the part of the EU. President Macron and I have made a concrete proposal on how we can now move forward. The European Union must show that it is capable of and willing to expand.
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Neuroscientist and novelist writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence and culture in the newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective.
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Bose QC35s are still going after 10 years. I change the headphone pads every year or so and they feel like new I fear I may have gone a bit too silly with these ones.. Related
Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
DBSC Beta at Report URI This week, I published a blog post about Device Bound Session Credentials, a new technology that will significantly hamper the efforts of Infostealers and reduce the damage caused by stolen cookies. Today, we're announc…
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Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
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Economist at Brown; writes ParentData and the books Expecting Better and Cribsheet, reading the evidence behind pregnancy and parenting advice.
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
Looking forward to playing around with Oeuf's multiplayer map editor tomorrow evening! Quoting @increpare.bsky.social #OeufGame map editing party on Saturday to celebrate the 1.4 release (today or tomorrow), which includes a networked map editor! discord.gg/tWHdFkxPaX Related
Economist; Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017.
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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.
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: Focus is Motivation https://t.co/8wlhJag5As Some days I feel motivated and focused. Other days I feel neither. Thinking about that pattern led me to a simple question: what if focus comes first? This article is my attempt to answer it. Related
Game designer and programmer, co-founder of id Software and co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. Now runs Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.
C++ The Documentary is live. I really enjoyed this. Bjarne is an absolute legend. Thanks so much to @CultRepo for making this happen. youtube.com
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Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
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 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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Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
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Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
The circus freaks of open source The masterwork of Terry A. Davis is his eclectic operating system, TempleOS, which he worked on until his tragic death in 2018. In terms of technical excellence, TempleOS rates well in some respects and poorly in others…
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Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
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But I still like the Cube, if for no other reason than it showed manufacturers you could build tiny IP KVMs under $100.
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I've tested all their different models, and they work great.
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Starting over over $200 for a cheaper Allwinner version, they're outclassed by newer KVMs.
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If this were $200 I'd complain, but not for $25. For that, it's a neat little box that maybe more people could contribute to, to make it the most handy way to jack in from a crash cart.
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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.
I valued SpaceX for its IPO a few weeks ago, with minimal information and a promise to revisit the valuation, when the prospectus was made public. The prospectus is public, the offering price has been set and my update is up and running. bit.ly
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Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.
This is really cool. I've been super into strandbeests since I discovered the Gakken kit (which was many, many years ago): japantrendshop.com
Quoting @amitsheen.bsky.social 👣 CSS Strandbeest This one took a while... Somewhere along the way, this stopped being a CSS experiment and became a trigonometry exercise. 😅 But if there was ever a way to find out what CSS trig functions can do, Jansen's linkage is probably it. 🔗 Live on @codepen.io: codepen.io/editor/amit_... Related
Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI, and author of Co-Intelligence. Writes One Useful Thing, where the claims are dated and testable because the thing they describe keeps changing under them.
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
Will AI Make Me Worse? As people increasingly rely on AI to do some or all of their work, what effects will this have on people's work quality, skills, and emotional state?
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American author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and Stillness Is the Key. Writes the Reading List book-recommendation email (started 2008) and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Hosts The Daily Stoic podcast.
This Is Something You Have To Get Good At I’ll tell you, very few people become writers because they want to stand up in front of a room full of strangers and talk. Often, in fact, it’s the opposite. What draws most people to writing in the first place is that…
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Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Heading back to Portland after a hard but energizing week at BUILD. What a lovely team. Related
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
We've been publishing "complete works" featured notebooks @NotebookLM since our original Shakespeare collection, as public resources for scholars/students. But our new Complete Sherlock Holmes has a very cool twist: it's also a playable text adventure! Related
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
My pie-in-the-sky requests for @CloudflareDev to overhaul corporate web dev: * Fully hosted private Git + CI + "Pull Requests" * Playwright end-to-end test running and result collection * Storybook hosting + shapshot comparisons * Private NPM package registry hosting Related
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
I started using @Docker in 2014 and a few years ago when Docker celebrated their 11 year anniversary I created an "origin story" video. Everything said then still rings true today. What got you interested in using Docker? youtube.com
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Interviewer; the Dwarkesh Podcast runs long, heavily researched conversations with AI researchers, historians and economists.
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.
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Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later joined Tailscale.
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
The New Van I got something I've wanted for years and years! A camper van! I'm a camper van guy now!... chriscoyier.net
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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.
Open Postdoc Positions in Network Materials and Physical Networks (and perhaps Network Medicine and Science of Science). See https://t.co/vCahNzjgvg to learn more about the Lab’s profile. Contact me if interested, or apply here: https://t.co/1zSRqdVzuJ P: Puklus #NetSci2026 Related
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
Really happy with the breadth of topics this year! Local models, game development, homelab setups, open social protocols... plus the classics like malleable software, sync, and tools for thought. This community keeps me optimistic about user empowerment in computing ❤️ Quoting @localfirstconf We're thrilled to announce our next speaker batch for Local-First Conf 2026. Related
Economist; Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017.
The macro data giveth and the macro data taketh. Productivity for Q1 revised down. Still a respectable pace over the last five quarters (2.1% annual rate--five quarters because shifting means Q1 & Q2 last year were two sides of the same coin). Related
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
This is a super-smart move by Cloudflare - really excited to see these teams work together even more! Quoting @Cloudflare VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone. Related
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Cloudflare has acquired Vite / VoidZero This gives Cloudflare control over the entire stack. They have all the primitives from frontend/backend framework, linting, testing, formatting, JS runtime, db, kv, inference, blob storage, access, etc... smart move! blog.cloudflare.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.
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.
Moneylife team wrote on this in 2014. https://t.co/zupGHGokwj @Moneylifers @suchetadalal No position. Quoting @sandipsabharwal A note on Rajesh Exports that I wrote in 2015 Rajesh Exports Now an example of a company that, as I write this book still trades at 52 week high prices. Any analyst who would read a series of Annual Reports of this company would be seriously concerned. This is another company which I always had my… Related
Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.
Secondary Stops in Cities on Intercity Rail Intercity trains usually only call at the main cities, and only at their main stations. However, in some cases, they make more than one stop in the same city. Examples include the Northeast Corridor with its two Boston…
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Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
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there's a consistent theme where Gen Z (and millennials, to some extent) are rejecting the AI hype while older generations are optimistic and coincidentally in a position to benefit from it.
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The governed have something the governors need: labor, tax revenue, military service, consumer spending. This dependency is the source of democratic leverage.
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Economist at Oxford's Global Priorities Institute; works on what advanced AI would do to growth, saving and the long-run economy.
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all of these frictions on um the political type decisions that we are accustomed to only trusting human you know, only having humans for like legislation and being a judge, being a jury or all the licensing thing that keeps certain professions human that all strikes me as transitional, right?
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but of course, that's not what's happened, because as we've accumulated more wealth and you know, more advanced machines and and so on, we've expanded the range of things other than singers to spend our money on, and the share spent on singers has stayed sort of negligible. Um so likewise, that's sort of my central prediction about how future unfolds, though I it could go either way.
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then the quantity of everything that's not a ballerina, say, goes to infinity, but our the marginal utility in that stuff goes to zero faster than the quantity is rising.
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I do think there's this qualitative shift that we I think we agree is coming, which is that there will be at least some goods whose network-adjusted capital share goes to one, right? Because the whole supply chain can be automated and there's no part in it that we care intrinsically about having a human do. Um, so that'll be a, you know, that'll be a qualitative shift. Interestingly, the implications of that shift for the overall capital share are ambiguous
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there's a sense in which nothing's yet been completely automated. If you look at the network-adjusted factor shares of a good, which is to say you look down the supply chain and say not just like the final step, but how much of that is done by capital and labor, but what went into the machines that can automate that final step. You'll find that labor's adding a lot of value down the supply chain.
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Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses. Co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm and author of the book Marketing for Developers.
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Choosing to tackle "the hardest feature" generally produces power-law-level returns, as opposed to tackling something less hard.
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Doing "the hard thing" means pursuing the highest-value problem you can find that still sits inside your zone of expertise; the hardest problem you're personally in a position to win.
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Behavioural economist at Chicago Booth, professor of behavioural science and economics and director of AGI economics at Google DeepMind.
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the ballerina and the kind of performer, that's the wrong reference class. Right now we have a lot of jobs where you have different tasks. So this is the task-based model jobs where you have like a lot of different tasks. So like a doctor, what is their job? They're filling out insurance documents. They're you know, going and like calling different pharmaceutical companies. And one of their tasks is to actually see the patient and talk to them, but that's like actually not the main part part of the job.
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we don't have any data. I've been kind of saying we need a Manhattan Project for data. We don't have data on basically consumer demand elasticities. We don't know what they are.
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And if you look at Ricardo's predictions, they're actually right. If you look at all those jobs that made money in Ricardo's time, they got automated. So, if I was David Ricardo and I woke up and somebody told me all those jobs did get automated. And you ask me David Ricardo, like what do you think the prime age employment rate is in 2026? I think he would be surprised if you told him it was the highest it's ever been other than 2000.
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rather than thinking about individual forecasts like what me and Phil are going to do, rather looking at kind of like basically generating prediction markets, where you get aggregate forecasts, where you get like kind of wisdom of the crowd effects. And kind of the reason that I think this is because we have been famously terrible at forecasting.
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Something like the relational sector, which is what I defined as, um, you know, basically services and goods where the fact that the human was in the loop was actually part of the value of that product.
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Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
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But if you want to really get into my approach, I recommend the Dalio Market Principles Online program I built with the Wealth Management Institute of Singapore, which has received a 100% recommendation rate from past participants.
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Software engineer and founder of Block Party; previously an engineer at Pinterest and Quora, and a co-founder of the non-profit Project Include and the tech diversity data project Where are the Numbers?
Self-taught home cook and food writer who has run the Smitten Kitchen recipe site since 2006; author of four cookbooks.
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Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.
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Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
Mastodon I've been making a little graphic for each F1 race as an excuse for more font specimens :) And predictions! Gotta go Leclerc for this one. Using the WIP of Kyroh here for the city and driver names. Related
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Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
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Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
Covered a lot of ground with @dblums on the Webby-winning Future Around And Find Out podcast, including: • why AI podcasts need imperfections • how Dungeons & Dragons players are embracing @NotebookLM • using AI to uncover unexpected connections • the new possibilities of AI-augmented writing • the downsides of cognitive offloading • using AI as your second brain to help you deepen your thinking, not replace it youtube.com
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Writes Useful Fictions on agency and how to get better at things; a former appellate lawyer and the top-ranked woman in professional poker in 2017.
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.
Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.
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.
Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein, a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025, and host of the Plain English podcast.
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.
Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
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.
Stronger models have made finding vulnerabilities easier, and the bottleneck has shifted to verification, triage, patching. Here are some lessons from working with security teams to address the new bottlenecks. claude.com
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Engineer and teacher; wrote Kubernetes the Hard Way, was a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, and retired from full-time work in 2023.
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They tried to take the Docker API which worked really well for one node and expand it across multiple systems and it was not the right API to scale to another type of thing that we needed. And so they kept trying. They tried to add storage. They tried to add networking but the Docker API was never meant for that.
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I think the number one success criteria was docker so remember there was mos and msosphere and they had their own runtime corp had come out with nomad and they had their own runtime but the biggest runtime that had already got global consensus was docker
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And what I learned from the puppet days, every presentation is an interview. I don't think a lot of people think about it that way cuz people are looking at you on stage and they get to see what you're about.
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And it's the first time I learned the difference between activities and impact. activity is you being an all-star answering a bunch of calls, but the ticket queue for the team is still high.
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and it turns out people kind of over glorify entrepreneurship. I think a lot of people believe there is tremendous upside, right? the type of entrepreneurship we talk about with software companies, the the upside is crazy. But when you're doing like selling parts or service business, unless you plan to open lots of stores and you know grow a larger employee base, it's not the same growth trajectory as software companies.
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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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Having worked there is a signal that you work hard, you complete your assignments, you adapt well to new tasks and requirements, and you're ready to take on new challenges.
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a member of Congress should be better, on most measures, than the people he or she represents.
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if you nominate people whose life history reflects a high degree of unreliability, they may prove unreliable once in office.
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Artist and writer based in Oakland, California; author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time, and a longtime teacher of digital art.
a new essay adapted from my Earth Day lecture at the College of Idaho - inspired by my friend Tom, the Santa Cruz Mountains, and James Cameron's 1989 film, The Abyss: longreads.com
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Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.
Software engineer who worked on Chrome and Polymer at Google, and writes about the web, emoji and Elm at meowni.ca.
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.
A pattern I'm seeing with AI debugging: it's easy to get stuck inside the model's search space. So you burn tokens & time chasing candidate fixes, while the real answer sits in context only you have ... but never explored, because you quietly surrendered your thinking. Related
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
Just run `laravel new` on a side project idea. Solo by @aarondfrancis is busy creating to-dos, spinning up agents, creating sandboxes and running my dev stack. All while I'm sitting back watching YouTube! Related
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
Game designer and director of the NYU Game Center; made Universal Paperclips and writes Donkeyspace.
Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.
German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
My full talk on the future of AI & media is up! I used @alexolegimas's prompt of "What will be scarce?" to propose 4 ways that media is changing, and how writers can still win in the AI age: 1) Secrets > summaries Reporting is the act of taking private knowledge and making it public: when you get a source to tell you about corporate malfeasance, or venture to a remote town that few people have been to, or sneak your way into an underground party, you are working in a space where there is no training data. 2) Live interaction > static content We’re not far from a world where AI can replicate a… Quoting @Substack How AI will change media: “The value of polish is going to go down and the value of personal charisma, style, and weirdness is going to go up,” says @jasminewsun Related
Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.
I got to spend all day today with Jensen in Taiwan: talking with thousands of engineers and eating street food at a night market. Jensen is received as a rockstar in Taiwan, like it's Beatles in the 60's. It's mind-blowing and fun to watch. But most importantly, through all the interactions and all my conversations with him, he remained the same humble, kind, thoughtful, funny guy he always was, even as a kid who went to these same night markets many years ago. Btw, we tried a crazy amount of different street food. It's legit some of the most delicious food I've ever had. I can't wait to shar… Related
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
I wrote a custom Bluesky feed! It's a classifier trained my past likes. As a bonus, I got to learn more about recommender systems ("RecSys"). adamwiggins.com
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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Logic for Programmers extra credits So I said there wasn’t a proper newsletter this week, since I’m in Budapest prepping for a conference. But I still got a thing for y’all. There’s a lot of interesting topics I wanted to cover for Logic for Programmers,…
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Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.
Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.
Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.
Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
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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.
Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
If you've been using my "laravel-backup-restore" package in your projects, please upgrade to the latest version as soon as possible. v1.9.4 fixes multiple security vulnerabilities that could affect you, if your dump files have been compromised. github.com
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Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
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Cognitive Uploading
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So often with new software paradigms, what looks like inevitability turns out to be just design failure that can be solved with the right guardrails or affordances or system instructions.
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To a certain extent, the concerns about cognitive offloading are an example of technological lag, where the mainstream discussion of AI and its impact is still framed in terms of the first-generation chatbots.
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I truly believe that following this kind of approach to AI in the classroom would, in the aggregate, produce better learning outcomes than the research and writing workflows available to students pre-AI.
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Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.
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Do Not Resign From Life
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American social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
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LLMs themselves are the perfect captive reader: they never get bored or confused, never miss a reference or have an emotional reaction, never ask themselves why am I reading this?, never close the tab.
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LLMs write to get a grade, not with the goal of moving the reader.
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99% of people who you'd want to read your essay probably don't know you exist, or don't give a fuck, or wouldn't be bothered to engage even if they read it.
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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
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Review of the MoErgo Go60 Keyboard
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Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
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Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
Vim Classic 8.3.0 released Following up on my earlier announcement that I was forking Vim, I’m happy to announce the first release of my fork today: Vim Classic 8.3.0. I have written a release announcement for vim-classic.org, which you can read…
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Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
Bill Bernstein and I sat down with @Ritholtz to talk about our friend @ClementsMoney and his new book, "Money and Me." Related
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.
US stocks continued to climb in May 2026, with the S&P 500 up 5.1% and treasury rates leveled off at 4.44% (up from 4.40%). The ERP for the index declined from 4.36% to 4.31%, as a surge in earnings partially offset higher stock prices. Related
Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
I’m gonna delete this thread because I think people complaining about airlines on Twitter are pretty lame, including myself! That said, I think the takeaway is that the reason I was upset is precisely because of dashed expectations. If this were American I would have shrugged my shoulders. So I guess that’s a compliment to United, but also a reminder that it’s risky to advertise things (like Starlink) when you can’t yet confidently deliver on them. Anyhow, 28B on Southwest. Let’s go! 😅 America Related
Technology journalist; writes Understanding AI, after reporting at Ars Technica, Vox and the Washington Post.
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
The AI Industrial Revolution Full episode with 20 minutes of new material at the end. With Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Blake Scholl (Boom Supersonic), and Max Hodak (Science). Nivi: Welcome. You’re listening to Naval Podcast, your authoritative sourc…
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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.
Chancellor of Germany since May 2025; leader of the CDU.
Walter Lübcke war ein liebevoller Ehemann und Familienvater, ein überzeugter Christdemokrat und ein über Parteigrenzen geschätzter Politiker. Der morgige Jahrestag des rechtsextremistischen Mordes an ihm lässt uns innehalten. Diese Mordtat muss uns auch weiterhin als Mahnung dienen. (1/2) English, from German Walter Lübcke was a loving husband and father, a convinced Christian Democrat, and a politician respected across party lines. Tomorrow's anniversary of his far-right extremist murder gives us pause. This act of murder must continue to serve as a warning to us. (1/2)
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Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.
Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.
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Because when everyone has access to the same shortcuts, the real edge is knowing when not to take them.
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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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Crabapple's response to this burgeoning movement is this book, a massive, heroic, brilliant, and pitiless history of the Bund that proposes its own answer to "the Jewish question."
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31 May
Release engineering manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. Keeps a public log at tylercipriani.com of every book he reads, with a rating and notes.
Blog: Chuwi Minibook X: a modern netbook. The more I tote it around, the more I actually like using this ridiculous little computer. tylercipriani.com
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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.
Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
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American front-end engineer and design-systems specialist; built the Pantsuit design system for Hillary for America and has worked at Slack and IBM.
I love this game so much. It needs to be longer. Gimme more. Quoting @numb.comfortab.ly From the very beginning I can see why Related
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
Typeface Specimens of Houston Mono™ Neil Panchal, the creator of soon-to-released Typeface Houston Mono™, recently sent me a complimentary set of the TX-24 Houston Mono typeface specimens. Some of you know this probably, but U.S Graphics is also the compa…
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Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
It's interesting how much (some) people are adopting AI-isms in writing even when not using AI. It makes sense that people would fall into the same patterns after seeing them everywhere, but it's still very weird to, live, watch someone who never used to write like this, write out something that's full of "It's not X, it's Y", etc. If you actually read it, it's a little too well reasoned and doesn't have enough nonsense phrases to be AI writing but, superficially, it's very AI-coded writing. Related
Engineering leader and writer; wrote The Manager's Path and Platform Engineering, and blogs at Elided Branches.
Guidelines for Respectful Use of AI As companies adopt AI tools, a lot of time is spent on thinking about AI policies from a security, compliance, or even cost-focused angle. But many leaders are neglecting to address how their teams should work with AI i…
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Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
Game designer and programmer, co-founder of id Software and co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. Now runs Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.
MCM London Comic Con was such a great event. Lots of people came by to say hello. Related
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
OH in coffee shop: “The final season of America is riveting.” Response: “But we’ll be disappointed with the finale. Just like Game of Thrones.” America Related
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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Mind candy: continuing Robins's series of historical mysteries set in a very-slightly-alternate Regency London. (I re-read the last one, Sleeping Partner, before turning to this.) Robins continues to be great and I hope that many more of these will flow from her pen.
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An old (1962) but still interesting history of the earlier part of the scientific revolution. In every field, Boas traces a basically-humanist impulse to discard medieval ideas and accomplishments, in favor of reviving antiquity, the more antique the better, which only gradually turned towards striving to go beyond Greco-Roman science to something actually new and unprecedented.
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I am a Philistine, because I thought this was just OK. There were some good poems, quite a few which I found boring, and absolutely nothing that has stuck in my memory even a few weeks later.
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It's pretty decently adequate, as mind candy. There are places where Abnett shows flashes of real talent. (To avoid spoilers, I'll just say: The first alien planet; the opening scenes with the cranky biologist.) There are other aspects of the novels which are pretty unsatisfying.
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30 May
Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
I think "being real with yourself" is the most underrated cognitive skill for the AI age — AI makes it too easy to lie to yourself: to self-congratulate for the illusion of thinking, productivity, etc. But you gotta actually know: Am I being more productive, or just tokenmaxxing? Am I upskilling myself with AI, or letting it do the hard part for me? Does my essay/business/product idea make sense, or did I let an LLM convince me it does? Then you won't need hard rules like “always/never use AI for X.” If you pay attention and avoid self-deception, you'll be able to *feel* when you are doing re… LLMs Related
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
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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Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
https://t.co/b8OEpYqvYT This seems a predictable failure, as 2021 data showed the test only picked up 28% of Stage 1/2 cancers. How much did this study of 140,000 patients cost? And the list price for detecting one cancer using GRAIL is $200,000 - was it ever feasible for NHS? Related
American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.
Writer and engineer behind the blog Melting Asphalt, and co-author with Robin Hanson of The Elephant in the Brain.
still thinking about this weeks later “foreshocks of the singularity…. the money is the concrete manifestation of a much larger eldritch hyperobject roaring into existence” Quoting @QiaochuYuan people are apparently reading this as a parable about how money won’t buy you happiness or something? this is a description of the foreshocks of the singularity. SF feels it the hardest because they’re the epicenter. the money is the concrete manifestation of a much larger eldritch hyperobject roar… Related
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
Man oh man, it's hard to start a Saas from the ground up. I think my SEO efforts are paying off. I had users 2 & 3 sign up for @clearinghousehq yesterday out of nowhere. One cancelled pretty quickly... but good to know that _something_ is working. SaaS 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.
A cheap stock without a catalyst is a value trap plus a prayer for a bull market. (That is chasing beta) https://t.co/0XrAuqYqhz The most common catalysts are earnings growth when combined with very low P/E multiples plus a high dividend yield. Doesn’t happen very often but a setup like this must result in stock price appreciation otherwise the yields start exceeding bond yields which by themselves are catalysts for re-rating. There are many other catalysts based on developments inside the company (corporate actions) or developments in markets (eg increase in free float, inclusion in an index… Related
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Startrek bar was cool Quoting @justinjackson.ca Went to the “nerdiest bar in Toronto” with @wesbos.com, Brooke, @excid3.com, my son, and @adamwathan.com! Related
Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
The Regulatory Frontier Part 3 of our four-part discussion with three frontier founders: Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Blake Scholl (Boom Supersonic), and Max Hodak (Science Corp). Also see Part 1: Waste Tokens, Save Time, Part 2: Vibe Coding Hard…
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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.
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The Digital Service Was Never the Point
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Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
29 May
Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
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Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
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.
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.
Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 My nephew just graduated high school, and wants a laptop. When he decides what computer to buy, price (or more precisely, value) is the most important attribute. Apple's MacBook Neo upended the 'value laptop' equation—A…
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Game designer and programmer, co-founder of id Software and co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. Now runs Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.
Thanks for making the game of your dreams with us, Warren. Quoting @JessePetrilla "Don't sign the contract!" Legendary game designer Warren Spector tells the story how Deus Ex almost did not happen, and how John @Romero drove down in his Hummer to stop him from signing a contract for a Command and Conquer game, and to hire him to make the game of his dreams. Related
Congrats to Ardan on taking over the first floor of our old (but much loved) space in Galway City centre! @romerogamesltd moved to its new, larger office in Dockgate on Merchants Road in 2023 (reception pictured below). The old office had been used to store my archives. Quoting @galwayad As part of its continued growth as an organisation, the team at Ardán is relocating its headquarters from the CREW Hub on Wellpark Road into Galway city centre Related
Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.
Let’s talk about encrypted reasoning Update August 11, 2026: A group of researchers from all over Europe were inspired by this post, and actually turned it into a real working attack! Check out their writeup and paper here. This is a quick post I wanted to…
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Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
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Reading: Feedbin for RSS, Instapaper for reading it later, Calibre for managing eBooks and Kindle syncing.
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A Hawbuck wallet. I still use cash, so no aluminum thingy or phone add-on in place of a wallet. It's not made of animals, lightweight, lasts a long time, not that expensive, a perfect wallet.
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Very secure and convenient, and has a bottle opener which is really effective and one of the most unintuitive devices I've ever found: zero people have used it correctly on the first try.
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The watch's battery lasts a long time, it doesn't distract me, I don't have my phone notifications piped into it, I love it.
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e-Readers: Kobo Libra Color and a basic Kindle.
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Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.
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One of my favorite lecture series he has given is The Evidence for Modern Physics where he breaks down the experiments that validate some of the weird laws of physics we have, and what it would take to validate even the weirder ones.
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28 May
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.
Does teleportation erase the laws of human mobility? In our new paper with @kishore__vasan & @MartonKarsai, we follow 163,770 Decentraland users and their NFT trajectories. The answer: virtual worlds carry the fingerprints of human mobility. PDF here: Related
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
New Article Why I’m Skeptical About Efforts to Revolutionize Schooling https://t.co/vHwneQy2rU I still believe learning can be improved dramatically for motivated people. But I’ve become much less optimistic about simple solutions for fixing education at scale. Related
Computer scientist and professor; author of The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. and of a long-running blog on programming languages, research and academia.
Me to Claude Code: I want you to … Claude Code: But first, log in again. Anthropic Related
Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
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Writer and engineer behind the blog Melting Asphalt, and co-author with Robin Hanson of The Elephant in the Brain.
Life update: I cofounded a VC firm. God help me! Please see our announcement (QTed) — but allow me to contextualize 🧵 Quoting @CommitCapital Today we're introducing Commit Capital: a $15M fund investing in technical founders at the earliest stage of building. We invest in B2B software, with a focus on dev tools and infrastructure. The unique structure of our fund follows from a simple observation: Get engineering moving faster, get to P… Related
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
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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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.
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.
Standards editor known as Hixie; edited the HTML and WHATWG living standards for many years and worked on Flutter at Google.
Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.
Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
I like the Luce Quoting @TrungTPhan Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc driving the Ferrari Luce should have been the entirety of the launch campaign. Am totally convinced now. This $640k EV is gonna sell like hot cakes. Related
Prime Minister of Canada since March 2025; formerly governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.
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Prime Minister Carney delivers remarks at the Economic Club of New York, 28 May 2026
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We are advancing a potential pipeline that would carry at least one million barrels of low-emission Alberta oil per day to Asian markets, while creating a new industry of large-scale carbon capture and storage.
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Canada recognised these developments earlier than most, and our response reflects the core lesson we have taken from these tectonic shifts: We have to take care of ourselves and be true to ourselves.
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Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
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RIP Millennial lifestyle brands
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Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
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Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.
We should be more tired than the model Lately, I’ve been feeling like I’m losing control over the code I write when I work with agentic code generation. When I finish an agentic session, I get all the outward signs of having written code, but non…
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Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.
Founder and editor of ToolGuyd, a tool review site covering power tools, hand tools, workshop equipment and EDC gear. He writes under his first name on the site.
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I pulled out my W.Steps Prime telescoping ladder test sample today, and realized that I've grown to really like it.
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Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
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Once you have RemCTL installed with various permissions granted, I recommend asking your agent of choice to install the skill in the repo for itself.
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A korrent is a belief a person has stated in their own words: one
sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at
korrents.com .
Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said.
The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in
korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who
else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public
statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
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About the English under a post
Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they
do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in
this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the
serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to
quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter,
especially about tone.
Only the post's own words are translated. A quoted post, a linked
article and a belief on korrents.com
are left in their original language.
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