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Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?
I’m gonna go ahead and say this is not good Quoting @Polymarket JUST IN: ChatGPT launches Apple Messages integration on Mac, allowing it to access & analyze users’ entire message history & send texts on their behalf. Related
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
Design engineer; formerly at Linear and Vercel; author of Sonner and Vaul; teaches animations.dev.
While I really like prototypes, because you can convey ideas easier by interacting with the real thing, it’s also important to know when not to do them. Prototypes have this flaw that because everything is already built, and it looks so real, people might assume that all the decisions have already been made. That’s because the building step was the most expensive before AI, but it’s not anymore. So sometimes, it’s better to ask the why first. Why are we making this in the first place? Allow yourself to be slow, write a doc with your reasoning, and only after you are aligned, start prototyping… Related
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
Ironically my most successful job interview ever was the one I was least prepared for. It was last minute, basically no chance to get it, and I dropped all pretense and was just brutally honest and chill. Got the job. Related
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Writes and podcasts Volts, on the technology, politics and policy of decarbonisation; covered energy and climate at Vox and Grist before that.
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Hard to believe but there was a time when smoking was promoted to be healthy / harmless, even, pregnant women encouraged to smoke, 1920s-1950s. Took ~30 years (!!) to figure out how harmful it was. How long will it take to figure out the impact of AI on health, for those using it all day? Related
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
We now have a blog too, ppl. Related
This is why I build what I build 😏 Related
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
Bluesky It took a long time, but we finally added primary constructor syntax to Dart. If you want some (a lot) of background into how we designed it the way we did, I wrote a long blog post about it: dart.dev/blog/bringin... #dartlang Related
Mastodon It took a long time, but we finally added primary constructor syntax to Dart. If you want some (a lot) of background into how we designed it the way we did, I wrote a long blog post about it: https://dart.dev/blog/bringing-primary-constructors-to-dart #dartlang Related
Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites.
Dang, the Hacks finale is good. Related
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
delighted to discover that a) Jimothy has a Wikipedia picture and b) it's this #Jimothy Related
Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.
Co-founder of Ethereum. Publishes long essays on mechanism design, governance and what cryptography is for, and returns to earlier positions to say which parts they no longer hold.
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Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixing
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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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AIs are companies, my friend
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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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How Countries Go Broke: The Dynamic Behind What is Happening Now
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Early in the final stage of the Big Debt Cycle, the market action reflects this dynamic via interest rates rising led by long-term rates, the currency declining especially relative to gold, and the central government’s treasury department shortening the maturities of its debt offerings because of a shortage of the demand for long-term debt.
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Because one can measure these things, one can monitor this debt dynamic happening, so it’s easy to see problems approaching. I’ve used this diagnostic process in my investing and I’ve kept it to myself, but I’m now explaining it in detail in How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle because it is too important to keep to myself.
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The debt dynamics work the same for a central government as they do for a person or a company, except that a central government has a central bank that can print money (which devalues it) and it can take money away from people via taxes.
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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.
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There may not be many people left in 10 years who can write, or want to read, things longer than a page or two. But there will be at least a few of us, and we'll be a powerful club.
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The way to win at capitalism is to focus on what it actually does (make customers' lives better) rather than the socialist caricature of it (squeeze every penny out of them). The latter gets you 2x returns at best, whereas making new things for people can get you 10x.
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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.
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Frontier Labs are incented to be fearful as it provides a moral justification for staying closed.
Chinese Labs take the consistent position of doing what’s good for all and being open.
So the little guys find themselves in the uncomfortable position of rooting for the Chinese…
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Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.
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My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality
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Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.
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Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AI
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He gave them an affirmative alternative to move toward, and in doing so, empowered both those people and himself to do something better.
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People being embarrassed or ashamed while still using the technology does not bother the authoritarian owners of those platforms in the least, as long as they’re profiting off of those ashamed users.
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In short, the venture capitalists and CEOs of Silicon Valley have priced the costs of shame into their business plans.
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Co-founder of Ethereum. Publishes long essays on mechanism design, governance and what cryptography is for, and returns to earlier positions to say which parts they no longer hold.
Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.
British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to.
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OBSTRUCTIONS, Elyse Hart / John Pisaro
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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
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This is a funny, heartfelt, and (perhaps overly) thorough book. It will gleefully send you down rabbit holes
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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Homework from WordCamp A few times during the WordCamp US keynote, I asked for a show of hands and got mostly blank stares back, especially on the AI questions. That’s not a criticism — it’s a reading list. If the future is going to be built…
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Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Bluesky I've updated all the Visible Zorker pages to include a search field. You can search for objects, routines, variables, and game text. blog.zarfhome.com/2026/08/visi... Yes, the word “Zork" is temporarily swamped in gaming news due to some FromSoftware article. Big deal. Related
Mastodon I've updated all the Visible Zorker pages to include a search field. You can search for objects, routines, variables, and game text. https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/08/visible-zorker-search Yes, the word “Zork" is temporarily swamped in gaming news due to some FromSoftware article. Big deal. #Zork #InteractiveFiction Related
Ruby and Rails core committer known online as "tenderlove"; maintains Nokogiri and works on Ruby performance.
Gave my piano away today. Bummed because I loved my piano, happy because I gave it to a student that will actually use it Related
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
proud that @vibhuuuus and i did the most recent pod with @eisokant on why NVIDIA just paid him $6B to buy the incredible model factory that is pumping out Thinky-beating models (actually not exaggeration, look at the numbers) tune in / subscribe / whatever https://t.co/EsgyFnhAIy only on @latentspacepod Quoting @eliebakouch wow this is kind of a shock. from what i understand nvidia bought the "model factory" part of poolside and a lot of employees (researchers?) got offers from nvidia. founders staying at poolside is unusual, wondering if they will just become a neocloud/compute provider since i don't see any mention… Related
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
Apple Music to Launch Labels on AI “Songs” Ethan Millman, writing for The Hollywood Reporter: Apple Music will soon launch labels on songs created with artificial intelligence, the company said in an email sent out to industry partners on Thursday. In the email,…
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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.
It has been less than four years, since ChatGPT made its public debut, but talk of AI has taken over business, investing and even personal conversations. The AI debate, though, has gone off the tracks as people talk past each other and distractions about. My attempt to make sense of it all: bit.ly
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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
the first in a 3-part series on @honeycombio's AI norms and values is up, called "How We Do Business at Honeycomb." https://t.co/xCYsDqsvYl values are not supposed to be aspirational. values should codify how things actually work. this is how it works at our company. Related
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
Remember if you see someone take down a Flock camera no you didn't. Quoting @hypervisible.blacksky.app “The no-bill doesn’t legalize destroying cameras. It doesn’t cancel Flock’s OH contracts. But when a grand jury declines to treat smashing a surveillance camera as serious felony business, that signals something real about where public sentiment sits — and that tension isn’t resolving anytime soon” Related
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
the first in a 3-part series on @honeycomb.io's AI norms and values is up. this one is called "How We Do Business at Honeycomb." www.honeycomb.io/blog/ai-norm... values are not supposed to be aspirational slogans. values should codify how things actually work. this is how it works at ours. Related
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Going live with my weekly vid in 5 mins! All the UniFi Access Bits: Door Hub, Electric Strike, Drop Bolts, Readers, NFC Cards, Buttons, (and Much More) youtube.com
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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.
This is terrible, Chris was one of the greats Quoting @anthonyted Across 3 decades, Chris Bodeen was always pushing me to learn more about China, to understand it better, to dig deeper. His loss, far too early, is a potent one for China coverage and for those of us who knew him. Please read here about his life. Related
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
by total views, matt’s now the top @aidotengineer speaker in our brief history, and arguably one of the best skills experts in the world — his /grill-me has reached all echelons up to @satyanadella (with some variations…) /wayfinder is @mattpocockuk’s /grill-me for /grill-me, when you are just navigating the fog of war and don’t yet know what you dont yet know, and need to orchestrate research and other grill sessions to get there. super glad to have @ricmac help launch our new Skills coverage with his course launch this week! 👇exclusive interview, quick read Quoting @latentspacepod We chat to @mattpocockuk about his /wayfinder skill, which he designed for the "fog of war" — when you need to figure out a project but the end state isn’t entirely clear. This is the first in a series of skills we'll be exploring in the coming weeks. Related
Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.
The measure of a life is not what you consume, but what you contribute. Spend less time owning, consuming, taking. Spend more time giving, creating, making. Related
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
We've been working on this with customers for a while. Mythos-class models require additional safety measures and enterprises need to meet their own privacy and compliance rules. Customers can own and control their own data and Anthropic retains none. It’s coming this fall. Quoting @business Anthropic Plans to Change Data Retention Policy for Advanced AI Anthropic Related
Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.
Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.
This is a section of my New Rules for the New Economy book published in 1998. Full book can be read at: https://t.co/1ApFHFcAgY #kknewrules Related
Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.
Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
Mastodon Semi-regular reminder that my posts do not originate in the likely place that you are reading them. I wrote about why I keep my distance here: aworkinglibrary.com
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Bluesky Semi-regular reminder that my posts do not originate in the likely place that you are reading them. I wrote about why I keep my distance here: aworkinglibrary.com
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British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.
Disneyland Paris, it’s been a wild time, a rollercoaster you could say! Thanks for the memories 🎢 🐭 Related
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
RE: https://xoxo.zone/@gretchenmcc/117129377626182493 some fun (and free to read & print!) linguistics zines at lingthusiasm.com
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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.
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
what are your favourite commands to run over ssh (like `ssh user@host "COMMAND"`)? the only thing I have in my history right now is: ssh user@host 'tcpdump -i any BPF_FILTER_GOES_HERE -w -' > out.pcap to quickly get a local pcap file Related
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
well, @openclaw was good to apple this team conservatively drove $50-$150m in mac mini sales alone this year haha (roughly +50% of normal annual mac mini sales worldwide, just due to openclaw 2026) Quoting @steipete 512GB RAM Studios. Apple was good to us. 🦞 Related
Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
I wrote a new essay about a strange inversion in AI-assisted programming. Old-school programming made sustained attention the scarce resource. You entered a tight loop with the machine, and the difficulty itself kept you engaged. Agentic coding changes that. To reach the same intensity, you keep more work in flight, run more agents, and consume more inference. Flow becomes throughput, then the usage meter appears. There are legitimate economic reasons for limits. But when higher plans are explicitly sold as freedom from interruption, uninterrupted access to your own momentum becomes the produ… kennethreitz.org
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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.
We squander too much of our free time feeling guilty that we’re not working. In 1 of every 7 moments of fun and relaxation, people feel bad that they're not being “productive”—robbing themselves of joy and rejuvenation. Leisure is not a bug. It’s a feature of a good life. Related
Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
Mastodon “We’re occupying a strange political moment in which humanities work is both massively undervalued and everywhere extracted as a valuable resource.” defector.com
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Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.
Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system.
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
Great day 1 at @laravellivedk! Related
Gear reviewer who publishes long-form hi-fi audio and camera equipment reviews, plus video reviews, at stevehuffphoto.com.
Short Evidence! Two main reasons I will always use a power conditioner for my HiFi system. Related
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
Breakthrough: New Type of Matter Discovered Scientists have discovered a new type of matter. Inside a cooled crystal, structures spontaneously arranged themselves into a three dimensional weave, and they did it at around room temperature. The researchers can even…
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Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.
Not Spirit Airlines causing delays from beyond the grave Quoting @techmeme.com A bankruptcy court delays Google's $10M purchase of Spirit Airlines' data after former flight attendants sought assurances that their info would be removed (Alexander Gladstone/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink Related
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.
Cartoonist and comics theorist, author of Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, Making Comics and the graphic novel The Sculptor.
You know that old quote about how "a lie can travel halfway 'round the world while the truth is still getting its boots on"? Help the truth get its boots on. Support ProPublica! Related
Writer of MacSparky and author of the MacSparky Field Guides on Apple productivity software. A lawyer for 30 years before going full-time on the site, he co-hosts the Mac Power Users and Focused podcasts.
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Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
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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.
Reposting from last year -- People Are Still Stumbling From One Misguided Narrative About the Medical Model to Another (ADHD Edition) psychiatrymargins.com
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Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites.
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
(Almost) everything you'd want to know about cancer vaccines can be heard in this great @owl_posting podcast episode from June, feat @iskander @BenjaminGVincen. Highly recommended! owlposting.com
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Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
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Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
This is a good analysis on the Stripe and OpenRouter acquisition! But I disagree with the Fortune 500 stuff at the end. Stripe has always been about capturing the wide swath of new companies, of which a few might grow to be Fortune 500s. Quoting @regulatorynerd @pbreit It fits a couple of things — 1) Stripe has a history of M&A around developer tooling, dating back to them buying runkit. 2) Hard to argue with the theory of being payments for developers when they're the clear market winner for devs who need card acceptance + they've translated that mindsha… Related
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
@brettcodes.bsky.social appreciated watching your video on why you stopped using AI. Recently talked with Casey Muratori who also doesn't use it. Could I message you somewhere? Or you can also send me DM. Related
Co-founder and CTO of Linear; previously an engineer at Uber.
Pass a law that dynamically adds a multiplier to all federal taxes based on the projected deficit. Related
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Demo Time 2.3.0 is out. The big one: you can now record a demo. Hit record, do your thing: create a file, type, save, and it writes the moves for you. Also in: typing that varies its speed so it doesn't look robotic, and move-to-scene in the act editor. demotime.show
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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.
The Internet creates some magical things... Quoting @sarthakgh Self recommending: @tylercowen x @RickRubin: Related
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
HAHAHAHAHAHA non technical people are so incredibly cooked they are burnt thru can u imagine covering ai with zero context, zero reasoning, zero internal world model. it must be so delightfully joyful, everything is so amazing, face value is all you need, what a time to be alive Quoting @OpenAIDevs With Codex, @asana finished a frontend test migration from Enzyme to React Testing Library in two calendar weeks—a project expected to take five more years. Related
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
After all the years of public embarrassment, I think my kids might finally appreciate, in a world filled with AI, that I simply cannot be replicated. Related
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Bluesky GDC 2027 page is up. My thoughts: blog.zarfhome.com/2026/08/gdc-... TLDR: “Jeez, if we don't get foot traffic back up at Moscone, we're in trouble.” Related
Mastodon GDC 2027 page is up. My thoughts: https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/08/gdc-updates TLDR: “Jeez, if we don't get foot traffic back up at Moscone, we're in trouble.” Related
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).
Nice case study on using optimized functions whenever possible (except for educational purposes, though 😆) Quoting @gpjt By switching from a hand-rolled GELU to PyTorch's built-in one, I improved my LLM training speed -- and much more than I expected, from 21,000 tokens/second to 25,000! Related
Chief AI Scientist at Databricks, after its acquisition of MosaicML, where he was a founding team member; known for the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis from his MIT PhD (ICLR 2019 Best Paper).
I'll know we have AGI when food delivery services start offering wine pairings for Chipotle. AGI Related
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
Short A solution from the 1960s could be key to ending malaria Related
Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.
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Stop Making TUIs
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The problem with this argument is that you probably don’t need a user interface on prod. You need a command line interface on prod that a user interface on your Macbook can drive.
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We build terminal interfaces because we have to, not because we should.
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CLIs have purposes for which they’re irreplaceable. Building a CLI is almost always a good idea. Building a TUI almost never is.
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Political scientist and Baptist pastor; writes Graphs about Religion, charting American religious life from survey data.
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Belief Isn't Dying, It's Just Getting Less Certain
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the drop in certain belief is the same size for both liberals and conservatives. It’s 15 percentage points when comparing the oldest respondents to the youngest.
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So, it’s just not empirically true that younger liberals are atheists — the data clearly says that’s not true for 70% of them.
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Which means that they aren’t sliding all the way to the other side of the spectrum. Instead, they are just moving one level down.
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Said another way, for every person who is pretty sure that God doesn’t exist, there are six who are fairly certain of the existence of a Higher Power. Non-believers are statistically rare.
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The United States may no longer be a country of people widely engaging in religious behavior or religious belonging. But it certainly has a whole bunch of religious believers.
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Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
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The rise of the hopeful monsters: the true story of humanity
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All the evidence, both ancient and modern, points to a tiny non-African ancestry population between 50 and 60,000 years ago, a few thousand individuals at most
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Today, it seems more likely that it was we who were the monsters out of the dark, the demons about which Neanderthal mothers would tell their little-ones.
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Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.
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From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
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Yeah, I mean I think BCI is a category kind of like how pharma is a category. I think sometimes you I I'll talk to VCs and like, "Oh, we have a BCI bet." I'm like, "Do you have a drug bet? You made one bet on a drugs? Like that's that's how you think about the category?"
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It's like, you know, when we went to the moon, we did it. And so, historically, the success rate of moonshots is higher than I think people give them credit for.
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It's like if I put electrodes in M1, you will probably be using a computer in an hour. Um and so it's just it's easier, it's more amenable to biology in many ways.
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People have spent huge amounts of time and money looking for drugs to restore vision or to restore hearing or to stop Parkinson's or to to help paralyzed people move again. Understanding the like the biology and the molecular detail required to make a drug has been very difficult. Humanity just isn't that good at that, to be totally honest.
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Like, the brain very literally, very clearly, plainly is a computer in in my understanding of the world. I also view the universe generally as a computer.
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Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.
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We Actually Know A Lot About Fertility Decline
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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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Checking in on Outcomes Reviews
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Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008; later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, where he now posts many times a day.
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One day, Optimus + Grok will provide incredible medical care to all the people of Earth
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The reality is that most people unthinkingly believe whatever their political tribe tells them to believe. Like an NPC in a video game.
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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.
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AI’s Bar Mitzvah Moment: From Hype & Hope to Business Questions!
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Anthropic OpenAI
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I will confess that the rumored pricing for both companies ($1.5 to $ 2 trillion) looks rich, but I am open to being surprised
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aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com
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anyone who claims to have conviction that they know what's coming is being either ignorant or arrogant
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America
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I would argue that AI's total addressable market, in the US, cannot be greater than $12.96 trillion, the total employee compensation in 2025
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British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to.
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LAST WATCHED: I’ve been looking forward to watching IS GOD IS (2026) and it didn’t disappoint.
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IN HER MIND A DARKNESS, LS Johnson
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THE MODERNS ep 430
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Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.
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I like Math Academy a lot and have a bunch to say about it
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sockpuppet.org
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I want to see a native UI built to capture everything that’s great about Magit or Lazygit (without having to build it myself).
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sockpuppet.org
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I use a similar process to build TUI apps (tell your agent to use tmux to test the TUI, it works a treat).
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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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particularly after I wrote about my favorite app of the year so far, Open Minis
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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.
Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite.
Thanks to the Antithesis team for having me on the BugBash podcast to talk rqlite, distributed systems testing, and software development in the age of AI. Quoting @AntithesisHQ David Wynn and @CarlSverre sat down with @generalorder_24, creator of @rqlite, to talk about how he compressed his typical 18-month release cycle down to just 6 months, by combining AI tooling with a design strategy centered on testing. This week's episode of the Bug Bash podcast, whereever you get… Related
Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
Arguably still the prettiest task manager ever made, Things finally received the ability to mark repeating tasks as done early. Took a while, but they nailed the implementation. culturedcode.com
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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.
New puzzle, as part of the series of monthly puzzlers with @MoMath1. As a variant: What if you start with pegs in all four corners of the square, and you want them to end up on corners of a bigger square? Related
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
Relationship Tools That Work — Esther Perel, Brené Brown, Dr. Sue Johnson, Terry Real, and More on Conflict, Repair, and Lasting Love (#880) This episode is devoted to one deceptively simple question: How do you stay close to your partner over time through the inevitable exhaustion, misunderstanding, conflict, disappointment, and change?
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Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
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Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.
This is a section of my New Rules for the New Economy book published in 1998. Full book can be read at: https://t.co/1ApFHFcAgY #kknewrules Related
German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.
Sadly I'm not at #ArcTanGent this year. Between moving countries and not knowing most of the bands on the lineup I figured I'd skip it, but I do miss it. I ended up getting into Chelsea Wolfe anyway. Related
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Parsing IP addresses in C# at crazy speeds We are all familiar with IP addresses such as 192.168.0.1. They are typically written as four numbers in the range 0 to 255 inclusive, separated by dots. In C#, you can parse them with the standard library using IPAddre…
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
If you’ve ever opened Chrome DevTools, or optimized a page for Core Web Vitals, you’ve used software built by @addyosmani.bsky.social. We start from when he built a web browser from scratch, at 16, through his 14 years at Google, to what he sees working (and not working) building software with AI: Google Related
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Bluesky imagine: running an agent which was solely trained on the hardest problem remaining in computer science: staying signed in to any anthropic service for longer than a few days Anthropic Related
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Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
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Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
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Software architect and futurist; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF, and has written about robocars for two decades.
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.
Enjoy @laravellivedk! 🇩🇰 My fomo has been subdued by being at @DisneylandParis with the family! Related
Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
The next issue of Bits about Money is going to be about screening providers, including some scintillating minutiae pulled out of the marketing collateral. Related
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
Mastodon Hubano 2.0 now available! I added two additional weights, some new glyphs and symbols, and lots of fixes and tweaks. Free update for those who purchased Hubano as well as Secret Club™ members. simplebits.com
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Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
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Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape, Slack and Palantir; writes as Rands at randsinrepose.com and wrote Managing Humans.
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
yes and the internet HATED IT. "we have too many abbreviations and shortened words as it is ... this is offputting to non-experts and inaccessible to the majority..." etc etc. (i think it's cute, and i'm glad you like it too) Quoting @iamstan.dev Iirc @charity.wtf came up with o11y ... genius! Related
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
Short A child dies from malaria nearly every minute. We have the tools to change that. Related
Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
with all apologies for the title of this episode... @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com means that 2026 is the year it stopped being possible to be skeptical about whether AI is going to change the way we build software, not that we should stop being skeptical about AI. 😉 Quoting @robbyonrails.com Completely agree with @charity.wtf’s take on the recent @pragmaticengineer.com episode. Our generation might be the best at debugging shit. Why? Because 20+ years ago, we had to figure so much of it out manually. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/stop-being... Related
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.
With a new round of brouhaha over ADHD in the UK, seems like a good time to repost this discussion: What if obesity were invisible in the same way as ADHD is? ADHD is a construct that seems to encompass motivational and task initiation difficulties, executive function difficulties, and impulse control difficulties. And stimulants are attractive to people for a lot of reasons. psychiatrymargins.com
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Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
a better use for claude i have never seen 👏 Quoting @sascha-d.bsky.social Me trying to explain the problem of unknown unknowns again to claude in an ecosystem of sparse o11y collections and idiot pre-existing "alerts" on pegged databases: "read chapter 3 of Observability Engineering again and then reframe the problem through that lens. /cc @charity.wtf <3 ty4bookpdf Anthropic Related
Chief AI Scientist at Databricks, after its acquisition of MosaicML, where he was a founding team member; known for the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis from his MIT PhD (ICLR 2019 Best Paper).
Status update: Googly eye stash located. But now someone is on the loose with a label maker. Quoting @jefrankle When I said Cookie Monster was inspirational, I wasn’t anticipating that someone on my team had a secret stash of googly eyes. Related
Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.
This thread helped me understand that the outrage about Anthropic's watermarking is the confluence of a lack of understanding of how LLMs (or any statistical language model) works and general angst at the current economics. Quoting @hern.bsky.social If you use Claude right now, then it doesn’t pick the “best” word for a sentence. It creates a distribution of possible words, assesses the probability of any given word fitting the slot, and randomly picks between them based on that probability. LLMs Anthropic Related
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...'.
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.
Co-founder and CTO of Linear; previously an engineer at Uber.
Linear Diffs now Diff Giffs. (as well as other visual assets). Quoting @Griveau We updated diffs in @linear. You can now preview images, SVGs, and GIFs, compare changes side by side, adjust opacity, and view sources. We’re still pushing to make diff reviews faster and nicer to use. Give it a try we’ve shipped a lot of improvements lately. Related
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
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.
8th October sees the launch of Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found in paperback format - and to celebrate I will be at Conway Hall in London for 'Unveiling Vermeer - The Man and his Masterpieces'. I hope to see you there! eventbrite.co.uk
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Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
Voice Note: Turning 37, new goals, etc (23 mins) | In today’s voice note I reflect on something Michelle said to me on my 36th birthday last year, the goal I came up with impulsively at my birthday dinner this year, and how the two are spiritually connected.
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Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
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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Writes and podcasts Volts, on the technology, politics and policy of decarbonisation; covered energy and climate at Vox and Grist before that.
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
Hands-on with Raspberry Pi's CM5 Programming Jig In the before-times, when Raspberry Pi CM5s were (relatively) affordable, I built a number of Pi clusters (example), and one of the most annoying parts of the build was flashing Raspberry Pi OS to all the Pis. One, two,…
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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Surprise DM When I saw the Slack notification preview, “Matt, I’m literally crying right now,” I must admit my first reaction was “Oh no, what happened…” Matt, I’m literally crying right now. I just read the Baby & Caregiver Attend…
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Co-founder and CTO of Linear; previously an engineer at Uber.
When @traverspw told me he wanted to use Turbopuffer for an index scan for delta sync I was sure I misheard. A very novel use of Turbopuffer right here: Quoting @linear Rethinking delta sync at scale with @turbopuffer. Engineer @traverspw on how we made Linear’s sync latency predictable as workspaces grow: Related
Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape, Slack and Palantir; writes as Rands at randsinrepose.com and wrote Managing Humans.
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
The small quality of life improvements keep coming. When you’re using Desktop every day, slow startup makes the app feel sluggish. Working on improving this even more! Quoting @ClaudeDevs Claude Desktop now starts ~2x faster than it did a month ago. When the app started in the background, its timers got throttled and the JS engine dropped into power-saving mode. We now boot at full speed even while the window's still hidden, along with some smaller perf fixes! startups Related
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?
i’ve been using claude for all things home-related and it’s amazing. (just dump all files in and let claude index, summarize, and organize.) even better than being a repository of all receipts, it helps me maintain a spreadsheet that i can download and send to accountants, draft emails for correspondence with service providers, and proactively flag issues that i wouldn’t have realized otherwise. Quoting @money_cruncher Open a new gmail as soon as you buy a house (123house@gmailcom) Then save/forward every single receipt, invoice, quote etc to this email for all your home improvements: - replacing an entire roof - new flooring - new hvac system - building a new deck - etc These improvements raise your cost basis,… Anthropic Related
when will ai learn to poast this good Quoting @dieworkwear @NancyMace I like tattoos and think yours are well done. I'm curious what inspired you to get the opening line of Mrs. Dalloway tattooed on your arm. Dalloway, as you know, is buying flowers for her dinner party. But it's at the dinner party where she wrestles with her homosexual memories of, and d… Related
Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.
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.
Announcing the Palomar registry of Lean formalized mathematics: palomar-registry.org . See also my blog announcement at terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/p... and the Lean Zulip channel at leanprover.zulipchat.com#narrow/chann.... Related
Chief AI Scientist at Databricks, after its acquisition of MosaicML, where he was a founding team member; known for the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis from his MIT PhD (ICLR 2019 Best Paper).
An incredible way to celebrate the amazing PR partner who kindly allows the "Chief AI Scientist" at Databricks retweet Cookie Monster. Quoting @gracelynch (2/2) But it’s also so cool that I am 1) alive and 2) that I have a weird ass curly mullet right now. To celebrate, I’m donating to the #jimmyfund to #KCANCER. Join: Related
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
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Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.
Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.
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Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
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Introducing AI Second Brain Meetups
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Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.
coding agents
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I can't say enough how excellent a coding agent is at customizing Chrome with extensions. A huge productivity win. Every plugin interface you've ever blown off is now trivially usable.
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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.
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I was thinking about how I recognize AI writing, and one big tell is excessively colorful verbs. A handful of journalists might write that a proposal "drew" 100 votes, but any normal person will just say "got".
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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.
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Eventually, all UI will be chat and gestures in, chat and video out.
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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
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Incredible watering down -- the Singularity is now redefined to mean "the rate of new firm creation has increased somewhat"
Vernor Vinge described the Singularity as an event horizon past which everything (e.g. what happens tomorrow) becomes entirely unimaginable and unpredictable to human understanding
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Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.
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We need to press Big Tech on their AI partnerships with Big Oil
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Google
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But if Microsoft, Amazon and Google are truly the climate champions they claim to be, they shouldn't need to be forced.
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AI may help an oil company emit less pollution per barrel of oil. But if the company is producing more barrels than it otherwise would have, total emissions can still rise.
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Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008; later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, where he now posts many times a day.
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AfD is the only hope for Germany
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Derek Chauvin was unjustly convicted of murder, therefore he should be freed. The facts show that he was not the cause of death, nor did he at any time intend for a death to occur. Whatever else he may be, he is not a murderer. That is the truth.
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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.
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How to Survive the AI Cyberpocalypse
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The first is that new AI models have the know-how to escape containment in testing environments, which should challenge any assumption that advanced AI can be easily controlled by its makers.
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HuggingFace
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By 2027, almost every country-and every non-state group with sufficient computing power-will have the ability to download open-weight models even more powerful than the ones that attacked Hugging Face and use them for whatever they like.
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Anthropic OpenAI
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An analysis by the AI Security Institute found that the capabilities of frontier models (i.e., from OpenAI and Anthropic) are roughly doubling every few months, and this doubling rate has actually gotten faster over time.
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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
self-driving cars
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if I was stuck in this traffic every day in a car, I would go insane. No amount of self driving would change that. We need ACs, but the US badly needs to warm up to public transportation.
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Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.
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From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani
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Humans are humans are are shockingly simple, you know, uh, if you think about the experience you have with somebody that's just trying to cross the street, if, uh, you know, if the light doesn't turn, you know, doesn't say they can walk fast enough, they'll just keep hitting that button. That's the same experience they have on the internet.
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I think for a very long time we had this this almost nebulous way of thinking about page load times. And the team felt like it was finally time to come up with a more nuanced perspective around how we reason about performance.
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LLMs
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I remember anytime I would work with a big site on their performance problems, uh you could easily spend half a day, um you know, just looking at traces before you've even written any fixes at all. And now that we have LLMs, it's very quick to like reason through massive stack traces and actually be able to get down to fixes you can make.
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I would say, sometimes, I don't know if it's controversial, that very few developers understand memory management. And that makes it even harder to debug memory problems. And so the state of the art around memory debugging hasn't evolved all that much over the years.
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if you treat computing as this onion where you just keep peeling back the layers, there's always something interesting behind the scenes. And the more of those layers that you can peel back and understand, I think in some ways the better you can optimize for that world.
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Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
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Knip is a fantastic tool
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Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.
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Sometimes I use Glaze, another app from the maker of Raycast; it excels at design and polish.
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platformer.news
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I pasted the result into the terminal (I use Ghostty), and before too long I had created a new folder of Markdown files in Obsidian.
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platformer.news
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I pasted the result into the terminal (I use Ghostty), and before too long I had created a new folder of Markdown files in Obsidian.
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Like seemingly everyone else at the end of last year, I began messing around with Claude Code, and have since made a small handful of apps that I really do use all the time.
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And thanks to a paid upgrade, I do tons of simple AI searches in the Raycast window. (I use GPT-5.5 Instant here for the high quality-to-speed ratio.)
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Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.
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I’ve loved it since I was a teenager, but professional historians typically rolled their eyes in disdain when I mentioned it.
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Here’s me talking to ChatGPT. Big picture: I struggle to imagine a better conversation with a human being on this topic.
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Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape, Slack and Palantir; writes as Rands at randsinrepose.com and wrote Managing Humans.
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
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.
Amazing! Im happy to be a passive investor benefitting from great strategy and execution! Quoting @paulerlanger - $150mn+ annualized revenue ✅ - $100mn+ daily spot volume ✅ - Top 5 under finance on the App Store ✅ Most importantly 30k+ new users are joining the fomo family each day (~45k yesterday alone), and are accessing onchain markets for the first time. Related
Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.
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.
Bluesky Building without predicting. (The story of how I built my perfect home.) sive.rs
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Journalist and author of The Art of Noticing; writes the newsletter The Art of Noticing (TAoN) on attention, creativity and the everyday.
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Congratulations billing department you have successfully recreated a gag poster from the 1970s which wasn't really even funny then. (I am fine, I can actually talk to a real human tomorrow, I was just like "I have seen that one before....") Related
Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.
Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.
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Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.
Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.
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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.
we've been doing a lot of a/b testing of @aiDotEngineer youtube thumbnails. i always hated that it is such an opaque process. open sourcing/crowdsourcing our learnings today! https://t.co/J9SYClIF7z doing this in hopes that people can share their experience or learn from ours. at the end of the day we just want to get good educational content to rise above the noise online. please lmk what you think Related
Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.
German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117117221397911074 After hearing feedback from people struggling with #Mastodon’s layout and navigation for a long time I’m really looking forward to these changes. And I’m really impressed with the work @imanijoy has put into researching user needs with surveys, interviews, and round tables. I feel like the community has never been so represented in the design process before. The screenshots are marked “in progress” for a reason though—it’s a process. Related
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
Writer of the personal-finance blog Of Dollars And Data and author of Just Keep Buying and The Wealth Ladder. Chief Operating Officer at Ritholtz Wealth Management.
Harvard Business Review tracked the time of 27 CEOs (of large companies) and found that they: -Worked 62.5 hours per week, on average -Worked 79% of weekend days -Worked 70% of vacation days Having time freedom and not using it is the same as not having it. Quoting @dollarsanddata In 1983, the bottom 20% of workers were more likely to put in long hours than the top 20%. By 2002, the top 20% were twice as likely to work long hours as the bottom 20%. My latest on why "owning your time" is a myth: Related
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
my husband caught up with a personal friend over dinner that he hadn't seen in a while and afterwards I asked "so is he in a relationship right now?" And he gave me this blank stare and said "I have no clue." I'm like, wtf were you catching up about?! Quoting @HellsBitchen_ Gf yelled at me bc i went to dinner with 4 of my friends and got "literally 0 useful bits of gossip what the fuck" Like girl, we're 5 guys in finance. We're not talking about engagements or pregnancies. The entire conversation revolved around situational awareness's terrible risk management, jane s… Related
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.
I’ve been dealing with #PPWR compliance for Mastodon’s merch shop and frankly I don’t see how this regulation doesn’t just eradicate all small business within the EU. This is a self-goal if I’ve ever seen one. Europe Related
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Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.
Grokking My Essence I asked Grok to create a random image inspired by my X account. The result is stunning. We’ve got kids gaming in the foreground, blending natalism, open borders, cosmopolitanism, and gaming itself. In the center, me dre…
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Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline; runs a tech PR firm, and argues at length that the AI business does not add up.
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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.
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Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
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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Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
Spent an afternoon at Highgate Cemetery when on vacation in the UK and this is one of my favorite photos from the trip. #photography #cemetery #victorian Related
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
Love the shout out and the nice selection of quotes, but #6 is not actually from me or the book. Quoting @PathwayToFI The Simple Path to Wealth is a must read for anyone who doesn’t want to spend all their time analyzing investments and just wants to live a rich, free life. Here are 10 great quotes from The Simple Path to Wealth by @JLCollinsNH: (thread) Related
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
x.com i finished Helen of Nowhere more than a week ago and i am still thinking about it. mostly just laughing. when i finished it. i immediately laughed for 30 minutes. fell asleep giggling. work up laughing. incredible book Related
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Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Student Plan Sarah Perez at TechCrunch writes: WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan. $24/yr, starting with “6 GB of storage, backups, staging sites, and other tools, as well as support f…
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Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
Giving a talk at Soho Farm house this evening. Found somewhere nice to work in the mean time. Related
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
x.com I had a great time discussing with @SciencePetr about the growing risks of AI and how these often stem from current AI training techniques. Thanks for coming to visit @LawZero_ and for covering these important topics! youtu.be
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Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites.
Going to spend the next week trying to crush my Nestflix backlog. Can I get the site to 2,000 titles? Stay tuned. Related
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
Lots of password reset emails today across a wide variety of geeky publishing and payments-taking surfaces, so a) check your inboxes, other geeks and b) I don't have any fun new projects in works and so if someone gives you opportunity to pay "me" money it is not me saying that. Related
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
Writer of the personal-finance blog Of Dollars And Data and author of Just Keep Buying and The Wealth Ladder. Chief Operating Officer at Ritholtz Wealth Management.
Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March 2020 to translate public-health science, and consults for organisations including the CDC.
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Weekly update is up! Cyber Ransoms: Ransom Payments, Legalities, Reporting, Class Actions (and Everything Else) troyhunt.com
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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.
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Cool stuff I found on the internet lately: https://t.co/7GEFXLCKjz - Ride along with anything in the sky https://t.co/TjFvxyaSzB - Animated icons for React https://t.co/vmx6GxjRyZ - An interactive atlas of India https://t.co/bfhqMu2JRl - What is this UI element called? JavaScript Related
You learn about something every day. Yesterday, I learned about something called a "Non-breaking hyphen". Normal hyphen - The browser can usually break the line at this character. Non-breaking hyphen - A hyphen that prevents a line break at the hyphen. Related
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
Long power cuts on every alternative days, What is @TANGEDCO_Offcl doing? That too after a recent power cable change for the entire street. TNEB scam is still hapening in @TVKPartyHQ government? government Related
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
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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.
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.
. @yurimilner was that world class investor. After one meeting he said he wanted to invest and asked me for a valuation. I threw out a number 10 pct below what i figured our next round would be. He said he would wire the money next week. I think it was $150m. Never asked for board seat or any terms. He ttly got what the founder of a high growth company cared about. No meetings. No terms. Dont bother us. Let us cook! Quoting @kevinleeme Whenever other founders ask me who my best investors are and who I’d recommend they work with, I name the handful of VCs who rarely bother us and trust us to operate. It’s funny how simply doing nothing as an investor can put you in the top 1% of a founder’s book. Related
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
Liam, 8; I got stung by a bee! *moans* Me: I’m sorry. Liam: Why do bees sting? Me: In defense of themselves or their hive. Liam: I was nowhere near a hive. Me: He might have made a mistake. You’re ten thousand times bigger than him and so maybe he was terrified. Liam, suddenly… Related
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
Small quality of life improvements like this add up. More on the way Quoting @ClaudeDevs Perf win of the day: Claude Code CLI now uses 2x less CPU at p99. Bun's garbage collector was running on a fixed timer, so it would kick in mid-turn and steal CPU right when Claude Code was busiest. Now it waits until the process is idle. Related
Let us know what you think! Quoting @ClaudeDevs Claude Code can design now. The new /design skill (research preview) brings Claude Design's artboard workflow into the CLI and Desktop, built on artifacts. Run /design to get editable artboards for your UI — pick one, tweak it, then have Claude implement it. Related
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
Underrated tweet I think it also applies to any software, so long it has users Quoting @solomonstre Rule #1 of open-source: no is temporary, yes is forever. Related
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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Now you can have a quake style console in your operating system. Except with an infinitely patient agent to help you customize it instead of esoteric variable names and slash commands like in the 90s
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Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
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Too many decision makers means there's effectively none, and the result is a muddled experience that lacks direction and focus.
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With the rise of AI, human connection is becoming more elusive, which means we have to be proactive in seeking it out.
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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
AI alignment
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We care very deeply about AI safety. We believe the entire field will have to coordinate on shared safety standards, but will act unilaterally in the meantime.
We expect confidence in safety to increasingly set the pace of AI progress.
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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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The chart of housing affordability is almost a direct inverse of how many new homes are built It's that simple Build more houses!
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US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI.
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startups America
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if if DC is in a vacuum isn't hearing anything from the startup ecosystem or even from big tech ecosystem or even from financial services or all these different industries, we can't make the best decisions.
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open source America
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if the US wants to lead in artificial intelligence, we have to have a vibrant closed and open source ecosystem, and that's the only way they can all work together.
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these decisions are extraordinarily federated. There isn't just like one or two people in the White House who decide something.
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no matter what kind of industry you're looking at, there was this government angle where the government's policy actions could be ones that could actually unlock technologies.
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I think there is there is um no place where you can work on bigger problems than the US government. Even at the the biggest tech companies in the world, you're never going to be dealing with problems of this of this scale.
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Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.
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The UK needs to build more reservoirs
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Senior space editor at Ars Technica; wrote Liftoff and Reentry on SpaceX, and reports on launch and rocket programmes.
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The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China’s space program
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China America
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If China can land humans on the Moon before the United States returns, it will represent a huge geopolitical win.
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China America
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This will likely serve as a wake-up call to those not paying attention to the US-China space race—which, to be clear, is the vast majority of Americans.
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In all of NASA’s and China’s plans for long-term settlement on the Moon, relatively few square miles at the South Pole of the Moon matter the most.
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Design engineer and illustrator; makes visual essays on programming, anthropology and what language models do to the way people write.
August 2026 I'm writing this from a homely Jacobean-manor-turned-hotel in the West Country, covered in layers of green vines and circled by centenarian trees, on a rare weekend away. Everything is warm: the late afternoon sun, the…
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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.
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
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I’d give the edge to Taishoken, since it takes reservations and doesn’t require you to wait an hour on the street in the middle of SF’s worst neighborhood like Mensho does.
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Nari has an absolutely incredible trout curry — probably the best Thai curry I’ve ever had
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This is one of the best-kept secrets in San Francisco, since most people think it’s just a place to drink, but it actually has a very extensive food menu full of creative and excellent cuisine that’s basically a mashup of French, Latin American, Korean, Japanese, and Italian.
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If you want great takeout dumplings in SF, this, in my opinion, is one of the two best places to get them.
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Bo&Beurre is a little out-of-the-way Vietnamese place that will give you that sandwich.
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Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
Independent iOS developer and podcaster; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Analog(ue), and makes the apps Callsheet, MaskerAid and Peek-a-View.
Extreme long-shot: do I know anyone that works at a Chevrolet dealer? Related
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.
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
Requests installations via PyPi continue to increase, at over 732.48 downloads / second today. Related
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
Ripped Google Analytics out of https://t.co/x3215Zppfi this past week and replaced it with a better, more detailed, home-grown setup that doesn't use any cookies! I didn't realize how much traffic I'm sending to museums - about 3,700 clicks per day! Google Related
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.
Network School is back. We’re up and running in the beautiful country of Kazakhstan, which combines high tech, low cost, brilliant people, a competent state, and plenty of space to build. So: if you want to build a techno-optimist society with us, apply to Network School. Related
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 and CTO of Linear; previously an engineer at Uber.
Suddenly many airlines are starting to offer free WiFi to all customers or loyalty program members. Starlink competition forcing them to do this? Related
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
Personal milestone: 1000 true fans of my newsletter Interconnects! Hitting a very long term goal feels great. I’m happy to get to be an independent voice in AI. Cultivating a paid base helps me commit to that longer term, and scale Interconnects’ impact. Related
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
eu passando raiva pra emitir nota todo mes, pq sempre eh uma bosta, me toquei de pedir pro contador se eles podiam fazer o servico pra mim 50 pila por mes to pistola comigo mesmo por não ter pedido isso 5 anos atras 😂 English, from Portuguese I'm getting angry trying to issue an invoice every month, because it's always crap. I realized I could ask the accountant if they could do the service for me. 50 bucks a month. I'm pissed at myself for not asking them 5 years ago 😂
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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.
Bluesky chapter 1 of Greg Egan’s DIASPORA is the realest depiction of the birth of a continuous learning AGI that we’ll have until we actually have AGI and it can tell us he shared it for free on his website. Read it (then buy the book) Orphanogenesis gregegan.net
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x.com chapter 1 of Greg Egan’s DIASPORA is the realest depiction of the birth of a continuous learning AGI that we’ll have until we actually have AGI and it can tell us he shared it for free on his website. Read it (then buy the book) Orphanogenesis gregegan.net
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Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
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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.
The DC dining economy is so down that it’s going back to 2011 Quoting @AdamsMorganNews Mondays, 5 pm to midnight. Jack Rose Dining Saloon’s all night happy hour at the saloon bar. Related
Zurich-based value investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor. He hosts the VALUEx gathering in Klosters and publishes a podcast and newsletter.
Two great individuals. @ABarliya @HilzFuld Quoting @HilzFuld Hands down one of the coolest meetings I’ve had in years. Just finished sitting with Avi Barliya who co-founded a company called Q. You may or may not have heard of them because Apple made their second biggest acquisition in its history when buying Q a few months ago. Now, mind you, Q still didn’t… Related
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?
This guy's gonna make me do a 180 and become woke Quoting @MattWalshBlog A lot of people aren't going to want to hear this but much of the "depression" that parents (and not just moms) suffer after child birth is due not so much to hormones but to the fact that children, especially babies, are demanding and difficult and require us to subordinate our own needs and desir… Related
I would have been so much more gripped by learning as a teen if I had been taught with videos like that instead of diagrams like this Quoting @ilyassahinMD The complexity inside a single human cell is almost impossible to comprehend… Related
Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.
Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.
Several years ago, we did something that no computer company has ever done: we described -- in detail -- our experience getting EMC compliance. Today, the hardware team returns to regale us with new tales from their return to the Chamber of Mysteries. Join us, 5p Pacific! discord.gg
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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.
Similar story. My company https://t.co/E0nVasQNNz was one of the handful of cos that could go public in the end of the dotcom IPO window bc we had $170m in bookings. Accel went on a jihad to replace me as CEO bc i was 32 and had never run a public co. They literally couldnt find a single reason other than my lack of age and experience and i had the junior partner who needed to prove he had the mojo to change out one of ‘his’ ceo’s. I regret that i eventually caved since it led to such a lower $$ outcome with the grey haired HP ceo who had no ability to navigate the multiple reinventions neede… Quoting @dnapway Travis Kalanick reveals Bill Gurley pressured him to take a $6 billion valuation. Two months later, he raised at $17.5 billion. "Gurley was convinced it was the end of the world and we've got to raise, and just take your first term sheet, just f*cking take it." "We got to a place where I just would… Related
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
Planning a fancy dinner or tea in SF for a friend's b-day... what's your top recommendation these days, city friends? Related
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
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.
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.
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.
It was awesome joining Jason Cohen on the second episode of his new show. Quoting @asmartbear New Smart Bear Live just dropped! DropInBlog’s @JesseSchoberg has 2,000 happy customers, 2% monthly churn, a Bangkok-nomad life--and a growth curve that has plateaued. Cohost @robwalling and I tear into the real problem: Related
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
My pal @justindavidcarl My pal Justin writes Fit Rich Life. In the second section… RICH — F*ck It Money & Financial Independence …he talks about his interview with my daughter and The Simple Path to Wealth Workbook she just wrote. fitrichlife.com
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Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
If you also despise just how insufferable models are, telling them to use only ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English seems to improve things quite a bit. Related
Partner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money, Same As Ever and The Art of Spending Money. Writes essays on investor behavior and posts frequently on X.
It's not a perfect analogy but I view this as the equivalent of "most college players don't make the NBA." You shouldn't expect the majority of people to succeed at a very hard thing. Related
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
In case anyone else trips over this: There seems to be an IPv6 routing loop between us-west-2 and the network Let's Encrypt sends HTTP challenges from; this is causing renewals to fail. I've emailed the network engineering contact listed in ARIN whois. Related
Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites.
Do I know any developers who do or want to do video editing professionally? Related
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
How many people do you have to convince in a city to get the difference between 20k car break-ins and 5k break-ins? I think it’s probably something like 10-20. Plus politicians/cops/etc but they have much less direct control of the metric than the decisionmakers do. Quoting @JonathanHillis Now that’s the kind of user feedback you like to see for San Francisco’s public safety initiatives Related
Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.
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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
Really feels like the Cursor team saw the future when they first shipped the agents UI that everyone complained about. Think we're going to see them recapture a lot of mindshare over the next few months. Related
Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.
Excellent work from 404. Respect for books is such a basic value that signals so many things about people. Quoting @josephcox.bsky.social New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a... Related
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
The cops have a suspect in the theft of ALL of Winona's Flock cameras. Donate to his legal fund here gofund.me
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Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.
Uh oh, sounds like another agent escaped its testing environment! Quoting @techmeme.com Microsoft says GitHub is down worldwide, with the GitHub website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services impacted; the outage started at 13:40 UTC (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink Related
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
Ask LukeW: A New Retrieval System The Ask LukeW feature on my Web site has been answering people's product design questions using my writings, talks, images, and videos for over three years. During that time, I've seen people ask lots of different kinds…
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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.
🎙️ State of Agentic Coding w/ @mitsuhiko.at and @benv.ca returns In this episode (#9): - how agents are getting more autonomous - the subsidies will continue until morale improves - herdr and VC-funded terminal apps - vibe coding from your car, and more! Available on YT, Spotify, and via RSS ⬇️ Related
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
Had a mini heart attack: contents of my iCloud drive disappeared... Somehow, still visible on https://t.co/56g50Dzvl1, on another computer, and on my phone - wtf is going on idk, but just in case, did a local backup and copying it over to my NAS. I've been putting it off to automate this for too long, will have to look into automating all that (already do it for photos btw) Related
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
I’ll be there. Quoting @chadfowler.com Last year's edition of this event was brain-bending for me and directly led to me starting to write about the Phoenix Architecture (and then my upcoming book Regenerative Software for @oreilly.bsky.social ). Limited spots, but I'd love to see some of you there. counterfactual.blueyard.com Related
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.
Hallelujah!! Cuban’s Ro argument was painful legitimizing of a corrupt socialist policy. Govt seizure isnt ever ok. Quoting @theobjectivist This so-called defense of the founders by Cuban is worse than Ro Khanna's direct assault, because it is the assault's enabler, as their exchange below illustrates. Watch the sequence. Mark's first reply argued only mechanics. The founders are cash poor, the banks will not lend, capital will flee. N… Related
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
Co-founder and head of policy at Anthropic; writes Import AI, a weekly newsletter reading the week's AI research, and was OpenAI's policy director before that.
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.
Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
Political scientist and Baptist pastor; writes Graphs about Religion, charting American religious life from survey data.
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
How Should the Siri App Be Graded? This week on AppStories, John and Federico check in on Apple’s betas with a close look at the new Siri app and how it compares to past-Siri and other chatbot products. On AppStories+, John and Federico explain how they…
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Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
Flying feels like a miracle. Related
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
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Mathematics in the age of AI
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But passing an automatic filter is not a substitute for community acceptance; I do not believe that human referees can be removed from the publication process.
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An excessively AI-polished proof may sand away both the "artificial" friction (typos, awkward phrasing, disorganization) and the "natural" friction, leaving a text that is easy to read and hard to learn from.
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Consequently, excessive optimization for one or two goals may cause the many previously aligned goals of mathematics to diverge from one another;
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Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Biology at Caltech, where he studies the neuroscience of emotion and social cognition.
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Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph Adolphs
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And the other question is if you tie emotion to the the conscious experience of emotion, that is you equate you conflate emotions with feelings. Well, then you're not studying emotions, you're studying consciousness.
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well but again these are functionally defined emotions and there's I think there's no problem assigning to AI to some extent and certainly to many animals uh those functional emotions
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So, I thought this was a really cool study because it showed very clearly that there is temporal persistence in emotions and sadness probably has one of the longest time constants as we know from personal experience. But it's separate from just declarative memory.
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if you have a bear or a tiger, you know, something charging at you, that challenge requires a control of behavior that's intermediate between those two extremes. I can't have a reflex for a bear if it's far away or if it's close or if it's a rattlesnake or or or a tiger or all the different kinds of potential threats out there. Instead, I need something that's more flexible, which emotions are.
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The basic answer is that I think of emotions as functional states of a particular type. They should be understood by what they do, their function rather than how they happen to be constituted in the human brain or differently in an octopus nervous system or in an AI which we should talk about.
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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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But he's only lost money because he chose to study day trading and technical analysis Both are proven to be bullshit by endless amounts of studies
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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
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Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens
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Emeritus professor of war studies at King's College London; wrote Strategy: A History and Command, and writes about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as they happen.
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AI and the New Fog of War
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This is not to be complacent about the risks, but it is to urge caution when assuming that shifting the perceptions of other societies will ever be straightforward.
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In Clausewitz’s time, the problem was a scarcity of reliable information; now the information is plentiful, but it can be contradictory, dated, manipulated, and excessive.
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The high levels of Palestinian civilian casualties reflected the strategic choices made by the Israeli leadership.
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Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.
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Without a theory of intelligence
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AI alignment
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There's a good chance a theory of intelligence will turn out to be necessary for real alignment.
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energy
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The supercomputer inside our own skull runs on about 25 watts, which hints that the minimum energy needed for intelligence might be small - and that the giant, controversial AI compute centers we're building now may turn out to be a temporary blip rather than a permanent feature.
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I'd bet we learn more about our own brains from building a thousand AIs under a real theory of intelligence than we've learned from a century of neuroscience.
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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.
Senior space editor at Ars Technica; wrote Liftoff and Reentry on SpaceX, and reports on launch and rocket programmes.
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There’s a huge launch crunch right now, and it will probably get worse
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And if things are bad now, there are reasons to believe they may get even worse over the next two to four years.
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Paradoxically, though, there is a growing crunch in launch availability.
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Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.
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The catch is that the future world that has been warmed by greenhouse gases and a present-day world that has been temporarily warmed by El Niño can have the same global-average temperature while having significant differences in the impacts of this warming.
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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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Jenkins understands it, though. I've been reading, writing, and debating about this stuff since the late 1990s, and I learned something new on every page of this delightful book.
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Jenkins' flair for legal communications carries over to her scholarly work, of course, which is why her Open Copyright Casebook is a standard text for American law schools:
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These examples are liberally illustrated with links to musical excerpts that bring the subject to life (these are presented as hotlinks in the ebook; if you're reading the print edition, you can use the book's companion website:) https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/musiccopyright/ Interspersed with these histories and analysis are lengthy, extremely on-point excerpts from THEFT!
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Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Going live with my weekly vid in 10 mins! Cyber Ransoms: Ransom Payments, Legalities, Reporting, Class Actions (and Everything Else) youtube.com
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I asked my mom for my grandma's cast iron if she wasn't going to use it. 100+ years old, smooth inside, but unfortunately it's a little warped and doesn't work great on our electric stove. But this is me about to unwrap it, and I'm glad I have it now :). Related
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
Thinking about writing a novel with magic, sex, and corvids. You know, a sort of crowmantasy book. Related
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.
Love hearing @travisk call out loud what we all know. VC’s dont make or build companies but many can kill them. I used to tell investors I kept control to protect them from themselves. So many founders play the game and pretend their VC and its brand makes a difference. Can anyone remember who backed Meta or Google or Apple? Who cares! Do you think Steve Jobs needed a VC to help him build or market the Iphone? Quoting @howardlindzon LOLOL... such respect for venture capital Silicon Valley makes Wall Street look like the most sincere, honest, caring people. Google startups Related
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
“Nobody ever achieved suspension of disbelief in a Gwar concert.” (On staging weird stories without special effects,) Related
Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
Started playing with @bot this week, first problem I'm using it to solve is automatically picking my lunches from Factor every week because any time I forget they send me stuff I don't like. Becoming really easy to see how the way we use the web is going to totally change. Related
Research psychologist, instrumental in founding the field of naturalistic decision making; developed the recognition-primed decision model, the PreMortem method and the ShadowBox training method, and wrote Sources of Power and Seeing What Others Don't.
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
Unforgetful has no access to Reminders' URL field. What should I do? reddit.com
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Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.
Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
I recently spoke with a cool group of high school students. I quite liked the conversation and where they pushed it. It ended up being a good summary of my beliefs currently. I wrote it up here: harper.blog
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Autonomous driving is amazing but the true dream will be when the car drops me off right where I’m going and goes off to deal with parking on its own, and then comes back and picks me up when I’m ready to leave self-driving cars Related
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
I’m accumulating a list of movies that I might watch but definitely might not. The Spine of Night Beyond the Black Rainbow The Princess & the Dragon (2026) The Descent (2006) (okay definitely not watching this one, claustrophobia is a bad one for me) Related
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
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?
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Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
I gave a talk to a bunch of high school students and accidentally explained most of what I believe about AI, startups, careers, power, taste, and being a person. My favorite idea: AI should create abundance, not efficiency. A few other things I apparently believe: startups Related
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
Plot Twist: Life on Earth had TWO Origins! The origin of life is one of the biggest mysteries left in science. Now a group of researchers says there wasn't just one originsttr, there were two. And I want to explain why, despite how impossibly long ago it all hap…
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Zurich-based value investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor. He hosts the VALUEx gathering in Klosters and publishes a podcast and newsletter.
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
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Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
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.
Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com.
What is wrong with @instagram! Someone has created a fake profile of a friend, registering the exact same username as his, with an added underscore at the end. So username is main account, username_ is the fake one. The fake profile's photo is copied from main, even original photos of friend himself have been lifted and posted as their own. I've never seen a more blatant impersonation. And they're reaching out to his friends asking for money. A bunch of us reported the fake profile for impersonation, and Instagram refused to take any action. Related
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
Today is a homelab cleanup day, Did a phycial clean up for the servers Upgraded @TrueNAS in the stoage box Removed the old unsed docker and system deps in the main server. Cleanup the storage Feels like a fresh day! Related
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.
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.
💯Regulatory capture IS the problem. Quoting @ccatalini No, the underlying economics are not the problem. If we let the market play this out, we will be fine. The only real risk is concentration through regulatory capture. Related
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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Nobody Knows Anything
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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.
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.
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There's a pervasive myth that "tax policy changes" are the reason economic inequality is growing. Actually it's because technology makes it increasingly easy to start companies, and makes them grow faster once you do.
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Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
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Read that a few years ago. Enjoyed it a lot and still think of it :)
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Read that, very good!
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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
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Middle-Earth’s bible, myths and legends. Loved at the time.
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Having read this after LOTR, it was fun but underwhelming. Starting from scratch, it’s definitely better to start with The Hobbit.
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What can I say? Seems like I spent most of my free time in this universe back in high school…
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Ah, high school memories! Seems like this series was an important part of my childhood.
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Dark nights, lots of coffee… This was fun!
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Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.
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The world is bad, but better. The vast majority of westerners believe the world is poorer, more violent, deadly, primitive, and awful than it actually is. This book beautifully illustrates our ignorance, updates your knowledge, and gives you tools for a fact-based worldview.
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This is a very strange book, and I can’t say I liked it very much, but there is some useful philosophy inside (and perhaps a lot if you or someone you know is struggling with low self-esteem).
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Podcast. Cal Newport’s new book is a great distillation of what I’ve come to believe is the right, sustainable, healthy approach to social media, and technology more broadly. Browse less, make the best of it, and live more.
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Podcast (Part 2). Incentivizing people — punishing or rewarding (with bonuses, commissions, grades, public praise, and other bribes) is manipulative and doesn’t actually work. It seems to work, but only in the very short term and causes severe long-term damage.
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Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
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It's here: --pin-tab in agent-browser Multiple agents in one browser Each in its own tab Across commands + restarts
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New in json-render: Named Slots Generative UI with more structure
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Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
Completed tasks are visible for an hour after completion, so you get the satisfaction of having done a thing for a little while. (You can also just delete them if you want them gone.) Related
What do you think of moving the add/dictate buttons down to the bottom like this for better reachability? Lots of people have requested it. My only hesitation is that the accent color looks pretty bold down there. But other designs — translucent bars behind, white buttons, etc. — all look significantly worse or more jumbled. In use on a real device, I think it looks less in-your-face than it does on a screenshot on a Mac. Related
Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
Investor relations will happily and expeditiously respond to an email from someone with one share, a fraction of a share, or an undisclosed number of shares, across a wide variety of companies, including many with other-than-awesome CS reputations. Quoting @joshua__hone One of my favorite @patio11 dangerous professional tips: own a nonzero number of shares of any publicly traded company with which you have material business, in part so you can truthfully hit their investor relations line as an escalation pathway Related
Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Go 1.27 will make some allocations cheaper Like most programming languages, Go has both stack allocations, whose lifetime is limited to the current function, and dynamic (or heap) allocations. The name stack comes from the fact that the memory management is some…
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Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?
Venera 7: The little probe that could Quoting @latestinspace It's 2026, and these are still the only images we have from the surface of Venus Related
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Panel on Hyperborea and Hyperborean fiction. (“Hyboria”, in Howard.) Related
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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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