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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  Some tasks inherently need a continuous stretch of time, so an appointment that splits the afternoon can leave no block long enough to finish them, and this is not limited to people with ADHD.

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  It's isn't just to people with ADHD that this happens. Some tasks inherently take a certain amount of time. An appointment that breaks the afternoon into two blocks of time could leave you with no block long enough to complete a task.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Omarchy

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  Omarchy is going to be the best place to get every major AI harness and tool, configured with minimal effort

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  GPT-6 Astra

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  GPT-6 Astra represents a step-function change in model capability for interactive reasoning problems. It scores 66% on ARC-AGI-3 using our standard harness, and nearly 100% with a continuous conversation harness and custom compaction, at a cost of roughly $360 per game.

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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  Relying on gradual, continuous shifts in AI training behavior to catch misalignment will eventually fail because the dangerous shift itself may be discontinuous.

  AI alignment

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  I worry a lot about reliances on continuity failing at exactly the most dangerous time.

  Anthropic Has Some Alignment Problemsthezvi.substack.com

Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.

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  Performance-related command-line flags represent qualitative changes to restartability, buffering, or concurrency, not levels on a continuous performance dial.

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  /Z, /J, and /MT are not levels on a performance slider. They change restartability, buffering, and concurrency.

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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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  Well-functioning systems succeed through continuous debugging rather than perfect initial design.

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  When things work well, it's usually not because they were designed perfectly, but because they are constantly being debugged.

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Hype is weather: you can see it coming and you cannot control it, which is why a project can be declared dead and hit its highest ever downloads at the same time.

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  Both of those are true at the same time. A hype is like the weather. You might see it coming, but you can't control it.

  Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"youtube.com

Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.

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  Performance review is best done as a PageRank-style computation over continuous company-wide votes, not as an annual HR cycle.

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  This is a little bit different than actually literally I vector centrality but it's very similar and so we call this technique IGEN reviews and I've become convinced that this is more or less the right way to do performance reviews.

  Max Hodak: Average Is Not Good Enoughyoutube.com

Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.

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  Every AI hype cycle produces spectacular demos and very few products, because each breakthrough makes the demo far easier and the tail barely easier.

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  And that's why every hype cycle produces a wave of absolutely spectacular demos and very few real products. And the recurring mistake of every cycle is spending on the demo when you should be saving for the nines.

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  Programmers fail to recognise how much mathematics their job uses because the mathematics it needs is discrete and school teaches the continuous kind.

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  And I wonder sometimes if that is the reason people don't recognize the use of math in software engineering is because the math they do need is not the math they've been exposed to.

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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  Building the same startup as everybody else buys you hype and easy money, and those are rarely the companies that turn out big.

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  if you're starting the same startup as everybody else, it's like you get a lot of hype and you can raise a lot of money, but it's it's sort of like those are much less frequently the big option, the big outcomes.

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Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.

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  Decisions: Studying and Supporting People Facing Hard Choices

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  His narrative of the development of decision-making research over the past half-century is rich with personal anecdotes, gentle humor, continuous learning, and profound humility about how prone we all are to misjudge and misunderstand risks.

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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.

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  New laws often get enacted the way untested code is pushed to production: unread, poorly monitored, slow to show results, and hard to opt out of.

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  new laws are like code that is pushed live to production without even being read (let alone tested), often in the face of tremendous opposition, affecting millions of citizens, with minimal monitoring to ensure they’re producing the desired results, an extremely slow customer feedback cycle, and few ways to truly opt out.

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Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.

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  Transit investment should prioritize raising ridership on already well-used lines over creating minimal service where none exists.

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  it's more important to invest in trains that can get more riders than just the railfans; taking a line from 0% to 5% modal split is less important than taking it from 20% to 40%

  Prioritizing Rail Expansion in New Englandpedestrianobservations.com

Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.

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  Rapid electrification programs without continuous rolling pipelines can still be built cost-effectively, as in Denmark, Israel and India.

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  In truth, rather rapid electrification projects, without decade-by-decade continuity, exist outside the UK and are often quite reasonable in their costs, as in Denmark, Israel, and especially India.

  IFP’s Transit Abundance Playbookpedestrianobservations.com

General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.

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  Obsessive continuous learning is the common trait among entrepreneurs, because the disruptions they exploit sit on a moving edge.

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  a more common trait that's related in the entrepreneurial world is obsessive learning like constant learning because the disruptions that allow for the technology waves that allow for companies to be disruptive and take market share from an incumbent are all tied to something dynamic that's happening on the edge.

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Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.

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  Younger generations are rejecting AI hype while older generations, who stand to benefit from it, remain optimistic

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  there's a consistent theme where Gen Z (and millennials, to some extent) are rejecting the AI hype while older generations are optimistic and coincidentally in a position to benefit from it.

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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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  Tailwind is a good way to build a site you're happy with, even without strong CSS skills of your own.

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  I ended up making this site with Tailwind CSS, and it helped me make a site I felt pretty happy with my minimal CSS skills and just 2 evenings of work!

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  I’m a lot better at CSS than I was when I started using Tailwind Ultimately Tailwind is limiting: if you want to do Weird Stuff in your CSS, it’s not always possible with Tailwind. Those limits can be extremely useful (a lot of this post is about me reimplementing some of Tailwind’s limits!) but at this point I’d like to be able to pick and choose.

Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.

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  For IIT to fit with current successful theories in fundamental physics, a reformulation in terms of continuous fields would be needed.

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  Fifth, for IIT to fit with current successful theories in fundamental physics, a reformulation in terms of continuous fields would be needed.

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Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.

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  Education cannot be done to a person: without at least a minimal act of will from the learner, no method, resource or reform works.

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  Education is not something that can be done to someone; it’s something that requires at least a minimal act of will from the learner, and no reform agenda can engineer that away.

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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  Engineer from the physical limits first, then improve, rather than shaving a few days off a 74-day process by continuous improvement.

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  I don't love the other methods, which is continuous improvement. The problem with continuous improvement, it… First of all, you should engineer something from first principles at the speed, you know, with speed of light thinking. Limit it only by physical limits, and physics limits. And after that, of course you would improve it over time.

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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.

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  Commentators who hype early exponential growth typically move on to other topics once the trend levels off into an asymptote.

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  and then as things hit invisible asymptotes those same loud voices who write viral essays have curiously moved on to other things.

  Constance Crozier: Forecasting s-curves is hardswyx.io

Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.

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  One well-made garment outperforms multiple seasons of trend-driven fashion purchases.

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  One good Yohji piece annihilates three seasons of hype drops.

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Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.

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  Direct communication with customers matters more than small, incremental product tweaks.

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  That communication with the customer is more important than minimal, gradual improvement.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Continuous Discovery Habits

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  Teresa Torres is the best in the business at helping teams build products and services that their customers want. Here she shares her techniques for transforming your process into one of continuous discovery and learning.

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Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.

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  Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

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  And I love the podcast of the book’s authors Emily Bender and Alex Hanna, “Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000”

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Claude Code

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  TL;DR: Ghostty + Claude Code + minimal tooling = maximum productivity.

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Co-founder and chief executive of Sierra, chairman of the board of OpenAI, and formerly co-chief executive of Salesforce and chief technology officer of Facebook.

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  Almost all of the dot-com era's exuberance turned out to be warranted; we remember the failures and forget the value that era created.

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  If you look at the S&P 500 now and you look at the amount of value from companies created in that, one could argue that actually almost all of the exuberance and hype was totally warranted and it in fact did change commerce in fundamental ways.

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Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.

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  Industrial policy that grows a poor country’s economy does not automatically reduce its poverty.

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  But, peering past the hype around Morowali reminds us that we should be careful before assuming that industrial policy must be pro-poor.

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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  The most powerful rule for an exceptional interface is that it feels obvious to use; novelty, minimalism and simplicity are means to that, not the end.

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  Sometimes designers will go to great lengths to make a user interface novel, or minimal, or simple. This is the wrong goal. Novelty, minimalism or simplicity are good heuristics for obviousness, but do not mistake the means for the end.

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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

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  Rapidly growing organizations need a developer environment that works well out of the box for new engineers

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  In a rapidly growing organization, it's much more important to have a developer environment that "just works" out of the gate, with minimal setup pain for new engineers.

  Stripe's monorepo developer environmentblog.nelhage.com

Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."

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  As models get better at following instructions, techniques like finetuning and constrained sampling for structured outputs will become less necessary

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  I suspect that in the future, it'll be easier to get models to output exactly what we need with minimal prompting, and these techniques will become less important.

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  Cargo ships can be electrified with a cheap, heavy, low-performance battery, because carrying heavy things cheaply is the one thing ships are good at.

  energy

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  Ships are great at carrying bulky and heavy stuff with minimal cost and energy usage. We need a battery chemistry that leans into that and sacrifices performance to reduce cost.

  Why Battery Powered Cargo Ships are Compellingaustinvernon.site

Roboticist; co-founded iRobot and Rethink Robotics, directed the MIT AI Lab, and publishes a scorecard grading his own dated predictions about AI, robots and self-driving.

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  The air-taxi industry's forecasts are not backed by flying hardware: there are no videos of prototypes doing what the hype says will be routine within three years.

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  I see lots of hype about eVTOLs being on the verge of being big, but I can’t find any videos of prototypes doing what the hype says will be common place by 2025.

  Where Are The Crewed eVTOL Videos?rodneybrooks.com

Biochemist at University College London; writes about the origin of life and the role of energy in evolution, in The Vital Question and Transformer.

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  The primordial soup is a miracle story: life needs a continuous flow of reaction, and a soup can never provide one.

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  So, how did they do that? You may as well say that a miracle happened. I don’t believe in soup. I think what we have in a vent is a continuous conversion, a continuous growth, a continuous reaction, a continuous converting a flow of molecules into more of yourself, you might say, even if it’s a small bit.

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Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.

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  The binding constraint on pre-modern campaigning was feeding the army every day it was in the field, not winning the battle at the end of it.

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  In order to move this army or sustain it in place it is thus necessary to ensure a massive and relatively continuous supply of food to the army. Failure to do that will result in the army falling apart long before it comes anywhere close to the enemy.

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Co-founded GiveWell and led Open Philanthropy; writes Cold Takes, on the most important century and how to think about it.

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  Occasionally suspending your trust in everyone and digging into one question as deeply as you can is the single most formative thing you can do for how you think.

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  Minimal-trust investigation is probably the single activity that's been most formative for the way I think.

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  Programming is mathematical work: it uses discrete mathematics rather than the continuous mathematics people picture when they say maths.

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  Just because we use a different branch of math doesn't mean we're not doing engineering.

  Are We Really Engineers?hillelwayne.com

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.

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  suckless tools

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  Suckless offers an alternative to this continuous cycle of bloat and meaningless redesign. Suckless tools aim to keep things simple, minimal, usable and hackable by default.

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President of the VideoLAN non-profit and one of the lead developers of the VLC media player; active on the project since 2005.

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  KDE/Plasma

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  My desktop is KDE/Plasma, tweaked to a minimal state, with very few widgets.

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Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.

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  A team should grow in bursts followed by periods of consolidation, because continuous hiring never lets it gel.

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  Adding new folks to a team disrupts that team’s gelling process, so I’ve found it much easier to have rapid growth periods for any given team followed by consolidation/gelling periods where the team gels.

  Staying on the path to high performing teams.lethain.com

Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.

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  Adium

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  I use Adium for chat, because you can make it v. minimal, but Google's crippling of XMPP has made less useful and I have to use Gchat as well.

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Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.

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  Terminal.app

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  I use Zsh in the fantastically minimal Terminal.app.

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