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18 September
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Toronto is @Shopify home territory. Surely there are some there who'd like to go! Quoting @orospakr Hey @dhh I've got an Omarchy meetup scheduled in Toronto for Sunday afternoon, mind putting it out on blast? Related
17 September
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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Terminal programs bias to dark modes and explicit colors are hostile to light modes and themes.
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16 September
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Banning kids from online games?? Kids, pack your Fortnite bags, vacation is over, we gotta go home to the land of the free. (They can't be serious, surely? SURELY?) Quoting @Dexerto The EU is reportedly preparing to ban kids under 15 from social media, AI chatbots and online games Related
15 September
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.
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
Some food for thought when designing benchmarks... So, here's a little computer-use (visual) comparison between GPT-5.6 Astra and Qwen3.8 Max. The task here was to recreate the image in the center using the Paint UI. Super interesting how the two different LLMs+Harnesses approached this totally differently by default. I.e., Astra tried to approach this by drawing and layering geometric shapes. Qwen approached this pixel by pixel. (Of course, the pixel-by-pixel result looks closer to the original, it's essentially a low-res version of that by nature.) So, the Qwen-generated image would surely… LLMs OpenAI Related
13 September
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.
I am surely not alone in having family over the weekend hitting me up asking "should I be worried about extinction?" As a response, I have found that my anti-Doomer talk from @monktoberfest.com 2023 (three very long years ago!) remains current and accessible: youtube.com
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11 September
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
Mastodon microlighter@v2.2.0 is out 🚀 - new themes: gruvbox, flexoki - new grammars: astro, ini, nginx, + fixes - custom element improvements - now ~2000x faster on large files thanks to @daniel - and now has full typescript types (also @daniel) Still ~2.09kb. github.com
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Bluesky microlighter@v2.2.0 is out 🚀 - new themes: gruvbox, flexoki - new grammars: astro, ini, nginx, + fixes - custom element improvements - now ~2000x faster on large files thanks to @danielroe.dev - and now has full typescript types (@danielroe.dev again) Still ~2.09kb github.com
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Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
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Rather than thinking of this set of preferences as incoherent, or merely the expression of a sectional petty bourgeois interest, it makes more sense, surely, to view it as a coherent set of anti-systemic views.
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10 September
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.
🏛️ announcing hunk v0.22.0 - now w/ `hunk log` - TUI for reviewing git/jj history - quickly jump from commit → diff - OR multi-select a commit range - supports mouse + all colour themes also in this release: multi-line comments, lower memory usage, more efficient --watch mode, and more! (🔈) Related
3 September
British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.
31 August
Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI, and author of Co-Intelligence. Writes One Useful Thing, where the claims are dated and testable because the thing they describe keeps changing under them.
19 August
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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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
16 August
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
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Feynman was a Teacher. This book is as fantastic as the man himself.
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rakhim.org
31 July
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
Biggest and best @localfirstconf.com yet, IMO! Surprising emergent themes this year: geopolitics and EU digital sovereignty, and strong conflicting emotions on LLM-assisted coding. More: adamwiggins.com
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28 July
Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
On a near-daily basis I get emails offering to pay for "sponsored articles" or for linking to sketchy crypto/casino sites. I guess everyone gets these? Search engines surely prohibit this, but does it get your content removed from LLM training? LLMs crypto Related
25 July
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
13 July
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
Choosing Movies Almost surely, if you totaled up the number of hours of movie watching I’ve done and the hours of TV show watching I’ve done, TV dwarves movies.... chriscoyier.net
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12 July
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.
9 June
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
🎨 hunk v0.15.0 is out: - supports git --color-moved - transparent backgrounds - color token fixes - more themes - Sapling support (it's a VCS from Meta) also now there's a website → hunk.dev
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27 May
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
hunk 0.14.0 is out w/ lots of user contribs + fixes: 🆕 expand/collapse inline source (vid 👇) 🆕 custom themes 🆕 new theme: catpuccin latte/mocha 🆕 select + copy to clipboard 🆕 renders wide chars like 你好 & emoji properly Related
25 May
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.
Nowadays, I often see people say they have access to unlimited tokens. Usually for work, although in response to https://t.co/BuzKs79xk5, someone from Microsoft said they have unlimited tokens for personal projects. I wonder what this means in practice. Surely there's a limit? Quoting @danluu What do people like for token-intensive workflows for personal projects? With a semi-autonomous workflow, I can exhaust a week's quota on the $200/mo codex plan in ~10 minutes of my time. If I'm in the loop, I get ~10x(?) the productivity per token, but it's time inefficient and Related
21 May
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
13 May
Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.
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I mean, surely you're not going to be best of breed in the JavaScript ecosystem by telling people to write in a different programming language.
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23 March
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
25 January
Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.
LLMs
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if you think about it, it sort of makes sense because the LLM is an averaging machine, right? It's predicting the most likely that's an averaging kind of a thing. And so when what you're looking for is a kind of average, it's usually pretty good. So, summarization, topics, themes. But when you're asking for like what is interesting and not average, it's actually pretty bad at it.
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26 December 2025
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
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I enjoyed the themes. It's a very easy read. The topics aren't very deep, and you shouldn't expect anything literary.
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arslan.io
5 July 2025
Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
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Perhaps that Goldman makes, at times, too strong a case for the importune of the Nomonhan war, but the conflict surely deserves much more that the oblivion into which it seems to have been consigned by political historians.
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branko2f7.substack.com
1 July 2025
Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.
30 December 2024
Software engineer and essayist who writes about programming, formal methods, philosophy and literature at thoughts.wyounas.com.
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His thoughts on human psychology and the way he crafted his stories are why I liked this book. I have to admit, there is a lot in it that I need to absorb. I'll surely be re-reading this one sometime soon. It's one of those books that one ought to read multiple times in life because I'm certain that every time we read it, it will offer something new.
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thoughts.wyounas.com
7 August 2024
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
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I prefer dark VS Code themes. My current theme is GitHub Dark Default.
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alialaa.dev
3 July 2024
Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.
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Clouds of Sils Maria (Swiss/French, 2014, CC) 3.5 Very good acting and good enough screenplay (even if some of the themes seem a bit warmed over.)
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themoneyillusion.com
30 June 2024
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
16 February 2024
Writer and consultant on technology, organizations and history; founded the blog Ribbonfarm and now writes the Contraptions newsletter.
Writing for the week: two on the blog, one in the newsletter. Themes: Dark forests, mediocrity, hot take on the week’s developments in AI Related
20 November 2023
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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I recommend checking out Nick Milo’s video How to Switch From Evernote to Obsidian if that’s you.
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fortelabs.com
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I encountered much the same experience as I did with Obsidian: too much complexity, most of it front-loaded and unavoidable, making it difficult to get to the task of writing.
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fortelabs.com
6 June 2022
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.
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Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes.
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gatesnotes.com
2 June 2022
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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This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
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jamesclear.com
22 November 2021
Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.
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Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry, The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything – just delightful, wide-ranging stuff from the surely best science-communication double-act in the world. The perfect gift for the nerd in your life.
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timharford.com
7 April 2021
Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.
16 June 2020
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
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It's a code editor. Has plugins and themes. It's nice.
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daverupert.com
4 October 2018
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
I just published "The Complete Guide To Building Premium WordPress Themes" course on udemy. Get it now with a 90% discount #wordpress #udemy #course udemy.com
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