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20 September
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
Started watching “I bought an abandoned storage unit” videos and I can’t think of any job I’d enjoy less. The initial score would be a huge dopamine hit, but pricing the junk, hauling the junk, storing the junk, paying to trash the junk, selling the junk, and shipping the junk to people all sounds awful to me. They’re fun videos, but feels like the sad sewers of materialism to me. Related
19 September
Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.
18 September
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.
+ Metal Gear Solid 4 is awful. Truly awful. Related
14 September
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
13 September
Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.
𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐍 𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐊𝐄𝐒 We know there was an asteroid impact around when the dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, because we see a rare metal called iridium in the strata from this time - and droplets formed by molten quartz. But we also see lots of fern spores! This is called a 'fern spike', and it's not the only one. Ferns spread rapidly using spores, and they're tougher than they look. When everything dies, these ancient, humble plants are the first to recolonize the land. They did it after the Permian-Triassic, Triassic-Jurassic and Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction events. They may d… Related
11 September
Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
9 September
Essayist, journalist and independent researcher on Chinese politics, strategy and cultural history; author of the blog The Scholar's Stage.
The reason that is rarely articulated, for obvious reasons, but which is nonetheless true: for many this fills a void of meaning. They get be one of the decisive few at the decisive moment in the history of life. Very similar to the emotions that motivated many revolutionaries of days past. All of the sudden the small things one does—the books one reads, one’s office set up, one’s bedtime routine—take on an awful cosmic significance. The whole history of carbon life is culminating with *me* — and what I do, and the few elect here with me, matters, and matters immensely. We are the agents of h… Quoting @jasminewsun I hear roughly 3 reasons people keep working at AI labs despite believing in ~10% extinction risk: 1) Techno-determinism: Someone will build ASI no matter what, and I can do it better & more safely than China/OpenAI/etc 2) Consequentialism: ASI might kill us, but it also might produce utopia/immort… Related
British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.
brb running a million simulated fruit flies in fruit fly utopia then going out and doing something really awful tonight so I'm still karmically balanced Related
7 September
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
This is also a really solid case for soft-delete with a time-delayed hard delete cronjob. Quoting @BenjaminHouy Accidentally deleted a user account. This is what happens when I do customer support before drinking coffee. Luckily I have Point-in-time Recovery, Related
2 September
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
16 August
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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14 August
Writer of Today in Tabs, a daily media-and-internet newsletter started in 2013; earlier founded the community site Kuro5hin.
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The first is just solid blogging, the second is one of the finest defenses of the value of critical thinking I’ve ever read.
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The first is just solid blogging, the second is one of the finest defenses of the value of critical thinking I’ve ever read.
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13 August
British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.
Ok clock solid advice but look we’re all just trying to get through the day here Related
11 August
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Here's a quick shell script to use your monitor as a key light which can help with lighting when you have a web cam. It toggles a solid background color using your wallpaper tool of choice. nickjanetakis.com
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30 July
Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.
10 July
Labour politician. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 2024 to June 2026, and MP for Holborn and St Pancras from 2015 until standing down in 2026. Director of Public Prosecutions before entering Parliament.
The whole country will be utterly shocked by the awful news about the circumstances of Ann Widdecombe’s death. Today we come together across the political divide and I pay tribute to Ann’s dedication during her many years of public service. My thoughts and deepest condolences are with Ann’s family and friends. Related
15 June
Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.
29 May
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
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Mouse: ROG Gladius II. USB-C charging, solid wireless, replaceable parts.
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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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that the language that's most suited for AI is the language that AI has seen the most of in its training set, right? And that's why you could argue AI does really well on JavaScript and TypeScript and Python because it's seen an awful lot of it
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11 May
Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later joined Tailscale.
27 April
Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system.
25 April
Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.
7 April
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
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Um I think another similarity is I mean, the core notions uh behind Agile and extreme programming are solid and good, but a huge snake oil industry appeared around it, the Agile industrial complex as I like to refer to it. Um and that will happen. That is happening with AI right now, and it's often hard to see the difference between where is the snake oil and where is the real stuff.
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Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.
29 March
Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
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Solid quality for less than a hundred bucks.
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22 March
Researcher on developer productivity; co-wrote Accelerate and the DORA research, and created the SPACE framework.
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I I will say I tend to start with adoption. I am not a fan of an adoption metric. I don't like it, but also devs are like a gloriously cranky bunch.
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17 March
Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
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WhatsApp used to be absolutely rock solid, and now both the Mac app and iPhone app are buggy messes.
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12 March
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
12 January
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
7 January
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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Product managers need a solid foundation in statistics to be metrics-driven. This classic book is a lively and fun book will leave you smarter and more skeptical.
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29 November 2025
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
"There’s a ruthlessness that’s taken hold across all cultural making. Everything turned into a casino, 'traps' galore. Billions as the only goal. Leave “nothing on the table.” Epicurean maximizing. That sort of thing. AI now turning solid ground liquid for the next decade." craigmod.com
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25 November 2025
Medieval historian at the LSE; writes Going Medieval and The Middle Ages: A Graphic History, and spends a lot of it correcting what people think the period was like.
20 November 2025
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
Electric Work Truck Diaries: What kind of mileage do you think I'll get with this 1500 lb trailer of tools and materials? Heading about 40 miles down the Interstate and into the big city. (It's a set of heavy metal railings I built for a house upgrade I'm doing there) @Tesla Y remains the best do-everything car on the market I think. Related
5 October 2025
Head of growth at Chess.com, previously growth and monetization lead at Grammarly and Duolingo and a product manager at Google.
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I think when you have your D1 retention somewhere around like the 30 or 40% mark, like that's quite solid, I think, for for a consumer app.
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31 July 2025
Anthropologist; wrote Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World and The Secret History of the Mongol Queens.
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But the one thing that they valued were all the artisans, everybody who had a skill. And that skill could be making a pot. It could be hammering out a metal plate. It can be weaving carpets, it can be translating or just reading and writing. Every person with a skill was spared.
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7 June 2025
Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.
25 April 2025
Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.
2 January 2025
Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.
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I also use Discord (not bad) to engage with some niche communities and Microsoft Teams (awful) for work.
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I also use Discord (not bad) to engage with some niche communities and Microsoft Teams (awful) for work.
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17 December 2024
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
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OHTO MS01 all-metal drafting pencil
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10 November 2024
Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.
19 September 2024
Medicinal chemist; has written In the Pipeline, the drug-discovery blog, since 2002, and the “Things I Won’t Work With” posts about chemicals that try to kill you.
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22 April 2024
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
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If you think about how we teach quantum mechanics to our students, the Copenhagen interpretation, it’s a God-awful mess. No one’s going to accuse that of being very beautiful. I’m a fan of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, and that is very beautiful in the sense that fewer ingredients, just one equation, and it could cover everything in the world.
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5 February 2024
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
Look at me, a dummy who can’t even reliably taste the difference between alkali metal salts Quoting @mold_time A few weeks ago we spent some time sitting around tasting different alkali metal salts with @a_m_mastroianni To us, the difference between NaCl (sodium chloride, normal table salt) and KCl (potassium chloride) seems very obvious, but Adam said they taste about the same to him. Related
12 January 2023
Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.
My overarching principle for building better systems: accept the limitations of our human brains and work to accommodate their limited but specialized capacity. That's it! Hexagonal architecture, microservices, SOLID, automated testing – it all follows from that one principle. Related
13 December 2022
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
13 October 2022
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Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.
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A solid biography, though I don’t have anything in particular to say about it.
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28 October 2020
Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.
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The team at 37 Signals have very strong opinions on how to build a company and much of it is solid advice to consider. This book is particularly great because it's a simple, quick read; they do not waste your time with fluff.
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My favorite kinds of books are to the point and filled with solid, actionable advice. It's amazing how much wisdom Ries & Trout have fit into a 130 page book. If you want to learn key marketing fundamentals, and avoid major marketing strategy failures, this book is well worth the read.
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8 April 2019
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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It's a solid, well-sourced ("based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with each of the twenty-four moon voyagers, as well as those who contributed their brain power, training and teamwork on Earth"), general overview of the heart of the Apollo program. Also an excellent entry point.
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This documentary was a solid telling of the story of that mission, and of the later-in-Apollo scientific goals and geological exploration that was achieved, as well as a wistful look back at the story of the last humans, to date, to set foot on the moon.
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4 December 2018
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
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