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19 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
17 September
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
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15 September
Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.
Growth tactic #13: "🎈Go anti-professional: One of the most viral LinkedIn posts of all time came from a manager who swapped her corporate headshot for a casual, no-makeup photo. Pick a norm of your own and break it in public. You might talk about how much roles actually pay or admit that a big launch didn’t actually meet internal expectations. People are tired of perfectly curated, glossy exteriors of the professional world, so a bit of human messiness will stand out." More here: lennysnewsletter.com
Quoting @lennysan 60+ creative growth ideas Everyone's running the same growth playbook: high-production launch videos, paid influencers, AEO, social, maybe some (poorly attended) events. Your competitors are in the same channels competing for the same eyeballs. But attention goes to what people don't see coming. Th… Related
Artist and developer who makes esoteric software, games and tools aboard a sailboat as part of Hundred Rabbits with Rekka Bellum; creator of the Uxn virtual machine and the Orca livecoding environment.
I've been scratching my head trying to think how to package assets for my #lispGameJam project, I really REALLY wanted to be able to inline assets as raw hex code, like I normally do for uxn projects, not have to read binary files, so I added a special form with square brackets that lets me to just that! This is the first sprite(a little arrow) I was able to store in my source code. Related
14 September
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.
Favorite photo and passage: 'Two hundred years of peace will not come for free; you have to do certain things. You wake up, you hit people, you pay them to hit you. Then it’s another subpoena, another lawsuit. The president whose election is your fault is calling. Witness testimony. Congressional hearing. The president whose election isn’t your fault demands you censor the opposition or else there will be new taxes, new investigations. Product review until 3am. Facebook is causing genocide in the Third World. Instagram is responsible for teen suicide. There’s another whistleblower with a book… Quoting @colossusmag Mark, by @colossusjeremy. This is a story about the head of history's largest nonterritorial empire, who nonetheless remains a prisoner of his rivals. Has he finally found a way out? The profile has been nearly a year in the making. Stern interviewed three dozen people, including Zuckerberg, his MM… Related
11 September
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
Architects oppose the kinds of buildings that most people like. (I’ve wondered if one could further corroborate this by using Flickr/Instagram or similar to investigate the building traits that correlate with photo frequency.) Quoting @SCP_Hughes Does the public prefer traditional architecture? Half a century of surveys find: https://t.co/SojOiJGEbV - Between 60 and 95 percent prefer traditional architecture; - This pattern holds across gender, class, race, nationality and political views; - More traditional densification schemes seem to at… 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.
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10 September
Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.
After being unavailable for far too long, The Post-Traumatic Growth Deck is back in stock & moving fast! If you already have a copy, tag me in a photo of the card resonating with you most right now! And if not, order yours today: Trauma Related
9 September
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
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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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In an era where validating image authenticity is turning into a real challenge, I think we have to commend Apple for trying to do something in this field.
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8 September
Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.
Finished third mowing of the summer. A small amount of weed obstruction is not a problem... In this photo it is already producing a kilowatt. Related
7 September
Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
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To my mind, if progressive policy hopes to engage with such voters at all - and it is open question whether it should - it must address not just the material realities of relative economic disadvantage, but above all the "outsider" credentials of the AfD.
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2 September
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Six and a half years. 150+ designs. 7.500+ stickers on laptops around the world. 💜 We're closing PYOD. Thank you for every order, every photo, every idea. If you go to our site, you can order the free thank-you pack. #stickers Related
1 September
Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
it's under appreciated how good photo editing is today thanks to AI: remove these people. demo using @reve app Related
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Dave Barry found out he won the Pulitzer about a minute before they announced it. First thing he had to do was tell his son they weren't going to Key West. There's a famous photo of the two of them hugging at the exact moment they said his name. The kid had just been promised a Related
31 August
Technology writer and podcaster; former Macworld editor-in-chief, writes Six Colors and hosts podcasts on Relay FM and The Incomparable.
On this day of all days, here’s my earliest photo of Tim Cook, and of course @Pschiller is there too! Plus some other guy. This is October 2008, in which Tim presented the new Mac releases! Related
26 August
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and Supercommunicators. Writes for The New Yorker.
You probably feel guilty or stressed whenever you experience intense frustration or anxiety while working on a tough project. But cognitive scientists found that deep worry is actually a powerful tool that forces your brain to see hidden solutions you normally miss. You can turn your worst stress into a breakthrough using the Creative Desperation framework. Here is the exact method: 🧵 Related
24 August
Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.
During the weekend I built a contextual search tool for a photo library with 42k images across 2.8k galleries. The results are amazing! Turns out the AI models that generate embedding vectors from images directly are BAD at capturing the image contents, so I had to first generate captions and then generate the embeddings for the captions instead. Total cost: $30 for both captions (gpt-5-mini) and embeddings (text-embedding-3-large with 3072 dimensions). OpenAI Related
18 August
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
17 August
Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Biology at Caltech, where he studies the neuroscience of emotion and social cognition.
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So rather than thinking of death as we normally do as the world loses you, the neuroscience perspective is the inverse which is you lose the world.
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16 August
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
12 August
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Mastodon 16% totality in Boston. No, I didn't get a photo. Go look. (With the eclipse glasses you saved from 2024. I can't be the only person with that kind of junk drawer...?) Related
Bluesky 16% totality in Boston. No, I didn't get a photo. Go look. (With the eclipse glasses you saved from 2024. I can't be the only person with that kind of junk drawer...?) Related
6 August
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.
2 August
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
31 July
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Dream Together is a little side project I've been dabbling with over the past few weeks. It's been a really fun journey learning about local ML and breath of fresh air to think about something different. The project started with me tinkering with local image diffusion models on my macbook. It was interesting enough for a crude website where a handful of contributors could enter a thought every hour, which my macbook would pick up and generate a photo from. Then I dove into audio, learning about all kinds of folk instruments and ML approaches to both generation and aesthetic judgement. Eventua… Related
30 July
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
21 July
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
data center road trip // day 4-5 the AI backlash is bipartisan & showing up in politics in a big way - Abdul El-Sayed brought Bernie and AOC to rally with him in Lansing. all 3 decried AI oligarchy (Bernie with the longest spiel) - in WI, DSA member Francesca Hong is leading the Dem governor’s primary. she hopes to win rural conservatives as the only candidate backing a data center moratorium - a canvasser for Will Lawrence in MI7 told me that 90% of the doors she knocked on Saturday named data centers as a top issue these are purple battleground states, yet pollsters are finding Dems and Rep… Quoting @jasminewsun I’m spending the next week driving around Wisconsin and Michigan to get a firsthand view of the data center buildout and backlash am visiting sites, talking to tons of people — tradespeople, activists, planners, residents — then writing up a story lmk what questions I should dig into! data centers Related
13 July
Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.
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Now, it can also make your memory worse because you're realizing I want to I'm taking this photo so I don't need to remember it later. And so, you could see it going both ways, but that selection process is important.
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and you found that these nuns, how they aged, some of them certainly when they passed away, their brains had these kind of hallmark signs of dementia, plaques and tangles, but behaviorally they were still high functioning. So, it's really interesting that the hardware shows what we see as dementia and specifically Alzheimer's disease, but their behavior uh was that of a fairly healthy cognitive person.
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9 July
Product discovery coach; wrote Continuous Discovery Habits and writes Product Talk.
6 July
Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com.
Absolutely! This majestic bridge withstood all the landslides and heavy boulders falling on it from the 3 massive mountains it sits under, including the one on the left in this photo. The missing link project is clearly made from thermocol parts because it was completely destroyed this morning. Quoting @thetrickytrade I agree. No infrastructure in the world can handle such unprecedented levels of rainfall. Except a bridge from 1830s. Related
25 June
Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses. Co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm and author of the book Marketing for Developers.
23 June
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
Mastodon Took a photo of Baker’s Island on the Whaler, used Ships Whistle inspired from lettering on the Martha’a Vineyard ferry along with Paint Factory inspired by lettering on a building in Gloucester Harbor (where WB was filmed). Synergy! Also? #widowsbay Related
Bluesky Took a photo of Baker’s Island on the Whaler, used Ships Whistle inspired from lettering on the Martha’a Vineyard ferry along with Paint Factory inspired by lettering on a building in Gloucester Harbor (where WB was filmed). Synergy! Also? #widowsbay Related
22 June
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
25 May
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
I still meet people convinced that AI coding tools will soon reach a point where code quality, design, and even architecture are "solved". So I ran a small ad-hoc experiment. I’ve been working on a CLI tool and let agents plan and implement a first functionally correct version. I provided strict instructions around testing strategy, workflows, and implementation constraints. But I deliberately removed the @codescene MCP and the safeguards I normally rely on. Unsurprisingly, the resulting code suffered from a ton of problems. It would have been a shaky foundation to continue building on. How s… MCP Related
14 May
Technology journalist; writes Understanding AI, after reporting at Ars Technica, Vox and the Washington Post.
16 April
Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance and Business Valuation as an adjunct professor at MDI Gurgaon. He writes the Fundoo Professor blog about investing, moats and mental models.
Proud to see an ex-student’s photo on the cover page of ET. For the right reasons. 😊 @jaycee77 Related
15 April
Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.
12 March
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
I have a private db of Japanese print sales and I used @claudeai to make a report analyzing this month's auctions: https://t.co/uwMCtbjQ17 identifying under-valued lots, rare prints, comparing prints across auctions. Normally VERY hard to get this guidance. Related
23 February
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
9 February
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
JL Goes International, and to ETFs…… Oh my! Photo by siamak poorjam on Unsplash Sometimes we do things that seem minor to us but somehow create a stir in others. So it seems with a couple of, to me, minor adjustments I recently made to the Collins portfolios. If…
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2 February
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
26 January
President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
MELANIA, the Movie, is a MUST WATCH. Get your tickets today — Selling out, FAST! Photo: Regine Mahaux Related
22 January
Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.
Speaking today at 10am EST/4pm EU about our Nature on String Theory and the Brain and the Lognormal Connectome. ...at the U of Cambridge Making connections- brains and other complex systems lecture, Sign up here to watch here: https://t.co/lxigtmZDjJ Photo by Peter Puklus Related
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 had some high hopes for this book, but I'm not sure I liked it that much.
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12 October 2025
Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com.
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is an Incredible image & photo editor. I switched to it completely from Photoshop about a year ago and haven’t looked back.
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is an Incredible image & photo editor. I switched to it completely from Photoshop about a year ago and haven’t looked back.
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28 September 2025
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.
14 May 2025
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
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Google Photos — preferred for photo management over Apple Photos.
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31 March 2025
Energy and decarbonisation analyst; publishes an annual chart deck on the state of the transition, and was chief content officer at BloombergNEF.
5 March 2025
Design engineer and illustrator; makes visual essays on programming, anthropology and what language models do to the way people write.
March 2025 Well, I've had a dramatic start to the year. Normally, the design agency I joined a short eight months ago, unexpectedly closed down in January. Despite running for a decade and working with almost every major tech comp…
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17 June 2024
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
3 January 2024
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.
3 December 2023
Theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, working on particle physics, extra dimensions and dark matter.
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That was originally one of the hopes of Large Hadron Collider. I’d say at this point, it would be very unlikely given what they’ve already accomplished, but there are these underground detectors, xenon detectors that look for dark matter coming in, and they are going to try to achieve a much stronger bound than exists today.
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1 September 2023
Designer, architect and scientist, who led the Mediated Matter group at MIT and founded OXMAN, a company that builds products in collaboration with living organisms.
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Because right now we are using drones to take photos of crops, of corn, that look bad. And when we take that photo, it's already too late.
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30 August 2023
Developer and designer publishing at pouria.dev; author of the open-source URL shortener Kutt.
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Affinity Photo 2, edit the photos I've taken with my camera.
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9 July 2023
Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.
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Affinity Suite is my go to for all my design needs. I use Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo.
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9 May 2023
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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Adobe Lightroom is the king of photo editing, but I sync my photo collection with Apple Photos.
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thesweetsetup.com
1 March 2023
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
6 February 2020
American backpacking guide, writer and endurance athlete who has hiked more than 30,000 miles; author of The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide and publisher of gear reviews and trip-planning tutorials at andrewskurka.com.
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My wife Amanda is the real reader in our house, and last month she came home from the library with Dreams of El Dorado: A history of the American West, by H. W. Brands. I moved quickly through its 480 pages (with an occasional photo), and thought it was one of my more enjoyable recent reads.
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20 August 2019
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
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I use Todoist to keep track of my todos. I really like the scheduled and recurring tasks features, lets me use Todoist for a lot of stuff that you might normally put in a calendar.
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adamwathan.me
13 April 2018
Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.
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