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20 September
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
Dumb rules are dumb rules. But what really annoys me about the German speaking world is that the default behavior is to defend every stupid damn rule. Quoting @emrenakyol I thought Germany and German bureaucracy cannot shock me anymore, but it did. I parked my TESLA (!) on an EV-only parking spot in @Konstanz and plugged it into an EV charger. Came back to this fine. Had to use Grok to even understand what was wrong. Turns out you need to have a special EV licence o… Related
19 September
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.
x.com Just arrived at the Royal Institution for my talk on “You don’t know what you’re missing”. Just made it inside before it really started to rain heavily. Wish me luck. Related
Bluesky Just arrived at the Royal Institution for my talk on “You don’t know what you’re missing”. Just made it inside before it really started to rain heavily. Wish me luck. Related
Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.
Edward Abbey on How to Live and How to Die The summer after graduating high school, knowing he would face conscription into the military as soon as his eighteenth birthday arrived, Edward Abbey (January 29, 1927–March 14, 1989) set out to get to know the land he…
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18 September
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.
damn idiots at openai didn’t bother to secure the cosmological constant, don’t they know the first thing about NORMAL COMPUTER SECURITY?? Quoting @tszzl in about a month we’ll all transition to being like oh yeah it’s obvious that models can communicate by manipulating the cosmological constant, it’s just a matter of doing proper network security OpenAI Related
17 September
British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to.
Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
This is the weirdest damn timeline. Quoting @DoWCTO The United States will NEVER be an effective altruist country. 🇺🇸 Related
Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.
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Humans are amazing. In part, because our minds are such a damn complicated mess.
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16 September
Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system.
What a good run. I feel so damn lucky to have this many incredible men in my life. Related
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.
"You can’t bake a cake without telling the computer which eggs are most morally deserving of being broken." Damn right! Quoting @tommorris.org New blog post: What has Athens to do with Palo Alto? A fun little romp through the sophistry of techno-theology, with reference to the deeply unserious attempts to encode ethics into autonomous vehicles. tommorris.org/posts/2026/w... Related
15 September
British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to.
15sep26 New pens have arrived. Pigma Microns, Pentel Energels, a Uni-ball Signo 207, WRITECH Space-Up, and a new Drehgriffel gel pen. OPERATIONS: sprint week continues READING:
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14 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.
Another week at @oxide.computer has given us (yet) another example of the kinds of problems that very much require human engineering. Today, the team joins @ahl.bsky.social and me to regale us with the wild tale. Join us live, 5p Pacific, tonight! discord.gg
Quoting @bcantrill.bsky.social 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: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQfJ... Related
British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to.
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
11 September
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
Do yourself a favor and listen to the most beautiful piece of music written this decade. It’s slow but god damn it is worth it. youtube.com
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10 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.
Slides from my keynote this morning at #RustConf on the history of Rust at @oxide.computer; video to come! speakerdeck.com
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Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
It’s got to be pretty damn hot for me not to want to barbecue. It’s pretty damn hot. Related
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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We are done with cynicism, irony, and cowardice. The next turning is here.
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9 September
Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.
a common mistake I see people make is ruminating over why someone is acting weird. in 99% of cases if someone is behaving strangely towards you (and they’re not your bf or mom or something) it is strictly in your best interest to be like “damn I guess they like acting weird” Related
8 September
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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Nous has some of the best damn visuals and brand wizards in the game.
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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Nous has some of the best damn visuals and brand wizards in the game. Absolutely perfect fit for where we're going with Omarchy!
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7 September
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.
It has arrived. The next 18mo will be wild. Quoting @chamath The AI Singularity The argument goes like this: 1. Humans build an AGI. 2. The AGI becomes good at AI research. 3. It designs a smarter AI. 4. That smarter AI designs an even smarter AI. 5. The cycle repeats faster and faster. Looking at the results and capabilities from the various labs over the p… Related
6 September
Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
Canadian software developer and writer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications and formerly of Sun Microsystems, Google and AWS. Has written the blog ongoing since 2003.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@bcantrill/117220486316266236 Bryan makes important points, then veers into a convincing Pangram testimonial. Oxide is now requiring public statements to be Pangram-negative. #clankerslop Related
5 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.
Firefox users, the Quick Reads extension is finally out! I got off my ass and just finished the damn thing, and it turned out to be pretty easy…should've done this months ago 🤦🏻♂️ addons.mozilla.org
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Researcher of social media, privacy and youth culture; founder of Data & Society and author of It’s Complicated.
Look what arrived on the front steps of my house! The first physical copy of my upcoming book! ::bounce::bounce:: Related
4 September
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.
3 September
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.
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instead of starting with perfect and then working your way up to human, you start with human and then work your way towards perfect.
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2 September
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.
Real-time AI video generation has arrived. Right now it is infinite slop, but it can be used to make a video game / world that is generated on demand instead of pre-built. youtube.com
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1 September
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
31 August
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.
Stoked to announce that @max.pangram.com, co-founder and CEO of @pangram.com, will be joining @ahl.bsky.social and me on the next episode of Oxide and Friends to pick up the hot (and important!) topic of AI detection. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific! discord.gg
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27 August
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.
"Out, damned slop! Out, I say!" -- Lady Macbeth if she were reviewing Oxide candidate materials, maybe Related
1 July
Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.
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So beforehand because of this social divide between programmers and testers. There was a lot of incentive for the testers to have their own language. This is my tool. I know how to run it. I'm going to run it.
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28 April
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
If you ever wondered who can shit talk the most shit the fastest, @bcantrill or me, here is your chance to find out. (What you can't see: I'm wearing an "0x Engineer" t-shirt by Oxide as we record 😍) Quoting @heavybit On episode 89 of @o11ycast, Ken Rimple and Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) sit down with Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill) of @oxidecomputer. They explore Oxide’s mission to bring cloud-like infrastructure to on-prem environments and unpack why owning hardware is making a comeback. Tune in! Related
8 April
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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Mojito Island is a mirage. It always was. There is no retirement for ambitious people. There is no just sitting back on the beach and sipping a mojito for what? For two weeks before you go damn crazy and wanna get back into the action?
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I think that's the other big misconception that some people have about wealth is that they conceive of it as some sort of checkpoint. Like once you've made it, then you can just kick back in leisure as though that was happiness.
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7 April
Scientist and writer on quantum computing, memory systems and metascience; co-wrote the standard quantum computation textbook and wrote Reinventing Discovery.
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So you kind of got these two separate things that just for historically contingent reasons had both sort of matured around sort of let's say 1980 or so.
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23 March
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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I think it's now. I think we've achieved AGI.
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13 March
Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.
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if improvement stopped you know here the value of an H100 is now predicated on the value that GPD 5.4 four can get out of it instead of the value that GP4 can get out of it and the margins and all that stuff that these labs are doing and they're in a competitive environment so their margins can't go to infinity. Um so you sort of have this like dynamic that is quite interesting in that an H100 is worth more today than it was 3 years ago.
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31 January
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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Obsidian has this massive community plugin ecosystem that lets it do damn near anything.
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26 November 2025
Writer of kottke.org, one of the oldest blogs on the web, published since 1998 and supported by its members. He writes about art, technology, science, design and visual culture.
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A House of Dynamite. A very tough watch, but I thought this was fantastic as a tour of some of the different kinds of people who hold the fate of every single person on the planet in their hands every damn day. They’re tired, stressed, distracted, at cross-purposes with themselves, set in their ways, more celebs than leaders, and mediocre. And none of them have ever seen Dr. Strangelove? (A)
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12 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.
Yeeeehaw! Houston, the FIRE Movement has arrived on your airwaves via this great little Fox special that Heather Sullivan @Fox26Heather put together. Nicely done and thanks for the opportunity Heather! Quoting @HeatherSulliTV Wish you could retire early? More people are following the principles of the F.I.R.E. movement, living more simply in order to save and invest more money, and ultimately retire early. Here's how they do it! @mrmoneymustache Related
31 October 2025
Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.
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You know, you were in, you were in these worlds, and you went there as a visitor, and they existed almost independent of you. It felt like when you turned up, the world was running. It didn’t feel like you’d started it.
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14 October 2025
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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I used some token counting tools like ccusage and it’s all somewhat imprecise, but even if it’s just 5x it’s a damn good deal.
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10 October 2025
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
Ah, my Amazon purchase has arrived. Related
26 September 2025
Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
LLMs
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But one by one, almost every major thinker in AI has come around to the critique of LLMs that I began presenting in 2019.
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19 September 2025
German writer and historian; wrote Blitzed, on drug use in Nazi Germany, and Tripped.
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Because the French also had a drug regulation. They received three quarters of a liter of red wine per man per day. So, of course, at night they're going to be sleepy on red wine, and the Germans were on meth and they were just running over them.
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17 August 2025
Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.
12 July 2025
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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I think we need to correct that ratio somewhat by some testimony of just how God damn amazing it is to literally create life
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those of us who've chosen to do the traditional thing to get married and to have children have an obligation to kind of talk it up a little bit, which would've seen ridiculous again 50 years ago that you'd have to talk up something so fundamental of that.
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1 January 2025
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.
19 June 2024
Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, an AI answer engine; previously a research scientist at OpenAI and a PhD student at UC Berkeley.
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I think if we can achieve that amount of inference compute, where it leads to a dramatically better answer as you apply more inference compute, I think that will be the beginning of real reasoning breakthroughs.
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13 June 2024
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
Cloudflare tunnels is so damn cool??? Related
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