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20 September
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
Another bug with iOS 27.1: when your app launches in a partially folded state, the view’s traitCollection has a compact horizontal size class. If you close the Duo, and then open it partially, the horizontal size class is regular. This can lead to weird layouts when you launch an app in the partially folded state: only workaround is to close/open device again. Weirdly, auto layout constraints in a storyboard aren’t affected by this. It’s something in the UIViewController transition methods. Related
Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
How deep is Tulainyo Lake? Regular readers may recall that I put a visit to Tulainyo Lake on my bucket list a few years ago. Last week I did it. Impossibly remote, otherworldly beauty, and an enduring mystery. Just how deep was this lake? Wikiped…
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19 September
American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
If it's a signed first edition it's not entirely out of line, but otherwise you can just come to one of my signing events and I'll sign your copy for free, or for the holiday season call my local bookstore and order a copy there and I'll sign/personalize it and then they'll ship it off. Quoting @msudogsrule.bsky.social Hey @scalzi.com … seems a bit steep? Related
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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18 September
Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
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Keep broadcasting the dipshit things they say. Warn regular people of the rot on the left.
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17 September
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.
Mastodon This is fun: Red Bull took over one of the karting tracks at Silverstone (home of the British Grand Prix), put 100 regular folks in karts, positioned four-time F1 champ Max Verstappen at the back of the pack, and gave him 75 minutes to pass everyone. kottke.org
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Bluesky This is fun: Red Bull took over one of the karting tracks at Silverstone (home of the British Grand Prix), put 100 regular folks in karts, positioned four-time F1 champ Max Verstappen at the back of the pack, and gave him 75 minutes to pass everyone. kottke.org
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Blog Max Verstappen vs. 100 Normies in Go-Karts This is fun: Red Bull took over one of the karting tracks at Silverstone (home of the British Grand Prix), put 100 regular folks in karts, positioned four-time F1 champ Max Verstappen at the back of the pack, and gave h…
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Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.
16 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.
nobody should patronize those who newly have opinions about third party evaluators. non-experts forming opinions fast is part of the american tradition. the constitution itself was, in a very important sense, vibe coded by 20 somethings with concepts of a plan. but newbies being fleeced is also part of the american tradition. “caveat emptor” is a provision of a contract signed by an adult, not some god-given right to be treated as something other than a little child. you will be treated as a child no matter what. you are the buyer. it is your job to beware. America Related
15 September
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Excellent free zine about overcoming voting barriers in the US "Plenty of people hit a wall when they try to vote. Their name is missing from the voter list. The mail ballot never showed up. The signature on the envelope doesn't match. Someone at the door tells them they can't. None of that happens by chance. This guide covers the barriers that come up most often, and what to do about each one. English and Spanish versions are the same zine" From @monteiro and friends howtovote.tips
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Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
7 Quotes on Writing I hope you enjoy the following gems as much as I have… “Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.” — Kurt Vonnegut “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” — Ray Bradbury “Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” — Gustave Flaubert “The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.” — Flannery O’Connor “A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable… Related
Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
After being bounced back and forth multiple times between regular Apple support and Apple Developer support, both claiming that this is the other party's problem to solve, I am now looking for anyone at Apple who can put me in touch with the folks that control the system that "locks" Apple Accounts for security reasons. The Apple Account locking system is a thing that exists! Someone controls/manages it! Please let me talk to them! See this thread for context: Related
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Added a new runway feature to signed.com to sort which of my portfolio companies are facing cash crunches. (As a side note, always fascinated by startups who run out of cash and haven't talked to their investors about it. That's what they're there for, to help!) startups Related
14 September
American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.
I'll be in NYC on Wednesday, 9/16, to talk about THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON with @alexshvartsman.bsky.social at the Asia Society. Come see us and get your signed book! asiasociety.org
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Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
I'm not saying replacing Steam is trivial but I am saying that a version of steam where I am not signed out of the website after 22 seconds would have a chance. Related
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
this thing was widely reported as “the end of programming” in 1981 https://t.co/j0cok5NZKf right before that, in 1960s, people thought COBOL would allow everyone to build whatever software they wanted and there’s no need for programmers now the same people in the same bubble think agents will finally end it, because they spent a weekend and got impressed by how quickly the agent could produce a toy. now they think that’s how everyone wants to spend their weekends open your eyes - most regular humans don’t even want to talk to an agent Related
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.
Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
emulate v0.11.2 is out Updates across six emulators: GitHub, Google, Resend, AWS S3, Slack, Microsoft GitHub → Raw Contents and README responses → Seed org members and admins → Checks handle branch and tag names with slashes → Org installation writes authenticate as the App bot Google → Calendar v3 discovery endpoint → RS256-signed ID tokens and JWKS for OIDC verification Resend → Idempotency keys for individual and batch sends, so retries don't create duplicate emails or webhooks AWS S3 → Preserve binary payloads on upload, copy, and download Slack → Truncate messages at 40,000 characters, w… Google Related
13 September
Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.
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.
11 September
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
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9 September
American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.
Thank you to @fondalee.bsky.social, @harvardbookstore.bsky.social, and everyone who came to celebrate the launch of The Passing of the Dragon with me! It was an unforgettable night. A limited number of signed copies are available at the Harvard Book Store for anyone who couldn’t make it. Related
8 September
Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.
“And I'm getting really sick of having to re-evaluate this stuff every two months... TBH a "pause" might be nice for that reason alone” co-signed Quoting @KentonVarda Had both Fable 5.1 and Astra write a project plan. Then had new instances of Fable and Astra compare plans and choose the better plan. Both chose Fable's plan. The project was to build a benchmark for a workerd feature I'm working on. Both agreed that Astra's plan was over-engineered. It spec'd out… Related
5 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.
Here's some crazy geometry in 4, 5 and 6 dimensions: The 4-demicube has 8 vertices. It lives in 4 dimensions. You get it from a 4-dimensional cube - which has 16 vertices - by keeping every other vertex, throwing away half. That leaves 8. What are its top-dimensional faces, aka 'facets'? Surprise: there's only one kind! All of them are regular tetrahedra. In higher dimensions the demicube has two kinds of facet - one from the cube's corners, one from the cube's facets. But in 4 dimensions the two kinds happen to be the same shape: the tetrahedron! That's why the 4-demicube is especially symme… Related
3 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.
Signed up! Let’s build a huge fleet. Put me in coach! Quoting @SawyerMerritt Tesla has introduced a new form that you can fill out if you are interested in purchasing a fleet of Cybercabs: Form: Related
1 September
Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/117196097301277170 I eventually got back in by changing my password from a Mac that was still signed into this Apple ID, but that revoked all my app-specific passwords, which was a giant pain. …and now I'm locked out again. Related
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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22 August
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).
A couple of days ago, I did a quick explainer on Claude’s new watermarking process and implementation. Since it’s such a popular topic and sparked such a lively discussion, I thought it might be interesting to go into a bit more detail when explaining how it works. So, instead of the usual text article, I recorded a little lecture on the topic (to change it up a bit from my usual articles). It ended up a bit longer than intended, but I hope it clarifies a lot of things: - Sampling the next token in an LLM and pseudorandom number generators - How watermarking relates to the regular LLM samplin… LLMs Anthropic Related
21 August
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Had a lovely time talking with Marcia Dawood about angel investing, building Signed, investing in sports, and how AI can help unlock all three of those. Yes, I used `unlock`. That's how you know it's business-oriented™. Full episode is on YouTube: youtube.com
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20 August
Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
Mastodon Semi-regular reminder that my posts do not originate in the likely place that you are reading them. I wrote about why I keep my distance here: aworkinglibrary.com
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19 August
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Bluesky imagine: running an agent which was solely trained on the hardest problem remaining in computer science: staying signed in to any anthropic service for longer than a few days Anthropic Related
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15 August
Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
14 August
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
12 August
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.
Here's my conversation with Khabib Nurmagomedov (@TeamKhabib), one of the greatest fighters of all time. It was truly an honor to get to train with him, to have this deep conversation, and to get to know him over the past few months. We did this conversation entirely in Russian. It's translated and dubbed into English. Both language audio tracks and subtitles are available on YouTube. Here on X, I'm posting the English & Russian language versions as seperate videos. The translation & dubbing was a huge amount of work (which I deeply care about) with humans & AI collaborating. Thanks to the am… Russia Related
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
10 August
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.
6 August
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.
This industry group is working on an industry standard for how to report AI security incidents. This will drive consistency and transparency and is the safest path forward. Despite 120 members, the large LLM corporations have to-date not signed on. Drives further concern that they are using "breaches" as marketing events - vs wanting to get to true resolution. techcrunch.com
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This industry group is working on an industry standard for how to report AI security incidents. This will drive consistency and transparency and is the safest path forward. Despite 120 members, the large LLM corporations have to-date not signed on. Drives further concern that they are using "breaches" as marketing events - vs wanting to get to true resolution. techcrunch.com
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3 August
Polyglot; founded Fluent in 3 Months and argues for speaking from day one rather than waiting until you are ready.
1 August
Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.
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A similar fate befell various versions of the Bugout and the Para3 (which is still, to this day, the most overrated knife on the market)
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29 July
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Logic for Programmers is Now Available I am delighted to announce that my book, Logic for Programmers, is now available! You can check out the release site here or go directly to buy the ebook or print versions. If you bought any of the early access versions…
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28 July
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
"Make the strongest possible case that my worst investment was actually my best one, and that I'm the only person who can see it." Been having a lot of fun with our new MCP server in Signed: signed.com
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21 July
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.
I am pleased to announce that a memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Republic of Kazakhstan and Network School. Our new campus will become a haven for global techno-optimism, with expedited visas, streamlined redomiciliation, and active recruitment of talent. Related
20 July
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.
8 July
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
It is always nice to support @Docker, a company I am working with just signed up for Docker Desktop licenses to leverage some of Docker's offerings. Without saying too much, it is a double digit license count! 🐳 Related
30 June
Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.
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Research shows that children are far better able to sit still, focus, and learn when they've had the exercise, sunlight, freedom, and fun of recess. The same is true for adults.
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29 June
Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.
27 June
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).
15 June
Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.
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Using Herd for local development is a no-brainer. In my experience it's made it much easier to manage my sites and local php and node versions, plus it runs each site much faster.
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14 June
Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.
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And I like to say we we don't we haven't earned the right to innovate on the camera until we are the world's leading PhD on the best mobile cameras that already exist.
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6 June
Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.
20 May
Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.
11 May
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
Sell the Truth Hi, you’re listening to the Naval Podcast. This is his regular co-host, Nivi. There are only two skills you have to have in life: How to build and how to sell. Today we’re going to talk about the sales side. Naval is a…
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10 May
Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible, and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, who advises companies on corporate governance and mission protection.
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did you know that according to the legal documents you yourself signed, your company's literal charter that you have right now, and this is not some hypothetical future thing, you've already put in motion, a rule that says you have a fiduciary duty to say yes in this situation.
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4 May
Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.
28 April
Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.
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.
20 March
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
Signed, the guy who personally donated $1M to Donald Trump. Eid Mubarak. Quoting @tim_cook To everyone around the world marking the end of Ramadan, wishing you a blessed Eid al-Fitr with friends and family. Eid Mubarak! Related
18 March
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
Just posted @marsedit 5.4 with native macOS Versions support, Share Extension improvements, and a bunch of bug fixes. redsweater.com
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13 March
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
New Book: The Stolguard Incident My new sci fi thriller, The Stolguard Incident, is now available! It can be purchased in print, ebook, or audio versions on Amazon here. You can also find the print version on Barnes & Noble here, or you may be able to…
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16 February
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
25 January
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Hey friends, the baby that I made Baby Smash for is going to turn 21 this year. So I updated with it an all new website, installer, new .net 10 code base, and code signed executable. Please test it. Code on Github babysmash.com
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24 January
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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For travel, Manta Sleep eye mask — they have hot and cold versions which I love.
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20 January
American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.
This is supposed to be a dig against Linux, but it's actually why Linux is so great. There are so many different versions, all of which benefit from work on the kernel, software that runs on it, etc., but users can have the experience they want. I run Arch with Hyprland, but I'd never suggest that's the best for the average consumer. And if Arch or Hyprland become crappy in some way (like Windows has done...), I can switch to something else without losing my software, files, etc. This is also one of the reasons why Android is so much better than iOS. I can have a big folding phone (eventually… Quoting @eevblog Welcome to Linux. Linux Related
11 January
Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".
14 December 2025
Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
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We now have two custom IKEA storage cabinets in our house (one in our bedroom and one in our living room). For both, we chose to have basket drawers on the bottom, one regular drawer in the middle, and shelves above that—the perfect setup for clothes and home goods IMO.
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9 December 2025
Vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Group, the advertising agency; author of Alchemy (2019) and the Wiki Man columnist at The Spectator.
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the dorman was doing multiple things, many of which were human and kind of tacit. Security would be one. You know, there are no vagrants to sleep in the doorway, hailing taxis, dealing with luggage, recognizing regular guests, providing status to the hotel. There are loads and loads of value creation components to that dorman which aren't captured in the open the door definition.
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21 November 2025
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
21 October 2025
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.
Solving regex crosswords with Z3 For a while now, I’ve been fascinated by Z3 and by SMT solving more broadly. While on pat leave recently, I was reminded of the existence of regular-expression crossword puzzles, and allowed myself to get nerdsnip…
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21 August 2025
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
UITabAccessory Backward Compatibility The addition of UITabAccessory in iOS 26 is welcome. It does, however, create a problem as far as backward compatibility is concerned. How do you present the new accessory view on older versions of iOS? This backward co…
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5 May 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.
30 April 2025
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
11 April 2025
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
23 January 2025
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.
7 July 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.
26 January 2024
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.
I am slowly trying to figure out Nix/NixOS. I just realized something I'm very confused by: Is it really the case “pinning’ in NixOS prototypically means “pinning a single version of the entire package repository, and then pulling in whatever versions it contains”? I mean, "it's all just code" and it seems to be *possible* to mix and match via `fetchTarball`. But is pinning the universe as-a-unit really the normal pattern? Nix Related
8 December 2023
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.
I got nerdsniped much harder than intended by Advent of Code and so here's a writeup of how to process a 20,000 element list in C++ template metaprogramming without blowing your compiler's stack, and also about manually compiling a regular expression into a compile-time state machine. Sorry but also not sorry: blog.nelhage.com
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1 December 2022
Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.
Hi @MTA this UX is misleading. The turnstile didn’t take @OMNY_Info but *did* allow entry via regular MetroCard. “NO ENTRY” is wrong. Related
23 May 2022
Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.
10 September 2021
Psychotherapist who trained with Jeffrey Young from 1989 and founded The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and the Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. Wrote Disarming the Narcissist.
11 August 2021
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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Sedgewick was more successful in developing his characters, and I also appreciated that he took regular tangents into other related and interesting matters like the Leadville mining boom, the growth of Los Angeles, and the business maneuvers of other railroad barons like Jay Gould and Collis Huntington.
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29 July 2021
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
640 Pages in 15 Months My book Crafting Interpreters on programming languages is done. OK, OK. I know I said it was done like fifteen months ago. But now it’s really done. And by that I mean, the print, e-book and PDF versions are done.…
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22 December 2020
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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Regular Expressions are hard and I'm not very smart. NimbleText lets me do crazy stuff with large amounts of text without it hurting so much.
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hanselman.com
4 December 2020
Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites.
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For communication, I use Slack for work and community text chat, Talky for video calls, DropBox Paper for writing, Trello for task management, and regular old texts and phone calls for chatting with family.
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usesthis.com
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For communication, I use Slack for work and community text chat, Talky for video calls, DropBox Paper for writing, Trello for task management, and regular old texts and phone calls for chatting with family.
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usesthis.com
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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For my static sites (like this one), I use Netlify. It is probably my favorite app that I interact with on a regular basis. The UI is beautiful, the experience is awesome, and the app is insanely fast.
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adamwathan.me
28 May 2019
Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.
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Scott Galloway, The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning: Galloway should be familiar to readers as both the brand strategy professor at NYU Stern School of Business, a regular guest on Masters in Business, and as the author of The Four. He usually writes about technology and business, but concern with his students’ life issues led to this 10 minute YouTube video that garnered nearly 2 million views. That became this lovely short book which is likely to be a graduation and holiday gift for years to come.
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ritholtz.com
28 October 2018
Former options market maker who writes Moontower, a newsletter on trading, volatility, decision-making and how to think about risk outside markets too.
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Regular Rotation Investing Focused Interviews The Meb Faber Show Master in Business with Barry Ritholz Capital Allocators with Ted Seides Bloomberg’s Odd Lots with Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal
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moontowermeta.com
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Regular Rotation Investing Focused Interviews The Meb Faber Show Master in Business with Barry Ritholz Capital Allocators with Ted Seides Bloomberg’s Odd Lots with Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal
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moontowermeta.com
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Regular Rotation Investing Focused Interviews The Meb Faber Show Master in Business with Barry Ritholz Capital Allocators with Ted Seides Bloomberg’s Odd Lots with Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal
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Regular Rotation Investing Focused Interviews The Meb Faber Show Master in Business with Barry Ritholz Capital Allocators with Ted Seides Bloomberg’s Odd Lots with Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal
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moontowermeta.com
22 August 2018
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
5 June 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.
24 February 2018
Alignment researcher; developed reinforcement learning from human feedback at OpenAI, founded the Alignment Research Center, and now works at the US AI Safety Institute.
26 July 2017
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
From one piece
Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era
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When a website blocks the pasting of passwords in an attempt to improve security, they force some users to weaken their passwords to the point where they're dumbed down to easily typed versions.
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troyhunt.com
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If you're working in an environment that mandates regular password changes, you're very likely doing the same thing because it's an easy human control to deal with a technology requirement that's seen as an impediment.
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troyhunt.com
22 June 2017
Game designer and programmer, co-founder of id Software and co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. Now runs Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.
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I use a ton of software. Here's a list: Xcode, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Sublime Text, Corona SDK, Unity, Final Cut Pro, Versions, Perforce, VMWare Fusion, Messages, REAPER, Transmit, Coda, Dropbox, Skype, Dashlane, Slack, Terminal, Assembla, Airmail, Spark Mail, Google Docs, Pixelmator, Pixen, TexturePacker, Particle Designer, Tiled, iTunes + Music + Match, Screenium, Steam, Twitter, Facebook.
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usesthis.com
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I use a ton of software. Here's a list: Xcode, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Sublime Text, Corona SDK, Unity, Final Cut Pro, Versions, Perforce, VMWare Fusion, Messages, REAPER, Transmit, Coda, Dropbox, Skype, Dashlane, Slack, Terminal, Assembla, Airmail, Spark Mail, Google Docs, Pixelmator, Pixen, TexturePacker, Particle Designer, Tiled, iTunes + Music + Match, Screenium, Steam, Twitter, Facebook.
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usesthis.com
14 February 2017
Artist and writer based in Oakland, California; author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time, and a longtime teacher of digital art.
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Lastly, I want to give a shout out to my very satisfying Alvin Draf-Tec 0.5mm mechanical pencil, which I use with a regular black spiral bound notebook.
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usesthis.com
9 June 2016
Full professor of computer science at PUC-Rio in Rio de Janeiro and the lead architect of the Lua programming language, which he has worked on since 1993. Author of Programming in Lua.
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I run Ubuntu on both machines, sticking with the LTS versions.
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usesthis.com
9 July 2015
Mathemusician and video maker known for the Doodling in Math Class series; directed the eleVR virtual reality research group at the Communications Design Group.
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For regular (non VR) filming, I mostly use a Sony HDR-PJ790 Handycam.
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usesthis.com
13 May 2014
Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.
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