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18 September
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
Took the train from Portland to Seattle today and ended up sitting next to Joann, a wonderful older lady with five kids and a dozen grandkids. We spent the entire three and a half hours talking about family, health, food, travel, and a million other little/big things. My faith in humanity meter is struggling lately, but our conversation really raised it. Related
17 September
Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.
16 September
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
As much as I love traveling, I'm back in America now. Ready to lock back in. America Related
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
As I’ve explained here before, at this stage in my life, my main goal is to pass along the principles and templates I've learned with the hope that they can help others as much as they've helped me. One thing that has been incredibly valuable to me is learning that just because something hasn’t happened before in my lifetime doesn’t mean it won’t happen. So I needed to look not only at what the markets have been doing lately but to also study big events—like debt crises, internal political conflicts, and international wars—throughout history. For example, it was by studying the Great Depressi… wmi.edu.sg
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Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Handy little Mac app I came across lately to see (and kill) all the dev servers running on localhost from your menu bar! → Related
15 September
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
When playing games on niri I noticed some games don't lock your mouse cursor to your monitor. I didn't want to use Gamescope so I stumbled upon a way to do this natively in niri without needing any tools. This post provides a general purpose solution. nickjanetakis.com
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13 September
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
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.
If you haven't given Linux a go lately, try with agents. You can fix anything with a prompt now. Got a Dell XPS. Webcam wasn't working, told codex, it rebooted and now things work. Linux 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.
12 September
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
10 September
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
9 September
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
8 September
Pseudonymous reviewer who publishes measured, standardised flashlight and knife reviews at zeroair.org, including runtime, output and tint measurements.
2 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.
Not for sale Lately, I’ve been getting so many targeted ads when I open social media. Sometimes, I just take a little break from it all. But, guess what? You have landed on a post that is selling you nothing. Just a gentle offer of some visual bliss. Related
Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.
26 August
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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And maybe you won't get to 100% coverage, but this is the old joke about Microsoft Office. "I only use 5%." Yeah, well, we all use a different 5%. Well, what if we all just build our own 5%? What if I just took the functionality that I need and just did that? That is a completely different challenge and one agents are incredibly capable of doing right now, today, and I've done it a lot of times over.
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Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
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I also see people attacking major product categories now with performance-based pitches. Things like File Pilot or the Blick video editor, like things like this that have been coming out lately where it's like, oh, really performant software to try to take on uh incumbents in a space and they've been getting traction.
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25 August
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and Supercommunicators. Writes for The New Yorker.
There's no science behind the idea that it takes 21 days to build a habit. Some habits lock in within a single day. Others take months, no matter how disciplined you are. Here's what actually decides the timeline: Related
24 August
Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Been digging into my own angel investor metrics lately; I currently invest in about 2% of the companies I see. If you're raising, just know that a lot of this is a numbers game. Even the hot startups I talk to get a lot of `no` before hearing `yes`. startups Related
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Cool stuff I stumbled upon lately on the internet: https://t.co/wbWCvAzz8O - Letters of Love https://t.co/i8ajliOOwt - Deterministic geometric blobatars https://t.co/eK5LP1WYyE - Agent behavior https://t.co/WTGC9P1ZQK - Cool portfolio Related
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
22 August
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Two internet pages that has been low key crushing it for me lately is @modal and Cloudflare. So good. Especially impressed by Modal. Feels like the Linear/Stripe of infra (“just do what they do and you’ll be fine because they thought through every detail”) Related
19 August
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.
18 August
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Cool stuff I found on the internet lately: https://t.co/7GEFXLCKjz - Ride along with anything in the sky https://t.co/TjFvxyaSzB - Animated icons for React https://t.co/vmx6GxjRyZ - An interactive atlas of India https://t.co/bfhqMu2JRl - What is this UI element called? JavaScript Related
16 August
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
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Somewhat simple, but still great. I guess we’ll see a mediocre Hollywood adaptation (or a TV show perhaps) soon.
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14 August
Ruby and Rails core committer known online as "tenderlove"; maintains Nokogiri and works on Ruby performance.
Been reading a lot of GC books lately. They've got heaps of pointers! Related
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Some cool things I found on the internet lately: https://t.co/prSK4M9aWu - Beautiful UI for AI-native interfaces. https://t.co/HHiCJrYCsd - Premium Wallpapers For Your Phone. https://t.co/iDlbfUzU8t - Product photography for software https://t.co/QSLH3ofg2p - The idea machine Related
13 August
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
New Article: Recent Reading https://t.co/Wr0Ts9L3KK I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading lately, so I thought I’d share some of the books that have caught my attention. There’s a little bit of everything here, and several books I’d happily recommend. Related
11 August
Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
Bluesky “That’s how it is—we’re literate….But why do we lock ourselves into one mode? Why either/or? We aren’t binary. Why have we replaced oral text with written? Isn’t there room for both?” aworkinglibrary.com
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Mastodon “That’s how it is—we’re literate….But why do we lock ourselves into one mode? Why either/or? We aren’t binary. Why have we replaced oral text with written? Isn’t there room for both?” aworkinglibrary.com
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31 July
Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape, Slack and Palantir; writes as Rands at randsinrepose.com and wrote Managing Humans.
Bluesky I'm proud of the President when he remembers to turn off CAPS LOCK. #itsthelittlethings Related
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30 July
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
as software engineers most of us are sitting in an office chair all day we spend hours staring at a screen, not moving more then our fingers or wrists sometimes we lock in and it feels like there are only occasional windows to move if so, start simple. take a screen break and do: - a 5-min walk around your house - 25 push-ups - 25 jumping jacks anything to break the chain of not moving trust me, you'll thank me in a year Related
27 July
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
Bluesky I found my new favorite "launcher" utility for iOS: The new version of Lock Launcher *somehow* manages to launch apps without redirects AND already supports the new XL portrait widgets in iOS 27. My story: macstories.net
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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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my favorite “launcher” app for iOS is a utility called Lock Launcher, which I’ve been using on and off for the last couple of years.
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25 July
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
Lately, I've been running a local fork of the Android emulation frontend Cannoli, you can see the changes here: https://t.co/wCaJerqK3A I hope to get some some of these changes landed upstream, but in the meantime, it's so awesome to have a customized launcher that totally meets my niche needs like this. Thankful that the GPL exists to enable this type of work and delightful use of software. Related
23 July
Founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group; wrote Inspired, Empowered and Transformed on how product organisations work.
The AI Productivity Paradox We’ve been writing a lot lately about product teams that are clearly leveraging AI to deliver faster, yet their outcomes are not improving. Today, this phenomenon, known as the “AI Productivity Paradox,” has been recogn…
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Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
New Article: We Need Guidelines for Learning and AI https://t.co/d16V9iW0OU I've been thinking a lot about AI and learning lately. The technology is remarkable, but I've become convinced we need better habits for using it. In this article, I share the guidelines I've created. Related
30 June
Independent iOS developer and podcaster; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Analog(ue), and makes the apps Callsheet, MaskerAid and Peek-a-View.
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When writing code, I'm mostly in Xcode, often in concert with Prompt and, lately, Claude Code.
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When writing code, I'm mostly in Xcode, often in concert with Prompt and, lately, Claude Code.
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15 June
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
7 June
Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone at Apple, founder of Nest, and author of Build.
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What's proven is if you properly architect it and have co- cloud code go into certain sub segments or have cloud help you build the architecture, you modify, refine it, lock it in and say just work on these few things
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5 June
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
28 May
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.
We should be more tired than the model Lately, I’ve been feeling like I’m losing control over the code I write when I work with agentic code generation. When I finish an agentic session, I get all the outward signs of having written code, but non…
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26 May
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
👋 Will be speaking at React Nexus this year on something I've been really enjoying lately 🤫 Quoting @ReactNexus We’re super excited to announce that @_SreetamDas, @summy_dev, and @tapasadhikary will be speaking at React Nexus 2026! JavaScript Related
13 April
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.
Mechanical sympathy Weaver, seen from the Front, Vincent van Gogh, 1884 Something that’s been floating around in my head lately is the idea that I don’t know any truly good engineers who are also not good at at product design.…
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27 March
Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.
13 March
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
1 March
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
2 January
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
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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It's not neutral and very political, but it gave me a different perspective on how design serves people. Highly recommended.
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25 October 2025
Game designer; wrote A Theory of Fun for Game Design and worked on Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies.
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 if you have especially a B2B feature where you may have some lock in reverse trials can be super powerful. You just want to get people in there. You don't need to ask for their credit card because they're using your CRM or they're investing quite a lot of time in like building out, you know, material and content. And so by the time that window drops, you actually like feel, oh man, I probably should keep this and and start paying. I think for a lot of consumer products, it's a little bit harder for that to work. And so I've typically seen more just normal free trials be be the norm.
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24 September 2025
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
Cloudflare bankrolls fascists US politics has been pretty fascist lately. The state is filling up concentration camps, engaging in mass state violence against people on the basis of racialized traits, deporting them to random countries without any r…
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25 June 2025
American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.
25 February 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.
Wow, have you seen the stock market lately? And by lately, I mean the past several years or more. The value of the S&P 500 index of stocks, where most of us hopefully have a good chunk of our retirement savings stashed into index funds, is up about fifty seven pe…
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30 October 2024
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.
On spooky animals I’ve been thinking a lot about ghosts lately. No, not because it’s October. That sort of seasonal interest in ghosts is for amateurs, and your girlie is thinking about ghosts 24/7 365. I don’t get ready for spooky seaso…
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12 August 2024
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
14 July 2024
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
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Karabiner-Elements Keyboard customizer with Caps Lock enhancement
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23 August 2023
Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".
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