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21 September
Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.
War is erasing history *Ukrainian cathedrals, Gaza’s archives, Iranian squares — modern war is systematically erasing human history [in places which are bombarded].* Israel's bombardment of Gaza has destroyed many centuries-old building…
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20 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
18 September
Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.
Canadian cartoonist and writer: Dinosaur Comics, Marvel's The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and the choose-your-own-path books To Be or Not To Be and Romeo and/or Juliet.
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.
16 September
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
Thanks to Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, my first attempt at a blog is forever preserved on the web. As with most first drafts, it’s embarrassing! Here is an archive snapshot from May 2006 of “Tim Ferriss: The Human Experiment.” The domain name will probably give you a chuckle… Quoting @vaughnandy @tferriss It also seemed like a return to your roots. I remember finding your blog posts on Cubicle Escape Artist about supplements & lifting, before 4HWW launched. Related
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
I was trying to see if I could find one of my earliest uses of MrNugget but sadly this archive doesn't show the usernames: https://t.co/GoPnLfieUP Introduction to GNU screen, 22 years ago. Multiplexin' for two decades, brother. Quoting @thorstenball FAQ, answered. Related
9 September
Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.
Usenet-Rewind — new commercial archive with deep full-text search of 982M posts going back to 1981 Related
3 September
Writer and programmer; co-founder of the software studio Postlight and author of the Bloomberg Businessweek essay What Is Code?
A neat project at work: We built an archive for Lapham's Quarterly as part of its (gradual, ongoing) relaunch—full access if you subscribe. It's been nice to see and read it again. Ping if you find bugs. archive.laphamsquarterly.org (they relaunched temporarily at laphamsquarterly.substack.com). Related
1 September
Art critic, broadcaster and author; wrote on art for The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph and presents BBC art documentaries. Author of Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane.
1st of the month! - which means a new exclusive members' video is on the website, plus a new selection of archive broadcast content. Let me show you Kathleen Hale's Orlando.. andrewgrahamdixon.com
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31 August
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
x.com The latest issue of my newsletter is out! We've got a lovely quote, a fun practice coding question, a punny joke, my latest hobby deep dive, and mooore. Check out the archive and subscribe: cassidoo.co
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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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I keep rejected by Claude for the most benign things now Like it wouldn't download and install a 1990s game from archive(dot)org because of copyright
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28 August
Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.
The Internet Archive's Vintage AI collection — Worms, Alter Ego, MacJesus ProGold, Portal (1986), and many more Related
25 August
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.
16 August
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
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Words are tools to hide truth. I can’t say much about these recordings and books by Alan Watts. It wouldn’t be fair to do so.
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7 August
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. Summer stretches on here and I've got a weekend full of outdoor activities, many of them requiring outfits. I'm spending this afternoon in a frenzy of visible mending and I'd love to not also feel compelled to reply to your last-minute email. We'll all sweatily muddle forward. Image credit: Provincial Archives of Alberta, on Flickr Commons flickr.com
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14 July
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
7 July
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
29 June
Music critic of The New Yorker since 1996 and author of The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This and Wagnerism.
Personal note For thirty years, I’ve had the high honor of serving as the music critic of The New Yorker. My archive of writing contains nearly four hundred iterations of the column known as Musical Events, as well as eighty or so lo…
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29 May
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.
Congrats to Ardan on taking over the first floor of our old (but much loved) space in Galway City centre! @romerogamesltd moved to its new, larger office in Dockgate on Merchants Road in 2023 (reception pictured below). The old office had been used to store my archives. Quoting @galwayad As part of its continued growth as an organisation, the team at Ardán is relocating its headquarters from the CREW Hub on Wellpark Road into Galway city centre Related
29 April
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
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
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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But okay, they shouldn't actually be enacting these ideas. There is a queue of ideas and there's maybe an automated scientist that comes up with ideas based on all the archive papers and GitHub repos and it funnels ideas in or researchers can contribute ideas, but it's a single queue and there is workers that pull items and they try them out.
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14 January
Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.
24 July 2025
Cyborg anthropologist and UX designer; author of Calm Technology and co-founder of the geolocation startup Geoloqi.
6 November 2024
Interface designer and researcher, known for the talks Inventing on Principle and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable and for essays on dynamic representations of ideas. Founder of Dynamicland, where he is building a communal computer.
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Collected writings of one of the founders of computer science.
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worrydream.com
19 December 2023
Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.
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The secret pulse-beat of joy is what Jean-François Beauchemin explores in Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being
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12 September 2023
Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.
13 March 2023
Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.
1 June 2019
British military historian and former army officer; author of Stalingrad, Berlin: The Downfall 1945, D-Day and The Second World War.
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But Anna Reid's book goes far further because, with excellent research in archives which weren't available before, she is able to show how totally cynical Stalin's attitude was to Leningrad. Indeed it was a major factor in the appalling loss of life and suffering, which is very hard to appreciate.
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fivebooks.com
7 October 2014
Norwegian web pioneer who proposed Cascading Style Sheets in 1994 while at CERN, and was CTO of Opera Software. Also runs a small organic farm.
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I also use emacs a lot. I type this in emacs, and I read email in emacs (in vm, to be precise). I've used emacs since 1988 and I have email archives from back then.
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5 January 2014
Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.
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