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Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.

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  The best terminal multiplexer is the one nobody has to learn; needing to be learned at all is the first design failure.

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  I can't tell you the number of people over my career that have said "I tried learning tmux" First problem: the fact you have to "learn it" at all. The world's best multiplexer is the one you don't have to learn. It just works.

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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

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  Mathematics is entering a period of turbulence that will stress-test its implicit values and practices rather than its foundations of truth.

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  I believe that we are now entering a era of comparable turbulence in mathematics. This time, though, what is being stress-tested is not our foundational framework for mathematical truth, but rather the largely implicit framework of mathematical values and practices: what we consider a contribution to be, what we reward, what we regard as understood, and who - or what - we regard as having done the work.

  Mathematics in the age of AIarxiv.org

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.

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  The companies that already control the largest troves of real-world video data will be first to build successful world models.

  startups

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  Many startups are racing to create foundational world models, but I think the first ones to succeed will likely be the platforms in control of this data bank.

  Worldbuilding with Spatial Intelligencekk.org

Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.

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  Superlogical

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  Superlogical will begin by shipping a terminal multiplexer. I'm pouring my years of experience building a terminal and studying the potential and limitations of other multiplexers into something new, powerful, and, of course, fast.

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Climate scientist and energy systems analyst; writes The Climate Brink with Andrew Dessler and leads climate research at Stripe.

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  The US warming trend since 1970 is consistent across raw, adjusted, satellite, and surface temperature datasets

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  The overall US warming trend (around 0.5F per decade since 1970 in max, min, and mean temperatures) is robust in every dataset, raw or adjusted, satellite or surface.

  Hot days, cold thermometerstheclimatebrink.com

Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.

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  The IDE of the future has to be rethought from the ground up for agents, rather than being a text editor with an agents tab bolted on.

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  basically the idea is like the IDE of the future needs to be rethought from the ground up for agents. And it might not even be a like I don't know a lot of editors kind of started with the text field and bolted on an agents tab.

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Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.

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  Developer tools are consumer products, and the reason there are gaps to win is that programmers are horrible at consumer products and do not know it.

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  The the biggest advantage to in DevTools is the fact that everyone working at DevTools is a programmer and programmers are horrible at B2C products. They don't realize DevTools are B2C products.

  Building OpenCode with Dax Raadyoutube.com

Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  A lunar mass driver cannot pay for itself by cutting launch costs, because launch is already a small part of what an orbital computer costs.

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  At even $500/kg, launch cost is only 5% of the total satellite deployment cost, so a lunar mass driver is unlikely to drastically improve the economics of space-based AI, by reducing launch costs.

  How to build a lunar mass drivercaseyhandmer.wordpress.com

French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.

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  VS Code

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  VS Code is my favourite text editor so far.

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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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  Invisible Cities

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  I'm going to have to include Italo Calvino's Oulipian novel Invisible Cities (trans. by William Weaver), since it is a foundational text for me.

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works

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  In Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works, legendary cypherpunk Perry Metzger teams up with Penelope Spector and illustrator Jerel Dye for a tour-de-force young adult comic book that uses hilarious steampunk dinosaurs to demystify the most foundational building-blocks of computers. It's astounding

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Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.

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  Visual Studio Code

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  My primary code editor. Extensible, fast, and has excellent TypeScript support. The integrated terminal and Git features are fantastic.

  emanuelebartolesi.com

Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.

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  pnpm

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  Used to recommend yarn. now brew install pnpm as fast node package manager

  swyx.io

American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.

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  Homebrew

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  Homebrew — package manager; I track my setup in this Brewfile repo.

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Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.

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  tmux

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  Tmux: Terminal multiplexer.

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Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.

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  For an experienced programmer the bottleneck is usually not thinking but typing, getting what is already in your head into the editor fast enough.

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  Most of the time I'm not thinking, I'm programming. I know what I want to do, I want to go as fast as possible because I've been just doing it for so long and I'm so familiar with the general space that it becomes a huge problem for me. I cannot tell you how many times that I've been purely bottlenecked by the fact that I just can't type fast enough and I just need to get it out of my head onto the text editor.

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Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

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  Nix is worth switching your day-to-day package management to, over Homebrew.

  Nixdeveloper tools

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  I’m also still not sure how much I like nix – it’s very confusing! But it’s helped me compile some software that I was struggling to compile otherwise, and in general it seems to install things faster than homebrew.

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  I’ve mostly switched back to Homebrew, nix was interesting but overall I think it’s not worth the complexity for me

Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.

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  Brew

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  Brew the package manager for macOS

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Independent policy analyst on space and national security, formerly of the RAND Corporation, who writes on counterspace weapons and rules for keeping satellites safe.

From one piece Preventing a “Space Pearl Harbor”: Rep. Turner leads the charge 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The Pentagon has never said publicly which anti-satellite weapons it is preparing against, which means it may not know.

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  This raises public concerns that, at this late date, DoD might not have such a specification, whether classified or unclassified, even for its own internal use.

  thespacereview.com

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  A spacecraft built to service satellites is also a weapon, because the same robotic arm that refuels one can disable one.

  solarChina

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  If a Chinese spacecraft can dock with a friendly satellite to refuel, repair, or transport it, the same robotic arm can also disable a US satellite’s solar panels and antennas. Alternatively, China can use these spacecraft to tow satellites into locations where they can, at best, only sub-optimally perform intended duties such as early warning, surveillance, or geolocation.

  thespacereview.com

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  Dual-use robotic servicing spacecraft, not missiles or lasers, will be the anti-satellite weapon of choice.

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  Dual-use robotic spacecraft will soon become the anti-satellite weapon of choice for mounting this attack.

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  A plain text file and a basic editor are everything anyone needs in order to think and write well; the extra tools add nothing.

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  Plain text files and a basic text editor are enough. This is everything you need for great thinking and writing.

  Write plain text filessive.rs

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.

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  Descartes' Error

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  Another book I wanted to mention in this context is a fairly obvious choice, Antonio Damasio's Descartes' Error, which is a foundational book about the self, in particular because it reconnects emotion with rationality and the body.

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Founder and president of the Roots of Progress Institute; writes the history and philosophy of progress, after a career as a software engineering manager and founder.

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  Two centuries of progress were a trend with real causes rather than a fluke, and can continue far into the future.

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  A foundational conviction of this project is that progress is a trend with definite, substantive causes, and that it can continue far, far into the future.

  Progress: Fluke or trend?rootsofprogress.org

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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  ZOLEO Satellite Communicator

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  Here's a new one that's worth consideration: the ZOLEO Satellite Communicator ($200, 5.3 oz), which debuted in January. It's well priced, constructed, and engineered; and it offers a significantly improved messaging experience for both the owner and their contacts.

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Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  The Dialogues of Socrates

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  Socrates remains the greatest foundational influence on philosophy, and to understand his method, you have to read his dialogues. The rhetoric is brilliant, and at times, even hilarious.

  nateliason.com

Writer and education-technology critic; published Hack Education for a decade and wrote Teaching Machines.

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  Byword

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  For writing articles for my website, I compose in Byword, which is a Markdown text editor. (I like it because it syncs between my Apple devices.

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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.

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  NeoMutt

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  I use NeoMutt as my email client. It lets me comfortably compose all my mail in my favorite text editor, Vim.

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  Vim

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  I use NeoMutt as my email client. It lets me comfortably compose all my mail in my favorite text editor, Vim.

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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.

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  Micro

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  here's some notable software that I use daily. I also maintain an active list here. Fish Shell. Micro text editor. Toot Mastodon client. cmus audio player.

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  cmus

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  here's some notable software that I use daily. I also maintain an active list here. Fish Shell. Micro text editor. Toot Mastodon client. cmus audio player.

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German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.

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  Sublime Text 3

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  Many years ago I bought a license for Sublime Text 3 and have been using it ever since. I don't use any IDEs, just a text editor.

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Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.

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  mutt

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  My text editor is vim. My IRC client is WeeChat and my email client is mutt.

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  WeeChat

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  My text editor is vim. My IRC client is WeeChat and my email client is mutt.

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Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.

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  Building powerful developer tools such as compilers, interpreters, and query languages requires knowledge of parsing.

  developer tools

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  What I know and what I'm sure about is that without knowledge of parsing you won't be able to build tools like these.

  Higher Value Toolsthorstenball.com

Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.

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  Notepad++

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  If I need a text editor, I use Notepad++. Occasionally, I use Excel.

  usesthis.com

Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.

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  Atom

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  I write code in Atom, the text editor we've been working on for six years at GitHub. It's based on Chromium, so to customize it you can inspect it just like any other web element.

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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

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  Smultron

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  On my Macs, I use Smultron as a text editor when I am not in a bash shell, despite the fact that it is buggy.

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