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18 September
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
17 September
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
The camera feature in the @Gemini_Notebook mobile app is so transformative for on-the-go research. I was up in the Sierras working on a new project, and I just took photos of everything, like this museum display. Then I asked for a detailed report of all the info in the image. The text below is what I got back. (I fact-checked it myself and it was 99% accurate -- and some of the text it transcribed is so blurry in the image that it was hard for me to read it.) Next step is to generate documents like this for all the photos I took, and then ask Notebook to highlight all the information that ad… Google Related
16 September
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.
Hey look, I've now got an official account for promotional stuff! It's all comics, all the time, so you can follow it to get the latest. I will sometimes RT stuff here too, but this is where all the REAL info is, without all the "I just ate 11 hot dogs for $11" distractions!! Quoting @ryannorthupdates.bsky.social Hey everyone, this is the official account for promoting new and collected stories by @ryannorth.ca! Follow us here to stay up to date on any Final Order Cut-Offs, release day threads, and upcoming appearances! Related
14 September
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
Remembrance of Websites Past 2000 was the peak year for Adobe’s website. It was a content site filled with creative how-to articles, opinion pieces, and artist interviews where you could also, if you wished, buy or get info on Adobe products. Now t…
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10 September
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.
want to hear an interesting strategy story between meta and apple? 10 years ago i was at meta, and worked on a lot of product features that had to ship to iOS, and they all had to go through a painful apple review where anything could get cut apple back then developed a clear strategy where they used “privacy” as the angle to gain user trust and win against competition a clear example was the “ask app not to track” dialog which controls ads targeting - they made every 3p app go through that scary dialog which heavily implies to the user that they should obviously click “do not track” you migh… Related
9 September
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
Latest little 3D printing life hack: print drafts of new models in white PLA. Easy to scribe, mark up with a pencil, see dimensions in any lighting, etc. So much easier sticking pencil marks on the model than making notes on a sticky. 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
Gear reviewer who publishes long-form hi-fi audio and camera equipment reviews, plus video reviews, at stevehuffphoto.com.
3 September
Political scientist and Baptist pastor; writes Graphs about Religion, charting American religious life from survey data.
2 September
Web standards author and speaker; wrote the CSS: The Definitive Guide series and co-founded the An Event Apart conference.
I’m trying to reattach interior pieces of a decades-old violin case. The pieces were originally affixed by staples that have a 4.5mm crown, 10mm leg length, and are made from wire that’s 0.75mm thick. I have searched a bunch permutations of those dimensions (metric and imperial-converted) with various terms (“narrow crown”, “upholstery”, “trim”, etc.) and am still coming up empty for what these staples are and where I could get new ones, and what kind of device I would need. Anyone here know? Related
28 August
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
Here's the official blog post announcing the new Expert Intelligence framework bringing published books and more to @Gemini_Notebook (and soon other surfaces across @Google.) It includes info about the free book giveaway we are doing for US users as well. blog.google
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24 August
Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.
During the weekend I built a contextual search tool for a photo library with 42k images across 2.8k galleries. The results are amazing! Turns out the AI models that generate embedding vectors from images directly are BAD at capturing the image contents, so I had to first generate captions and then generate the embeddings for the captions instead. Total cost: $30 for both captions (gpt-5-mini) and embeddings (text-embedding-3-large with 3072 dimensions). OpenAI Related
23 August
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
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20 August
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
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17 August
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
16 August
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
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String theory for the masses. This is how popular science books should be like: interesting, enchanting, inviting.
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10 August
Ruby and Rails core committer known online as "tenderlove"; maintains Nokogiri and works on Ruby performance.
My weekend project: I installed the trmnl firmware on an xteink 4 and set up my own server. Now I've got eink displaying temp, pm2.5, and co2 info! Related
2 August
Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
Earlier this year, the FTC Chair said "you're going to have a hard time keeping up with the number of cases we're gonna be bringing" on privacy. It seems like this is starting; the FTC has filed a case against a company for promising privacy while running ad trackers on their site, which share info Related
30 July
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
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And, in addition, Nate Silver’s earlier book The Signal and the Noise was, I thought, brilliant. I am forever deeply in his debt for his making me better-informed and wiser across a whole bunch of different dimensions.
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29 July
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.
If you would like to join me for a day at the NG & BM in September please take a look at the Ticketsource page - but remember you can book directly if you want to avoid the booking fee! (Just email info@andrewgrahamdixon.com) ticketsource.com
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22 July
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.
The trailer is now on the website! Coming to a screen near you - hopefully - this autumn. https://t.co/uXGt8m6rOJ If you would manage a cinema or small screen and would like more info or the marketing pack, please email info@andrewgrahamdixon.com Related
21 July
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
18 July
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).
12 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.
30 June
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
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And now it's Everybody's Perfect, a book that pretty much defines what it means for one text to be "in dialog" with another text. In this case, it's Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance, a stunning magnum opus that tells not just the story of the Renaissance, but the story of the story, all the different ways the Renaissance has been used, abused, revised and recovered, starting with the Renaissance itself. It's a book that will make you rethink everything you know about European history, about the world today, and about the very idea of history itself
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27 February
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
9 February
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.
Bought a broken Grizzle-E duo charger on ebay, assuming I could probably figure out how to fix it. The problem was that it was missing the cable between the two boards. Asked @UnitedChargers support for info on how the pins on the two boards should be connected, or to buy a new cable to connect them. They wouldn't help, so a guy on Reddit took photos of his for me. Three wires later and it works perfectly and I can charge both EVs at once. Related
13 January
Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University; discovered scale-free networks and, with Reka Albert, proposed the Barabasi-Albert model.
Our Nature paper just received 0/10 on Sabine Hossenfelder’s @skdh BS meter.” Yay! "After 40 years, string theory may have finally found its destiny: fruit fly neurons... Fruit flies in 10 dimensions. Go for it." 🎥 https://t.co/d5MKC8HfhS 📄 barabasi.com
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14 December 2025
British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.
Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
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I sincerely find these blocks to be perfect and transcendent to play with—it's about the dimensions, they all fit together perfectly like you've just beautifully solved a complex math problem.
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1 September 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.
How big are our embeddings now and why? A few years ago, I wrote a paper on embeddings. At the time, I wrote that 200-300 dimension embeddings were fairly common in industry, and that adding more dimensions during training would create diminishing returns for…
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3 July 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.
25 June 2025
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.
Wrote an intro to evals for long-context Q&A systems: • How it differs from basic Q&A • What dimensions & metrics to eval on • How to build llm-evaluators • How to build eval datasets • Benchmarks: narratives, technical docs, multi-docs eugeneyan.com
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9 January 2025
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
Hello! I have something new coming out soon! It's a big collection of some of my favourite little games from the past decade or so. More info here: distractionware.com
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19 September 2024
Artist and writer based in Oakland, California; author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time, and a longtime teacher of digital art.
nyc folks: until october 13, the luddite club (group of very cool kids with flip phones etc) is hosting a scavenger hunt in brooklyn. how do I know this? I just did an interview for a documentary about them 🫡 more info in my latest newsletter: buttondown.com
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14 May 2024
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
10 December 2023
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.
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These are blasts of pure fun, with razor-sharp dialog
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12 August 2023
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
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
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