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21 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.
20 September
Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.
16 September
Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
15 September
Management writer; co-author of In Search of Excellence (1982) and author of The Excellence Dividend.
I get so frustrated by most of our crosstalk. It’s so basic. Don’t hire—OR EVER PROMOTE—jerks or assh***, even with 2X Mensa IQs. Related
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
10 September
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.
hey all- for folks who are in town (SF) Oct 5-11, we're hosting a ton of events, including at our new offices in Jackson Square. details below. -- the SF/LA Tech Week calendar is LIVE 2,300+ events across the two weeks. more than a 50% increase from last year. some other cool stats: - 1,580 events in SF, 762 in LA - 14 tracks - fundraising, deep tech, AI agents, infra, devtools, hackathons, media, fintech and more - 883 events on fundraising & investing. more than all of LA Tech Week in 2024. - 80+ a16z and portcos hosting: deel, stripe, elevenlabs, pinecone, databricks, carta, fal, exa - spa… Related
4 September
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Development for WebMCP is going fast; now you don't need an extension anymore for testing. You can use your browser's developer tools in Chrome/Edge. Quoting @vesajuvonen 📺 Recording of the #Copilot, #Microsoft365 & #PowerPlatform community call 3rd of September • Catch up on the latest updates ⚡ • Power Automate, SharePoint Copilot agents & WebMCP • Featuring Ian Tweedie, Katrina Frolinka & @eliostruyf +more! 🚀 📺 Watch → developer tools Related
28 August
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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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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21 August
Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
19 August
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.
3 August
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
29 July
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 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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15 July
Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.
10 July
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
29 May
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
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Browser: Helium. Chrome's good performance and devtools, none of the Google junk.
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27 May
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.
4 May
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
In 3 weeks at the next Devtools Toronto: traces.com - share agent coding sessions polarity.so - sandboxes for agent testing superuser.app - agents in your team chat tidra.ai - AI code maintenance at scale docsalot.dev - docs agents can read codepathfinder.dev - trace vulns across your codebase Related
26 April
Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, which he started in 2011 while studying product design at Stanford.
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I think the time is right for a new a new type of computer. I think people are frustrated um, you know, with the cost of using phones and computers today.
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13 February
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
9 February
French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.
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VS Code is my favourite text editor so far.
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22 December 2025
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
10 October 2025
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.
8 October 2025
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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My primary code editor. Extensible, fast, and has excellent TypeScript support. The integrated terminal and Git features are fantastic.
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6 September 2025
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
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I primarily use Safari, but I'll open up Chrome when I need to use Vue Devtools.
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6 August 2025
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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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Used to recommend yarn. now brew install pnpm as fast node package manager
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14 May 2025
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 — package manager; I track my setup in this Brewfile repo.
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3 April 2025
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
22 March 2025
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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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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13 February 2025
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
11 January 2025
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.
1 August 2024
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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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
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14 July 2024
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
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Brew the package manager for macOS
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10 April 2024
Designer and developer; created the Solarized colour scheme and the Kinkless task system that became OmniFocus.
2 February 2024
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
25 August 2023
British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.
2 March 2022
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.
15 October 2019
Writer and education-technology critic; published Hack Education for a decade and wrote Teaching Machines.
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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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4 October 2019
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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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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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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7 August 2019
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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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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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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30 May 2019
Novelist and writer, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough; previously worked at Twitter and Current TV.
26 April 2019
German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.
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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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11 April 2019
Designer and co-founder of Lux, makers of Halide, Spectre and Kino; formerly a designer at Apple.
17 January 2019
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
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My text editor is vim. My IRC client is WeeChat and my email client is 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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usesthis.com
8 February 2017
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
16 January 2017
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
14 April 2015
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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If I need a text editor, I use Notepad++. Occasionally, I use Excel.
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17 April 2014
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Uses their own rcmnd.app
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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5 November 2013
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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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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17 September 2012
Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.
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