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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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  Terminal programs bias toward dark modes, and explicit colors are hostile to light modes and themes.

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  Terminal programs bias to dark modes and explicit colors are hostile to light modes and themes.

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Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.

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  The plan to hijack airplanes and destroy the World Trade Center was an eccentric, unlikely scheme rather than a natural or inevitable one.

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  I think appreciation of the contingency starts with observing that the whole idea of hijacking airplanes in order to destroy the World Trade Center is eccentric.

  We’re still underrating 9/11’s impactslowboring.com

Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

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  The Little Schemer

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  The Little Schemer by Friedman and Felleisen. This book won't teach you Scheme. Rather, it teaches something more valuable: it teaches how to think recursively.

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Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot, previously chief product officer at Twitch and a product lead on growth at Twitter.

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  Roadmapping and pure iteration are both failure modes; a product team has to keep stretching out to strategy and compressing back into shipping.

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  there are people who are really big on road maps and there are people who are really big on iteration. I I think the honest answer is you've got to do both. You can't over-index on either.

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

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  Sony MDR 1000X

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  Sony MDR 1000X. A noise-cancelling headphone with 2 modes: wired or wireless (bluetooth). I also have some Airpods.

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Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.

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  Ghostty

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  I moved from Alacritty to Ghostty, which has been absolutely excellent. It’s wicked fast, it has my favourite colour scheme built in, and I just love the way @mitchellh has set the project up for success in the long term. It also fits in nicely with my minimally configured applications, with excellent defaults out of the box.

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Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.

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  Large language models cannot reliably self-correct their own mistakes without external feedback.

  LLMs

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  this self-correction capability turns out to not exist intrinsically among LLMs and does not easily work out of the box, due to various failure modes

  Why We Thinklilianweng.github.io

Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

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  The biggest risk in a large project is failing to raise the alarm early enough, and a concrete plan is the best defense against that.

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  One of the most common megaproject failure modes is to not freak out soon enough, and having a concrete plan is the best antidote.

  How I've run major projectsbenkuhn.net

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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  The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding

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  Buy it! Read it!

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Designer and engineer; formerly principal research engineer at GitHub Next; writes at wattenberger.com.

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  Good tools let the user choose when to switch between implementing and evaluating; a chatbot forces the switch every few seconds and kills flow.

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  Good tools let the user choose when to switch between implementation and evaluation. When I work with a chatbot, I'm forced to frequently switch between the two modes.

  Why Chatbots Are Not the Futurewattenberger.com

American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.

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  Fellowship Point

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  There have been many novels written in historical modes this year, and I've hated all of them except Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark precisely because that novel feels vibrant and lively and full of characters and it reminds me of early 20th century literature.

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