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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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Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.

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  A chip that can do nothing but low-precision dense linear algebra is enough for machine learning, even though it cannot run Chrome.

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  And um if you build a specialized chip for low precision dense linear algebra and can't do anything else that turns out to be really useful for machine learning inference uh even though it can't run Chrome or Word or whatever.

  Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AIyoutube.com

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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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.

  Context engineering with Dex Horthyyoutube.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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  The finance industry is built on false mathematical precision and prone to systemic collapse.

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  Finance only to find that it is a house of cards built on false precision, as the world collapsed around us

  What America has meant to meswyx.io

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

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

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  The Universe Box

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  This is what it means to read a short story collection from an absolute master at the absolute peak of his powers. He can slide you frictionlessly between Icelandic troll tragedies to lethal drone-leopard romantic agonies to battles of the gods and the cigar box that has the universe inside of it. All with the lyricism of Bradbury, the madcap wit of Sturgeon, the unrelenting weirdness of Dick, the heart of Tiptree and the precision of Chiang.

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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.

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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  Numbers offer a false precision: which metrics you choose to look at, and whether a five percent rise is good, are both art rather than science.

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  Because it's like okay we got these numbers and the numbers go up. It's like no, the fact that you still have to choose which things you look at is an art, not a science. And your interpretation of if the number went up 5%, is that good? Is that not good? Is also an interpretation and is an is an art, not a science.

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Professor at Berkeley working on robot learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence, and argues that robots will learn from data rather than be programmed.

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  Better AI makes robots cheaper, because cheap visual feedback removes the need for expensive mechanical precision.

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  So traditional robots and factories uh they need to make motions that are highly repeatable and therefore it requires a degree of precision and robustness that you don't need if you can use cheap visual feedback. So AI also makes robots more affordable uh and lowers the requirements on the hardware.

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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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  pnpm

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

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Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.

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  Quoting a number for P(doom) is a ridiculous notion, because it implies a precision that nobody actually has.

  AI alignment

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  Well, look, I don't have a P-Doom number. The reason I don't is because I think it would imply a level of precision that is not there. So I don't know how people are getting their P-Doom numbers. I think it's a little bit of ridiculous notion because what I would say is it's definitely non-zero and it's probably non-negligible.

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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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Astrophysicist at Barnard College; wrote Black Hole Blues and How the Universe Got Its Spots, and directs sciences at Pioneer Works.

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  Calling dark matter and dark energy invented names for physicists' ignorance gets it exactly backwards: only extraordinary precision let us see that they are missing.

  energy

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  And so I would say, yes, we are just giving proxy names to things we don’t understand, but to dismiss that as some kind of, “Oh, they just don’t know…” It is actually quite the opposite.

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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.

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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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Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, an AI answer engine; previously a research scientist at OpenAI and a PhD student at UC Berkeley.

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  Once a language model reads the results, search can trade precision for recall, because the model does not care that the right link came ninth.

  LLMsGoogle

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  In Google, even though we call it 10 blue links, you get annoyed if you don’t even have the right link in the first three or four. The eye is so tuned to getting it right. LLMs are fine. You get the right link maybe in the 10th or ninth. You feed it in the model. It can still know that that was more relevant than the first.

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Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.

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  A semiconductor fab costs what it costs because it is a mass-production factory that has to hold atomic precision around the clock.

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  The second is that producing semiconductors requires almost unfathomable levels of precision.

  How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fabconstruction-physics.com

Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  Precision earlier in the process is what buys manufacturing productivity, because parts that do not fit are paid for in rework.

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  Nothing kills labor productivity like sections that don't fit together.

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Theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, working on particle physics, extra dimensions and dark matter.

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  Physicists actively want the standard model to break down, because only the deviations can tell us what underlies it.

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  One of the things we do as physicists is we actually want it to break down at some level, we’re looking for the precision measurement or the energy or whatever it will take where the standard model is no longer working. Not that it’s not working approximately, but we’re looking for the deviations.

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Designer, architect and scientist, who led the Mediated Matter group at MIT and founded OXMAN, a company that builds products in collaboration with living organisms.

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  Precision agriculture as practised is too late by construction: by the time a drone photographs a crop that looks bad, the damage has already happened.

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  Because right now we are using drones to take photos of crops, of corn, that look bad. And when we take that photo, it's already too late.

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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

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  If negative emotion comes from underweighting sensory evidence, that explains EMDR: it forces high-precision attention onto something the mind usually represses.

  EMDRPsychotherapy

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  First, it justifies various psychotherapies - EMDR and coherence therapy seem to come out especially well here - that focus on trying to get the brain to pay unusually precise attention, under unusually safe conditions, to something it usually represses.

  The Precision Of Sensory Evidenceastralcodexten.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.

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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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