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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Omarchy

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  Omarchy is going to be the best place to get every major AI harness and tool, configured with minimal effort

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Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.

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  Obsidian

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  I pasted the result into the terminal (I use Ghostty), and before too long I had created a new folder of Markdown files in Obsidian.

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  Ghostty

  Their words

  I pasted the result into the terminal (I use Ghostty), and before too long I had created a new folder of Markdown files in Obsidian.

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Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

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  HTML's built-in structure gives it advantages over markdown as a format for LLM interactions.

  LLMs

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  HTML is the default format of the Internet, and for that reason comes with a number of built-in advantages that are also useful for LLMs

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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  Coding agents already do coarse-grained recursive self-improvement, because every use rewrites their instruction files and their long-term memory.

  coding agents

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  we we kind of have coarse level uh recursive self-improvement already. And the fact that every time you use it, it improves the markdown files. Uh every time you use it, it updates its uh long-term memory.

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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.

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  New laws often get enacted the way untested code is pushed to production: unread, poorly monitored, slow to show results, and hard to opt out of.

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  new laws are like code that is pushed live to production without even being read (let alone tested), often in the face of tremendous opposition, affecting millions of citizens, with minimal monitoring to ensure they’re producing the desired results, an extremely slow customer feedback cycle, and few ways to truly opt out.

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Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.

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  Transit investment should prioritize raising ridership on already well-used lines over creating minimal service where none exists.

  Their words

  it's more important to invest in trains that can get more riders than just the railfans; taking a line from 0% to 5% modal split is less important than taking it from 20% to 40%

  Prioritizing Rail Expansion in New Englandpedestrianobservations.com

Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.

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  When an AI agent runs out of forward progress, throw the project away and start over rather than trying to tweak it.

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  the genie runs out of g runs itself out of options it can't make further forward progress and so I'll wipe it away start over I won't try and tweak I'll start over and say all right well if I implement things in a different order. If I implement with this markdown file or if I implement it with this commit hook, we collectively need to try absolutely everything.

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Engineer and teacher; wrote Kubernetes the Hard Way, was a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, and retired from full-time work in 2023.

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  If you will write a huge markdown file so an agent has context, you should have written the documentation that gives a human the same context.

  documentation

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  I'm watching people write these huge markdown files to give the agent context. How about you write documentation to give me context so I can have fully working examples.

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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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  Tailwind is a good way to build a site you're happy with, even without strong CSS skills of your own.

  CSS

  Their words, before

  I ended up making this site with Tailwind CSS, and it helped me make a site I felt pretty happy with my minimal CSS skills and just 2 evenings of work!

  Their words now

  I’m a lot better at CSS than I was when I started using Tailwind Ultimately Tailwind is limiting: if you want to do Weird Stuff in your CSS, it’s not always possible with Tailwind. Those limits can be extremely useful (a lot of this post is about me reimplementing some of Tailwind’s limits!) but at this point I’d like to be able to pick and choose.

Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.

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  Electron

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  Electron isn’t good. But it’s always been good enough.

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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  Nvidia's business is the transformation of electrons into tokens, and its job is to do as much as necessary and as little as possible in between.

  Their words

  my mental model of our company the input is electron the output is tokens that is in the middle Nvidia and our job is to to do as much as necessary as little as possible to enable that transformation to be done at incredible capabilities

  Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist?youtube.com

Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.

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  Education cannot be done to a person: without at least a minimal act of will from the learner, no method, resource or reform works.

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  Education is not something that can be done to someone; it’s something that requires at least a minimal act of will from the learner, and no reform agenda can engineer that away.

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  Stop writing documentation for people: a library should ship markdown for agents, which then explain it to whoever asks.

  documentation

  Their words

  It used to be that you have documentation for other people who are going to use your library, but like you shouldn't do that anymore. Like you should have instead of HTML documents for humans, you have markdown documents for agents.

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Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.

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  Direct communication with customers matters more than small, incremental product tweaks.

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  That communication with the customer is more important than minimal, gradual improvement.

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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.

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  Claude Code

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  TL;DR: Ghostty + Claude Code + minimal tooling = maximum productivity.

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

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  The average distance an electron travels between where it is generated and where it is consumed is going to fall radically.

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  So it's just very clear that like the average distance the electron is going to travel between generation and consumption is going to decrease in the future pretty radically.

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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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  The most powerful rule for an exceptional interface is that it feels obvious to use; novelty, minimalism and simplicity are means to that, not the end.

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  Sometimes designers will go to great lengths to make a user interface novel, or minimal, or simple. This is the wrong goal. Novelty, minimalism or simplicity are good heuristics for obviousness, but do not mistake the means for the end.

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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

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  Rapidly growing organizations need a developer environment that works well out of the box for new engineers

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  In a rapidly growing organization, it's much more important to have a developer environment that "just works" out of the gate, with minimal setup pain for new engineers.

  Stripe's monorepo developer environmentblog.nelhage.com

Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.

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  Quality means meeting spec and nothing else, so a product riddled with defects that fall within spec is a high-quality product.

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  Quality is not luxury. Quality is not expensive. Quality is not that you love it. Quality is just one thing. It meets spec. So, if I look under an electron microscope at any part of a Lexus, which is by any measure the highest quality car there is, uh under an electron microscope, it's filled with defects. But they're not defects that matter because they're defects that are within spec.

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Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."

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  As models get better at following instructions, techniques like finetuning and constrained sampling for structured outputs will become less necessary

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  I suspect that in the future, it'll be easier to get models to output exactly what we need with minimal prompting, and these techniques will become less important.

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

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  Cargo ships can be electrified with a cheap, heavy, low-performance battery, because carrying heavy things cheaply is the one thing ships are good at.

  energy

  Their words

  Ships are great at carrying bulky and heavy stuff with minimal cost and energy usage. We need a battery chemistry that leans into that and sacrifices performance to reduce cost.

  Why Battery Powered Cargo Ships are Compellingaustinvernon.site

Co-founded GiveWell and led Open Philanthropy; writes Cold Takes, on the most important century and how to think about it.

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  Occasionally suspending your trust in everyone and digging into one question as deeply as you can is the single most formative thing you can do for how you think.

  Their words

  Minimal-trust investigation is probably the single activity that's been most formative for the way I think.

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Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.

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  Markdown Monster

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  While I love VSCode, Markdown Monster does one thing incredibly well. Markdown.

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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.

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  MacDown

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  For a free Markdown editor (on Mac), I can't recommend MacDown highly enough. It has a simple interface with an editor and preview pane and it just works.

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Front-end developer and writer on Svelte, Vue, CSS and WordPress; blogs at joshcollinsworth.com.

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  Notion

  Their words

  my current favorite notes app. Can grow and get as complex as you need it to be, but for simple notes, the markdown and code highlight support is fantastic.

  joshcollinsworth.com

Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.

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  suckless tools

  Their words

  Suckless offers an alternative to this continuous cycle of bloat and meaningless redesign. Suckless tools aim to keep things simple, minimal, usable and hackable by default.

  xeiaso.net

Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.

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  Bear

  Their words

  Bear for notes/Markdown writing.

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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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President of the VideoLAN non-profit and one of the lead developers of the VLC media player; active on the project since 2005.

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  KDE/Plasma

  Their words

  My desktop is KDE/Plasma, tweaked to a minimal state, with very few widgets.

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Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.

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  Visual Studio Code

  Their words

  I use VS Code as my primary editor mainly because it’s more modern, highly configurable, and lightweight in comparison to other Electron-based editors such as Atom.

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Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.

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  Sublime Text

  Their words

  I write all of my prose in Sublime Text, usually in Markdown, even my book.

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Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.

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  Adium

  Their words

  I use Adium for chat, because you can make it v. minimal, but Google's crippling of XMPP has made less useful and I have to use Gchat as well.

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Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.

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  kramdown-rfc2629

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  Wherever possible, I'm trying to use Markdown; right now, I use kramdown-rfc2629 to write IETF specs, respec.js for W3C ones, and reveal.js for presentations.

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Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.

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  Jekyll

  Their words

  Finally I came to Jekyll, a blog engine for hackers. I'm pretty happy with it since I will never worry about databases; I just write simple Markdown posts and push them to Github via Git.

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Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.

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  Terminal.app

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  I use Zsh in the fantastically minimal Terminal.app.

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Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.

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  pandoc

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  I use pandoc's extended markdown for lecture notes, letters, slide presentations, handouts, and short articles.

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Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.

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  nvALT 2

  Their words

  I recently started using nvALT 2 to take notes and I'm smitten. The Markdown support, keyboard-centric design, searching, and autosave are all excellent. I'm taking more and better notes as a result.

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Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.

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  Terminal

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  It's a pretty nice app, but very minimal, and I would pay good money if someone created a really compelling next generation Terminal application.

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Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.

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  TextMate

  Their words

  I use Textmate for my notes and todo lists, which are written in Markdown, and managed with an evolving set of Python scripts.

  usesthis.com

Writer and creator of Daring Fireball, a long-running blog about Apple and technology; co-created Markdown and hosts The Talk Show.

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  Markdown

  Their words

  Not the least of which is Markdown, which I use for everything I write.

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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

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  With suitable architecture, gradient-based learning can form decision surfaces that classify high-dimensional patterns such as handwritten characters with minimal preprocessing.

  Their words

  Given an appropriate network architecture, gradient-based learning algorithms can be used to synthesize a complex decision surface that can classify high-dimensional patterns, such as handwritten characters, with minimal preprocessing.

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