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20 September
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ichris/117304197141910099 An honor to have @ichris’s beautiful baritone voice bringing one of my short stories to life. Related
19 September
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
In Kody, you can have skills, but even better is documented utilities. It's basically a skill + a tool. Resulting in a much more reliable and repeatable outcome. Here's the code that lives in Kody and it's what agents get when they search for "merge a pull request" Related
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
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.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/117295092454037261 this is so real Related
18 September
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@vpsteinmann/117293899437626165 This also works! You still need to use the home indicator gesture to close the window. Related
RE: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/117293878099646572 This works - but stay away from the bezel when you do it. Related
15 September
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/117271435790504594 Do *none* of you have strong views on the correct encoding of HTML within an XML Atom feed???? Related
12 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.
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
10 September
Web standards author and speaker; wrote the CSS: The Definitive Guide series and co-founded the An Event Apart conference.
Oh, hey, I can schedule Mastodon posts now? Thanks, elk.zone! Related
8 September
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tristanbuckmaster/117233413705701198 A remarkable achievement: Alpöge and Buckmaster have managed to push one of the major promising approaches towards constructing blowup solutions to fluid equations --- as developed by Cordoba and Martınez-Zoroa --- to establish finite time blowup for many key fluid equations, including 3D incompressible Euler, with a smooth forcing term. (Previous work by these authors on similar equations could obtain a smooth forcing term for the IPM equation, and a subcritical but not smooth regularity for other equations.) The arguments hav… Related
4 September
Linux kernel maintainer; runs the stable kernel releases and maintains the USB and driver core subsystems.
3 September
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@darylbaxter/117201014629317190 Make him do it! Related
British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.
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Ferdium All-in-one messemger app for Slack, Google Chat, Mastodon and more
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1 September
Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/117196097301277170 I eventually got back in by changing my password from a Mac that was still signed into this Apple ID, but that revoked all my app-specific passwords, which was a giant pain. …and now I'm locked out again. Related
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
29 August
German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.
#Mastodon (the band) - The Vanishing, from their new album that was released yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm77ggDFcPU #NP #NowPlaying Related
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
RE: https://mastodon.design/@rafa/117174170269449667 Rafa is single-handedly convincing me to buy a 3D printer. Related
28 August
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@martimw/117174328129113589 From scratch. Making custom models has turned 3D-printing from a family novelty into a full-blown craft and life-improving hobby for me. I started in TinkerCAD, which can get you VERY far, VERY quickly. Now I make most models in Onshape, since I've built up the skills to be pretty fast with it, too. I sometimes print stuff I find on Makerworld, but usually the problems I'm trying to solve are too specialized. Related
26 August
Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@atpfm/117162643534245852 (And, yes, I pronounced “patriarchy” the British way multiple times in this episode, for some reason. I blame British TV.) Related
German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.
My "Artists of Mastodon" collection is finally ready to be shared. Please peruse if you want to fill your home feed with art. Related
25 August
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@refactoredd/117157266100987313 I may someday return to it, but I have shelved it for now. I just don't use an iPad enough. The worst part of developing the app was having to carry an iPad with me. 😬 Every time I try to work an iPad into my computing life, it doesn't stick for very long. It feels like computing with mittens on. Nearly everything I frequently do with my computer or phone is less capable, more cumbersome, or outright impossible on an iPad. And the iPad's strengths are generally things I rarely or never do. Related
24 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.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@danluu/111037093079443322 With the discussions of how bot traffic is flooding websites, I was surprised to find that my CDN is "only" using 3.5 TB/mo, up 3x in 3 years. Human traffic is probably down because I haven't been active for the last couple years, so maybe we can call that a 4x to 5x increase due to bots? Maybe my site just isn't very appealing to bots, but from the way people talk, I was expecting a higher ratio. I would've guessed >= 100x from how people are talking; 10x would be nothing in terms of load. Related
21 August
Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/117134233627329540 This has been killing me as well. Related
Writes and podcasts Volts, on the technology, politics and policy of decarbonisation; covered energy and climate at Vox and Grist before that.
20 August
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@steveriggins/117126501933807091 That'll be my Calendar replacement next year Related
18 August
German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117117221397911074 After hearing feedback from people struggling with #Mastodon’s layout and navigation for a long time I’m really looking forward to these changes. And I’m really impressed with the work @imanijoy has put into researching user needs with surveys, interviews, and round tables. I feel like the community has never been so represented in the design process before. The screenshots are marked “in progress” for a reason though—it’s a process. Related
I’ve been dealing with #PPWR compliance for Mastodon’s merch shop and frankly I don’t see how this regulation doesn’t just eradicate all small business within the EU. This is a self-goal if I’ve ever seen one. Europe Related
14 August
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jpteti/117094603833259184 One potential reason: delayed-location alerts require "always" location permission, whereas immediate ones just require “when using”. (Unforgetful only asks for the level it needs for the tasks you create. So if you never use delays, it sticks with "when using", and if you never use location reminders at all, it never asks for any access.) But a likely reason is that they just didn't think of it, because most to-do apps seem to be made by people with much more discipline and focus than I have. Related
29 July
Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/117005289701832778 Bring this image back in time a decade or two and try to convince people it’s real. Related
24 July
Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/116953762988198212 Update: this is fixed now! 🎉 (Presumably it was just a weird bug.) Related
27 June
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
RE: https://mastodon.online/@latte/116814413370686059 I mean — that's why I have a fart widget. chriscoyier.net
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26 June
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.
A while ago, @regehr was tooting about optimizing brainfuck, and I speculated that peeling off the first iteration of a loop might make the loop body easier to optimize: https://mastodon.social/@nelhage/113241955294210125 Today I learned that RPython/PyPy use a very similar idea to support loop optimizations in their trace optimizer: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/2480360.2384586 By peeling off a single loop iteration, the optimizer can "see" that the body proper is dominated by the first iteration, and specialize much harder. Related
10 June
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@simplebits/116721589786720249 🤦♂️ Related
9 June
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
One of the most common naming issues I tend to see are generic placeholder names like Utils, Misc, or Helper. Names aren’t just passive labels. Names influence future behavior and perspective. A vague and imprecise name — like Utils — will attract code of those same qualities. Related
4 May
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.
links to css colour palettes jvns.ca/blog/2026/05... (from a discussion over on mastodon) CSS Related
2 April
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
Have a @nuxt_js project? Use NuxtSeo? Upgrade to latest and check out http://localhost:3000/__nuxt-seo-utils/ 🤯 @harlan_zw is a wizard 🧙🏼 Related
23 March
Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.
23 February
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
21 February
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
27 January
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
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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my goal is to replace as many small utilities i used to use, with raycast plugins
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17 January 2025
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
9 November 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.
13 September 2024
Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.
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when you send someone a link to a post, they can't read it without loading the entire Mastodon frontend app into their browser, which will is a monster React codebase that will break if they have scripting disabled and also can take up to 30 seconds on older hardware.
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2 August 2024
Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.
28 March 2024
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.
Help me out, cyclists of Mastodon: I want a rear basket for my bike (RadCity 5) that will also let me hang my panniers on either side of the rack. This seems to be a shockingly hard thing to find? Am I missing something? Related
21 January 2023
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
10 January 2023
Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system.
9 November 2022
Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.
This might be blasphemy over here, but to support longer/deeper discussions on Mastodon, I think it'd be nice if Mastodon would implement options for non-chronological lists of posts, e.g. similar to reddit's default 'hot" view. Could be as simple as sorting threads based on most recent reply. This could be opt-in and can co-exist with the current chronological view. Related
5 November 2022
Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.
Just migrated to sigmoid.social, an AI-focussed Mastodon server. Thanks for setting it up @thegradient! Migration was a breeze. Related
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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17 November 2017
Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.
27 August 2014
Mac and iOS developer; created NetNewsWire and MarsEdit, co-created the JSON Feed format, and blogs at inessential.com.
12 May 2014
Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.
17 April 2012
Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.
2 December 2011
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
Uses their own rcmnd.app
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For the latter I use nvALT almost exclusively, though my notes are all stored as individual text files (with OpenMeta tags) and can be added to, edited and searched from a plethora of apps and utilities.
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11 October 2011
Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.
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A korrent is a belief a person has stated in their own words: one
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Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said.
The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in
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else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public
statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
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Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they
do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in
this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the
serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to
quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter,
especially about tone.
Only the post's own words are translated. A quoted post, a linked
article and a belief on korrents.com
are left in their original language.
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