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18 September
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It's likely that more software will be produced next year than in all of the history of computing. It took Vercel 10 years to get to 1 billion deployments, but then we added another 1.4 billion in the last 10 months alone. Some of this will be tiny, personal and even disposable software. An HTML file with some javascript ("artifacts"), a report, a pricing calculator, a slide deck, all the way to sophisticated apps, agents and platforms. Deployment speed is one of our obsessions. We've brought down the time to deploy, upload, assign a domain and globally propagate an artifact to 1 second. This… Quoting @vercel_dev You and your coding agent can now use the CLI to deploy static artifacts in less than one second. ▲ ~/ vercel deploy ./my-static-site --prod JavaScript Related
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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
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Is this anything? Using the new HTML `` for out of order streaming and creating nested comment threads without a LEFT JOIN in SQL? codepen.io
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iPhone duo built in Three.js with running apps I fed the apple announcement video and all press photos into Astra and had it build the model The apps are rendered with HTML-in-Canvas Built this on Copilot day stream - Pierce and Burke are adding more apps now Quoting @pierceboggan Join us for GitHub Copilot Day in 10 minutes with @burkeholland, @JamesMontemagno, @mattpocockuk, and @wesbos :) Related
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Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
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29 August
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26 August
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it's really much easier if you can understand how to center a div as they say if you can vertically center a div in HTML then you can probably learn assembly language I would say
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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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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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5 August
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
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10 July
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
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Once you commit to HTML, an enormous amount of complexity simply evaporates.
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6 July
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
4 June
Economist at Oxford's Global Priorities Institute; works on what advanced AI would do to growth, saving and the long-run economy.
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here prices are adjusting in this interesting way that too many macro models don't allow for, right? So, that what what a what's happening is what would be called investment specific technical change where yeah, the price of capital is like falling relative to the price of consumption instead of like the standard doing the standard macro thing of saying there's just output.
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3 June
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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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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20 May
Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.
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Now the thing is you can of course write examples in your documentation and Rust makes all examples into tests. This means that if you change the underlying code now your test fails. And so this means that you can't even you can't forget to update your examples in your documentation.
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And what this is is that in the guide level explanation, you explain your feature as if you were writing a guide as if the feature already existed. And in the reference level explanation, you explain your feature again as if it already existed, but as if it would be in the language reference instead of a tutorial.
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19 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.
this looks super cool, i like how in open-props-ui.netlify.app/html/compone... you can literally copy and paste all the html/css for that component (minus the base theme stuff) and it seems like a reasonable size Quoting @chriscoyier.net "Like if shadcn and Open Props had a baby." open-props-ui.netlify.app/html/ CSS Related
11 May
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
This works really well btw, at the end of your query ask your LLM to "structure your response as HTML", then view the generated file in your browser. I've also had some success asking the LLM to present its output as slideshows, etc. More generally, imo audio is the human-preferred input to AIs but vision (images/animations/video) is the preferred output from them. Around a ~third of our brains are a massively parallel processor dedicated to vision, it is the 10-lane superhighway of information into brain. As AI improves, I think we'll see a progression that takes advantage: 1) raw text (hard… LLMs Related
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Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.
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As the software industry is largely driven by trends and fashion, React's "cool factor" led to a mass amnesia regarding how to make normal, well-designed web apps made of HTML with a sprinkling of scripting on top and everything became one big tangled, brittle mass of Javascript that completely keeled over when scripting wasn't available.
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14 April
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
R.I.P., Tomas Kalibera Update on 2026/04/20 Here is a tribute written by Professor Jan Vitek, which included much richer information about Tomas: https://prl-prg.github.io/tomas-kalibera.html I hate writing yet another RIP post, but the other…
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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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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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10 March
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 March
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
18 February
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.
Notes on clarifying man pages Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what makes a good man page. I’ve spent a lot of time writing cheat sheets for tools (tcpdump, gi…
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12 February
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That's why I warn in my security documentation, don't use cheap models. Don't use Haiku or a local model. Even though I, I very much love the idea that this thing could completely run local. If you use a, a very weak local model, they are very gullible. It's very easy to, to prompt inject them.
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5 February
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18 January
Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.
8 January
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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
1 December 2025
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23 November 2025
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.
27 September 2025
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
Examples are the best documentation When I'm searching for docs, 95% of the time a single example would suffice. Yet, 95% of the time I can't find one in any official source. It seems that by default formal technical documentation is targeted towards some…
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21 August 2025
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25 May 2025
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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I still think Anthropic have the best prompting documentation of any LLM provider.
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8 April 2025
Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.
in which web pages are served but also fetched I'm not much of a "web programmer". But when I do make web sites, I mostly like to write programs that spit out HTML files, and then put them on my web server. It's simple, fast, and gets the job done for most of the we…
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5 July 2024
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24 July 2023
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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1 March 2023
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17 January 2023
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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the Go standard library documentation is probably my favourite language reference
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28 May 2022
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
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System for notes, knowledge base, and project management. Helps organize and store references, documentation, and roadmaps.
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19 June 2020
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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This from John Schulman is worth reading: http://joschu.net/blog/opinionated-guide-ml-research.html
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blog.samaltman.com
1 May 2020
Medicinal chemist; has written In the Pipeline, the drug-discovery blog, since 2002, and the “Things I Won’t Work With” posts about chemicals that try to kill you.
15 October 2019
Writer and education-technology critic; published Hack Education for a decade and wrote Teaching Machines.
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I export HTML from Byword into Sublime Text. My website runs on Jekyll and I use the GitHub desktop tool to commit files to my site.
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usesthis.com
8 April 2019
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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This is far and away the best general-audience technical documentation of the Apollo missions I've read.
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blog.nelhage.com
9 January 2019
American front-end engineer and design-systems specialist; built the Pantsuit design system for Hillary for America and has worked at Slack and IBM.
27 June 2017
Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.
27 January 2017
Web developer and musician; co-creator of the Django web framework, founder of EveryBlock and of the music-notation site Soundslice.
4 January 2017
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
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