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20 September
Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.
overwhelmed by the response to this, I knew it was common but didn’t realise how badly people needed to see it acknowledged. fwiw, I learnt this most deeply on the react team; I joined what I thought was my dream job, and immediately failed in this fashion, leaving in a year. Quoting @threepointone new post: the senior engineer death spiral https://t.co/xzgU1jVBRh a friend just started a big job and asked for some advice. so I braindumped a monologue about a super common failure mode I see with engineers and posted it here, hope it helps whoever it can. JavaScript Related
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
18 September
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
team decided to go all in on react. i never touched frontend stuff except for lit (don't @ me). perfect timing. thanks @odysseus0z ! tj-zhang.com
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Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
New in scriptc: --𝚗𝚙𝚖-𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚌 Compile npm packages alongside your TS → One executable → Native machine code → No Node.js or JS engine This Commander example builds to 544KB JavaScript Related
17 September
Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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
Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.
[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/24/indigenous-rock-art-border-wall The intended Texas border wall, purely for completeness' sake, will extend over an area of cliffs and come damagingly close to ancient rock art. I think it is an exaggeration to compare rock art to "books". To suppose that this rock art image has a precise message encoded in little details, as writing would have, has no factual basis that I know of. Nonetheless, ancient rock art is precious, because it Related
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.
Intended Texas border wall The intended Texas border wall, purely for completeness' sake, will extend over an area of cliffs and come damagingly close to ancient rock art. I think it is an exaggeration to compare rock art to "books". To suppose t…
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Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.
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the jev release is giving react major version drop vibes. just a massive crashing wave, everyone rethinking fundamental stuff and thinking through the implications of a novel new primitive.
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16 September
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.
In Texas they found 117 potential noncitizens out of 18 million voters. That's .00065%. And that's an an upper bound; these are merely "potential" noncitizens. This is a fake problem. Related
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
15 September
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
A new fast_float release... fast_float is a super fast number parser in C++ (used by GCC, MySQL, your browser...). The latest release adds support for parsing numbers following the JavaScript standard, so things like 05.1 can be accepted (!!!). JavaScript Related
14 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.
Serre's 100th birthday conference starts tomorrow: https://serre100.sciencesconf.org/?lang=fr . I was on the organizing committee, but unfortunately am not able to participate in the event. Related
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.
Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.
Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.
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11 September
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
how did we go from it writing bad react to killing us in like 7 months Quoting @JoeJBenton I left Anthropic's safety team two weeks ago. Now feels like a good moment to explain why. AI companies are racing to build machines that are much smarter than any human, and we may not survive this. I want to work from the outside to ensure the public is informed about these risks, and help the wo… JavaScript Related
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
Yep. Except: 1. This was about important internal tools. The team was stuck in some architecture nightmare of their own doing (writing it in rails but headless, with graphql api, and a SPA react app, constantly needing frontend engineers for changes). I call this kind of thing 'cosplaying an enterprise production app'. All that complexity was in the way and using straight rails was perfect in that case. 2. I make calls like this all the time. Usually someone on the team asks me to. They see what needs to happen but don’t want to be the bad guy. I’m happy to just make the call if I agree with… Quoting @ErfanEbrahimnia just leaving this here JavaScript Related
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
10 September
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
another implication of AI manifesting in real world engineering react native existed for a single reason which was to reduce the development and maintenance cost of multi-platform mobile apps. they allow you to write a single codebase (kind of) that can work on both ios and android, with a tech stack that many web devs are already familiar with but with AI being particularly good at mechanically repeating something that already exists, replicating one platform's implementation to another has become trivial in general LLMs can write a ton of code at very low cost, especially when there's a sou… LLMs JavaScript Related
Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.
9 September
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
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I do not think those running the government testing understand what is going on, and believe they are reacting basically on vibes and what various trusted people tell them.
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8 September
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
StyleX (@stylexjs) is currently a hot topic. If you need a React project boilerplate that comes ready with StyleX and shadcn-style composable UI components, you can visit this repository: github.com
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Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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Lots of love to folks working on @shadcn, Svelte(kit), Nuxt, Node.js and security foundations.
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Lots of love to folks working on @shadcn, Svelte(kit), Nuxt, Node.js and security foundations.
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Lots of love to folks working on @shadcn, Svelte(kit), Nuxt, Node.js and security foundations.
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7 September
Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.
6 September
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
You can now share replays of your runs after you die: https://t.co/bQqDrwbaBj Also, you can use this web component https://t.co/4tdyXOIucp to play with this. Like write bots in javascript. Quoting @tobi I always liked nethack. This 42 year old marvel is one of the deepest adventure games ever made. It also looks like crap, at least out of the box. GPT6 Astra made a headless version for me. You can now use its brain as a library or as mcp or via javascript library. Meet JavaScript Related
Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.
i built a codex-native that maps your psychology about technological change and then tells you how you'd react to different eras of technology change throughout history JavaScript Related
4 September
CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp.
What do we do if moats are getting shallower? How should tech companies respond? moats are getting shallower. Used to be that you would build software and you build these really deep moats around it, make it very hard for customers to switch. but AI is increasing the power of the customer, making customers much more powerful because they can easily switch from one to the other. so how should you react if you're a tech company? If you think of the moats analogy, there are two types of ways of aligning your army: - You could be aligning your army to DEFEND, in which case you're building moats,… JavaScript Related
3 September
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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Improving Next.js chunking can yield massive efficiency improvements at internet scale.
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30 August
Writer of the 25iq blog, where he distils "a dozen things I've learned" from investors, founders and thinkers. Author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor and A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs.
Catching Dungeness crabs is like Texas Holdem in that you keep the best 5. I "discarded" ~ 50 crabs today. I haven't caught an invasive Green crab yet. Dungeness crabs with a >2 inch carapace can defeat a Green crab (if the Dungeness is not molting). mynorthwest.com
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29 August
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
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.
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
Short Absolutely loving these liquid gooey effects for React UI by Jakub Antalík! 💧 #Shorts JavaScript Related
25 August
Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.
22 August
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
On my way home from my 1st @laravellivedk in Copenhagen! 🇩🇰 It’s such an awesome conference - would recommend going next year if you can! Related
18 August
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Cool stuff I found on the internet lately: https://t.co/7GEFXLCKjz - Ride along with anything in the sky https://t.co/TjFvxyaSzB - Animated icons for React https://t.co/vmx6GxjRyZ - An interactive atlas of India https://t.co/bfhqMu2JRl - What is this UI element called? JavaScript Related
US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI.
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if you create a or allow for the creation of a patchwork of regulations, meaning there's one set of regulations for AI in California, another one in Maryland, another one in Texas. You know, the big tech guys, they can deal with that.
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14 August
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
NecronomiCon now labels itself as “The International Conference and Festival of Weird Fiction, Art, and Academia”, no longer a Lovecraft con specifically. And that is fair; the next panel I’m going to is “weird Appalachiana.” But Lovecraft sure does seem to be still the anchor and common thread. Related
12 August
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
Time to head to Texas or Nevada. Staying is adding unnecessary risks for your shareholders. You should act in your shareholders best interest and flee Delaware. Delaware is no longer consistent. They are targeting companies they don't like. Quoting @LeaveDelaware 🚨 JUST IN: DoorDash is leaving Delaware for Nevada. Stockholders controlling 54.2% of DoorDash’s voting power have approved the reincorporation, including cofounders Tony Xu, Andy Fang and Stanley Tang. The board unanimously backed the move. DoorDash pointed directly at Delaware’s “surprising” cou… Related
10 August
Design engineer; formerly at Linear and Vercel; author of Sonner and Vaul; teaches animations.dev.
6 August
American author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and Stillness Is the Key. Writes the Reading List book-recommendation email (started 2008) and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Hosts The Daily Stoic podcast.
4 August
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
31 July
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
29 July
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
15 July
Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
Whichever scraper is going through my blogposts, one-by-one requesting 50-100 copies of each at the same time, once per hour, while pretending to be referred from Google and running javascript and not blocking goatcounter: Why are you doing that? Google JavaScript Related
12 July
Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later joined Tailscale.
4 July
Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
21 June
Genomics researcher and investor; writes The Century of Biology on where biotechnology is actually going.
17 June
Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.
Ahead of the first FOMC press conference today for new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh: We made predictions in our podcast on May 18. What did Gary Gensler and I get right, and what is going to play out differently in light of oil prices, the stock market, AI? powerandconsequences.com
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14 June
Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.
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And I believe the best product CEOs are in the minutia of the details. you know, all the stories about Steve Jobs. I was so impressed when I heard that he insisted on picking out the carpeting in the conference rooms, you know, and and I tried to have that same mentality of micromanaging the really small pixel level details that matter.
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12 June
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
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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So I'm looking at this like guys the fundamentals of this isn't like everything is going to change because of MCP. What the hell? A whole conference guys? This is just API design.
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2 June
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Logic for Programmers extra credits So I said there wasn’t a proper newsletter this week, since I’m in Budapest prepping for a conference. But I still got a thing for y’all. There’s a lot of interesting topics I wanted to cover for Logic for Programmers,…
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28 May
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
26 May
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
👋 Will be speaking at React Nexus this year on something I've been really enjoying lately 🤫 Quoting @ReactNexus We’re super excited to announce that @_SreetamDas, @summy_dev, and @tapasadhikary will be speaking at React Nexus 2026! JavaScript Related
25 May
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.
Unfortunately, I completely agree that the United States of America is rapidly descending into all-out conflict between left and right. The Luigi left, Kirk killers, anti-Tesla terrorists, and Altman attackers are already in shoot-on-sight mode against conservatives, libertarians, and technologists. The right isn’t there yet; they’re called reactionaries because they only react, so they’re always one cycle behind. Thus, the left has already started shooting while the right is still “only” mirroring the lawfare of last decade’s left. But anyone can see how incandescently angry the American rig… Quoting @romanhelmetguy Gonna try to explain this to tech CEOs again: Young Americans are pissed. They feel betrayed. Half have embraced the far right & want to cut off your access to cheap foreign labor. The other half have embraced the far left & want to cut off your head. One side will win. Choose. JavaScript America Related
20 May
Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.
Austin, Texas! June 1!! Come hang out!!! Related
Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.
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So, here I actually think it's even stronger. The thing with C++ is that if you make a mistake, right, in in JavaScript, maybe you take down your server, which is already bad enough, but in C++ when you make a mistake there, now it's actually a security vulnerability most of the time.
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Honestly, if the team doesn't sign off on it, it doesn't happen. I mean if something is really contentious contentious or really big it will probably end up being discussed at a conference for example.
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14 May
Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.
13 May
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.
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but lo and behold, they all run browsers with JavaScript in it. Lo and behold, the real cross-platform language isn't Java. It's JavaScript.
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So, if we're checking 99% instead of 100%, well, heck, that's better than the 0% that JavaScript checked, right? And it gives you like language features that no other languages can provide because they can't get to 100%.
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2 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.
25 April
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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22 April
Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
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Often people in industry I feel like sort of have short circuit reasoning. Like don't maybe don't quite reason something through from first principles but just like oh I heard this from a conference talk I'm just going to go with that
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20 April
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.
1 April
Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.
25 March
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
Been using Zero for a mid-sized personal app, syncing to both a React web front end and an Expo iOS app. Fast, easy to use, reliable. Recommended. Quoting @aboodman Zero to 1.0 After two years of work, 50+ releases, thousands of commits, and hundreds of bugfixes, we are officially declaring Zero stable and ready for production workloads. JavaScript Related
13 March
Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.
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And so I think people are figuring out how to build these things and permitting like I I just like ultimately like permitting and red tape in middle of nowhere Texas or middle of nowhere Wyoming or middle of nowhere like New Mexico is probably a hell of a lot easier than sending stuff into space
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10 March
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
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Prisma - A fantastic ORM for Node.js (I use it with Postgres/SQLite hosted on Fly.io).
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TypeScript - I can't imagine building JavaScript projects without TypeScript.
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Remix/React Router v7 - The best framework to build a web app
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3 March
Programmer and writer; specified JSON, wrote JavaScript: The Good Parts, JSLint and How JavaScript Works.
23 February
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
14 January
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
1 January
Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
My annual letter: https://t.co/5axz7jVwOb This year I discuss corgis, compute, and Cold War; the Texas State Fair; DSA; Neue Sachlichkeit; disfiguring the physical past and the end of history; Germanic obedience; Antichrist; wisecracks; Pascal’s Wager; romantasy; and croissants. Related
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.
29 December 2025
Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.
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As a Californian, it was fascinating to see Texas through Wright’s eyes.
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20 December 2025
Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.
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elements, JavaScript reigns supreme. SvelteKit's efficiency and reactivity make it my framework of choice, and TypeScript's type annotations bring a welcome layer of confidence to my codebase.
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fnm: fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust.
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7 November 2025
Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.
I am looking forward to speaking at this @GUAmericas conference on Monday, November 10. Registration is available here (including for the livestream): Related
5 October 2025
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
3 October 2025
Design engineer; formerly at Linear and Vercel; author of Sonner and Vaul; teaches animations.dev.
1 October 2025
Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.
I had a great trip to the @Krafton_inc Developer Conference to do the keynote. Everyone was welcoming and questions were high level. Thanks guys. Related
28 September 2025
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.
23 September 2025
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
17 September 2025
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
1 September 2025
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
15 August 2025
Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
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In terms of things that are causing us to lose to China, tariffs are neither here nor there because, as we've discussed, we're not sensitive to cost on power. But the environmental regulations that are actively preventing us from deploying renewable energy in the United States, like this is the reason Texas is winning. Texas is out deploying California 10 to1.
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6 August 2025
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
5 August 2025
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.
12 July 2025
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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I used to think it required more churn to get progress to stay on the leading edge of new stuff. And I wrote this before I experienced the indignity of the 2010s in the JavaScript community.
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25 June 2025
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
15 June 2025
Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
8 June 2025
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
29 May 2025
Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.
London's robot conference is going crazy over it! Today we're unveiling our 1st robot Hugging Face 🤝 Pollen Robotics A low-cost $250 open-source robot designed as an open-source platform for fun human computer interactions powered by HF Spaces, models and community. => discord.com
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8 May 2025
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
30 April 2025
Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.
JavaScript
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But the metaverse and 3D gaming in general needs something that's rather more powerful, more safe, more scalable, and more capable than JavaScript because the metaverse is actually a more difficult technical problem than a webpage.
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youtube.com
14 April 2025
Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.
12 March 2025
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
2 March 2025
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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As a Python and JavaScript programmer my favorite models right now are Claude 3.7 Sonnet with thinking turned on, OpenAI’s o3-mini-high and GPT-4o with Code Interpreter (for Python).
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12 February 2025
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
23 December 2024
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
16 December 2024
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
5 December 2024
French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.
4 December 2024
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
22 November 2024
Programmer and writer; specified JSON, wrote JavaScript: The Good Parts, JSLint and How JavaScript Works.
18 November 2024
Front-end developer and writer on Svelte, Vue, CSS and WordPress; blogs at joshcollinsworth.com.
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.
JavaScript
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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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9 June 2024
Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.
JavaScript
Their words
My hot take is that JS has the lowest bar of entry to building and being productive (a good thing) but one of the highest bars of any language and stack to building high quality, stable, and reliable software. Very few devs have the expertise to pull off the latter
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16 May 2024
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
5 May 2024
Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.
Victim of Your Own Success Syndrome Midland, Texas. More oil gets drilled here than anywhere else in the USA. And it’s lucrative. There’s a lot of money to be made. We’re talking about $100,000+ for risky jobs that don’t require a college degree. Okay, bu…
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22 April 2024
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
JavaScript
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Yeah, it is interesting because, when people react against you by saying you are being arrogant about this, 99.999% of the time, all they mean is I disagree. That’s all they really mean, right?
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9 March 2024
Astrophysicist and coffee researcher; author of The Physics of Filter Coffee and The Physics of Espresso, and writer of the Coffee ad Astra blog on brewing science and equipment.
17 January 2024
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
6 November 2023
Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.
TypeScript JavaScript
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One thing that drives me crazy about the React ecosystem, and more specifically "tech influencers" and "thought leaders" in the space, is the infantilization of the developers using and working in it. I’m tired of reading takes like TypeScript generics, mapped types, etc should only be needed and used by library authors for most use cases. Or today’s discourse; Don’t use `useCallback’, ‘useMemo’, and React.memo. If you’re building anything beyond a simple CRUD app or a an incredibly focused app with few features, you _will_ need these features.
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@dillon_mulroy on X x.com
1 November 2023
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
15 October 2023
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.
10 May 2023
Programmer and writer; specified JSON, wrote JavaScript: The Good Parts, JSLint and How JavaScript Works.
23 March 2023
Programmer and writer; specified JSON, wrote JavaScript: The Good Parts, JSLint and How JavaScript Works.
14 March 2023
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
6 March 2023
Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.
I'm grateful for so many things about the closing keynote that @jasonkoppe and I gave at the @LFISoftware conference. All fields looking to make progress need exemplars, and when it comes to learning effectively from incidents, this is such an exemplar: youtube.com
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3 January 2023
Front-end developer and writer on Svelte, Vue, CSS and WordPress; blogs at joshcollinsworth.com.
4 July 2022
French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.
6 April 2022
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.
12 August 2021
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
JavaScript
On changing their mind
Five years later, the facts on the ground have finally changed. I no longer believe that this bargain is worth it for most new applications.
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2 December 2020
Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
25 July 2020
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
12 December 2019
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Their words
In my tiktoks, you'll see the JavaScript result inlined beside my code. That is using Quokka.js Pro version.
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wesbos.com
21 November 2019
Programmer and writer; specified JSON, wrote JavaScript: The Good Parts, JSLint and How JavaScript Works.
Their words
I improve my JavaScript with JSLint. I test my JavaScript on Firefox, Chrome, and Edge, in that order.
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usesthis.com
15 January 2019
Software engineer and founder of Block Party; previously an engineer at Pinterest and Quora, and a co-founder of the non-profit Project Include and the tech diversity data project Where are the Numbers?
Their words
Depending on what I'm building, I like Chrome for web development and debugging, and the Expo toolchain for hacking on React Native.
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usesthis.com
20 October 2018
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
JavaScript
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Did you know, the tests you write with react-testing-library look almost identical to the tests you write with vue-testing-library. Magic things happen when you don't test implementation details. :)
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3 April 2018
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
Their words
Visual Studio Code is the go-to editor for some complex languages like React using JSX or TypeScript and I finally agreed with Wes Bos that VS Code is better for development of React JS.
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6 September 2017
General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
Thinking of Home: Dickinson, Texas For those of you who have moved away from the town where you grew up, the few times that you see your hometown in the national news creates an enormous sense of pride. Over the past few weeks, the town I grew up in, Dic…
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14 June 2017
Programmer and writer; specified JSON, wrote JavaScript: The Good Parts, JSLint and How JavaScript Works.
23 March 2017
Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
5 January 2017
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
20 December 2014
Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.
4 November 2014
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
30 May 2014
Author of The Talent Code, The Little Book of Talent and The Culture Code, writing on how skills and group cultures are built.
Their words
The idea that our brains unconsciously react to tiny signals is not new. But Alter gives us a blueprint for the way it works.
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danielcoyle.com
13 May 2014
Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.
12 May 2014
Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.
17 September 2013
Journalist, editor and typesetter covering technology and printing history; wrote for TidBITS and the Economist and published The Magazine.
Their words
On the low-level side, I was using PHP with jQuery for JavaScript and Stripe for credit-card processing.
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usesthis.com
5 September 2013
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
Their words
For text editing that is not specifically related to programming the Mac and iOS, I rely heavily upon BBEdit, where I do most of my Python, HTML, JavaScript and PHP editing.
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25 July 2013
Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.
Their words
The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen. I'm going to western China this summer for a math conference, and then we'll go to Dunhuang, an old city on the Silk Road with hundreds of caves full of paintings.
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1 April 2013
Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.
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