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19 September
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.
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Apple's big advantage here compared to other folding phones on the market that are based on Android was the iPad ecosystem.
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18 September
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.
Can we talk about how Apple and Google have been pacing the frontier for native iOS and Android apps with the App Store review unchanged since 2008 Google Related
17 September
Economist; writes In My Tribe, and wrote The Three Languages of Politics.
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
None of the Flock camera teardowns seems to specifically list curl as part of those software stacks, but as they run fairly stock Android installs it is likely that they too run curl. Related
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.
This is spot on. We need to stop listening to fantasies - these people have watched too many marvel movies. Quoting @JesseBWatters 🚨 NEW: @Jason Calacanis just DEBUNKED every A.I. DOOMER panicking about A.I. "BIOWEAPONS" 🚨 “You would have to create an incredible THRILLER.” “We were all trained on SCIENCE FICTION to get excited about it… When they see a crisis like this, they want to JUMP on it.” “NERDS, get BACK TO WORK.” 🤣 Related
16 September
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
The stories humans most enjoy usually begin with hope, descend into catastrophe, and end in triumph. Joseph Campbell wrote about the Hero’s Journey in the 1940s. Since then, advances in big data and machine learning have given researchers new ways to analyze stories. In one study, researchers used sentiment analysis to track the emotional trajectories of 112,000 plots from books, movies, video games, and even commercials. Their main conclusion was striking. If we had to summarize the average story humans tell, it would go something like this: “Things get worse and worse until, at the last min… Related
14 September
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
What do you call that thing in old movies where an actor’s shadow is visible on the matte painting? Like they’re standing on top of a “mountain” gazing at the “sky” but their shadow appears on the sky. And somehow the film gets released with that mistake in it? Related
13 September
Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
10 September
Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.
We now have: 7% mortgage rates 5% bond yields 3.5% inflation A roaring stock bull market A transformational tech innovation boom Good movies Angst among the younger generation This really is the 1990s all over again inflation Related
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
9 September
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
Been really loving https://t.co/f0OCOuKkjP from @Meta and when I got early access it actually wound up helping me buy a bunch of stuff I would have struggled with otherwise. it has many thoughtful architectural choices around remote browsing ( really interesting UX modality ) and security that I think push the state of the art forward. Related
6 September
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.
Bluesky 👀 here's another take on browsing git history inside hunk: hunk-history (extension) ⬇️ looks pretty nice Related
x.com 👀 here's another take on browsing git history inside hunk: hunk-history ⬇️ looks pretty nice tbh Quoting @bentlegen 👀 latest hunk extension just dropped: hunk-commit-log - navigate diffs commit by commit - current commit msg + meta gets pinned to the top (from sadick254 on GitHub) Related
2 September
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.
Today in "iPhone apps are already iPad apps", here's Quick Reads for iOS running on iOS 27 as the screen gets wider with zero code changes so far. I really think this will be Apple's differentiator in folding phones. I'm kind of shocked how many Android apps simply don't take any advantage of a larger screen, while I think a lot of iPhone apps will do this automatically. If your app runs on the iPhone and iPad, it very likely may just work on day one without the dev needing to do anything. Related
British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.
it’s so absurdly redundant to make this, not even reimagine but cosplay the movies so slavishly, a bonfire of human creative effort, I love it, I’m in awe Quoting @DiscussingFilm The new trailer for the ‘HARRY POTTER’ series has been released. Releasing December 25 on HBO. Related
31 August
Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites.
🎉 Nestflix turned 5 years old this month! Time flies, whew. To celebrate, I made some t-shirts! If you love movies within movies or shows within shows, you can grab one too. 👉 nestflix.fun
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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.
interesting to read this article (in french) about how some movies are no longer distributed https://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/chroniques/2024-04-26/repertoire-des-films-disparus.php the only way I could find one of the movies in this article was to borrow the DVD from the library, and then I bought a DVD player on fb marketplace to watch it (also the tray on the DVD player I got wouldn't open so I ended up disassembling the DVD player to put the disc in) Related
16 August
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
I’m accumulating a list of movies that I might watch but definitely might not. The Spine of Night Beyond the Black Rainbow The Princess & the Dragon (2026) The Descent (2006) (okay definitely not watching this one, claustrophobia is a bad one for me) Related
13 August
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
7 August
Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein, a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025, and host of the Plain English podcast.
6 August
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.
I disagree, I don't think this has to be "game-over" for Google. I do think they have only one play left now - to pull from their own Android/Kubernetes playbook and fully embrace open-models. It's the obvious move in this situation. Details here: p3institute.substack.com
Quoting @firstadopter Jeff Dean and Demis Hassabis are the two most important AI executives at Google. Jeff is leaving and Demis is stepping down from day-to-day operational leadership at DeepMind. Game over. Google Related
4 August
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
Unexpected Codex use case: set up an Android handheld for me. @johnvoorhees got me into this: enable USB debugging and just let the agent rip. Codex installed Cocoon frontend on my AYN Thor, transferred all my ROMs, and is currently configuring emulators, mods, and other apps. It's just working in the background and cross-referencing YouTube/Reddit sources to set everything up, so I can focus on cooking for the family instead. Incredible. @dimillian Related
25 July
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
Lately, I've been running a local fork of the Android emulation frontend Cannoli, you can see the changes here: https://t.co/wCaJerqK3A I hope to get some some of these changes landed upstream, but in the meantime, it's so awesome to have a customized launcher that totally meets my niche needs like this. Thankful that the GPL exists to enable this type of work and delightful use of software. Related
23 July
American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.
I need testers for my awesome new CruiseSheet Android App. Please DM your play store email address if I can add you. iOS coming later... Related
16 July
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
13 July
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
Choosing Movies Almost surely, if you totaled up the number of hours of movie watching I’ve done and the hours of TV show watching I’ve done, TV dwarves movies.... chriscoyier.net
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11 July
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
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this will be the movie of the year, will leave a deep impact on any viewer and will go down as one of the great epic movies made
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18 June
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
I have a $30 stationary bike that I got at Goodwill and I have an old Android tablet stuck to it, but I don't have a Peloton membership. Nor do I have the interest to ride 80 miles to the beach. So I made http://PedalScape.com It's a local PWA, no backend at all, no tracking, just 4k bike rides. Related
9 June
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
Mastodon Work continues on Kyroh. Movies set in Egypt? I haven’t seen all of these, and I’m sure I’m missing some obvious ones. Haven’t kerned this one yet in case that’s not obvious! ;) Related
Bluesky Work continues on Kyroh. Movies set in Egypt? I haven’t seen all of these, and I’m sure I’m missing some obvious ones. Haven’t kerned this one yet in case that’s not obvious! ;) Related
17 March
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
To help find relevant RFCs no matter what your network connectivity, https://rfc.fyi now implements a service worker that caches the data locally for offline use, and can be installed as a Progressive Web app (PWA) -- i.e., you can install it to your iOS or Android home screen. Note that it still points to online-only RFCs at the RFC Editor site. Related
15 March
Indian software engineer working on Android and React; writes about his setup and side projects at ishubhamsingh.dev.
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A cute little beast, use it for personal projects and casual browsing
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Pretty much my bread and butter
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12 March
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
Just published my Laracon EU 2026 recap. Lots of great talks this year — highlights for me were Dan Harrin on abstractions, Peter Suhm on unblocking users with AI, and Shane Rosenthal showing NativePHP rendering actual native iOS and Android elements. Also a good reminder to finally look more seriously at PostgreSQL. https://stefanzweifel.dev/posts/2026/03/12/laracon-eu-2026-recap/ #LaraconEU Related
20 February
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
3 February
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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The Moonlight client is available for virtually every platform: Mac, iOS, Android, and of course Linux. That means no need to dual boot to enjoy the best games at the highest fidelity.
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20 January
American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.
This is supposed to be a dig against Linux, but it's actually why Linux is so great. There are so many different versions, all of which benefit from work on the kernel, software that runs on it, etc., but users can have the experience they want. I run Arch with Hyprland, but I'd never suggest that's the best for the average consumer. And if Arch or Hyprland become crappy in some way (like Windows has done...), I can switch to something else without losing my software, files, etc. This is also one of the reasons why Android is so much better than iOS. I can have a big folding phone (eventually… Quoting @eevblog Welcome to Linux. Linux Related
15 December 2025
American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
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This is Spinal Tap offers a lot of joy. It is one of the funniest movies ever made, a movie that can make you laugh until you cry, and also, make you laugh even if you have been crying.
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15 October 2025
Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.
Two great bits of academic attack work this week. The new one allows Android apps to see data displayed on the screen by other apps, including Google Authenticator codes. pixnapping.com
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14 September 2025
Co-creator of the Go programming language, of UTF-8 and of the Plan 9 operating system; formerly of Bell Labs.
2 September 2025
Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers. Publishes essays and an annual presentation on where the industry is going.
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The interesting Tesla point is people always looked at it and said, "It's the iPhone of cars." No, it's not. What's happening is that cars are becoming Android with no iPhone. And then Tesla is just selling and is is in that metaphor Tesla is just another android phone maker
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12 April 2025
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.
Stumbled on the first(?) RAG in NarrativeQA from 2017. Because books & movies were too large for LSTMs to do Q&A on, they embedded 200-word chunks and retrieved similar snippets to answer questions. "Chunking and cosine similarity retrieval is so 2017." arxiv.org
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26 March 2025
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
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The screen that I use to code from home, it's a 21:9 aspect ratio, which is perfect for coding and watching movies.
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21 February 2025
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
4 November 2024
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.
A funny side effect of the crackdown on "AI" scraping is that I keep getting banned from sites for browsing too quickly. I barely use reddit anymore and I still managed to get IP banned for scraping (the error message indicated that I should get in touch with them if I want to do bulk accesses). Related
29 September 2024
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
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2Do - Todo app, available on Mac, iOS, Android.
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7 August 2024
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
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For browsers, I use Safari for browsing and Google Chrome for development.
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20 July 2024
Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.
29 June 2024
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Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.
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one of the best movies I’ve seen all year, well worth paying to see on the big screen
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16 June 2024
Indian software engineer working on Android and React; writes about his setup and side projects at ishubhamsingh.dev.
7 January 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.
Is there really no way to pull the raw data storage from an app on an unrooted Android phone, for my own usage on my laptop? The internet really wants to suggest `adb backup` but also it seems like that hasn't worked for a while. Related
26 May 2022
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
@dunepod Best Dan Ackroyd movies are obviously Dragnet and Grosse Pointe Blank. Not sure how you missed those. Related
28 February 2021
Indian software engineer working on Android and React; writes about his setup and side projects at ishubhamsingh.dev.
10 October 2019
Programmer; started Rust, and writes long posts on language design, compilers and the history of computing.
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I do have a QNAP NAS for local file service, movies and music, but I foolishly bought one with too little RAM so to keep it from paging I have it reboot itself every 24 hours.
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22 August 2019
Writer and programmer; co-founder of the software studio Postlight and author of the Bloomberg Businessweek essay What Is Code?
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My phone is a maxed-out Google Pixel 3, which I use for phone things: Email, reading, web browsing, messaging, music, and taking pictures
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17 July 2019
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
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I use KDE Connect to sync my files and clipboard across my Android phone and Ubuntu desktop.
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9 October 2017
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
I created a little mobile game with @expo_io & @reactnative #iOS: https://t.co/R9bO0bwGE2 #Android: goo.gl
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9 September 2017
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
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As with movies, it's very rare for a book sequel to be so much better than the original. Seven Surrenders is rated 0.34 points higher on Goodreads than Lightning, which is the gap between an average book and "best of" lists.
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13 April 2017
Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system.
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I use irssi for IRC, Mutt/Geary for mail, Chromium for browsing, and Pidgin for IM.
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28 February 2017
Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.
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I have a Nexus 5X Android phone, and also use a Nexus 9 tablet for surfing the web and reading ebooks and technical papers.
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