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20 September
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
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.
This is SO interesting because the OS market share for developers seems to be the inverse, based on devs in my “bubble” (those at startups + Big Tech) #1 MacOS #2 Linux #3 Windows I ran a survey here + on LI with 4,000 responses each - it’s what I mean by “bubble” Quoting @dhh The age of agents belongs to Linux! Linux startups Related
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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.
17 September
Linux kernel maintainer; runs the stable kernel releases and maintains the USB and driver core subsystems.
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
The Russian drone that crashed in Lithuania the other day had curl installed. As part of a default Linux install presumably, it seems unlikely it used curl for any "drony" things. Linux Russia Related
16 September
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
The agent stuff is meh, but having a cute little dedicated linux machine like this would be kind of neat. pamir.ai
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14 September
Linux kernel maintainer; runs the stable kernel releases and maintains the USB and driver core subsystems.
13 September
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.
If you haven't given Linux a go lately, try with agents. You can fix anything with a prompt now. Got a Dell XPS. Webcam wasn't working, told codex, it rebooted and now things work. Linux Related
10 September
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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At some point, the Linux press has to stop treating it as news that some weirdo who got comped a $50 droplet is mad about DigitalOcean donating $3m to the Omacom Foundation.
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9 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.
It looks like 2026 might be a record year for the number of commits to the Linux kernel. 2024 (6.7–6.12): 75,314 commits 2025 (6.13–6.18): 75,462 commits 2026 (through 7.2, released Aug 17): 60,862 commits Linux Related
Linux kernel maintainer; runs the stable kernel releases and maintains the USB and driver core subsystems.
7 September
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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Linux the cloud
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More and more of our personal and professional computing experiences will come from agents that orchestrate work in the cloud, using sandboxes. Those sandboxes will be Linux.
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Every piece of software is now at major risk, Linux included. But Linux has the collective investment of everyone on the planet throwing tokens at it.
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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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The case for *total* Linux victory (desktop, mobile, server, iot, robots, embedded…): 1) Most agent-programmable People will want fully personalized computing experiences.
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3 September
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later joined Tailscale.
1 September
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
26 August
Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.
x.com Here's my conversation with @DHH. He is back for round 2! It was an epic fun 5 hour conversation about the future of programming, AI, Linux, and human civilization. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 1:27 - Introduction 2:56 - Programming with AI agents 18:14 - How software will change 27:30 - AI impact on open source 37:21 - Building Omarchy Linux distro 47:05 - Vibe coding vs agentic engineering 1:00:06 - The end of manual programming 1:10:24 - Advice for programmers 1:22:30 - Surviving Internet Hate 1:31:46 - Programming set… Omarchy Linux Related
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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Linux
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Linux conquered everything else. All the AI infrastructure that everyone runs off, it's all running on Linux. All the systems, all the servers, everything is Linux. So it was kind of a curiosity that the desktop and the personal computers we were using really hadn't been captured, but clearly it was just waiting for this moment. Linux spent the time from '91 to now waiting for agents to fully flourish as an end user operating system.
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It is an infuriatingly locked-down computer. Now, to Apple's credit, it's a pretty good computer for being locked down, but I don't want a locked-down computer. I wanna own my computer. Better yet, I wanna mutate my computer, and this is where the agentic age needs a new operating system. When you can vibe code whatever app comes to your mind, you should be able to vibe code your operating system.
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25 August
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Omarchy Linux
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I don't require anyone to be as excited about AI or agents as I am. It's completely fine. But we also need someone in this camp in this Linux camp who are really excited about AI, who really leaning in with agents.
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24 August
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
people are fighting over linux distros again nature is healing Linux Related
21 August
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Devbox from @namespacelabs is fantastic. I can easily instruct the agent to compile and test Rust code on Linux without any complications. Plus, the Namespace GitHub Actions runner is incredibly fassssst. Running the gh actions for https://t.co/kEGJe02vUE very smooth and fast. Linux Related
Writes and podcasts Volts, on the technology, politics and policy of decarbonisation; covered energy and climate at Vox and Grist before that.
18 August
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.
poll: when you first learned linux/unix, did you use (you can pick more than one): (not looking for extra details right now, I'm just reflecting on the role of "free internet resources" recently) Linux Related
16 August
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
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Nicely written and an entertaining story of Linus Torvalds and the creation of Linux kernel. I read it in high school and it definitely strengthened my interest in computer programming.
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15 August
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Same Playbit program running on a Mac and a Raspberry Pi, local-first multiplayer over internet relay (not LAN; real-world latency) and webgpu. Exact same wasm running in both places. @playbit_ for Linux (Wayland) coming soon! Linux Related
Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.
10 August
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Is there a service where I can rent access to Linux desktop machines with actual displays? We're implementing the Playbit runtime for Linux and it's surprisingly difficult to test various desktop configurations. We need a real GPU with a display connected, for testing dawn/webgpu, vsync, display sleep, etc. We use Modal and AWS, neither have had machines that I've been able to test with properly. Ideally there's a way to test a variety of systems (like ubuntu, arch, alpine etc) × GPUs (nvidia, amd, intel) × window managers. Linux Related
27 July
Linux kernel maintainer; runs the stable kernel releases and maintains the USB and driver core subsystems.
25 July
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
Being Linux Torvalds (This blog post was adapted from the transcription obtained from my YouTube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6lxgYeVZqs) When Linus Torvalds developed the first Linux kernel, he had studied the Minix sources, h…
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23 July
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
AI in Linux The role of AI tools (LLMs, mainly) in Linux is under discussion, or it was, until Linus Torvalds “put his foot down” in support of the use of AI in Linux kernel development. I can identify two major ways in which AI is…
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17 July
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
7 June
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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Void Linux on my desktop
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29 May
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
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For now, I think Framework's 13" lineup is more compelling if you favor repairability/upgradeability and top-tier Linux support.
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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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I would say here that the Linux kernel is truly unique in this particular aspect in that they have thousands of contributors doing it on work time. I actually think that the Rust project is doing pretty well at having people do it and get paid for it like by their employer, but it's nowhere near the to the same extent as as the Linux kernel.
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The big news were that at the Linux kernel maintainer summit, we agreed that Rust is no longer experimental in the kernel. That was really big for us compared to the previous year.
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Another thing that's really cool is you can contribute to the Linux kernel without contributing to the Linux kernel, right? because you might take a Rust language feature we need and implement it and now you've contributed to the Linux kernel indirectly
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13 May
Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
6 May
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
I like how I can have a 12 year old dev box not only be "good enough", but run very well on a modern Linux system. I just added this to the DotFriedRice FAQ in case you're wondering if an Arch / niri based desktop environment runs well on older machines. Linux Related
18 April
Mac and iOS developer; created NetNewsWire and MarsEdit, co-created the JSON Feed format, and blogs at inessential.com.
8 April
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Linux
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But I have come to realize that as a web developer, Linux is just better. Linux is just better. It's closer to what I deploy on. The tooling is actually phenomenal.
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anyone who's working with the web, who's working with Ruby, who's doing DevOps, they should be on Linux because first of all, that's closer to what we deploy.
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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.
18 February
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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
19 January
Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.
8 August 2025
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
What's new with Himitsu 0.9? Last week, Armin and I worked together on the latest release of Himitsu, a “secret storage manager” for Linux. I haven’t blogged about Himitsu since I announced it three years ago, and I thought it would be nice to give…
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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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18 July 2025
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
just gonna put this out there in case any Godot contributors see this! I know it's not a high priority issue, but I use Wayland on Linux and the latest Godot 4.5 beta spams an error message in the console constantly, which is really very annoying. Would *really* love it if somebody could fix this for the Godot 4.5 release, or even just comment out the specific line that's outputting this message. It's line 1052 in display_server_wayland.cpp, I'm guessing! Linux Related
24 May 2025
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
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Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Ed. - Robert Love (Addison-Wesley, 2010)
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Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Ed. - Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati Ph.D. (O'Reilly, 2005)
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30 April 2025
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
3 April 2025
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
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Proxmox: main OS on my PC, runs multiple Linux/Windows VMs.
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NixOS: OS used on most of my Linux VMs.
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13 February 2025
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
Terry's Other Games launches today! 5pm CET on steam and itch.io, for Windows, Mac and Linux! Linux Related
13 September 2024
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
Anyone here done modern laptop research recently? I'm thinking of getting a new one, recommendations welcome! Things I care about: - good build quality (especially, good quality keyboard and track pad) - lightweight - good battery life - powerful enough to run e.g. Godot and blender well, but it's just for work so it doesn't have to be a gaming machine - wanna exclusively run Linux on it 🤓 Linux Related
22 May 2024
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
Ok, thanks all! After my current project wraps up I think I'm going to backup my windows laptop and try single booting Linux Mint for a while, with a virtual machine for making Windows builds of things. Linux Related
21 May 2024
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
anyone have a link to a nice non-techy guide for people considering Linux dual booting in 2024? Linux Related
24 March 2024
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
27 January 2024
Programmer and author of Modern C++ Design and The D Programming Language; a lead contributor to the D language.
Wondering how to grok this. Cannot write to ‘nvhpc_2023_2311_Linux_x86_64_cuda_12.3.tar.gz’ (Success). Linux Related
22 November 2023
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
29 July 2023
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
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 Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk – an exhaustive reference on how Linux works. There are about a million chapters, but every individual chapter is pretty short and I find it quite readable.
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13 January 2023
Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system.
22 December 2020
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
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Windows Terminal - Finally Windows has a modern terminal. You can run shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
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It really can't be overstated how WSL/WSL2 has put the cherry on top of Windows 10.
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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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I run the Elementary GNU/Linux distribution, and Macintosh System 7 via Mini vMac.
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I run the Elementary GNU/Linux distribution, and Macintosh System 7 via Mini vMac.
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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 Ulauncher as the application launcher of my preferred choice on Linux.
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17 January 2019
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
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My laptops generally run Alpine Linux or 9front (you can take that as an endorsement), or MINIX or OpenBSD.
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My laptops generally run Alpine Linux or 9front (you can take that as an endorsement), or MINIX or OpenBSD.
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17 November 2017
Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.
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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At work, I mostly use an HP Z620 Workstation with an NVidia GPU card in it, running Linux, with a single 30" monitor.
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1 October 2016
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.
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The other downside of this book is that the author loses all objectivity any time Linux and Windows are compared.
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26 November 2015
Game developer, formerly at Looking Glass Studios, and author of the stb single-file public-domain C libraries used across the games industry.
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For editing text in Windows outside of VC6, I use Metapad; when I'm on a Mac or Linux, I use vim.
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12 March 2015
Maintainer of Git, the distributed version control system, since Linus Torvalds handed him the project in 2005.
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I however recently started to experiment with crouton, which allows me install a chrooted Ubuntu (or other variants of Linux) on a Chromebook and I can use GnuCash there. So far, this set-up seems to be working well enough for me, so I may be able to lose the Vizio someday.
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7 October 2014
Norwegian web pioneer who proposed Cascading Style Sheets in 1994 while at CERN, and was CTO of Opera Software. Also runs a small organic farm.
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I currently run Linux Mint on the Thinkpad.
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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.
22 April 2014
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
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Back in 2009, my music player of choice was Amarok 1.4. This was by far the best music player I had ever used on Windows, Mac, or Linux, especially when combined with the wonderful ReplayGain plugin.
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5 November 2013
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
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When I connect to a Linux box, I use vim as a text editor. For various reasons, I tend to write a lot of my software in vim.
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I use an Ubuntu distro for Linux, mostly because it is the most popular option.
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15 November 2012
Linux kernel maintainer; runs the stable kernel releases and maintains the USB and driver core subsystems.
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I use quilt on top of git for handling the Linux kernel stable patch set as the workflow there does not lend itself to a pure git environment.
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I run Gentoo Linux on my servers and my build machine.
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4 September 2012
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
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I'm a Linux guy. I run Linux on as many machines as possible and out of all distros I really prefer Debian.
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24 August 2012
Author of the open source projects MessagePack, Fluentd and Embulk, and co-founder and chief architect of Treasure Data.
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Computer: My only machine is a 13" MacBook Air. I switched my daily partner from Linux boxes to Mac laptops 5 years ago. I love Macs since they work well with both UNIX tools and Adobe software.
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17 April 2012
Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.
6 January 2012
Computer scientist and professor; author of The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. and of a long-running blog on programming languages, research and academia.
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My only regret in switching from Linux to OS X is giving up the raw efficiency of tiling window managers like ion. ShiftIt makes up some of the difference.
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16 December 2011
Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later joined Tailscale.
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Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.
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Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.
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Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.
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My main desktop at home is 2005 Mac Mini running Linux. I upgraded the RAM and added an Intel SSD to it. It's very old and slow but it's pretty quiet and I'm too lazy to replace it.
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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
nvALT
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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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21 October 2011
Programmer, writer and musician; author of the Learn Code the Hard Way books and of Mongrel, the Ruby web server.
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I use awesome for my window manager on Linux since it's mostly keyboard based.
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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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