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20 September
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
19 September
Programmer, writer and musician; author of the Learn Code the Hard Way books and of Mongrel, the Ruby web server.
I crafted a jank powershell script to output random youtube thumbnails for my OpenGL series and this is today's gem: Related
18 September
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.
more codemode fun, doing a large mysql operation and the agent wanted to do it 50K rows at a time it writes a single codemode script which runs it in a loop and then you visualize it step by step even though it's code Related
17 September
Standards editor known as Hixie; edited the HTML and WHATWG living standards for many years and worked on Flutter at Google.
American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.
The first Julia Z adventure, ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM, is a Kindle monthly deal. You can grab it in anticipation of her return next year in WHAT BIRDS HAVE VANISHED. Quoting @headofzeus.bsky.social 'This is one of the best science-fiction books of the year' @theguardian.com It's publication day for #AllThatWeSeeOrSeem, the near-future thriller from the award-winning author of the #DandelionDynasty, @kyliu99.bsky.social Now available in Kindle Monthly Deals: Related
16 September
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
On Golden Gate, you can chat to the built-in foundation model directly with `fm chat`. You can also do things like pipeline it into scripts. E.g., in the second screenshot here it's reading and summarizing a @sixcolors article. The model's context window is quite small, so I had to write a script that chunked the text, so it's sort of serially summarized. Still, it’s nice to have fully-local access to this model in this way. Related
11 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.
10 September
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and Supercommunicators. Writes for The New Yorker.
If you sit down at your desk with a messy mind, your productivity is already dead. You need an unthinking pre-work routine that automates your focus before you start the real labor. Here’s an Olympic-level pre-work script you can use before you start any big task: Related
9 September
Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.
did you miss my ai engineer talk? i'm doing a slightly updated version about how i use codex to automate a lot of my work so i can focus on even bigger projects, work more closely with people, and think higher level 1. how to bring context into codex 2. how to get work done 3. how to give codex the power to do anything on my computer sept 10th 2pm EST maven.com
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8 September
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and Supercommunicators. Writes for The New Yorker.
You cannot delete a bad habit, because neurological pathways are permanently carved into your brain's tissue. But you can completely overwrite them. Here is the 4-step execution script to change it: 🧵 Related
5 September
Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.
3 September
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.
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2 September
Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.
I used to think AI productivity meant doing less. Automate the mechanical work, & human effort shrinks toward zero. The reality is stranger. Related
1 September
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.
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.
30 August
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
New in Worklog: Lists. Some checklists you run over and over: a packing list, a release run, the monthly invoicing routine. Tick through it, press Start again, and it is waiting unticked for next time. Can you spot that I'm planning my cycling trip? Related
19 August
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
New puzzle, as part of the series of monthly puzzlers with @MoMath1. As a variant: What if you start with pegs in all four corners of the square, and you want them to end up on corners of a bigger square? Related
17 August
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
Had a mini heart attack: contents of my iCloud drive disappeared... Somehow, still visible on https://t.co/56g50Dzvl1, on another computer, and on my phone - wtf is going on idk, but just in case, did a local backup and copying it over to my NAS. I've been putting it off to automate this for too long, will have to look into automating all that (already do it for photos btw) Related
15 August
Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
11 August
Interviewer; the Dwarkesh Podcast runs long, heavily researched conversations with AI researchers, historians and economists.
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Here's a quick shell script to use your monitor as a key light which can help with lighting when you have a web cam. It toggles a solid background color using your wallpaper tool of choice. nickjanetakis.com
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10 August
Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.
5 August
Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
1 August
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
27 July
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
17 July
Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
16 July
Co-founder of Ximian and Xamarin; CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021; now an independent investor and funder of open technical projects, including the Vesuvius Challenge to read the Herculaneum Papyri.
Vesuvius Challenge has been quietly making a lot of progress; we read a full scroll, developed a new unwrapping algorithm with a global spiral prior, and we just launched a new $1M grand prize for reading one of the scrolls we've scanned. There are also 10 $50k prizes available for finding text in a scroll we haven't found text in before, plus monthly progress prizes. Join the discord! Quoting @scrollprize A new phase BEGINS! 🚀 🏆 $1M Grand Prize 💰 $2M+ in open prizes 👑 $20K awarded every month to the best submission https://t.co/P6VuhVYK1L Will you read the next scroll? 👀 Spread the word and repost! 🔁 Related
17 June
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
4 June
Economist at Oxford's Global Priorities Institute; works on what advanced AI would do to growth, saving and the long-run economy.
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The better AI gets, the smaller its share of the economy might get – Alex Imas and Phil Trammell
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there's a sense in which nothing's yet been completely automated. If you look at the network-adjusted factor shares of a good, which is to say you look down the supply chain and say not just like the final step, but how much of that is done by capital and labor, but what went into the machines that can automate that final step. You'll find that labor's adding a lot of value down the supply chain.
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things have to go really wrong for us to like just get over the threshold of uh you know, capital being productive enough to automate lots of work, but not be productive enough that that the interest rate is high and or the price of capital produced goods is falling a lot, okay? So, even without redistribution, a little bit of savings will save a lot of people.
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24 May
Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.
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Automation is a lie. Um in the sense that every time you automate something, in order to make sure the automation is working well, you need a human on top of it like making sure that it's working well.
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30 April
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
Fireside chat at Sequoia Ascent 2026 from a ~week ago. Some highlights: The first theme I tried to push on is that LLMs are about a lot more than just speeding up what existed before (e.g. coding). Three examples of new horizons: 1. menugen: an app that can be fully engulfed by LLMs, with no classical code needed: input an image, output an image and an LLM can natively do the thing. 2. install .md skills instead of install .sh scripts. Why create a complex Software 1.0 bash script for e.g. installing a piece of software if you can write the installation out in words and say "just show this to… Quoting @stephzhan @karpathy and I are back! At @sequoia AI Ascent 2026. And a lot has changed. Last year, he coined “vibe coding”. This year, he’s never felt more behind as a programmer. The big shift: vibe coding raised the floor. Agentic engineering raises the ceiling. We talk about what it means to build seriousl… LLMs Related
24 April
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
17 April
Release engineering manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. Keeps a public log at tylercipriani.com of every book he reads, with a rating and notes.
Today's bash adventure, I never reach echo in this script: set -e (( X++ )) echo "X=$X" Why? Because (( X++ )) returns 0. And returning 0 from (( is a NON-zero exit code—an error. Because of course, how silly of me. Related
14 April
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
12 April
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
13 February
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
12 February
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.
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So, so, people who try to use like, you know, things like Gas Town or all these other orchestrators, where they wanna o- automate the whole thing, I feel if you do that, it misses style, love, that human touch. I don't think you can automate that away so quickly.
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2 February
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
22 January
Alignment researcher at Anthropic; co-led OpenAI's superalignment team until 2024, and writes Musings on the Alignment Problem.
14 January
Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.
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Several people recommended this memoir to me after learning about my monthly mixtape project.
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17 December 2025
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
Health Insurance: I'm still really happy with what I've been doing since since 2020: - Direct primary care (DPC) physician subscription - Sedera Health Sharing (alternative to insurance with a $5k annual max out of pocket type of setup) https://t.co/RB2oXA82eL Total monthly cost for me at 51 is about $400. And no copays for doctor visits! Cautions: works best for people without existing chronic expenses. Also check the ACA marketplace including subsidies which can be very affordable in some cases. Quoting @LancerShull @mrmoneymustache Wondering what your latest take is on health insurance? The marketplace plan I have more than doubled after an increase in income. Thanks for sharing your TRT experience. 👍💪☕ Related
27 November 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.
10 October 2025
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
I'm overdue for a @Betterment experiment update, but I really like these monthly emails. None of my other brokerages does it nearly as well. Also: Wooohoo to my dividend income alone having surpassed my $1000/month auto deposit! This is where your wealth really becomes a Snowball. Related
4 May 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.
8 April 2025
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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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Hammerspoon: To script macOS with Lua.
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22 March 2025
Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.
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And if you truly make yourself irrelevant, I would challenge you that you're just doing something that was just slightly too complicated to automate.
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8 July 2024
Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.
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Clients still pay a fixed monthly retainer to ensure the professional maintenance of the whole portfolio, and to get access to the expertise of all of Geomys’ maintainers.
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2 April 2024
Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.
31 March 2024
German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
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I use Alfred to quick access and control apps, manage entries in my clipboard and automate tasks.
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9 May 2023
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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There are a multitude of ways to automate things on your Mac, but Keyboard Maestro is an S-tier player in this space and I use it for everything I can.
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17 March 2022
Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.
3 March 2021
Co-creator of the Go programming language, of UTF-8 and of the Plan 9 operating system; formerly of Bell Labs.
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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This little gem is bananas. It's a tiny, amazingly fast free open-source utility for Windows. It lets you automate everything from keystrokes to mice.
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1 August 2020
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
Recommends rcmnd.app
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For websites that are habit-forming but still feel useful on net, like Twitter or Hacker News, Focus lets me restrict my usage to certain times of day. It’s the only website blocker I’ve used that lets me fully automate blocking things in the exact way I want.
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14 November 2019
Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.
3 January 2018
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
20 June 2012
Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.
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I have a script which mails to Instapaper the Hacker News front page twice a day. From there I can just tap on things and read them later, at any time, with Instapaper on my iPad or Windows Phone.
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17 May 2010
Writer and web developer; founding editor of Lifehacker, co-creator of ThinkUp and of the todo.txt format.
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