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American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.

• spanish-frequency-list-maker — Build a personal Spanish lemma frequency list from subtitle and text files

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Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.

• Projects have changed not only how I interact with Claude but how I code. I stopped managing sessions. I just send thoughts as they come, Claude splits them into threads, and the project remembers how I work. It's where I do a ton of my coding now. [screenshot: my actual prompts for claude code cli yesterday]
  Quoting@ClaudeDevsToday we're rolling out Projects in Claude Code on desktop and web. A project is one conversation with Claude. It splits the work into threads itself, runs them as parallel cloud sessions, passes context between them, and keeps going when you leave. In beta for select users.

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Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.

• Actuality vs. Possibility and How to Hear the Signal of Your Life

  Sitting atop a Spanish mesa one sweltering August night, watching the Perseid meteor showers streak the sky with the debris of a comet burning through the atmosphere against the backdrop of a billion dead stars whose si…

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Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.

• Top Links 1227 Is AI heading for a clash with Wall Street and the White House? Slough and the planet. The Azores and the Spanish treasure convoys.

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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.

• Proofs, Prompts and Posts

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Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.

• Excellent free zine about overcoming voting barriers in the US "Plenty of people hit a wall when they try to vote. Their name is missing from the voter list. The mail ballot never showed up. The signature on the envelope doesn't match. Someone at the door tells them they can't. None of that happens by chance. This guide covers the barriers that come up most often, and what to do about each one. English and Spanish versions are the same zine" From @monteiro and friends

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Management writer; co-author of In Search of Excellence (1982) and author of The Excellence Dividend.

• Two most powerful words in the English language: T-H-A-N-K Y-O-U ❗️👍💥⭐️🌈

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Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.

• Warm Gear

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Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.

• New on @llmgateway: Adaptive Cache-Aware Provider Selection Routing learns cache-hit rates and output-to-input proportions from recent project/model usage to compare providers for large prompts and sessions. Available automatically across plans, with workload defaults before enough history exists and explicit overrides on Enterprise. Learn more

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German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.

• Does anyone have a high resolution copy of Shishkin’s Brook in a Forest (Stream by a Forest Slope)? Wikipedia has the highest resolution I can find, but not nearly high enough to print at a reasonable size. I’ve already looked through the top hits on Google and Yandex in both English and Russian. Is this just a dead end?

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Statistician at Columbia; writes Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and wrote Bayesian Data Analysis.

• Why I still like Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” essay (even though he gets some of the linguistics wrong)

  Brett Reynolds writes: I liked the two-column move in your Orwell post. It seems genuinely useful. I wondered, though, about the choice of Orwell as patron saint for the argument. The central point in your post seems st…

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Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and HEY; co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.

• Just built my first Omarchy plugin! This also happens to be the first piece of software I've ever made solo entirely with AI. Back-and-forth over English and nothing else. So two firsts for me. Super fun experience. Here's a quick little tour. Hope you dig it.

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Researcher of social media, privacy and youth culture; founder of Data & Society and author of It’s Complicated.

• "Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census" comes out in one month! Please pre-order the book if you can (or ask your library for a copy). You can choose French or English, audio, e-book, or hardcover.

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Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.

• I like 'em thick

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Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.

• If you also despise just how insufferable models are, telling them to use only ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English seems to improve things quite a bit.

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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.

• Here's my conversation with Khabib Nurmagomedov (@TeamKhabib), one of the greatest fighters of all time. It was truly an honor to get to train with him, to have this deep conversation, and to get to know him over the past few months. We did this conversation entirely in Russian. It's translated and dubbed into English. Both language audio tracks and subtitles are available on YouTube. Here on X, I'm posting the English & Russian language versions as seperate videos. The translation & dubbing was a huge amount of work (which I deeply care about) with humans & AI collaborating. Thanks to the am…

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Political scientist and Baptist pastor; writes Graphs about Religion, charting American religious life from survey data.

• Finance Majors Go to Church. English Majors Don't

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Polyglot; founded Fluent in 3 Months and argues for speaking from day one rather than waiting until you are ready.

• Poder Conjugation: All Tenses, Explained Simply (with Examples)

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Climate scientist and energy systems analyst; writes The Climate Brink with Andrew Dessler and leads climate research at Stripe.

• The real energy use of agentic AI

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Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.

• 88 Prompts for Long Term Thinking

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Polyglot; founded Fluent in 3 Months and argues for speaking from day one rather than waiting until you are ready.

• Querer Conjugation: Main Tenses, Explained Simply (with Examples)

  Learn the main forms of the Spanish verb querer with tables and examples, including regional context for te quiero and te amo.

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Polyglot; founded Fluent in 3 Months and argues for speaking from day one rather than waiting until you are ready.

• Ir Conjugation: All Tenses, Explained Simply (with Examples)

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Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.

• changelog-plugin — Prompts your coding agent for a CHANGELOG.md entry whenever you open a pull request.

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Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.

• vscode-copilot-footprint — Copilot Footprint is a VS Code extension that estimates the environmental footprint (energy, CO₂e, water, tree equivalent, and real-world equivalents) of GitHub Copilot tok…

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Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.

• How to Find Time to Learn a Language: My Daily Routine

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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.

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Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.

• Also, the new @NotebookLM research agent has the full context of the project you're working on—current sources, chat history, etc—so you can do nuanced research prompts like: "given everything we've reviewed so far, what topics are we missing? Find me sources on those topics."
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Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.

• chrome-edge-extension-github-copilot-render — A Chrome and Edge extension that makes GitHub Copilot customization files easier to read directly on GitHub.

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Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.

• "the model proved a result that in my assessment would have made a perfectly reasonable chapter in a [math] PhD thesis. It did this in a total of a couple of hours, with a few prompts from me that contained no mathematical input whatsoever."
  Quoting@wtgowersI've recently got in on the act of getting AI to solve open problems in mathematics. More precisely, I gave some questions asked by Melvyn Nathanson to ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to which I have been given access, and it answered them. 🧵

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Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.

• The Best Way to Learn Italian (2026 Guide)

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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

• Henry Oliver on Measure for Measure, Late Bloomers, and the Smartest Writers in English

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Language mentor and polyglot; teaches people to design their own learning method rather than follow a course.

• Bilingual Parenting in Practice: How My 1.5-Year-Old Understands Two Languages

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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.

• Training an LLM-RecSys Hybrid for Steerable Recs with Semantic IDs

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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.

• Domain Experts: The Lever for Vertical AI

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Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.

• Improve English Vocabulary The Fun Way

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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.

• cchistory: Tracking Claude Code System Prompt and Tool Changes

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Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.

• Just released a v1.1 patch for my Other Games. Things are feeling pretty stable, so this might be the last one? Highlights are: it shows a pop-up on itch for achievements now, it has improved accessibility options, and I added Japanese and LATAM Spanish localisations:

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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.

• Prompts are code, .json/.md files are state

  Treating LLMs as shitty general purpose computers we program with natural language. Because throwing shit at the wall wasn't working anymore.

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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.

• @hamel.bsky.social & his wisdom on evals, error analysis, looking at your data is what we need. Here are his 10 Don'ts: • Don't skip error analysis • Don't skip looking at your data • Don't gatekeep who can write prompts • Don't let zero users be a roadblock • Don't be blindsided by criteria drift

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• 2yo: it’s coldy outside weird that it can be sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy, windy, stormy, even chilly… but not coldy sorry kid, English is hard

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Author of Fluent Forever and founder of the app of the same name; teaches pronunciation first and vocabulary through images rather than translation.

• Best Books to Read for Learning Spanish: A Science-Based Strategy for Beginners and Intermediates

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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.

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