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20 September
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
19 September
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
18 September
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
13 September
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
In Egypt, you can be at a high end restaurant and have street cats come up and say hi. Some consider this a problem but not me. 🥰 Related
8 September
Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.
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researchers started by seeking a 1:1 mapping between neurons and concepts, like a neuron that always fired when the AI was thinking about cats, but quickly learned that nothing like that existed.
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7 September
Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.
Pretty cool to see your WordPress site as a connector in the Claude mobile app. It is a streamable-http MCP server by Agent Pilot plugin combined with OAuth Pilot for seamless auth. Also works with the official MCP-adapter feature plugin. MCP Anthropic Related
3 September
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.
2 September
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
1 September
Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
I've had to "unlock" my developer Apple ID once every 5 days on average for the past three months, and once per day for the past three days. Each time I do it, I have to perform a delicate dance to navigate what seems to be some kind of request throttling that gives me HTTP 503 responses during the unlock process, making it impossible to complete its several steps. Then my session times out and I have to start over. I've been trying to unlock my ID for about an hour so far this morning… Related
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
31 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.
17 August
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
In case anyone else trips over this: There seems to be an IPv6 routing loop between us-west-2 and the network Let's Encrypt sends HTTP challenges from; this is causing renewals to fail. I've emailed the network engineering contact listed in ARIN whois. Related
14 August
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
“Nobody who loved architecture and cats as much as Lovecraft could ever be a good nihilist.” (Didn’t catch which panelist this was) Related
12 August
Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
Professor at Stanford working on robot learning and meta-learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence.
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without metadata prompting when you add lower quality data from 80% data to 100% data the performance actually decreases which is perhaps not too surprising because you're adding lowquality data to your data mixture whereas with the metadata prompting the performance actually increases when you add that lowquality data
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10 August
Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.
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that child who learns about what you say kitty cat would not have the chance to download the internet of images of cat. They likely have seen three cats, 10 cats at most, but yet they're able to identify that tail as a cattail instead of a fox tail through a different kind of learning pathway.
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9 August
Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
7 August
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
What 120 million HTTP responses from Common Crawl reveal about how protocol extensions actually get deployed — and what that should tell us when we design new ones. mnot.net
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2 August
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
27 July
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
HTTP Message Signatures with curl The recently published RFC 9421 describes how to do HTTP Message Signatures, and starting just now, curl experimentally supports them. Message Signatures The specification describes this as a mechanism for creating, enc…
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19 July
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
16 July
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
Workshop Basel day three See also: day one, day two. There is only one thing that is better than two days of HTTP workshop, and that is of course three days of HTTP workshop. The final day of this edition of the series started out with us again…
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14 July
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
Workshop Basel day one On this hot summer’s day in Basel, Switzerland, the seventh HTTP workshop started. These events tend to work roughly the same way and the people in the room are also to large extent familiar and known since previous edi…
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13 July
Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.
29 June
Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
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HTTPS is now simply how the web works, and the long tail of plain-HTTP sites is shrinking every year.
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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
16 June
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
31 May
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.
30 April
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
26 April
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
Today's Community Office Hours I started was fun! 🤩 Built some super cool stuff including: - A portal for Cats in Tech for members! - A portal for SSoC that tracks Live PRs getting merged! - A certificate distribution engine for comms! Happy to chat with you all on these! 💪🏻 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.
22 April
Author of the open source projects MessagePack, Fluentd and Embulk, and co-founder and chief architect of Treasure Data.
8 April
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.
7 April
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.
dcmake: a new CMake debugger UI CMake has a --debugger mode since 3.27 (July 2023), allowing software to manipulate it interactively through the Debugger Adaptor Protocol (DAP), an HTTP-like protocol passing JSON messages. Debugger front-ends can star…
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2 April
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
Have a @nuxt_js project? Use NuxtSeo? Upgrade to latest and check out http://localhost:3000/__nuxt-seo-utils/ 🤯 @harlan_zw is a wizard 🧙🏼 Related
31 March
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
New supply chain attack this time for npm axios, the most popular HTTP client library with 300M weekly downloads. Scanning my system I found a use imported from googleworkspace/cli from a few days ago when I was experimenting with gmail/gcal cli. The installed version (luckily) resolved to an unaffected 1.13.5, but the project dependency is not pinned, meaning that if I did this earlier today the code would have resolved to latest and I'd be pwned. It's possible to personally defend against these to some extent with local settings e.g. release-age constraints, or containers or etc, but I thin… stepsecurity.io
Quoting @feross 🚨 CRITICAL: Active supply chain attack on axios -- one of npm's most depended-on packages. The latest axios@1.14.1 now pulls in plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, a package that did not exist before today. This is a live compromise. This is textbook supply chain installer malware. axios has 100M+ weekly downl… Related
7 March
Ruby and Rails core committer known online as "tenderlove"; maintains Nokogiri and works on Ruby performance.
18 February
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
omnishare-website — omnishare-website Commits fix: Update contact email in Privacy Policy and Terms components · chore: Remove deprecated icon.svg and update layout metadata for new icon path · feat: Enhance Features, Hero, and Users components with animation suppo…
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10 September 2025
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
Something has changed recently in Safari (I have 18.6) where instead of asking you to confirm you want to connect insecurely to an HTTP server, it seems to try to automatically upgrade the connection to HTTPS and fail outright with an "unable to establish secure connection" without recourse if it can't. How.. do you get around this to connect to something like a local HTTP server with no cert/https? Related
4 September 2025
Palaeontologist at Queen Mary University of London; studies dinosaur behaviour and writes about what the fossil record can and cannot tell us.
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But this is the absolute rule of thumb for how foraging and growth and predation operate across everything from fish to starfish, praying mantises, all the way up to things like big cats via stuff like crocodiles. It's how it works. So it'd be very weird if it didn't also operate for dinosaurs. And then, as I say, we've actually got the direct evidence for this from bite marks and stomach contents. They're taking small stuff.
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29 August 2025
Release engineering manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. Keeps a public log at tylercipriani.com of every book he reads, with a rating and notes.
``` GET /about/ HTTP/1.1" 200 6659 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; +In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.)" ``` hrm, "block its IP address"? ``` $ sudo awk '/Thinkbot/ {print "IP:",$2}' /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log | sort | uniq | wc -l 60 ``` Hosting things on the internet in 2025 is stupid. Related
20 August 2025
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
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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I highly recommend starting from scratch if you want to understand a concept. You don't know how an HTTP server works, create a TCP socket, learn how to parse HTTP.
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2 March 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.
My website is online as http at https://t.co/1cRpD64hyP, but I just broke the https links, sorry. If you delete the "s" then the links should still work. Related
5 November 2024
Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.
31 October 2024
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
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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Thoroughly enjoyable, stuffed with beautiful shots of Istanbul and cats, with particularly clever ankle-level tracking shots following the semi-feral cats around.
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24 May 2024
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
7 August 2023
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.
Graceful behavior at capacity Suppose we’ve got a service. We’ll gloss over the details for now, but let’s stipulate that it accepts requests from the outside world, and takes some action in response. Maybe those requests are HTTP requests, or…
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27 August 2022
Programmer; co-founded GitHub and was its CEO, and created the Mustache templating language and Resque.
21 August 2021
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.
1 August 2021
Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.
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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Fiddler - The easy, clean, and powerful debugging proxy for checking out HTTP between here and there. It even supports sniffing SSL traffic.
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19 June 2020
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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This from John Schulman is worth reading: http://joschu.net/blog/opinionated-guide-ml-research.html
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20 June 2019
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
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Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.
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