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Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.

• knitr — A general-purpose tool for dynamic report generation in R

  CommitsEcho non-evaluated lines without a comment mask when eval is numeric (#2129) (#2514) · Add chunk option log.echo to stream executing code to stderr (#2222) (#2513) · spin(): add roxygen argument to preserve roxygen2 blo…

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Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.

• houseagent — AI smart home assistant using MQTT and GPT to generate playful event notifications

  Commitsfeat: calibrate office highlights against live logs · fix: preserve live Home Assistant metadata for office signals · feat: publish office signals with Jev judgment and reviewed narrative

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Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later joined Tailscale.

• go-tool-cache — Do you like Go's built-in build & test caching but wish it weren't purely stored on local disk in the $GOCACHE directory?

  Commitsgocached: derive put-queue caps from the host and memory budgets · gocached: give inline PUTs their own put-queue lane · gocached: create main blob shard dirs only when a rename says they're missing

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Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.

• litedown — A lightweight version of R Markdown (without using Pandoc or knitr)

  CommitsRun latexmk in the output directory when compiling to PDF (#168) (#169) · Document that a chunk option can't be set both globally and locally (#167) · Support numeric line numbers in the chunk option `echo` (#93) (#166)

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Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.

• New repofetch.py — Requests energy for when the dependency is the problem.

  CommitsPreserve healthy session connections after request failures · Unify buffered and streaming body reads · Add cross-platform CI and simplify response handling

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Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.

• emulate v0.11.2 is out Updates across six emulators: GitHub, Google, Resend, AWS S3, Slack, Microsoft GitHub → Raw Contents and README responses → Seed org members and admins → Checks handle branch and tag names with slashes → Org installation writes authenticate as the App bot Google → Calendar v3 discovery endpoint → RS256-signed ID tokens and JWKS for OIDC verification Resend → Idempotency keys for individual and batch sends, so retries don't create duplicate emails or webhooks AWS S3 → Preserve binary payloads on upload, copy, and download Slack → Truncate messages at 40,000 characters, w…

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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.

• A quick look into remote persistent sessions with Superlogical! Not just remote sessions, but some functionality like remote directory lists, too. Superlogical can actually be a full SSH replacement (I don't run SSH on my servers anymore), and I talk about that briefly, too.

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

• colloquium — A markdown native slides tool for academics building with agents.

  CommitsPreserve citations between comparisons in raw HTML

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British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.

• bootstrap-5-migrate-tool — A command-line tool designed to help you upgrade your Bootstrap 4 projects to Bootstrap 5

  CommitsPreserve quotes in CDN link replacements · Configure Prettier as default formatter for multiple types · Simplify CDN rewrites and refresh tooling

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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.

• An increasingly common pattern in my boring-administrivia workflows is creating a new folder with an inbox/ or unsorted/ subfolder, starting a Claude Code instance, and telling it "Watch that for changes, read incoming files, rename and organize into a directory structure."

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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

• pi-herdr-workers — Pi + Herdr: /team worker panes, /loop re-wakes, and MonitorCreate/List/Stop

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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

• reve — The directory is the agent: durable Ruby coding agents in mandatory microsandbox microVMs

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Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.

• Lately on the blog: My extensions in the PopClip directory

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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.

• There’s a libcurl.dll in my system32

  This afternoon I had a meeting with IT people at a huge US power infrastructure company. They had found a libcurl.dll file in their C:\Windows\System32 directory and asked us for help to upgrade it. Their vulnerability…

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Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.

• StaticHttpFileServer — Zig module for serving a directory of files from memory via HTTP

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Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.

• Ever since Xcode 26, SwiftUI previews haven't worked at all unless I disable sandboxing in my app. If I don't do that, I get this error: XOJITError: Could not create code file directory for session: Permission denied I keep hoping a new version of Xcode and/or macOS will fix it, but it's the same in the latest 27 betas. (Editor → Canvas → Use Legacy Previews Execution also doesn't fix it, but does change the error.) Apple folks: FB24222556

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Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.

• earthquake-notifier — This app sends a push notification when a notable earthquake happens near a monitored location (Kofu, Yamanashi by default). It is a near-real-time digest, not an early-warning…

  Commitsfix(alerts): preserve continuous alert radius · style(gates): match house JSDoc and drop a needless lint suppression · test(gates): replay the Uto revision sequence end to end

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Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.

• Hotheads

  Steady temperatures are the preserve of the rich. The billionaire press wants everyone else to suffer. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 1st July 2026 Every time you think the idiocy has hit rock bottom, it…

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Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.

• Something is wrong with my Claude Code and I can't figure it out... The latest model I can use is Opus 4.5. It claims that updates are available but Homebrew says I'm on the latest version. I've tried re-installing and clearing my .claude directory to no avail. I couldn't have used Fable last week even if I tried 😢 Any ideas?

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Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.

• Being able to swap windows and rotate panes in tmux is handy. You can do leader + < and swap a window to the left or right in the menu. You can also do leader + { and leader + } to rotate panes. There's also leader + space to cycle pane layouts.

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Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.

• londonbloggers — A revamp of the london bloggers directory

  Commitsavoid more errors · another smarty deprecation · modern php

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

• LLM Knowledge Bases Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating knowledge (stored as markdown and images). The latest LLMs are quite good at it. So: Data ingest: I index source documents (articles, papers, repos, datasets, images, etc.) into a raw/ directory, then I use an LLM to incrementally "compile" a wiki, which is just a collection of .md files in a directory structure. The wiki…

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Software developer who wrote Winamp and Gnutella, and now develops the REAPER digital audio workstation at Cockos.

• pathsync — an interactive directory (path) synchronizer for windows

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Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.

• forge-recipes — Scripts to use on Forge provisioned servers.

  CommitsUpdate .gitignore to exclude additional IDE and tool-specific files · Add .gitignore to exclude .idea and /vendor directories · Move set-global-nvm.sh to scripts/node directory

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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.

• How to add a directory to your PATH

  I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today. It&rsquo;s something that feels &ldquo;obvious&rdquo; to me since I&rsquo;ve been using the terminal for a long time, but when I searched for in…

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Founder and chief executive of Replit. Previously an engineer at Facebook and Codecademy. Writes essays on programming, philosophy and entrepreneurship at amasad.me.

• static-here — A command-line tool for creating a static file server from the current working directory.

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Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.

• js-proxy-tutorial

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

• keras-resources — Directory of tutorials and open-source code repositories for working with Keras, the Python deep learning library

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Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.

• datastorytelling — NYU ITP data storytelling

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Software developer; created Firebug, helped create Firefox on the Netscape browser team, and built the original Facebook iPhone app.

• mkdir — Node.js directory creation utilities

  Commits0.0.2 · * Use error name instead of numeric code (fixed on Node 0.6)

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