Related posts
swyx
GitHub
swyxdotio — This is the repo for swyx's blog - Blog content is created in github issues, then posted on swyx.io as blog pages! Comment/watch to follow along my blog within GitHub
repo pages
The the words it uses that this site has seen
least often elsewhere. Posts are matched on those words alone —
nothing here is a summary of this one.
Sources
All Writing GitHub Blog x.com Korrents Mastodon Newsletter Recommends Bluesky Site
Top people
Bob Nystrom
Julia Evans
Jason Evanish
Iván Olivares Rojas
Simon Willison
Gergely Orosz
Meb Faber
Brent Simmons
Andrew Plotkin
Sebastian Raschka
Ali Alaa
Chip Huyen
Showing Profile →
Show everything
Hiding Show them again
Show them again
Further back ↓
Hiding Show them again
20 September
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
17 September
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
Time to leave one `amp --no-tui` running on your Mac mini and forget about it. It now serves every repo on the machine, and keeps itself updated. Related
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.
16 September
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
14 September
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.
Quick Reads now saves multi-page websites As of today, Quick Reads now attempts to save all pages of the multi-page articles you save to the service. This works no matter how you save articles (browser extension, iOS app, API, or pasting into the website). For…
Related
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
Built a little local web app to help edit commit messages for a repo Related
12 September
Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.
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.
Their words
They’ve been going native since 2019, rewriting one page at a time. Did an interview with their team in 2024, by when they migrated most of the app to native. The last few pages still remain.
Show the whole quote
@GergelyOrosz on X x.com
11 September
Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.
𝗕𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗡𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗼𝗻, 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸. 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁. My guest today is Robin Wigglesworth (@RobinWigg), editor of @FTAlphaville and author of A Fabulous Debt, a thousand-year history of the market that sets the price of everything else. We get into: • An Austrian 100 year bond that lost 80%, while a defaulting Argentina paid off better • Why T-bills feel safe but can lose you 50%+ in real terms after inflation • Is private credit the next systemic blowup? • Why the $12 trillion repo mar… inflation Related
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
10 September
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Save a 4K wallpaper as a JPEG, then try to get the 4K back. You can't. A prompt is lossy too. Hand it to someone else and you get a different app. Clone the repo and you get mine. Prompting is not programming, people. Related
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.
Though I am a university professor, I am critical of the value of the education we provide. And I am the fellow who published several manuals. Probably thousands of pages over the years. I believe that @bryan_caplan and his case against education (great book) is more right than wrong. Formally speaking, I am often classified as a 'software engineering professor'. Let me cite Parnas, one of the most influential software engineering professors there is: « I observe that most software developers ignore the bulk of our research. Whereas practising engineers find things of value in research public… Related
8 September
Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.
Probably time to replace gitweb, cgit, etc with client side js that fetches from the git repo. I would prefer to not build this myself. Related
Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
Vercel listening to users 👏 . Next step: no pricing per seat and at least 1 private repo to build something as growth business and I will use it again. Quoting @vercel Introducing Flat Rate CDN for Pro teams. • Fixed monthly pricing in one predictable bill • Premium global network performance • Automatic protection for viral spikes Related
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
7 September
Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
3 September
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.
One more for the night: emulate v0.11 – Shared Next.js/Nuxt adapter runtime with persistent GitHub App key state – Linear issues now expose priorityLabel – GitHub token inspection adds perms, repo access, expiry and status github.com
Related
British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.
Their words
GitHub Pro - Well worth $48 per year for GitHub Pages, traffic stats and all the other benefits.
Show the whole quote
christianoliff.com
2 September
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
31 August
Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
Private GitHub registries for shadcn will change how corporates ship design systems. npx shadcn list org/repo Same workflow for every team. No more "Figma is the source of truth and the code is a rumor." Related
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.
I'm working on phase 2 of Project Improve Git's documentation and I need beta readers! Here's a signup form: https://forms.gle/swn1jhCULndnCxG87 The first topic is going to the docs on merge conflicts. I'd love signups from anyone who uses Git on the command line and who would be interested in reading the current version of some man pages and leaving feedback about what's confusing. Especially if you're not 100% comfortable with Git! documentation Related
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
LLMs
Their words
Also the irony knowing that every single LLM is trained on billions of pages of copyrighted data
Show the whole quote
levels.io
30 August
CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp.
does anyone read op/ed sections anymore? When I was younger it seemed like a lot of the most interesting opinions were on the op-ed pages of newspapers. You had these really interesting opinion columnists like George Will, Thomas Friedman, and others that wrote very interesting columns back in the day (when I was a kid). but today it seems the op-ed pages are for ghosts and people over 70 years old. all the interesting opinion writers have moved to creating their own newsletter, writing on X, etc. I still read the "print" edition of the Wall Street Journal every day - cover to cover ... with… Related
28 August
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
my cofounder @dylanr built a cool skill. its called review squad. We pointed it at own site and it found 50 things wrong with it, including our company name misspelled, in two languages, on two of our own legal pages, for months. it is very effective. Related
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
Recommends their own rcmnd.app
eve
Their words
But how many that give you a Git repo where you actually *own* the entire intelligence stack? Runtime, model choice, skills, tools, connectivity, sandbox…
Show the whole quote
x.com
27 August
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Omarchy Nix
Their words
Maybe Nix is like Rust: Amazing if you don't have to look at the code! I'm open to the idea that Omarchy Cinque could switch packaging system if I never have to look at nixlang, there are no ergonomic regressions, and we have full repo sovereignty.
Show the whole quote
@dhh on X x.com
25 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.
big news about the Wizard Zines store: print orders from Europe now ship from a European warehouse in Germany!!! We've been having a lot of issues with duties & fees for European customers because of shipping from the US so I'm very excited for this. get your zines here: https://wizardzines.com/ (and here's the shipping FAQ with all the details: https://store.wizardzines.com/pages/shipping-policy) Europe Related
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
Their words
With thousands of developed in a mono repo, it just does happen that one directory is missing one of the two files and this means that a subset of devs work with lobotomy. We fix this with automation but it’s a stupid complexity tax that shouldn’t have to be paid.
Show the whole quote
@tobi on X x.com
24 August
Mac and iOS developer; created NetNewsWire and MarsEdit, co-created the JSON Feed format, and blogs at inessential.com.
22 August
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Two internet pages that has been low key crushing it for me lately is @modal and Cloudflare. So good. Especially impressed by Modal. Feels like the Linear/Stripe of infra (“just do what they do and you’ll be fine because they thought through every detail”) Related
20 August
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Bluesky I've updated all the Visible Zorker pages to include a search field. You can search for objects, routines, variables, and game text. blog.zarfhome.com/2026/08/visi... Yes, the word “Zork" is temporarily swamped in gaming news due to some FromSoftware article. Big deal. Related
Mastodon I've updated all the Visible Zorker pages to include a search field. You can search for objects, routines, variables, and game text. https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/08/visible-zorker-search Yes, the word “Zork" is temporarily swamped in gaming news due to some FromSoftware article. Big deal. #Zork #InteractiveFiction Related
19 August
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
13 August
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.
Their words
I'm so incredibly tired of seeing low-effort AI-designed web pages. I basically bounce off any new product immediately when I see it (never get a chance to judge the product itself). Lots of thin lines, glowy styles, inconsistent fonts, lots of monospace.
Show the whole quote
@mitchellh on X x.com
12 August
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
Their words
it's always weird to me just how much software engineers really seem to believe that the world exists in the repo. It doesn't. It's production, you know?
Show the whole quote
youtube.com
7 August
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
Just saw that the LLMs-from-scratch repository passed 100,000 stars on GitHub! This is super cool and motivating. I am really happy to see that this open-source repo has helped so many people. Thanks also to everyone who shared ideas and opened PRs with improvements! Of course, I plan to keep adding new material, including new attention variants and architectures (while bigger projects like RL and Reasoning From Scratch live in their separate repositories). I am also currently working on a larger applied custom “small” LLM project. It has been keeping me super busy this month, but I will shar… LLMs Related
2 August
Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.
27 July
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
Why is @Cloudflare not making it default to have `nodejs_compat` in pages? Related
14 July
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.
7 July
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
25 June
Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
28 May
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
Recommends their own rcmnd.app
RemCTL
Their words
Once you have RemCTL installed with various permissions granted, I recommend asking your agent of choice to install the skill in the repo for itself.
Show the whole quote
macstories.net
6 May
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
deepsec is very cool! I ran it against our main backend repo at @khanacademy and it found some really interesting edge cases. Spun up an agent team in Claude and addressed all the high-impact issues. This likely would've been a multi-week, or month, effort otherwise! Quoting @vercel_dev Introducing deepsec, an open source coding security harness. • CLI-first • Sandbox-based scaling • Pluggable coding agents • Designed for large-scale repos • Use AI Gateway or your own subscription After months of successful internal use, we put it to the test on some of the largest open source cod… Anthropic Related
5 May
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
17 April
Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.
Their words
In all honesty, I think that these are the best eight pages of economics I’ve ever read.
Show the whole quote
betonit.ai
5 April
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
4 April
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
29 March
Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."
Google
Their words
And I feel like it's a very human way of doing web search, right? Because we enter things in the Google and we see all the like citations, the quotations part. But like why would we limit AI to that? If AI already visit a page, why don't just pull the entire page out?
Show the whole quote
youtube.com
27 March
Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.
25 March
Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
22 March
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
19 March
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
Nakaya Aka-Tame Fountain Pen I recently acquired a new Fountain Pen: The Aka-tame from Nakaya. It is my first Japanese fountain pen, and also my first urushi pen (more on this later). After writing a few pages with it, I wanted to write down a few…
Related
10 March
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.
19 February
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
18 February
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.
Notes on clarifying man pages Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what makes a good man page. I’ve spent a lot of time writing cheat sheets for tools (tcpdump, gi…
documentation Related
5 February
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
2 February
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
8 January
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.
7 January
Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.
Their words
: “Your guide to navigating product leadership, the one I never had. Within these pages you’ll hear a diversity of opinions from the industry’s most successful and respected product leaders, insights that will help you lead your team and deliver exceptional products.”
Show the whole quote
bringthedonuts.com
23 December 2025
Designer and technologist; author of The Laws of Simplicity; former president of the Rhode Island School of Design; formerly at the MIT Media Lab.
21 November 2025
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
Their words
Fiction, 416 pages, which go very quickly. #76 on the NYT's list of The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. This was a new find in 2025.
Show the whole quote
tim.blog
Their words
Gold by Rumi and Haleh Liza Gafori. Poetry, 112 pages. A vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking new translations by Haleh Liza Gafori, an American poet of Persian descent. Read 1–2 poems before bed each night and thank me later.
Show the whole quote
tim.blog
18 November 2025
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
16 October 2025
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
21 August 2025
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
9 August 2025
Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
Their words
However, after reading a few pages my original inhibitions were overturned and I bought the book.
Show the whole quote
branko2f7.substack.com
14 May 2025
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
Their words
Homebrew — package manager; I track my setup in this Brewfile repo.
Show the whole quote
jeffpaul.com
25 April 2025
Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.
8 April 2025
Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.
in which web pages are served but also fetched I'm not much of a "web programmer". But when I do make web sites, I mostly like to write programs that spit out HTML files, and then put them on my web server. It's simple, fast, and gets the job done for most of the we…
Related
3 April 2025
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
31 March 2025
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
21 March 2025
Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.
Their words
A perfect sized companion (~100 pages) to understanding and trusting your intuition—breaking free from external validation and building courage through three core principles.
Show the whole quote
pathlesspath.com
14 March 2025
Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.
12 March 2025
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
1 March 2025
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
1 December 2024
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
2 September 2024
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
Their words
This last one is kind of a cheat. I've only just begun reading it. But I have absolutely savored those first pages:
Show the whole quote
jlcollinsnh.com
1 September 2024
Theoretical computer scientist, Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and director of its Quantum Information Center. Writes the blog Shtetl-Optimized.
Their words
Having said all that: I confess I enjoyed "2040." The plot is tightly constructed, the dialogue crackles (certainly for a CS professor writing a first novel), the satire at least provokes chuckles, and at just 215 pages, the action moves.
Show the whole quote
scottaaronson.blog
3 July 2024
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
18 June 2024
Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.
28 May 2024
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
12 January 2024
American author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and Stillness Is the Key. Writes the Reading List book-recommendation email (started 2008) and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Hosts The Daily Stoic podcast.
Their words
Ann Wroe’s biography of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judaea–the man who sentenced Jesus to his gruesome death–was so overwhelmingly good that I could only read a couple pages at a time.
Show the whole quote
ryanholiday.net
20 November 2023
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
Their words
His life and work have influenced my own tremendously—and just a few pages into Ritchie’s essential and hopeful new book, Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet, it became clear that she was carrying on his tremendous legacy.
Show the whole quote
gatesnotes.com
22 June 2022
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
16 November 2021
Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."
29 July 2021
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
640 Pages in 15 Months My book Crafting Interpreters on programming languages is done. OK, OK. I know I said it was done like fifteen months ago. But now it’s really done. And by that I mean, the print, e-book and PDF versions are done.…
Related
1 March 2021
American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.
Their words
One of those business books (and there are many) that you can get the main idea within the first 20 pages and can stop reading there. I skimmed through most of it.
Show the whole quote
markmanson.net
28 October 2020
Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.
Their words
If you want one book to teach you everything you need to know about giving great presentations, this is the book. A film director, a psychologist, and an actor share their combined experiences to help improve your content, the design, your movements, and just about every other detail of being a great speaker. It was a slow start, but by the end, I had dog-eared dozens of pages and marked up many more which I was able to directly apply to a major talk I was working on.
Show the whole quote
jasonevanish.com
Their words
If you're curious how Google built it's culture and the processes thanks to their extremely data & engineering driven nature, this is a great book. What held it back was being ~100 pages too long and Bock didn't always understand where what they did only fit at a $100Bn+, mega-profitable company. Still, the insights on the studies on their 50,000+ employees is well worth the read since so few of us can get similar statistical significance to apply to our teams.
Show the whole quote
jasonevanish.com
Their words
This book is a great overview of the keys to building a repeatable sales model for your SaaS business. It's a great mix of the best lessons from Jason Lemkin and his SaaStr blog and Aaron Ross's top tier consulting work. You can skip the last 50 pages which transitions to being a bad self-help book.
Show the whole quote
jasonevanish.com
+ 1 more
Their words
If you care about privacy, or want to understand what the NSA and CIA really do to monitor Americans, this book is an important read. It explains from beginning to end how Snowden became the privacy hero he is today, why he decided to leak the information, and how he did it. It's an interesting and important read, but also probably 100 pages too long.
Show the whole quote
jasonevanish.com
7 February 2020
Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.
Their words
Everyone needs to read this book. The observations were made in a pre-internet era, and they’re 10x as relevant today. Nothing will do more to help cure your information addiction that the healthy dose of reality provided in these pages.
Show the whole quote
nateliason.com
6 February 2020
American backpacking guide, writer and endurance athlete who has hiked more than 30,000 miles; author of The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide and publisher of gear reviews and trip-planning tutorials at andrewskurka.com.
Their words
My wife Amanda is the real reader in our house, and last month she came home from the library with Dreams of El Dorado: A history of the American West, by H. W. Brands. I moved quickly through its 480 pages (with an occasional photo), and thought it was one of my more enjoyable recent reads.
Show the whole quote
andrewskurka.com
15 October 2019
Writer and education-technology critic; published Hack Education for a decade and wrote Teaching Machines.
Their words
I've run all my sites on Jekyll and GitHub Pages for a while now. I have found it easier to manage than WordPress (particularly as I know next to nothing about databases),
Show the whole quote
usesthis.com
31 January 2019
Art critic, broadcaster and author; wrote on art for The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph and presents BBC art documentaries. Author of Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane.
Their words
This catalogue was published on the occasion of the first ever exhibition of a long-dead painter at the Museum of Modern Art. It's only about thirty pages, but it is utterly brilliant.
Show the whole quote
fivebooks.com
22 June 2017
Game designer and programmer, co-founder of id Software and co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. Now runs Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.
Their words
I use a ton of software. Here's a list: Xcode, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Sublime Text, Corona SDK, Unity, Final Cut Pro, Versions, Perforce, VMWare Fusion, Messages, REAPER, Transmit, Coda, Dropbox, Skype, Dashlane, Slack, Terminal, Assembla, Airmail, Spark Mail, Google Docs, Pixelmator, Pixen, TexturePacker, Particle Designer, Tiled, iTunes + Music + Match, Screenium, Steam, Twitter, Facebook.
Show the whole quote
usesthis.com
Their words
I use a ton of software. Here's a list: Xcode, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Sublime Text, Corona SDK, Unity, Final Cut Pro, Versions, Perforce, VMWare Fusion, Messages, REAPER, Transmit, Coda, Dropbox, Skype, Dashlane, Slack, Terminal, Assembla, Airmail, Spark Mail, Google Docs, Pixelmator, Pixen, TexturePacker, Particle Designer, Tiled, iTunes + Music + Match, Screenium, Steam, Twitter, Facebook.
Show the whole quote
usesthis.com
19 December 2016
Mac and iOS developer; created NetNewsWire and MarsEdit, co-created the JSON Feed format, and blogs at inessential.com.
28 March 2016
Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
9 October 2014
Interpretability researcher at Anthropic, which he co-founded; before that at OpenAI and Google Brain, where he wrote the explanations of neural networks most people learned them from.
Nothing matches. Show everything
A korrent is a belief a person has stated in their own words: one
sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at
korrents.com .
Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said.
The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in
korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who
else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public
statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
Got it
About the English under a post
Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they
do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in
this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the
serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to
quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter,
especially about tone.
Only the post's own words are translated. A quoted post, a linked
article and a belief on korrents.com
are left in their original language.
Got it