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20 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
19 September
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
To be clear you always could do this. I just made it easier but making packages like this is almost always a one-shot with Kody Quoting @kentcdodds You can now easily use Jev in @kodykoala: https://t.co/9wowF8KzV9 You can use this when you need typed decisions fast: - An inbox floods in and you need to know which messages are actionable, which can wait, and which are noise. - A support thread arrives and you want the right team, an urgency sco… Related
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
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Rarer is better, but I still think the right rate of misbehaviors on the level of social engineering to put malicious packages into a public registry is still zero.
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18 September
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
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.
New in scriptc: --𝚗𝚙𝚖-𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚌 Compile npm packages alongside your TS → One executable → Native machine code → No Node.js or JS engine This Commander example builds to 544KB JavaScript Related
17 September
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
The Russian drone that crashed in Lithuania the other day had curl installed. As part of a default Linux install presumably, it seems unlikely it used curl for any "drony" things. Linux Russia Related
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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Any piece of software that depends on open source (which is almost every piece of software) has a network of human beings who are potential attack vectors - everyone with publishing rights to any of the packages in the dependency network for that software.
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simonwillison.net
16 September
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
15 September
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
14 September
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
13 September
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).
Reasoning from scratch round 3: This time, I cover generating a verifier for... a) ...evaluation (base model versus any future model improvement) b) ...the reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) training later on 00:00 Introduction 01:21 Four approaches to LLM evaluation 07:20 Verifiers and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards 10:52 Notebook setup and dependencies 13:43 Section 3.1 Building a math verifier 18:57 Section 3.2 Loading a pre-trained model to generate text 24:34 Generating and displaying model answers 29:23 Section 3.3 Implementing a wrapper for easier tex… LLMs Related
5 September
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
3 September
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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Been using Astra for the last few weeks and it’s so good and proactive. There’s a bunch of PRs on vitest, tsx or SwiftPM where Astra debugged OC and ended up finding and patching issues in upstream dependencies.
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30 August
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
I've been maintaining a Rails app for ~10 years. It has very specific business logic for on-site multi-day course registrations. DDD style like I learned at 37signals. For 10 years, I configured each course in the Rails console. It was never worth it to build out the configurator UI. This year, I just talked to AI to do it. And the payoff from the carefully written model is really amazing. The AI was completely speaking the language of the domain and even raising meaningful pricing/structural questions about how the packages are set up this year vs previous years. Sharing this example because… Related
22 August
British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.
I've updated https://t.co/jtxQc4wgek with some missing packages (whoops!): - laravel/doctor - laravel/folio - laravel/tinker - laravel/wayfinder If we're missing anything else, lemme know! Related
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
10 August
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.
18 July
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
17 July
Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
10 July
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
15 June
Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.
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Since I mostly work on Laravel projects or packages, I usually enable the Laravel Idea plugin. It's a paid plugin, but it's definitely worth the money since it can provide stuff like auto-completions for route names, request fields and more.
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randallwilk.dev
22 May
Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.
15 May
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
Converting testthat Tests to testit Back in 2013, I wrote about testing R packages when I first released testit. Thirteen years later, I still believe that unit testing should be nothing more than “tell me if something unexpected happened.” Re…
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30 March
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
Anyone at @github know the status of https://t.co/gTNB5bddt3 ? Being unable to give fine-grained read:packages permissions is a pretty big blocker for agentic work. Really want to avoid using a classic PAT which gives way too much access! Related
20 February
Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.
12 February
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
9 September 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.
Failed to fetch https://packages.sury.org/php/dists/buster/InRelease 418 I'm a teapot Well played, Sury. Well. Played. Related
10 June 2025
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.
5 March 2025
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
19 January 2025
Growth advisor and operator who has led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey.
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And my contrarian opinion is that full-time jobs are not the best way to monetize the skill that you have. It's one of the packages that everybody should evaluate and take advantage of, but too many people blindly default to that package
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6 January 2025
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
13 September 2024
Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.
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15 July 2024
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
8 July 2024
Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.
open source
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I started with a rather non-consensus hypothesis: companies want to pay for their critical open source dependencies, but most projects are not selling them a legible way to do so.
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words.filippo.io
2 May 2024
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
27 February 2024
Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.
I wanted ONE app, instead I got *one thousand* packages. #npm #wtf Related
26 January 2024
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
16 February 2023
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
17 May 2022
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
1 October 2020
Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.
28 April 2019
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
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