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

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  Video game graphics pipelines will shift to visually prompting neural renderers.

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  Yea video game gfx pipelines will now just visually prompt neural renderers.

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Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

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  Graphics have stopped selling games: most of the market by revenue no longer cares how a game looks, so new games now compete with the entire back catalogue.

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  But a large portion of the gaming market by revenue doesn't really care what the game looked like all that much uh in a sense that whatever we're doing today is good enough. So 10 years from now if the games look much better for some reason no one will really think of that as a huge differentiation differentiator in terms of sales.

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Graphic designer and type designer, who created the original Macintosh icons and typefaces at Apple from 1982 and has since designed interface graphics for NeXT, Microsoft, Facebook and Pinterest.

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  Icon work is not really about the grid of pixels; it is about the metaphor, the idea and the meaning behind everything on the grid.

  energy

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  But um I think the whole point of that project and the graphics was it isn't really just about a grid of pixels. It's the metaphor and the idea and the meaning behind everything.

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

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  Learning from input does not mean refusing grammar books; the point is to notice patterns, not to master the rules.

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  Some people think CI means you reject grammar books. I disagree. I often reference grammar materials and find these explanations useful. However, the focus of my learning is not to “master the rules”. Grammar resources simply help me notice and make sense of patterns in the language.

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Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.

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  The traditional five-part POV taxonomy is organized around grammatical person rather than narrative effect.

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  It's not that the categories are wrong exactly. But they are rooted more in grammar than narrative.

  There Are More than Five POVscountercraft.substack.com

Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  Nobody can pick winners: Nvidia's own first graphics architecture was precisely wrong, and it would have topped the list of companies expected to fail.

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  Nvidia would be the top of that list not to make it. You know, this is long before you, but Nvidia's graphics architecture was precisely wrong. It's not a little bit wrong. We created an architecture that was precisely wrong.

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

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  Learning a language happens through exposure to language you can mostly understand; classroom drills feel productive and build nothing.

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  Classroom activities like grammar drills and vocabulary tests feel productive. You are doing something. But none of it builds the network your brain actually needs.

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Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.

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  The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories

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  One of the most gorgeously-produced books I read, with illustrations by Matthew Forsythe.

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Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.

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  Lazygit

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  Lazygit: give me better Git terminal visualization support.

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Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.

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  Datawrapper

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  I instead use Datawrapper to create interactive charts very quickly. They follow great data visualization principles, have influenced my work, and their styles look great.

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Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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  Graphics chips have far more room for future performance gains than CPUs, which are nearing physical limits.

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  GPUs are not nearly as restricted in their future progress as CPUs which are far more constrained in how they can physically improve (compiler-driven ILP only goes so far).

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Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.

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  Computer graphics is not the application of the laws of physics but the search for ever better approximations of them, because the exact laws are totally intractable.

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  You can't calculate every photon in the scene. You need really detailed approximations, and that's the field of computer graphics. It's about increasingly effective approximations of the laws of physics, which are just totally intractable.

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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.

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  NVIDIA's Nsight Graphics GPU flame graphs are shallow and cumbersome to use compared to full-stack profiling tools

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  They do have flame graphs in Nsight Graphics for GPU workloads, although their flame graphs are currently shallow as it is GPU code only, and onerous to use as I believe it requires an interposer; on the plus side they have click-to-source.

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Release engineering manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. Keeps a public log at tylercipriani.com of every book he reads, with a rating and notes.

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  The Sense of Style

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  Overall, I'm still firmly on team Strunk and White. But this was a pretty damned entertaining grammar book.

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Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.

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  Canva

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  Tool for quickly creating simple graphics, presentation slides, and other visual content. Very useful for everyday graphic needs.

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

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  Knowing conjugation tables, word lists and the names of the tenses has nothing to do with being able to use a language.

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  In traditional classroom settings, the development of skills often gets overlooked in favor of facts. Facts in the form of conjugation tables, word lists, grammar explanations, the names of verb tenses, and so on. All of these things are related to language, but it’s important to realize that knowing these things has nothing to do with speaking and using a language productively.

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

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  Inkscape

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  When I need to touch vector graphics, I use Inkscape. If I need to edit raster images, I use GIMP.

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  GIMP

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  When I need to touch vector graphics, I use Inkscape. If I need to edit raster images, I use GIMP.

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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.

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  In a dimensionality-reduced visualization of high-dimensional data, the raw position of points carries no meaning on its own.

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  The problem is that in dimensionality reduced plots of high-dimensional data, position doesn't explain the data points.

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Complexity scientist and writer, author of The Half-Life of Facts and Overcomplicated; scientist in residence at Lux Capital.

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  gephi

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  For data visualization, I use gephi for networks, an amazingly powerful tool which many describe as "Photoshop for networks."

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

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  The hard part of speaking from the start is not the gaps in what you know but making peace with not knowing the simplest words.

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  But it's HARD to start this. NOT because of all the academic reasons of lack of vocabulary and grammar, but because you need to be cool with the fact that you are not going to know the simplest of words.

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

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  Paint Shop Pro X2

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  For 2D graphics, I use Paint Shop Pro X2! I don't really like it - I used to use version 8, but doesn't work very well on Windows 7 so I had to find another version of the program that did.

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Mac and iOS developer; created NetNewsWire and MarsEdit, co-created the JSON Feed format, and blogs at inessential.com.

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  Acorn

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  I use Acorn, Photoshop, and Preview for graphics.

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Media theorist and writer; author of Program or Be Programmed and Team Human, and host of the Team Human podcast.

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  Dropbox

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  I use Dropbox for almost everything I need to store. I'm starting to do simple graphics and tables on Google Docs instead of Adobe.

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Software engineer best known as the originator of the Java programming language.

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  Wacom tablet

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  It's got a Wacom tablet and a 3Dconnexion mouse. This machine is mostly used for doing graphics.

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  NewTek LightWave

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  My main graphics tool (the thing that I use for things like creating all the JavaOne t-shirts) is NewTek LightWave. It is a phenomenal tool. I've been using it for years.

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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.

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  Paint Shop Pro 5

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  I use Paint Shop Pro 5 from 1998 for working with graphics - it is still the best program ever made for dealing with images at the pixel level and converting between formats.

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