Related posts

Journalist, editor and typesetter covering technology and printing history; wrote for TidBITS and the Economist and published The Magazine.

• Off to shoot the sunset and star photos with @jeffcarlson.bsky.social!

  Related

Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.

• #283: My boyfriend’s insomnia has me spinning out

  Welcome back to Dear Baby

  Related

American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.

• daymark — Publish to your own site as fast as you'd post to a social app — photos, videos, voice notes, and quick thoughts, all from your phone, all truly yours.

  Related

Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.

• I forgot how pretty Death Stranding is. Photos to come in following posts.

  Related

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

• Peaches is such a beautiful baby. #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

  Related

Former options market maker who writes Moontower, a newsletter on trading, volatility, decision-making and how to think about risk outside markets too.

• Where's the made by AI watermark? Where the f is it?! Please let this be real. Please let this woman marry the air guitar champion and make a beautiful baby that will grow up to be John Connor
  Quoting@Rainmaker1973Fun fact. Hobby horsing is a sport with gymnastic elements which uses hobby horses, also known as stick horses. Movement sequences similar to those in show jumping or dressage are partly simulated in courses.

  Related

Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.

• The camera feature in the @Gemini_Notebook mobile app is so transformative for on-the-go research. I was up in the Sierras working on a new project, and I just took photos of everything, like this museum display. Then I asked for a detailed report of all the info in the image. The text below is what I got back. (I fact-checked it myself and it was 99% accurate -- and some of the text it transcribed is so blurry in the image that it was hard for me to read it.) Next step is to generate documents like this for all the photos I took, and then ask Notebook to highlight all the information that ad…

  GoogleRelated

Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.

• Dear Danny: Married to him, in love with her

  (2 hrs 21 mins) | Hey, Welcome to the last Dear Danny episode before I go on maternity leave!

  Related

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

• Cunningham’s law, baby. Works every time: “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.”
  Quoting@uncledoomereverytime i make one of these posts, i get a bunch of people quote tweeting me with "but there IS good new music, just look at THIS" and thats how i find out about good new music works every time

  Related

Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.

• Woke up this morning with what is clearly an eye infection. Not good. Got the kids on the way to school. 7:30 I book an online appointment with a doctor. I send two photos. 7:35 I have phone chat with the doctor. 7:38 I have an electronic prescription for antibiotic drops. 7:59 I am standing in front of the pharmacy which opens at 8:00 8:15 back home, dripping my eye 9:00 the infection has visibly pretty much cleared out I am actually impressed by how flawlessly this all worked. I was fully prepared it'd eat up an entire day.

  Related

President of the European Commission since 2019; previously Germany's defence minister.

• Dear @MarkJCarney we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible. I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the EU. And create a common prosperity and economic security space.

  EuropeRelated

Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.

• A couple of photos of Paddington Station from my trip to the UK. Every train station has its own unique vibe and I love them all. #photography #trains

  Related

Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.

• I have grokbot ingesting all my kids teacher emails. It adds everything to our family calendar, sends morning reminders, saves any photos, etc.. Today we needed to study for spelling, cross words and word searches in seconds. Maybe the first time my wife understood what agents are

  Related

Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.

• x.comLight at the end of a dark week: meeting a dear expat friend who’s back in America and NYC for a few days.

  AmericaRelated

• MastodonLight at the end of a dark week: meeting a dear expat friend who’s back in America and NYC for a few days.

  AmericaRelated

• x.comThe 25 Photos That Changed Fashion Forever Two photographers, a fashion designer, a stylist, a creative director, an editor and a supermodel debate the images that have had an indelible impact on how we dress.

  nytimes.com

  Related

Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

• How should social science think about AI?

  Big structures and large processes are back, baby

  Related

Essayist, journalist and independent researcher on Chinese politics, strategy and cultural history; author of the blog The Scholar's Stage.

• Reasons why the analogy does not work: 1. presumably the aliens already exist as living sentient beings--there is a moral difference between murdering a baby and using a condom. 2. There is also a realpolitick difference as well: the aliens came from somewhere, presumably a somewhere with more aliens. How will those ones respond if our first interaction is violent?
  Quoting@robinhansonImagine we saw a big alien starship heading toward Earth. We think they are so advanced they could do us great harm, if they wanted. We have a way to destroy it, but only if we do so soon, & there's not time to talk to them first. Should we destroy it?

  Related

Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and HEY; co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.

• Here's a great use case for Claude and the Basecamp CLI. Pull together some inspirational photos of iconic furniture from around the world, and upload them to the appropriately named galleries inside a Basecamp project. Here's a quick walkthrough:

  AnthropicRelated

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.

• the thinking that "everyone will just vibe code their own software" was born from within a bubble what's happening to software development right now has happened many, many times before to other things. you just need to look web 2.0 allowed everyone to write blogs. did everyone write blogs? instagram allowed everyone to share beautiful photos. did everyone share beautiful photos? tiktok allowed everyone to make short videos. did everyone make short videos? now vibe coding allows everyone to build software, and you think everyone will start building software? this time around, people are just…

  Related

Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.

• iPhone duo built in Three.js with running apps I fed the apple announcement video and all press photos into Astra and had it build the model The apps are rendered with HTML-in-Canvas Built this on Copilot day stream - Pierce and Burke are adding more apps now
  Quoting@piercebogganJoin us for GitHub Copilot Day in 10 minutes with @burkeholland, @JamesMontemagno, @mattpocockuk, and @wesbos :)

  Related

Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.

• interesting to see how Apple hardware adapts to AI era: - Reference Image (a digital negative): helps verify real unedited photos - Apple Watch: becomes an AI note taker through always-on processor & dedicated audio holding space

  Related

Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.

• Homeownership rates at age 28: Baby boomers - 44% Gen X - 43% Gen Z - 38% At age 36: Baby boomers - 64% Gen X - 61% Millennials - 57% Young ppl were dealt a bad hand in housing But Gen Z will be homeowners too

  Related

Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.

• Dear managers: Stop penalizing people for taking short breaks. Data: Although pausing to stretch, chat, or browse boosts performance, many bosses view it as a sign of poor work ethic. Taking a respite doesn't compromise effort. It resets attention and recharges energy.

  energyRelated

Writer and creator of Daring Fireball, a long-running blog about Apple and technology; co-created Markdown and hosts The Talk Show.

• Snapshot in time. Federighi and Schiller (scrolling down) seem due for new photos.

  Related

Management writer; co-author of In Search of Excellence (1982) and author of The Excellence Dividend.

• Dear experts. Question.. When I read responses to my posts, I am typically struck by their thoughtfulness. I am no AI expert. How many of these responses that I find so attractive are in fact AI generated? (I have absolutely no idea what your answer to this question will be.)

  Related

Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.

• Dear Helene, you have your job cut for you. :) Hope you know how to monitor the increasingly smart agents. Best of luck.
  Quoting@helene_reyFirst day at the @BIS_org in Basel. Very pleased to begin my role as Economic Adviser and Head of the Monetary and Economic Department. It has been great to meet new colleagues and hear about the interesting projects already underway. I look forward to the work ahead.

  Related

Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.

• Today’s beauty in the high country…All of this nature is my medicine Hafiz says, “Awake, my dear. Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of Light And let it breathe”

  Related

Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.

• More photos from my visit to Highgate Cemetery. #cemetery #photography

  Related

Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

• Surprise DM

  When I saw the Slack notification preview, “Matt, I’m literally crying right now,” I must admit my first reaction was “Oh no, what happened…” Matt, I’m literally crying right now. I just read the Baby & Caregiver Attend…

  Related

Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.

• Spent an afternoon at Highgate Cemetery when on vacation in the UK and this is one of my favorite photos from the trip. #photography #cemetery #victorian

  Related

Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.

• Had a mini heart attack: contents of my iCloud drive disappeared... Somehow, still visible on https://t.co/56g50Dzvl1, on another computer, and on my phone - wtf is going on idk, but just in case, did a local backup and copying it over to my NAS. I've been putting it off to automate this for too long, will have to look into automating all that (already do it for photos btw)

  Related

Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com.

• What is wrong with @instagram! Someone has created a fake profile of a friend, registering the exact same username as his, with an added underscore at the end. So username is main account, username_ is the fake one. The fake profile's photo is copied from main, even original photos of friend himself have been lifted and posted as their own. I've never seen a more blatant impersonation. And they're reaching out to his friends asking for money. A bunch of us reported the fake profile for impersonation, and Instagram refused to take any action.

  Related

Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.

• At a panel on descriptive narration, a subject dear to my heart. Jonas Kyratzes is one of the speakers. No shade to the others, just Jonas is the name I recognize. Sean Branney, Ivan Caric, Shanna Germain, Jonas Kyratzes, Laura Langrish.

  Related

Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.

• Some photos from Google I/O Connect + GDE India Summit, Bengalore last month.

  GoogleRelated

Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.

• Dear Danny: The Ultimatum Edition

  (2 hrs 8 mins) | Hey and welcome back to Dear Danny!

  Related

General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.

• The word “watermark” comes from photos and is visible by all. This is only identifiable by Anthropic. Once again they are judge, jury, and prosecutor. Lots of reasons to not use their products.
  Quoting@stevesiThey chose to make this mark invisible and manipulative while the EU regulation here required neither. The EC is on vacation and does not provide guidance on how to comply with their regulations anyway.

  AnthropicRelated

Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.

• Dear Babies: On navigating aging parents

  Hey, Welcome back to Dear Babies, my monthly follow-up to Dear Baby wherein I pose a question I received for the column to all of you.

  Related

Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.

• I spent the last academic year (Sept 25-June 26) on sabbatical, looking after my baby granddaughter, and I loved every moment. I missed teaching, though, and I will be back in the classroom in spring 2027. In the meantime, I will be on the road in Latin America, Europe and Asia in 2026.

  bit.ly

  EuropeAmericaRelated

Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.

• Are You the Baby or the Bathwater?

  Here is one way to know.

  Related

JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.

• I have a physical object that I can take photos of from all angles and I want to turn it into a relatively low-poly 3d model for a game (mapping the photos onto the surface). I feel like there's gotta be some simple non-AI tool to handle this?

  Related

Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.

• We Should Have a Mega-Baby-Bonus

  Happy Birthday, America.

  AmericaRelated

Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.

• Quickly apply LUTs (color grading) with ffmpeg

  This is a quick post, mostly for my own reference. I've avoided LUTs and 'Log' video footage for years1, mostly because of the extra tiny bit of workflow involved. Like RAW photos, 'Log' footage retains the video sensor…

  Related

Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

• In Defense of the Marginal Baby

  This Father’s Day, I took some notes on parenting and put them together here. The purpose of this post is to strongly advocate for people to increment their child number, ideally recursively. If you have two, go for thr…

  Related

Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.

• I joined @JeanChatzky on the @HerMoneyMedia podcast to honor my dear friend, the late @ClementsMoney, and his final book, "Money and Me." We talked about: * why his simple, sound investing philosophy still endures * what his terminal-cancer diagnosis taught him about the meaning of money * why the shift from saving to spending in retirement is so psychologically difficult * what Jonathan's final year, spent eating good food with good friends, can teach us all about living well Listen here:

  lnk.to

  Related

American budget-travel writer who publishes as Nomadic Matt. Author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day; runs nomadicmatt.com, a long-running site of destination guides, packing advice and gear recommendations.

• Why This Company is One of the Best for Finding Work

  Most travel is extractive and passive. You show up somewhere, take photos of the same landmarks everyone else takes photos of, eat at a restaurant the guidebook recommended, and hit up some bars. You take some tours to…

  Related

American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.

• Bought a broken Grizzle-E duo charger on ebay, assuming I could probably figure out how to fix it. The problem was that it was missing the cable between the two boards. Asked @UnitedChargers support for info on how the pins on the two boards should be connected, or to buy a new cable to connect them. They wouldn't help, so a guy on Reddit took photos of his for me. Three wires later and it works perfectly and I can charge both EVs at once.

  Related

Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.

• Baby Steps

  I worked on Baby Steps, with Gabe Cuzzillo and Maxi Boch, from late 2019 to 2025. I don't really have enough distance from it to explain what it is or why you should play it. Here's some press if you're curious to know…

  Related

Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.

• Hey friends, the baby that I made Baby Smash for is going to turn 21 this year. So I updated with it an all new website, installer, new .net 10 code base, and code signed executable. Please test it. Code on Github

  babysmash.com

  Related

Cyborg anthropologist and UX designer; author of Calm Technology and co-founder of the geolocation startup Geoloqi.

• TIL Isamu Noguchi designed the very first baby monitor for Zenith Corporation, released in 1938. It was made of bakelite

  Related

Design engineer and illustrator; makes visual essays on programming, anthropology and what language models do to the way people write.

• January 2026

  I entered the new year holding an inconsolable, shrieking baby while London set off an armageddon of fireworks around us. So goes parenthood. The baby is fine, just congested and teething. I am as “fine” as anyone can b…

  Related

Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.

• Links to honor my dear friend @ClementsMoney: Memorial service video https://t.co/AvhQ9nk5Zv How to contribute

  humbledollar.com

  Related

American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.

• Some photos from our trip to Spain + Portugal

  adamdehaven.com

  Related

Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.

• My column about my dear friend, @clementsmoney

  wsj.com

  Related

Design engineer and illustrator; makes visual essays on programming, anthropology and what language models do to the way people write.

• Statistically, When Will My Baby Be Born?

  A tiny tool to calculate when your baby might arrive

  Related

Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.

• Dear Apple: add “Disappearing Messages” to iMessage right now

  This is a cryptography blog and I always feel the need to apologize for any post that isn’t “straight cryptography.” I’m actually getting a little tired of apologizing for it (though if you want some hard-core cryptogra…

  Related

Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

• BFF

  “Dear Scott,” he began (this was when “you’ve got mail” meant paper, pen, and postage).

  Related

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.

• baby-2nd-bench

  Related

Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

• 2023 year in review

  A lot has happened in the last year, so I thought it would be good to write up a review. My biggest change in 2023 was that my wife and I had a baby! This has brought a mixture of joys and frustrations, but overall it h…

  Related

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.

• A fraction of great things you missed this year

  This week: Death contours, the twin baby boom, good conversations, music and languages, blood pressure drugs, conspiracy theories, Tasmanian devil cancers, cheating viruses, and more.

  Related

Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?

• 10 Thoughts from the Fourth Trimester

  1 baby, many thoughts

  Related

Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It, How Can I Get Through to You? and Us; argues that Western individualism is what makes couples' work hard.

• Interview with Carol Gilligan: The Origins of Relational Life Therapy

  Watch this interview with my dear friend and colleague Carol Gilligan to learn more about the origins of Relational Life Therapy and the history of couples therapy at large.

  PsychotherapyRelated

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.

• Everything great I've read in the last fortnight

  This week: The curve of death, eliminating HIV, the impact of cash donations, lemurs picking their nose, the spread of dumplings, trade, and some cool space photos.

  Related