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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

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  This was a great motivation when I started running, but it’s a very niche book.

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Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.

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  A narrow, highly accurate model can beat a general one inside its own domain, as AlphaFold did, and materials science and chip design are next.

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  I mean I think like if you look at uh my colleagues work on say alpha fold that was a very specific model for uh protein folding and it was highly successful um and was able to really handle that domain quite well so that all of a sudden you now have this amazing tool and model that can give you answers to questions about proteins and their structure um really effectively um but it's not a general model it's a very specific one and there are other I domains where that kind of approach can work really well. Uh maybe in material science or chip design or things like that that uh will enable you to leverage the capabilities of a very accurate but but niche model uh to do things that are hard today.

  Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AIyoutube.com

Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  Formal methods are a niche tool; property-based testing is the one most engineers should adopt, and stopping there is a fine place to stop.

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  I love formal methods, but I think it's a fairly niche tool for most people and I think like property-based testing is in general going to be useful for more people.

  Formal methods with Hillel Wayneyoutube.com

Chief executive of Intel since 2025, founder of the venture firm Walden International and chief executive of Cadence Design Systems for thirteen years.

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  The companies that win ten years from now will be the ones laser-focused on a single niche with the right partners, not the ones doing everything.

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  if you look at it 10 years from now, what are we be the winning company? This is just my personal view. The one that articulate and laser focus on one niche area and also find the right partner and also able to scale the company.

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Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

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  Having children is not a niche or selfish lifestyle choice, and people without children shouldn't bear the costs of a structure that fails everyone.

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  I don't think the continuation of the species is some niche, selfish lifestyle choice, nor do I think people without children should have to constantly absorb the consequences of a structure that isn't helping either of us.

  Surprises of Motherhoodmariandrew.substack.com

Designer and co-founder of Lux, makers of Halide, Spectre and Kino; formerly a designer at Apple.

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  Opaque, inert, obstructive interface elements will become as niche as the full-screen command line once interfaces are infused with dynamic materials.

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  Opaque, inert and obstructive elements might occupy the same place as full-screen command line interfaces — a powerful niche UI that was a marker in history, passed on by the windowed environment of the multi-tasking, graphical user interface revolution.

  Physicality: the new age of UIlux.camera

Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.

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  Microsoft Teams

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  I also use Discord (not bad) to engage with some niche communities and Microsoft Teams (awful) for work.

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  Discord

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  I also use Discord (not bad) to engage with some niche communities and Microsoft Teams (awful) for work.

  seastone.io

Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.

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  Niche Zero

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  High quality, budget grinders were rare at the time. The Niche Zero and other new grinders changed that, and helped make it easier to pull good shots.

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Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.

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  Reading even one book on a niche topic sharply shrinks the number of people you can discuss it with.

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  Most people don't read books. If you read a book on a topic (say, clouds, or Italian furniture), you can now only communicate on that topic with 1 in 10 to 1 in 100 people.

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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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  Software performance is central to long-term business success rather than a niche engineering concern.

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  Software performance appears to be central to long-term business interests.

  Performance Excuses Debunkedcomputerenhance.com

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

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  Writing that is specific, local and grounded in a real life is the cheapest available proof that a person wrote it, because models default to generics.

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  Referencing obscure concepts, friends who are real but not famous, niche interests, and recent events all make you plausibly more human.

  The Dark Forest and Generative AImaggieappleton.com