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20 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
16 September
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
he vibe coded the recording tool as i sat next to him at the vienna office. sometimes it's alright to have the ceo vibe slop his way to success. Quoting @colindaymond Radius lets you work with and collaborate on artifacts, natively within Pi Related
Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
nobody should patronize those who newly have opinions about third party evaluators. non-experts forming opinions fast is part of the american tradition. the constitution itself was, in a very important sense, vibe coded by 20 somethings with concepts of a plan. but newbies being fleeced is also part of the american tradition. “caveat emptor” is a provision of a contract signed by an adult, not some god-given right to be treated as something other than a little child. you will be treated as a child no matter what. you are the buyer. it is your job to beware. America Related
11 September
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
Your agents run Full Access. The Supply Chain is Compromised. The apps are vibe-coded. Related
9 September
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.
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.
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My own vibe coded image resizing API with NodeJS's Sharp + Redis (saves ~$1,500/mo)
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My own vibe coded image resizing API with NodeJS's Sharp + Redis (saves ~$1,500/mo)
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My own $0/mo vibe coded NSFW detection service with Python's NudeNET (saves ~$2,500/mo)
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Scrapingbee/SerpAPI -> My own $1/mo scraper with Patchright (save ~$250/mo)
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4 September
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
Your agents run Full Access. The Supply Chain is Compromised. The apps are vibe-coded. It’s fine: just install Automic Vault. 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.
2 September
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
Finally got sick of all the Reddit UI changes, so started an @exedev VM and asked it to create an account and make a scraper for the content I check. Now I have an ultra lightweight, dense, mobile UI. Related
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
In another case of it being quicker to build a tool than hunt around to find something that does what you need, here's a little vibe-coded thing for turning one or more GeoJSON shapes into a rendered PNG simonwillison.net
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28 August
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
15 July
Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
Whichever scraper is going through my blogposts, one-by-one requesting 50-100 copies of each at the same time, once per hour, while pretending to be referred from Google and running javascript and not blocking goatcounter: Why are you doing that? Google JavaScript Related
14 July
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
6 July
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
28 June
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
Just noticed a vibe-coded project of mine cost $200/month to serve a few dozen users/day 😭 Turns out it was doing 10s of millions of unnecessary Redis polls/day, even when idle - telemetry alone cost $$ a possible clue for why infra providers are growing so much right now Related
24 June
Makes NeetCode, the structured practice list and video walkthroughs people use to prepare for coding interviews; a former Google engineer.
31 May
Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
It's interesting how much (some) people are adopting AI-isms in writing even when not using AI. It makes sense that people would fall into the same patterns after seeing them everywhere, but it's still very weird to, live, watch someone who never used to write like this, write out something that's full of "It's not X, it's Y", etc. If you actually read it, it's a little too well reasoned and doesn't have enough nonsense phrases to be AI writing but, superficially, it's very AI-coded writing. Related
11 March
Programmer and essayist who has worked at Amazon, Google, Grab and Sourcegraph. Best known for the long-form essays collected as Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants and Stevey's Blog Rants.
19 February
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
13 February
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
You vibed an app, for an audience of one. Add it to Tiny Tool Town. But You know what Tiny Tool Town REALLY needed? *TIKTOK MODE* Why not mindlessly scroll awesome vibe coded apps rather than videos? Maybe one will help you or someone else! go hit **https://tinytooltown.com** and tap "SHORTS" for TikTok/Shorts/Reels Mode Related
26 November 2025
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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I’ve got a GitHub actions thing that runs a piece of software I wrote called shot-scraper that runs Playwright, that loads up a browser in GitHub actions to scrape that webpage and turn the results into JSON, which then get turned into an atom feed, which I subscribe to in NetNewsWire.
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I’ve got a GitHub actions thing that runs a piece of software I wrote called shot-scraper that runs Playwright, that loads up a browser in GitHub actions to scrape that webpage and turn the results into JSON, which then get turned into an atom feed, which I subscribe to in NetNewsWire.
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23 November 2025
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
3 September 2025
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
Looking for some technical advice on an interesting AI-related problem. I've been running the MMM Forum website for 10 years with no problems. 45k registered users, 3M posts and 20M+ visitors over the years! But now, thousands of AI scraper bots are overrunning it around the clock. It makes sense, there is a LOT of wisdom in those posts from the users and it would make a juicy addition to any future digital brain. They don't obey the robots.txt instruction files and they randomize their IP addresses and spread out the load so they can't be blocked. This has overloaded even the relatively larg… Related
30 May 2025
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
Consider Knitting Let’s say that, like me, you are a person who stares at a computer and writes code for a living. As a straight male who grew up in a time where knitting was very strongly female coded, it for the most part never o…
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