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20 September
Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.
19 September
Programmer, writer and musician; author of the Learn Code the Hard Way books and of Mongrel, the Ruby web server.
18 September
Writer of kottke.org, one of the oldest blogs on the web, published since 1998 and supported by its members. He writes about art, technology, science, design and visual culture.
17 September
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.
15 September
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.
I don't think anyone seriously advocates "let anyone post whatever", but rather the question is (as so often) who is responsible. If the author themselves say they don't fully understand what some AI has proved, and it's wrong, then whose fault is that? Does the arXiv get the blame for allowing the content? Fwiw, I think that in this case AI solves more problems than it creates. If a paper is plausibly correct and lives up to the standards of the field, and the author has done their best, even if written by AI, why not just post it in a 'mostly AI' subsector (maybe just an extra flag for each… Quoting @Quasilocal To everyone now claiming arXiv should let everyone freely post whatever: you already have venues like that. The fact arXiv is different is literally the only value it has over those others. Related
14 September
Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
Using AI for Weapons Development Last week, Anthropic released a long and detailed document describing current misuses of their Claude models. I’m still reading it, but I wanted to flag this: We identified a cell of threat actors based in northern Yeme…
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13 September
Management writer; co-author of In Search of Excellence (1982) and author of The Excellence Dividend.
Football season is upon us. The Baltimore Colts and the SF 49ers were my football loves for decades. This summer, friends forced me to watch full World Cup soccer matches. I fell in love with soccer. Our football look pretty puny by comparison. Related
12 September
Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.
The Republican Party's midterm convention used the traditional red, white and blue decorations - but added Trump's favorite color: gold. I recommend that they use a new US flag. The traditional colors were red for blood, white for purity and blue for justice. The new version features red for blood, gold for wealth and purple for monarchy. 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.
11 September
Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.
Seaton: And Now, Sports Football season is here again, friends! The stadiums are packed with cheering fans, parking lots are full of tailgaters, and somehow I’ve once again decided the actions of a bunch of young men aged 18-23 will decide my…
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10 September
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9 September
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8 September
Canadian software developer and writer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications and formerly of Sun Microsystems, Google and AWS. Has written the blog ongoing since 2003.
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
Whenever I see this in YouTube videos, I cringe a little. Mostly because the editing tools these creators use DEFINITELY employ AI processing and were likely developed using agentic systems... But also because this is such reductive virtue signaling we'll laugh at in 10 years. Related
7 September
Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.
6 September
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and Supercommunicators. Writes for The New Yorker.
Whenever you're in a heated argument with your spouse, you're mostly just waiting for your turn to talk instead of actually listening. But this simple communication loop can stop an argument from spiraling. Here's how it works: 🧵 Related
4 September
Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.
i've got Astra doing film study for our @every fantasy football draft we going to take over this league 😤 Related
3 September
Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.
The next Loop we run at @linear is feature flag clean up: 1) @datadoghq creates an issue when the feature flag is no longer used 2) this will assign the owner of the flag, delegate the work to Linear coding agent 3) Linear removes it and opens a PR 4) Owner reviews and merges Related
2 September
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
1 September
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
Fragments: September 1 Like many readers, I’m wary of AI generated prose. Simon Wilison has written an LLM cliché highlighter - paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag various patterns common to LLMs. It references a wikipedia page of…
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Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
My Chrome has required me to force quit whenever I open it and then reopen it in order for it to load for almost a year now. This is not a dig at the Chrome team. Chrome is among the most used software in the world. What this indicates to me is that: software is hard. Related
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Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.
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But in many of these cases, this vulnerability is just not broad or deep enough to ever actually be exploitable to get the flag. So a bunch of exploit gym problems are just unintentionally impossible. The authors estimate roughly 30 to 40% of these problems are impossible in this way.
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30 August
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
Whenever you are told “Trust the experts” you are better off doing the opposite. Remember when Covid “Trust the experts” led to a civilizational hoax that broke our economy and retarded our children? The AI “Trust the experts” version will make that pale in comparison. I’d encourage all of you to approach this with wonder but also a healthy dose of skepticism. Related
26 August
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and Supercommunicators. Writes for The New Yorker.
You probably feel guilty or stressed whenever you experience intense frustration or anxiety while working on a tough project. But cognitive scientists found that deep worry is actually a powerful tool that forces your brain to see hidden solutions you normally miss. You can turn your worst stress into a breakthrough using the Creative Desperation framework. Here is the exact method: 🧵 Related
20 August
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).
Nice case study on using optimized functions whenever possible (except for educational purposes, though 😆) Quoting @gpjt By switching from a hand-rolled GELU to PyTorch's built-in one, I improved my LLM training speed -- and much more than I expected, from 21,000 tokens/second to 25,000! Related
19 August
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.
i'm contemplating writing something basic about copying files over ssh with rsync but the only thing I can think of is how I can never remember how the trailing slash works and it makes me avoid using rsync whenever possible Related
Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape, Slack and Palantir; writes as Rands at randsinrepose.com and wrote Managing Humans.
Software engineer and founder of Block Party; previously an engineer at Pinterest and Quora, and a co-founder of the non-profit Project Include and the tech diversity data project Where are the Numbers?
i’ve been using claude for all things home-related and it’s amazing. (just dump all files in and let claude index, summarize, and organize.) even better than being a repository of all receipts, it helps me maintain a spreadsheet that i can download and send to accountants, draft emails for correspondence with service providers, and proactively flag issues that i wouldn’t have realized otherwise. Quoting @money_cruncher Open a new gmail as soon as you buy a house (123house@gmailcom) Then save/forward every single receipt, invoice, quote etc to this email for all your home improvements: - replacing an entire roof - new flooring - new hvac system - building a new deck - etc These improvements raise your cost basis,… Anthropic Related
12 August
Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.
9 August
Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.
29 July
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
GitHub, university, and football. I owe a lot of the good things in my life to reaching out to people I didn't know: zachholman.com
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28 July
Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.
Here's my conversation with Gary Gallagher, a leading historian of the American Civil War. We discuss the causes of the war, the economics and politics of slavery, military strategy, Lincoln, Grant, Lee, the Lost Cause, the Confederate Flag, and the history of extreme political division in our country from before the Civil War to today. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 1:29 - Introduction 1:52 - What caused the Civil War? 11:49 - Slavery 39:23 - Lincoln 54:19 - Grant vs Lee 1:03:13 - Could the Civil War have been avoided? 1:1… America Related
27 July
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
9 July
Head of Instagram since 2018, previously head of Facebook's News Feed.
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Because if you're those three things, if you got fire in your belly, you learn quickly, and you're self-aware, you can kind of get good at anything eventually.
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3 July
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
29 June
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Shout out to the @Docker Compose team. 🐳 I noticed an inconsistency in a docker compose exec vs run flag with --no-tty vs --no-TTY so I opened a PR this morning to resolve it. A few hours later it was merged: github.com
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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
6 June
Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.
1 June
Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
27 May
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
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In short, whenever we have high-quality evidence that rigorously compares two teaching methods, the research invariably favors strong, direct instruction plus practice
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15 May
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
1 May
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.
30 April
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
6 April
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.
20 March
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
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Uh but whenever we do a systematic study, um any given problem, an AI tool has a success rate of maybe 1 or 2%. Uh it's just that it's just that they can apply at scale and and you just pick the winners, it looks great.
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22 January
Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.
A game idea should be at least 90% mechanics and less than 10% story. Any more than 10% story is a red flag. Related
19 January
Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
5 January
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
28 December 2025
Software engineer and founder of Block Party; previously an engineer at Pinterest and Quora, and a co-founder of the non-profit Project Include and the tech diversity data project Where are the Numbers?
14 December 2025
Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
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See's Bridge Mix. My parents had this at their house when we visited in January and we've been buying them throughout the year whenever we come across a See's. The best box to have around the house.
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15 August 2025
Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
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I would never like hold up a flag saying I'm really good at building highspeed trains. Like that is just a sign that you're really bad at capital allocation.
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8 August 2025
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
15 July 2025
Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.
11 March 2025
Artist and writer based in Oakland, California; author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time, and a longtime teacher of digital art.
19 January 2025
Growth advisor and operator who has led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey.
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And number one thing that whenever you have an initiative or whenever you have a metric that you need to go and move, do not start from scratch ever. Do not start from scratch.
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19 August 2024
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
Whenever people ask me “should I do a PhD?” I tell them “not unless it’s with @mcvollberg” Quoting @mcvollberg Open PhD position at @UZH_en. Join me and @Todd_A_Hare as part of the Zurich Center for Neuroeconomics to study affect in social decision making. Amazing research environment & working conditions. Open to EU and non-EU. See link for details. https://t.co/LcMjInQHwV Please RT! Related
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Research scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before that.
29 May 2023
Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.
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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.
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Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.
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7 June 2021
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
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All the sockets between my computers are over Tailscale, so whenever I grab the laptop and leave the house, the connections to my VMs and NAS remain stable.
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28 October 2020
Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.
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20 January 2018
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who
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Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public
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