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20 September
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
19 September
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
A tinkerer recovered Claude’s true usage limits from a suspiciously precise decimal like 0.16327272727272726. This is very useful, because Anthropic really does not want to give me any useful information about the quantities of tokens my $20/month Claude Pro subscription is offering me before I run up against a limit and have to either switch out the models or pay API pay-as-you-go pricing: **CROSSPOST: SHELLAC: Suspiciously Precise Floats, or, How I Got Claude’s Real Limits** Two... 1/ Anthropic Related
18 September
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.
love how more and more people discover the awesome combination of agents + oss! Quoting @ericcurtin17 Announcing AgenticLinux: an immutable bootc desktop for agents. Docker Engine, Docker Sandboxes, llmman, OpenClaw, etc. preinstalled. Read-only composefs root, atomic updates from Docker Hub, rollback built in. Related
Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline; runs a tech PR firm, and argues at length that the AI business does not add up.
Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.
It’s wild how many of the big media owners are subs with a humiliation kink specific to Trump, where they love him offering a tiny bit of praise in between threatening to kill them Quoting @froomkin.bsky.social Sulzberger writes “No president in modern history has been more hostile than Donald Trump to a press he’s dubbed ‘the enemy of the people.’” Then he brags about Trump praising the Times as a “jewel”, basking in the validation. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o... Related
Founder and editor of ToolGuyd, a tool review site covering power tools, hand tools, workshop equipment and EDC gear. He writes under his first name on the site.
17 September
Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.
16 September
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
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Simple enough for everyone to access Claude's full capabilities. I've been using this experience every day for the last few weeks, and it feels awesome. Simpler, faster, and more powerful.
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14 September
Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline; runs a tech PR firm, and argues at length that the AI business does not add up.
AI Is Already In Dangerous Hands If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter, and you can subscribe on the following links: $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month. In return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhe…
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Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.
finally going to ship a workbook for the pathless path big unlock was building a codex native editor that helps me edit both visual and text elements at the same time. this is awesome. the whole goal of my work is always find ways to be excited about creating things Related
13 September
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.
you know what? it’s awesome that people are vigorously debating the credentials of assessors in the frontier AI industry. It’s awesome we are debating what independence really means. Some of it is in bad faith but who cares. This would have been my dream come true a year ago. Related
12 September
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
The Economist estimates that AI has created about 1 million US jobs so far, against roughly 200,000 AI-attributed layoffs since mid-2023. The new roles pay more. Data-center installation and maintenance ads run about 40% above comparable work. Workers with AI skills earn a wage premium of over 60% (PwC). Companies most exposed to AI grew their headcount faster than the least exposed. Aging societies are running out of workers. Median age is already over 40 in Canada and much of Europe. Output per worker has to rise or living standards fall. We need a technology that makes each remaining worke… Europe economists Related
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.
This reminds me of when Palantir released AIP. If you remember, there were lots of questions about Palantir growth in 2023 or thereabouts. They launched AIP and allowed LLMs to run over their ontologies. It lit a fire in their business and it’s been a rocket ship ever since. This is a similar product evolution. We have started to use it at 8090 and it’s pretty awesome. Quoting @Benioff Welcome Slackforce, powered by Claude. ⚡️ A live Salesforce UI—Sales, Service, Marketing, Tableau, Data 360, and Slack—with governed access in the flow of work. Slackforce for Slack. Claudeforce for Cowork. See both at #DF26. LLMs Related
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
RE: https://writing.exchange/@ernie/117252757155845794 i've gotten six of these emails today alone, and all of them are offering to cite the work that i've already researched and cited myself because i, y'know, wrote it Related
11 September
Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline; runs a tech PR firm, and argues at length that the AI business does not add up.
Premium: The Hater's Guide To Broadcom According to The Information, in early 2024, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan hosted a “coffee chat” with employees of the recently-acquired VMWare, and introduced them to his particular brand of management: At that time, VMware’s…
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Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein, a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025, and host of the Plain English podcast.
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The value of a degree is in question, as tuition costs have increased in the last few decades while the college premium-the expected benefit from getting a diploma-has flatlined and possibly even declined in the last few years.
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derekthompson.org
10 September
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
9 September
Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
1 hour 18 minutes. Flew by. Good showing by Ternus. Quick honest reaction is: better than Cook at these keynotes, but lacks the off-the-cuff nature and energy of Jobs. It's early. But also we NEED to go back to live. iPhone Duo demos would have been awesome live. #AppleEvent energy Related
VERTICAL DOCK. They did it. Those crazy sonsofbitches did it. (I'm serious. This is awesome.) #AppleEvent Related
OMG rewind what someone said to you! Um, Audio Intelligence sounds awesome. #AppleEvent 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.
AI has the chance to improve EPS growth for the S&P 500 by 2% per annum In exchange for this growth potential there is a 10% chance AI might cause an extinction level event for humanity This seems fair That’s why it’s called a risk premium Related
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
Short Kody enables awesome triage-to-production workflows Related
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
8 September
Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline; runs a tech PR firm, and argues at length that the AI business does not add up.
Concentration Risk If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter, and you can subscribe on the following links: $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month. In return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhe…
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Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
I was an early reader of The Awesome Portfolio. Definitely a good one, like the rest of his library. Give it a read! Quoting @dailydirtnap The Awesome Portfolio is out in the wild! So much gratitude, for everything. Related
6 September
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
We’re collectively realizing that experts, analog or digital, make strange decisions from time to time. Non-determinism, we learn, is both awesome and dreadful. It’s more powerful, but like people, these tools need active management (and resist it just like our best devs). Quoting @heyJordanParker Astra is such a weird model. 1. It makes better architectural decisions than Fable 2. It is more diligent & disciplined than Fable 3. It communicates better than Fable 4. Seems to compact better than every other model I've tested But also… 1. Is slow to answer 2. Is extremely slow & inefficient whe… Related
5 September
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Awesome! Insane stuff like this is why we open sourced Zork Quoting @emollick This impressed me: I asked GPT-6 Astra to turn Zork (the classic 1977 text adventure) into a full 3D action-adventure game It kept the original plot & puzzles, added fight scenes, and built all of the characters & environments directly in Threejs Play: Related
4 September
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
GPT-6 Astra is now available to all Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users in Work/Codex, and is available in the API. We will start rollout to Plus and Business users next. Thank you for the patience. Related
Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline; runs a tech PR firm, and argues at length that the AI business does not add up.
2 September
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
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I do not see AI as driving these changes, but an interesting result nonetheless
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1 September
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.
The spotlight was on US treasuries, in August 2026, as 10-year and 30-year rates edged towards highs not seen since 2008. US equities still had a good month, with the S&P up 2.6%, pushing the equity risk premium down to 4.09%. Related
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
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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In most of the world there is: no real willingness to solve problems nor an acceptance of people offering to solve their problems (out of pride) simply too much regulation so the problem cannot be solved without a license or long approval time very low standards of what is deemed acceptable so the problem isn't seen as a problem in the first place
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28 August
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@clayton/117175171619298911 It's OK. This feature is awesome, and one I use heavily. Every social network needs a few mutes here and there. Nobody inherently deserves anyone’s attention. If someone replies in a way that makes me think, "I'd rather not hear from this person again,” I just mute forever. No aggressive block, no report or feedback, no way for them to know. It's not meant to send a message, get revenge, or influence anyone else — just tailor my feed for me. Related
22 August
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
On my way home from my 1st @laravellivedk in Copenhagen! 🇩🇰 It’s such an awesome conference - would recommend going next year if you can! Related
Prime Minister of Canada since March 2025; formerly governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.
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We cannot accept what they have offered, and we will not give what they have asked.
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21 August
Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.
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He gave them an affirmative alternative to move toward, and in doing so, empowered both those people and himself to do something better.
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20 August
Chief AI Scientist at Databricks, after its acquisition of MosaicML, where he was a founding team member; known for the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis from his MIT PhD (ICLR 2019 Best Paper).
I'll know we have AGI when food delivery services start offering wine pairings for Chipotle. AGI Related
17 August
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
It was awesome joining Jason Cohen on the second episode of his new show. Quoting @asmartbear New Smart Bear Live just dropped! DropInBlog’s @JesseSchoberg has 2,000 happy customers, 2% monthly churn, a Bangkok-nomad life--and a growth curve that has plateaued. Cohost @robwalling and I tear into the real problem: Related
15 August
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
Investor relations will happily and expeditiously respond to an email from someone with one share, a fraction of a share, or an undisclosed number of shares, across a wide variety of companies, including many with other-than-awesome CS reputations. Quoting @joshua__hone One of my favorite @patio11 dangerous professional tips: own a nonzero number of shares of any publicly traded company with which you have material business, in part so you can truthfully hit their investor relations line as an escalation pathway Related
14 August
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Some cool things I found on the internet lately: https://t.co/prSK4M9aWu - Beautiful UI for AI-native interfaces. https://t.co/HHiCJrYCsd - Premium Wallpapers For Your Phone. https://t.co/iDlbfUzU8t - Product photography for software https://t.co/QSLH3ofg2p - The idea machine 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.
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You look at Fellow, another premium coffee machine brand, and all their stuff that touches water is high grade stainless steel
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11 August
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.
guys, @anydesk is awesome. running my macmini m1 as codex remote. Related
31 July
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
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there still seems to be an enormous premium on cognitive ability. And so, I wouldn't I I I I think, um, renouncing that before there's evidence that we've saturated, uh, those benefits would be premature.
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29 July
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Jose-Miguel x Ryo Fukui I was only able to catch the tail end, but Jose-Miguel Yamal, alongside Thomas Helton and Sam Knight, did an awesome tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ryo Fukui’s Scenery at Echoes in Houston. Jose-Miguel is t…
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28 July
Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
On a near-daily basis I get emails offering to pay for "sponsored articles" or for linking to sketchy crypto/casino sites. I guess everyone gets these? Search engines surely prohibit this, but does it get your content removed from LLM training? LLMs crypto Related
25 July
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
Lately, I've been running a local fork of the Android emulation frontend Cannoli, you can see the changes here: https://t.co/wCaJerqK3A I hope to get some some of these changes landed upstream, but in the meantime, it's so awesome to have a customized launcher that totally meets my niche needs like this. Thankful that the GPL exists to enable this type of work and delightful use of software. Related
23 July
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.
I need testers for my awesome new CruiseSheet Android App. Please DM your play store email address if I can add you. iOS coming later... Related
17 July
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
13 July
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
2 July
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.
The S&P 500 capped off a middling month in June 2026, but had a stunning 2nd quarter, up 14.87%. Rising earnings helped, and the equity risk premium for the index stood at 4.17% over the 10-year treasury rate. Related
1 July
Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.
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You look under the underneath though at the code and it was just a horrible unmaintainable mess. But the fact that people could program the programs that they wanted was a a significant step forward as opposed to I'm going to write a thousandpage requirements document and then wait 8 years and not get what I want which was the alternative that we were offering at the at the time.
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30 June
British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.
this is awesome ben brown used Resident to vibe code his new ESP32 watch best quote: > this thing starts off with nothing and you just wish your features into being one by one youtube.com
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29 June
Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.
19 June
Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.
10 June
Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
4 June
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 valued SpaceX for its IPO a few weeks ago, with minimal information and a promise to revisit the valuation, when the prospectus was made public. The prospectus is public, the offering price has been set and my update is up and running. bit.ly
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Behavioural economist at Chicago Booth, professor of behavioural science and economics and director of AGI economics at Google DeepMind.
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So with one, you get the effect that the person produced art print is valued much much higher than the than the AI version. And then what we do is to say there's in a set of other conditions, there's 500 of these being produced. So for the human made one, the price goes down a lot because it's no longer seen as like you're not like making a connection with this one artist versus with AI, there's no difference. AI is already viewed as like a commodity.
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15 May
Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
I’ve been a big fan of what @united is doing in general, but from what I’ve heard (via other passengers and flight attendants), it seems they didn’t renew their Panasonic contract for widebodies while Starlink is rolled out. I’m pumped about Starlink and will seek out United once I know it’s available (had it this week and it was awesome). Until then, however, no Internet, particular on transoceanic flights, is unacceptable and a very poor choice by United’s management. I’ll be flying someone else for those for now. Quoting @sliccardo I’ve just endured my third consecutive long-haul flight on @united with no WiFi. I’ve just decided to choose any other airline available, even if I have to connect to DC through New Zealand. Related
16 April
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
Just awesome! 🤩 20 years later and meeting Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSON again! ❤️🔥 #JSON #Achievement #Grateful #Career Related
1 April
German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.
29 March
Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.
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My favorite awesome tech backpack. I Love this brand.
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26 March
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.
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LifeStraw is an awesome brand that sells bottles with built in water filters. The filters last 5 years so you save money on changing them too.
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nomadicmatt.com
16 March
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.
The equity risk premium (ERP) is an essential ingredient in hurdle rates in corporate finance, discount rates in valuation and expected returns in financial planning. In 2009, I pulled together everything I know about the ERP, in a paper that I have updated every year since. My 2026 update is now available to download and it is written for practitioners. papers.ssrn.com
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13 March
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
This was awesome to see in person ✨ Quoting @marcba Son of a bitch, it worked! 🥳 - Bun backend with Vue-powered reactivity - Controlling a synchronized routine 1000 phone screens - Sync corrected for system time offset with NTP It worked better than I would have ever imagined. Thanks for everything supporting me on this talk ❤️ Related
11 March
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 Jeff Kaplan, a legendary Blizzard game designer of World of Warcraft and Overwatch, which are two of the biggest, most influential games ever made. Jeff is one of the most genuine & awesome human beings I've ever met: kind, thoughtful, hilarious, and still & forever a gamer through and through. This was a truly fun & inspiring conversation. We talk about it all: the lows, the highs, the memes, the details of the game design process, and the new game he's been secretely working on: The Legend of California. I got a chance to play the game with Jeff, and it's incredi… Related
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
29 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.
1 January
Founder and CEO of SaaStr, the B2B software community and events business, and a SaaS investor who previously co-founded EchoSign and sold it to Adobe.
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Don't build it yourself. You're not Versel. You don't have a full-time wicked awesome engineer that wants to build this.
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12 December 2025
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
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Overcommitted: Put simply, thoughtful tech conversations from thoughtful tech people. I'm biased towards this one because it's run by some coworkers, but they are awesome coworkers and it's fun and interesting!
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16 October 2025
Co-founder and chief executive of Figma, the collaborative design platform he started in 2012 and took public in 2025.
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I think it's not enough to have the MVP. You got to have something that's a little bit awesome at least.
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5 October 2025
Head of growth at Chess.com, previously growth and monetization lead at Grammarly and Duolingo and a product manager at Google.
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and so I think this is interesting just modernization learning that especially if you work on a premium product try to have your free product be a reflection of like everything that your product can offer you. Obviously, to an extent, there's some costs involved with some of the paid features and things like that, but it generally will pay it for itself if you're able to put your best foot forward um and go do that.
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30 September 2025
Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.
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So premium is one source of our revenue. We also have ads, but they're context-based, not targeted. Of course, we leave probably 80% of value on the table because we're not ready to engage in all this practices, exploiting personal data.
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2 September 2025
Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers. Publishes essays and an annual presentation on where the industry is going.
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The interesting Tesla point is people always looked at it and said, "It's the iPhone of cars." No, it's not. What's happening is that cars are becoming Android with no iPhone. And then Tesla is just selling and is is in that metaphor Tesla is just another android phone maker
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31 July 2025
Anthropologist; wrote Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World and The Secret History of the Mongol Queens.
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If you have a nation of 1 million people and you are ruling over hundreds of millions of people, hundreds of millions of people, China, Russia, the Middle East, you do not do that through warfare. You conquer them initially through warfare, but you do not rule them through warfare. You've got to be offering something that they want, something that they like.
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30 June 2025
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
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But he has a remarkably high hit rate of finding things I would have otherwise overlooked or offering useful new perspective.
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12 May 2025
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
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Conversational UIs are great at quickly getting to the first 70%, but suck at offering easy controls over narrower areas for iteration.
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2 April 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.
WOW. I finally got around to transferring my biggest 401k out of @AscensusInc , and should have done it long ago! Backstory: @Vanguard_Group got out of the business of offering employer 401ks last year, unfortunately. But I trusted them enough to leave my account invested with the new company they moved us all to. Bad idea. Not only does Ascensus have high recurring fees, the web interface is also incredibly clunky, customer service phone line had a 19-minute wait, and after all that they tell me they *DON'T SUPPORT ELECTRONIC TRANSFERS OF YOUR MONEY!!!* So in order to move my account, they a… Related
6 March 2025
Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.
4 March 2025
Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
3 February 2025
Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.
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The important thing about, hey, is cost a limiting factor here? My view is that we'll have really awesome intelligence, like AGI, before we have it permeate throughout the economy.
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24 January 2025
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
22 June 2024
Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.
3 April 2024
Writer and engineer behind the blog Melting Asphalt, and co-author with Robin Hanson of The Elephant in the Brain.
responses here were awesome. thanks everyone! some ppl asked for my recs: — “The Great Courses” (high-quality lecture series recorded in the studio) — particularly the history courses — all-time fav is “Big History” by David Christian — any linguistics course by John McWhorter Quoting @kevinsimler can y'all recommend some audiobooks for me? (i have audible credits i need to use) Related
12 February 2024
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.
19 December 2023
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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This book surveys theories of creativity, contrasting four competing explanations: expertise, genius, society, and chance, in offering a model for how creativity works. Simonton's work provides a nice hybrid between the purely anecdotal work of biographers and the data-driven work of experimental scientists.
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24 October 2023
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
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Going Infinite is awesome. I would have been happy with my decision on the basis of any one of the following:
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thezvi.substack.com
3 July 2023
Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.
17 February 2023
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?
29 December 2022
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
5 August 2021
Product leadership coach and writer of the “Ask Gib” newsletter. Former VP of Product at Netflix and Chief Product Officer at Chegg; speaks and runs workshops on product strategy.
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This book focuses on startup strategy and positioning.
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20 January 2021
Programmer; co-founded GitHub and was its CEO, and created the Mustache templating language and Resque.
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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It goes much further and deeper into how to approach actually doing Lean in your business than Eric Ries's The Lean Startup book. It also has some awesome case studies showing how lean can apply to any industry. See my full review here.
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jasonevanish.com
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The interests of a Venture Capitalist are different than those of the entrepreneurs building a company they've invested in. Jeff does an awesome job of helping explain how you can get misaligned in your goals versus your investors. Fortunately, he also covers how to avoid it.
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12 August 2020
Front-end developer and writer on Svelte, Vue, CSS and WordPress; blogs at joshcollinsworth.com.
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Firefox is a great browser with some awesome tools, plus strong privacy. I use Edge when I need to test on Chromium; I don’t even install Chrome on my personal machines.
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joshcollinsworth.com
1 February 2020
Creator and editor of BladeReviews.com, a pocket knife and EDC tool review site he founded in 2010 and wrote single-handedly for its first five years.
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At first glance the Fastball struck me as a humble offering, but it quickly grew on me. Mostly after I started to carry and use it. I wasn't immediately impressed when I pulled the Fastball from it's box, and as a collectible I'd probably pass. But as a user piece I can easily recommend it.
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20 August 2019
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
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I set up a HelpScout account for us when we released the book because I anticipated a lot of support and it is so much nicer than handling everything via email. Awesome tool.
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adamwathan.me
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I host all of my course videos on Vimeo. It's essentially the only option — everything else is crazy expensive in comparison. Awesome service though, absolutely love it.
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adamwathan.me
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For my static sites (like this one), I use Netlify. It is probably my favorite app that I interact with on a regular basis. The UI is beautiful, the experience is awesome, and the app is insanely fast.
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adamwathan.me
29 December 2018
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.
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I was doubtful, but everyone kept telling me it’s awesome, so I reluctantly read it. Holy crap! It’s GREAT! Feels like the definitive masterpiece on the subject of how to make good habits and break bad ones. Very focused on helping you take action. Very relatable and inspiring.
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sive.rs
4 October 2018
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
I just published "The Complete Guide To Building Premium WordPress Themes" course on udemy. Get it now with a 90% discount #wordpress #udemy #course udemy.com
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18 September 2018
Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.
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Let me close by offering a sincere thanks to those in the Rust community who have been working so long to develop such a terrific piece of software – and especially those who have worked so patiently to explain their work to us newcomers.
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3 June 2018
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.
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If you're not feeling “Hell yeah, that would be awesome!” about something, say no.
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sive.rs
3 April 2018
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
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Cobalt2 Theme Official is the theme used by Wes Bos, which comes with a nice user experience and a lot of awesome features. I am using a modified version of Cobalt2 that's a crossover between Monokai and Cobalt2.
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6 March 2018
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.
29 November 2017
Cook and food writer specialising in Chinese cuisine; the first Westerner to train at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, and author of Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper and Invitation to a Banquet.
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It was probably the first book in English to bring serious academic scrutiny to Chinese food culture, and to use the scholarly techniques applied to other subjects to food, offering the views of different experts on different periods of Chinese history.
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fivebooks.com
27 July 2017
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
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