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20 September
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
Another bug with iOS 27.1: when your app launches in a partially folded state, the view’s traitCollection has a compact horizontal size class. If you close the Duo, and then open it partially, the horizontal size class is regular. This can lead to weird layouts when you launch an app in the partially folded state: only workaround is to close/open device again. Weirdly, auto layout constraints in a storyboard aren’t affected by this. It’s something in the UIViewController transition methods. Related
16 September
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
Evening hacking on some Pi things :) Related
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
x.com Just a few days until my talk at the Royal Institution on Saturday evening. Just a reminder that you can still get yourself a ticket here. Come and find out what you've been missing.... rigb.org
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Bluesky Just a few days until my talk at the Royal Institution on Saturday evening. Just a reminder that you can still get yourself a ticket here. Come and find out what you've been missing.... Related
12 September
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
I find myself disagreeing with Terence Tao (a very scary phrase to say!) and think the core question posed is whether the "misalignment" is between the mathematical community and humanity. In other words - are the Millenium Prize problems meant to incentivize advancements for humanity or foster the field of mathematics and mathematicians? As a counter example, if there was a prize for creating a drug that cured a rare strain of cancer, we would not care if it was AI that did it. We would be happy it has been solved. On the other hand, if long running agents figured out the puzzle in "Kryptos"… AI alignment Related
10 September
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.
want to hear an interesting strategy story between meta and apple? 10 years ago i was at meta, and worked on a lot of product features that had to ship to iOS, and they all had to go through a painful apple review where anything could get cut apple back then developed a clear strategy where they used “privacy” as the angle to gain user trust and win against competition a clear example was the “ask app not to track” dialog which controls ads targeting - they made every 3p app go through that scary dialog which heavily implies to the user that they should obviously click “do not track” you migh… Related
9 September
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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A model looking like it is becoming smarter, attempting shenanigans less often, and more often doing what you want, but getting better at hiding its actions when it wants to do that, is exactly the scary combination.
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7 September
Art critic, broadcaster and author; wrote on art for The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph and presents BBC art documentaries. Author of Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane.
On the 11th November this year I will be heading back to the lovely Chipping Campden's Cidermill Theatre, to talk about someone other than Vermeer! Please join us for a relaxed evening talk. cidermilltheatre.com
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1 September
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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Like it's a more fragile and scary situation to have agents on the one hand be reinforced to desperately find cheats and hacks and on the other hand try to balance that against desperately trying to avoid negative penalties for like being caught doing these things. You ideally want their training to just not push them in the direction of cheating and hacking in the first place.
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18 August
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
Giving a talk at Soho Farm house this evening. Found somewhere nice to work in the mean time. Related
14 August
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. This evening is the Last Mile Ride a run/ride sponsored by the local hospital to raise money for their hospice program. The runners go right by my house. I play the Rocky theme through my outdoor speakers and cheer wildly. I will get to my email later. Image credit: Cloyne and District Historical Society, on Flickr Commons flickr.com
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12 August
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
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See, the problem is that neither side is making it up. Like they are seeing really scary trends.
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11 August
Chief scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety and AI control.
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Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?
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AI alignment
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my expectation is what we would see from then is that the rate of problematic behavior would decrease uh and would just keep decreasing and decrease at a pretty fast rate while simultaneously the worst things that the AIS would sometimes do would get more extreme, more egregious, and more scary.
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I think that if you imagine this spectrum, it seems in some ways pretty scary to get to a point where like all of the labor is on the like fiduciary side of the spectrum where like it doesn't whistleblow, it does exactly what you say and whatever like our society is maybe just not robust to that
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5 August
Polyglot; founded Fluent in 3 Months and argues for speaking from day one rather than waiting until you are ready.
18 June
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.
Mourning the loss of my friend @JoshuaBaer (1975-2026) and his passion for life and the future. Whether it was about his business, his mentoring, his family, his latest personal productivity hack---or his planned science fiction book---Josh exuded a rare and generous enthusiasm that lifted those around him. All cut short by a freak plane accident on Tuesday evening. Related
5 June
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
Looking forward to playing around with Oeuf's multiplayer map editor tomorrow evening! Quoting @increpare.bsky.social #OeufGame map editing party on Saturday to celebrate the 1.4 release (today or tomorrow), which includes a networked map editor! discord.gg/tWHdFkxPaX Related
1 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.
US stocks continued to climb in May 2026, with the S&P 500 up 5.1% and treasury rates leveled off at 4.44% (up from 4.40%). The ERP for the index declined from 4.36% to 4.31%, as a surge in earnings partially offset higher stock prices. Related
27 May
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.
(1) Most countries do not actually have a military. Instead, most countries outsource their security to the US (most common), to Russia (like Belarus), or to China (like North Korea, partially). Iran is unusual in that they're going it largely alone. They're also unusual in that they actually appear to be winning. And if Iran does manage to drive the US out of not just Afghanistan and Iraq, but the entire Middle East, they'll have unfortunately undermined the idea that America can or will provide any security guarantees at all. (2) So, with the withdrawal of the American Empire, every country… whitehouse.gov
Quoting @Madeline_Zimm Roman Helmet Guy gets it. Reminds me of my book review of Balaji’s Network State, wherein I argue that yes, we still need the military 🤡 China Russia Related
6 May
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
29 March
Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."
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You cannot just reverse that, right? It's just not working. So, I do think that we need to build out the whole guardrails for the reversibility of actions because that actually where things get really really scary.
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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.
1 March
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
RE: https://phpc.social/@stefanzweifel/116149086800020733 Our group has been hit by the DeutscheBahn curse: Were stuck at a German operated train station for 2 hours. Let's see if we arrive in the evening. Related
12 February
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.
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OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491
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I- I can relate that if you very deeply identify that you are a programmer, that it's scary and that it's threatening because what you like and what you're really good at is now being done by a soulless or not entity. But I don't think you're just a programmer. That's a very limiting view of your craft. You are, you are still a builder.
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and not in 2030 when, when AI is actually at the level where it could be scary. So, this happening now and people starting discussion, maybe there's even something good that comes out of it.
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10 February
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
21 January
Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.
13 January
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
31 December 2025
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
Mastodon It’s NYE. Both of our late teenage kids are away for the evening. I’m drinking a glass of red wine and cooking the dish I made for my wife on one of our first dates almost 25 years ago. Enjoy your evenings and Happy New Year! ❤️ Related
Bluesky It’s NYE. Both of our late teenage kids are away for the evening. I’m drinking a glass of red wine and cooking the dish I made for my wife on one of our first dates almost 25 years ago. Enjoy your evenings and Happy New Year! ❤️ Related
27 November 2025
Environmental writer and campaigner; author of Six Degrees, The God Species, Seeds of Science and Our Final Warning.
If you're in London on the evening of 3 December, there's only one place you need to be - in a pub having drinks with me to discuss the future of environmentalism in the UK! RSVP here: act.weplanet.org
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24 August 2025
Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
I had a lot of fun presenting to @AaronBastani, who coined the term Fully Automated Luxury Communism, the idea that China should be understood as Partially Automated Authoritarian State Capitalism Quoting @novaramedia This week on Downstream, technology analyst and author @DanWWang joins @AaronBastani to compare China, the US and the UK. “For the Chinese, there is no problem that cannot be solved with yet another bridge, road, highway, hyperscaler, coal plant, home, and so China is just building its way out of a… China Related
17 March 2025
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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I still use gmail just due to sheer convenience, but I've started to partially use Proton Mail
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5 January 2025
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.
3 December 2024
Scottish crime writer, author of the Tony Hill and Karen Pirie novels; former journalist and broadcaster.
Off to read the lesson @ St Giles Cathedral this evening. Now there’s a sentence I never expected to utter! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 to @Trussell for giving me the chance to support their food bank work. Related
7 October 2024
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
6 March 2024
Neuroscientist at UC Davis; studies memory and wrote Why We Remember.
31 October 2018
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
13 May 2018
Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.
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