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19 September
Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
18 September
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 is the weekend I get my wood in (i.e. have pellets delivered) so I'm thinking of chillier days even though it's 70° outside. Trust me, you'll feel better if you make some plans for what's ahead, however you interpret that. Have a good weekend. Image credit: Library of Congress, on Flickr Commons flickr.com
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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
#curl 8.23.0 release candidate one is up: https://curl.se/rc/ Please take it for a spin and double-check that it works just as smooth as you would expect. Do not use release candidates in production. They are work in progress. Use them for testing and verification only. Use actual releases in production. Related
17 September
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.
[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug https://civicshout.com/p/keep-ice-away-from-our-polling-places https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug US citizens: call on the Department of Hostile Savagery to keep the deportation thugs away from our polling places. A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Maine said he would invite deportation thugs to come to Maine's polling places to intimidate and perhaps terrorize voters. Citizens who are immigration Related
Economist at George Mason University. Writes Overcoming Bias on prediction markets, signalling and the far future, and wrote The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.
"Enterprising bettors could theoretically pick a longshot candidate & boost them … [by] amplifying their media coverage." So the risk to democracy is that some might try to promote underdog candidates? Horrors! magzter.com
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15 September
Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.
31 August
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
29 August
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 is now available: https://t.co/BeAEaG6Srq This being a release candidate, by definition this might be what ships as 14.5-RELEASE next week. If there are any critical issues which should block the release, you have approximately 96 hours to find and report them. Related
27 August
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.
"Out, damned slop! Out, I say!" -- Lady Macbeth if she were reviewing Oxide candidate materials, maybe Related
26 August
Design engineer; formerly at Linear and Vercel; author of Sonner and Vaul; teaches animations.dev.
We are also hiring! What initially led me to apply was the trial week. It’s not just for the company to see if you are a fit, but also for you, as a candidate, to see if the company is a good fit for you. That way you can make a more informed decision yourself. It essentially reduces the risk of making the wrong decision, since you get more data points to base your decision on. It’s as if you are a part of the team for a few days. Quoting @linear Today we're announcing our second employee tender offer. We passed $100m ARR earlier this year and now have more than 40,000 paying customers. The tender lets our teammates participate in that success at a $2.5B valuation: Related
12 August
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
I am not running for re-election as a Justice of the Peace in November (14 years is enough) and I'm mostly fine with it but will miss getting to run the tabulator for elections. Today was one of those nice primaries where the people I campaigned for, gave advice to, and talked to today, all won (N=3) and the less-evil sheriff candidate handily won. I got to work the polls with my friends and see my neighbors. I'm not a big voting personal generally, but I like small town elections #vermont Related
2 August
Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot, previously chief product officer at Twitch and a product lead on growth at Twitter.
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the number of people who present incredibly well, and then you give them a prompt and some data and ask them to come back with a PRD on something, and then we make them verbally defend it, how quickly the thinking decays from folks who are good at the theater, but not the specifics, uh is kind of really telling, I think.
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21 July
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
data center road trip // day 4-5 the AI backlash is bipartisan & showing up in politics in a big way - Abdul El-Sayed brought Bernie and AOC to rally with him in Lansing. all 3 decried AI oligarchy (Bernie with the longest spiel) - in WI, DSA member Francesca Hong is leading the Dem governor’s primary. she hopes to win rural conservatives as the only candidate backing a data center moratorium - a canvasser for Will Lawrence in MI7 told me that 90% of the doors she knocked on Saturday named data centers as a top issue these are purple battleground states, yet pollsters are finding Dems and Rep… Quoting @jasminewsun I’m spending the next week driving around Wisconsin and Michigan to get a firsthand view of the data center buildout and backlash am visiting sites, talking to tons of people — tradespeople, activists, planners, residents — then writing up a story lmk what questions I should dig into! data centers Related
Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.
24 June
Makes NeetCode, the structured practice list and video walkthroughs people use to prepare for coding interviews; a former Google engineer.
17 June
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
Logic for Programmers v0.15, Livecoding There's a new release of Logic for Programmers! This one, version 0.15, is the first true release candidate. There's a couple of minor touch-ups I need to do but all content is in and copy edited and proofread. Unless s…
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5 June
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
3 June
Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.
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if you nominate people whose life history reflects a high degree of unreliability, they may prove unreliable once in office.
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2 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.
A pattern I'm seeing with AI debugging: it's easy to get stuck inside the model's search space. So you burn tokens & time chasing candidate fixes, while the real answer sits in context only you have ... but never explored, because you quietly surrendered your thinking. Related
20 May
Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.
22 March
Researcher on developer productivity; co-wrote Accelerate and the DORA research, and created the SPACE framework.
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so many times that process has been managed by humans because you're selecting the right candidate build and you're verifying it and you're thinking, you know, you're figuring out cherry picks and then you like rebundle and then you send it out and that doesn't scale if you have one or two or a handful of people trying to make group decisions and do group sense making.
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2 December 2025
President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
I am asking all America First Patriots in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District to please GET OUT AND VOTE for a phenomenal Candidate and MAGA Warrior, Matt Van Epps! You can win this Election for Matt, who has my Complete and Total Endorsement. HE WILL BE A GREAT CONGRESSMAN and, unlike his Opponent, he cherishes Christianity and Country Music — She has openly stated that she hates them both! TN-07: Polls close at 7:00 P.M. IF YOU ARE IN LINE BY 7 P.M., STAY IN LINE, AND THEY MUST LET YOU VOTE. GET OUT AND VOTE, VOTE, VOTE FOR MATT VAN EPPS — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! Find your voting loc… swampthevoteusa.com
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I am asking all America First Patriots in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District to please GET OUT AND VOTE TOMORROW for a phenomenal Candidate, Matt Van Epps, on Election Day, Tuesday, December 2nd! You can win this Election for MAGA Warrior Matt Van Epps, who has my Complete and Total Endorsement. HE WILL BE A GREAT CONGRESSMAN and, unlike his Opponent, he cherishes Christianity and Country Music — She has openly stated that she hates them both! TN-07: Polls open in all Counties no later than 9:00 A.M., but some open as early as 7:00 A.M. Polls close at 7:00 P.M. IF YOU ARE IN LINE BY 7 P.M… swampthevoteusa.com
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8 November 2025
Research psychologist, instrumental in founding the field of naturalistic decision making; developed the recognition-primed decision model, the PreMortem method and the ShadowBox training method, and wrote Sources of Power and Seeing What Others Don't.
7 November 2025
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
I had fun joining @peterrowlett.net and @steckl.es recently on their mathematical objects podcast, talking about my wood puzzle collection. Most of the time was spent struggling desperately to describe a highly visual topic in an audio-only context. open.spotify.com
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20 August 2025
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
2 August 2025
Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.
14 June 2025
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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Yeah, that was a leading candidate for many decades. I think it's slowly pulling out of fashion. It's not matching experiment.
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12 February 2025
Historian of invention; writes Age of Invention on where the Industrial Revolution actually came from.
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As I set out last time, the usual story — that this was caused by deforestation, making firewood so scarce that people resorted to burning an inferior but cheaper fuel — simply does not stack up.
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17 December 2024
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
22 March 2024
Investigative journalist; wrote Area 51, The Pentagon's Brain and Nuclear War: A Scenario, reconstructing what secret programmes actually did from interviews and declassified records.
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Because why on earth there would be two candidates, one of whom has cognitive problems and the other of whom has judgment problems? These are the two biggest issues with the nuclear launch, judgment and cognition. And so where’s the young-ish, thoughtful, forward looking, wise, dedicated civil servant running for president? I know that sounds fantastical, but I wish it weren’t.
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26 February 2024
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
Wrote a post on how I build and run behavioral interviews! I used to think that "tell me about a time when..." questions were all bullshit—people answered everything with vague platitudes, I had no idea what the bar should be and I'd feel "ok, I guess" about every candidate. Related
23 December 2023
Writes about the biotech industry, drug development and forecasting — “I write to learn, mostly about biotech.”
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The cost to discover and develop a drug today is orders of magnitude higher than in the 1950s. Despite this, the probability that a drug entering clinical trials will eventually reach the market has hardly improved in the intervening years.
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24 January 2021
Technology writer and podcaster; former Macworld editor-in-chief, writes Six Colors and hosts podcasts on Relay FM and The Incomparable.
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I recently bought a new desk, the Uplift V2, with a reclaimed wood desktop, and I love it.
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I recently bought a new desk, the Uplift V2, with a reclaimed wood desktop, and I love it.
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8 January 2021
Writes Nintil, long researched essays on metascience, biology, economics and whatever he has decided to read the literature on.
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This is a fortunate conclusion, because it means that it's possible to use bibliometrics to select a candidate set of sufficiently good scientists, and then use human reviewers to select among them.
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8 August 2020
Founder of Pinboard; writes Idle Words — talks and essays on the web, aviation, politics and travel.
Sara Huddleston on the Latino Vote in Iowa Last week I spoke with Sara Huddleston, candidate for Iowa state house in district 11 (Storm Lake). A longtime community organizer and three-term city council member, she was the first Latina elected to a city council i…
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