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21 September
British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.
19 September
American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
Nope, that's accurate. I started making myself reach for the handrails when I turned 40 so it would be muscle memory when I got older, and it's already saved my ass a couple of times when I've slipped on the stairs. Quoting @allouryesterdays.bsky.social @scalzi.com - for reasons I can't explain, my brain remembers you urging people to use handrails, because stairs are a technology actively trying to kill you. If I've misremembered this, sorry. Related
18 September
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
til the printscreen function in #Ubuntu saves the screenshot to ~/Pictures/Screenshots as well as letting you copy to the clipboard (I just deleted about 8,000 saved screenshots!) (then I rebound printscreen to Flameshot) Related
Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.
a few weeks ago i had OpenCode train a small local model to classify shell commands into a few categories to solve a UI issue obviously now jev can do that but it'd still work better local so... Related
Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.
16 September
President of the European Commission since 2019; previously Germany's defence minister.
Our emergency crews have saved countless lives and homes from the wildfires this summer. And I wanted to tell the story of a Danish pilot, Rune Kyndal. Rune gave his life to save others. Today, all of Europe owes him ↓ Europe Related
14 September
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
New week new demo! Today I want to showcase the CLI to control the @superlogical multiplexer. The CLI is an extremely powerful tool for automation and hooking into other tools like editors, agentic coding tools, and more. And, it's super fun! Everything you can do in the GUI, you can do via the CLI. Actually, you can do more in the CLI. You can create sessions, run commands, make splits, move things around, change focus, simulate any input device (key/mouse/etc.), wait on scripts, and more. There are a couple unique parts of Rex I'm showing off here too: our streaming event system that any cl… Related
Technology writer and podcaster; former Macworld editor-in-chief, writes Six Colors and hosts podcasts on Relay FM and The Incomparable.
13 September
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
My gaming PC has been broken for months. Ultra-laggy to the point that I couldn't even configure the BIOS. The problem? I had my peripherals plugged into the wrong USB-hole. Related
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
Here’s my pal Libby's most recent video on her cruise ship life asking for my take on what ‘retirement’ means. https://t.co/fkQGa2BAtc See less 📷 https://t.co/x9AvCQ4ecG I Saved Just Enough Money to Retire & Live on Cruise Ships (FIRE) Related
12 September
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
8 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.
Even if an AI did exactly what I told it to do, precisely and without error, I would still work hard as an engineer. Brooks told us why in 1986: "Even perfect program verification can only establish that a program meets its specification. Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification." What he meant is that engineering is not the execution of commands... It is very much design. And design is ridiculously difficult. You need to decide what you will build and how you will build it. Of course, you can outsource the design to the AI. But that's assuming t… Related
6 September
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
1 September
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
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28 August
American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.
26 August
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
today is the day you stop doomscrolling stay with me - this will take 5mins 1. open the AppStore 2. download "ScreenZen" (free) 3. configure limits (e.g. 4 15-min sessions) 4. start with 1 social media app 5. a few days later, add another 6. repeat until you've added all apps too busy right now? add a calendar event with this tweet and do it this weekend trust me, you'll thank me next month Related
25 August
Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.
24 August
Researcher of social media, privacy and youth culture; founder of Data & Society and author of It’s Complicated.
"Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census" comes out in one month! Please pre-order the book if you can (or ask your library for a copy). You can choose French or English, audio, e-book, or hardcover. Related
22 August
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Tore a hole in my tire on a bump today. Only thing on hand: a sticker I made for Yves. Stuck it inside the tire and rode home on it. Yves died last year from cancer. Today his sticker saved my ride. Weirdest place I ever pictured one of his stickers ending up. 💫 🚴♂️⚡ Related
20 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.
what are your favourite commands to run over ssh (like `ssh user@host "COMMAND"`)? the only thing I have in my history right now is: ssh user@host 'tcpdump -i any BPF_FILTER_GOES_HERE -w -' > out.pcap to quickly get a local pcap file Related
19 August
Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.
Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.
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its Chrome extension provides near-instant text summaries of YouTube videos. Over the past year, I’ve saved myself many hours by dumping podcasts I feel like I should listen to for work into Recall and simply skimming the summaries.
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18 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.
lazyweb: I'm curious about how to get a list of all of the different "kinds" of things SSH can do. my impression is that there's: - open a terminal session - just run one command - TCP port forwarding - X11 forwarding - copy files and that these all separate "commands" or "protocols" inside SSH. Not sure how to get a list of all of them though. edit: I think the answer is "read https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/PROTOCOL and https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4254.txt" Related
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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Now you can have a quake style console in your operating system. Except with an infinitely patient agent to help you customize it instead of esoteric variable names and slash commands like in the 90s
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16 August
German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com.
Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
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It's here: --pin-tab in agent-browser Multiple agents in one browser Each in its own tab Across commands + restarts
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12 August
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Startup employees and investors don't nearly pay enough attention to QSBS. Would have saved me millions of dollars at GitHub (ugh). QSBS got much more complicated, too, so I just shipped the most comprehensive QSBS calculator out there. Give it a shot: signed.com
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Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Mastodon 16% totality in Boston. No, I didn't get a photo. Go look. (With the eclipse glasses you saved from 2024. I can't be the only person with that kind of junk drawer...?) Related
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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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So, anyway, I'd say it like it both seemed like an obviously good idea in that people really wanted this, but also a bad idea in that nobody took it seriously. Um but I I think that I think the fact that it was ultimately the fact that it was grounded in such a concrete actual real user problem saved us.
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28 July
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.
We’re going to bring this heroic young man, and his family, into the White House with, perhaps, the boy he saved, to give him a High Civilian Honor. Very brave, he deserves it! President DONALD J. TRUMP Quoting @EricTrump Give this 16-year-old lifeguard the highest civilian honor. This is truly the best of America! Well done! Related
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
The Orchestrator's Tax Subagents get justified by time saved and parallel execution, but Rahul Garg explains that's not what matters most. Every token in the orchestrator's context is competing for its attention, and the real value of a subag…
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24 July
Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.
A sense of lightness I’ve been trying to go about the summer Friday newsletters with a sense of lightness, the way I make a collage out of scraps in my drawer — I pull out what I’ve saved, push it around until it makes sense (or nonsense),…
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22 July
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
27 June
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).
15 June
Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.
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I've only used Laravel Shift a few times, but each time I did it saved a lot of time upgrading my Laravel projects.
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27 May
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.
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Summary: Shipping damage. Residue on some of the components. Loud pings and pops from the assembled weight rack. A design that looked great and saved space but was painfully unusable. Restocking fee. Non-refunded shipping fees. Ghosted me about the refund.
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19 May
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
12 May
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
5 April
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
18 March
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
One of the paid @Google results for "claude code" right now is a nefarious @squarespace site pretending to be the host of Claude Code installer commands. @claudeai Anthropic Google Related
1 March
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
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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I think the main beauty is, is that models are really good at calling Unix commands. So if you just add another CLI, that's just another Unix command in the end. And MCP is… That has to be added in training. That's not a very natural thing for the model. It requires a very specific syntax. And the biggest thing, it's not composable.
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6 February
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
27 January
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
I’m deeply sad to learn of the passing of Dr. Bill Foege. Bill was a towering figure in global health—a man who saved the lives of literally hundreds of millions of people. He was also a friend and mentor who gave me a deep grounding in the history of global health and inspired me with his conviction that the world could do more to alleviate suffering. Bill and I often talked together about the future of global health. The legacy of his career is that many of the remarkable developments to come will have his imprint all over them. gatesnot.es
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31 December 2025
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
20 October 2025
Designer, illustrator and writer; author of The Shape of Design and of widely read essays on design and the web.
10 October 2025
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.
6 August 2025
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Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
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Install Warp (my normal terminal of choice, good for AI generated commands
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16 July 2025
Chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, which he has led since 2005 after turning around Bank One.
government
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So, you while we kind of saved the system a lot, we bailed a lot of people out, they made us pay 5 billion dollars on the more the bad mortgages that Bear Stearns had done. And that's what made me make the statement I wouldn't do it again.
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1 July 2025
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
U.S. global health and development aid is estimated to have saved 92 million lives over the past 20 years. We can't afford to let that kind of progress unravel: America Related
17 November 2024
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
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sign in to load saved settings for my MX Ergo
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29 September 2024
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
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Setapp - App bundles, saved money since I already use tons of apps.
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12 September 2024
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.
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In 10 years of using fish I have never found a single thing I wanted to configure. It just works the way I want.
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12 May 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.
A bit surprised by how little I've heard about GCP literally fat-finger *deleting a customer account.* Seems like their business was only saved by cross-cloud backups, a practice I previously thought was compliance theater bullshit and will never, ever, ever, question again. Related
4 March 2024
Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; wrote The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.
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The crisis occurred because of the nuclear weapons, because Khrushchev put them on Cuba, but the crisis was resolved and we didn’t end in the third World War because of the nuclear weapons, because people, leaders were afraid of them.
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21 December 2023
Journalist and author writing on politics, liberalism and ideas; a contributor to Quillette and co-author of a book on Christopher Hitchens.
18 December 2023
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.
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a profile tells you how much time a program spent in a given operation; but not how much time it would spend if you optimized that operation.
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25 April 2023
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
14 February 2023
British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.
24 May 2022
Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.
23 May 2022
Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.
17 March 2021
French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.
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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Love this terminal, I especially like being able to create keyboard shortcuts that run terminal commands.
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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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Vagrant: I love this little broker tool that helps me configure my Virtual Machines with the intended development environment and also scale the configuration on other similar machines and devices used by my co-workers, clients, and mentees.
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13 August 2013
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
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Ansible is used to build and configure boxes (both desktop and server).
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2 July 2013
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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I carry around a 1 TB SeaGate external hard drive that has saved virtual machines of almost every version of every major operating system imaginable
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1 January 2013
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
5 October 2012
Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
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I use Pocket as a read-it-later service, but I've found that I never actually go back to read what I've saved. It seems to be write-only.
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23 May 2012
Designer and developer; created the Solarized colour scheme and the Kinkless task system that became OmniFocus.
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My wrist has been saved by the Evoluent Vertical mouse. Nothing else like it that I've found.
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7 May 2012
Photographer and writer based in Malaysia who publishes long-form camera, lens and photography-book reviews, essays and photoessays at blog.mingthein.com.
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Can I recommend the lens? For D800 users, honestly, no. You're better served by the 85/1.8G; use the balance of funds for other glass, or buy one of my prints with some of the money you've saved (shameless plug). It simply lacks the crispness I've seen with other bodies.
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You're better served by the 85/1.8G; use the balance of funds for other glass, or buy one of my prints with some of the money you've saved (shameless plug).
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27 July 2011
Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.
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I like TextMate for working on projects with lots of files and dependencies, but my fingers think in vim commands, which explains why you'll occasionally see a ":wq" from me in chat windows.
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10 October 2010
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
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AckMate recently saved me from the frustration of Find In Project's performance in large projects.
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19 May 2009
Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.
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