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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

• Omarchy Dragon is our new official team for working on making Omarchy run beautifully on @Qualcomm Snapdragon computers 🐲

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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

• Mirene

  It’s official in SF Standard: Stewart Brand sells his seaworthy Sausalito houseboat to tech CEO. Ahoy!

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Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.

• Amazon exec: "you wouldn't notice [if someone blew up a datacenter]. I mean, we might be a bit upset, but you wouldn't notice! [laughs]" Amazon official statement after DCs were blown up: "After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in this Region." (yes, more than one DC was blown up, but, like other failures, of course DCs being blown up aren't uncorrelated events)

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Canadian cartoonist and writer: Dinosaur Comics, Marvel's The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and the choose-your-own-path books To Be or Not To Be and Romeo and/or Juliet.

• Hey look, I've now got an official account for promotional stuff! It's all comics, all the time, so you can follow it to get the latest. I will sometimes RT stuff here too, but this is where all the REAL info is, without all the "I just ate 11 hot dogs for $11" distractions!!
  Quoting@ryannorthupdates.bsky.socialHey everyone, this is the official account for promoting new and collected stories by @ryannorth.ca! Follow us here to stay up to date on any Final Order Cut-Offs, release day threads, and upcoming appearances!

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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.

• Introducing Vercel Labs Tools for devs in the AI era agent-browser, skills, json-render, deepsec, fx, just-bash, portless, vgpu and more We experiment in public: ship early, learn from feedback, and keep working on what people find useful We've been shipping under the Labs name for a while. Now, Labs is an official team at Vercel focused on exploring new capabilities and primitives that change what developers and agents can do. Here's what to expect: → Labs products: maintained, supported, built to be relied on → Active experiments: moves fast, expect rough edges and breaking changes → Past e…

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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.

• Serre's 100th birthday conference starts tomorrow: https://serre100.sciencesconf.org/?lang=fr . I was on the organizing committee, but unfortunately am not able to participate in the event.

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Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.

• BlueskyStill really enjoying Muse. I use Things.app for all of my todos, and though it has cloud sync they (still) haven’t added an official API. I told muse to build it and a minute or two later I have ongoing todo sync from my LLM across all my Apple devices. Wild.

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• x.comStill really enjoying @muse. I use https://t.co/t18YazaYhC for all of my todos, and though it has cloud sync they (still) haven’t added an official API. I told muse to build it and a minute or two later I have ongoing todo sync from my LLM across all my Apple devices. Wild.

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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.

• poll: to look up the official documentation for "git pull", would you use: (you can pick more than one)

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Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.

• Nobody Owns Disability

  and if adult academics and activists presenting formal papers at a conference are not fair targets of good-faith criticism, who possibly could be?

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Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.

• @RecDiffs @siracusa @hotdogsladies That Italian guy pronounced “Samhain" and “Siobhán” really quite well. If you want some cheap entertainment, try a perfectly normal Irish word such as “tábhachtach”, which means "important”. Like your Northern and Southern Italians, the dictionary link provides three pronunciations labeled “C”, “M”, “U”, for Connacht, Munster, and Ulster Irish, the three main provincial accents/dialects. (I'm from Munster so I pronounce it properly.)

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American author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and Stillness Is the Key. Writes the Reading List book-recommendation email (started 2008) and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Hosts The Daily Stoic podcast.

• Jet Li’s @jetli_official Philosophy On Life Is Not What You’d Expect | Watch the Full Video Here

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Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.

• Pretty cool to see your WordPress site as a connector in the Claude mobile app. It is a streamable-http MCP server by Agent Pilot plugin combined with OAuth Pilot for seamless auth. Also works with the official MCP-adapter feature plugin.

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Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.

• I wrote an opencode2 plugin so I can /connect @cursor_ai and chat with composer from the tui. not a wrapper around a hack. just the official sdk and a lot of "unsupported package" errors. 10/10 would debug again!

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Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.

• Here's the official blog post announcing the new Expert Intelligence framework bringing published books and more to @Gemini_Notebook (and soon other surfaces across @Google.) It includes info about the free book giveaway we are doing for US users as well.

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Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.

• RE: https://mastodon.social/@atpfm/117162643534245852 (And, yes, I pronounced “patriarchy” the British way multiple times in this episode, for some reason. I blame British TV.)

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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!

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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.

• poll: do you prefer examples with: (you can pick more than one, trying to think about what my opinions are about the use of placeholders in examples) EDIT: please no more comments about the official recommended values for ip addresses and hostnames in documentation, try to think about that as a separate question

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Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.

• NecronomiCon now labels itself as “The International Conference and Festival of Weird Fiction, Art, and Academia”, no longer a Lovecraft con specifically. And that is fair; the next panel I’m going to is “weird Appalachiana.” But Lovecraft sure does seem to be still the anchor and common thread.

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Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.

• Someone just sent this to me. I remember first seeing it back then in…an official WWDC QuickTime movie from Apple, distributed on optical discs, maybe? Anyway, can you imagine today’s Apple even keeping a moment like this in an “official” video? (Apple did keep @marcoarment’s bell in that one WWDC video, but that was a minor miracle.)

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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

• Li Daokui's comments are important because there are so few domestic voices in China stating what (I think) is the obvious truth about the economy: the main problem is that aggregate demand is weak, growth is running below potential and macro policies are inappropriate. This is not a novel, original or unusual insight: it's what lots of people (myself and others) have been saying for years, and is also in the most recent of the much-maligned IMF reports on China. But it runs directly contrary to the official government diagnosis which is that aggregate demand is fine and the economy mainly su…

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Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.

• Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation)

  This is a blog post version of the talk I delivered at Software Should Work 2026. Shoutouts to Isaac Van Doren for running such a delightful conference and nailing it first try, and for infecting us all with his charmin…

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

• Logic for Programmers is Done

  It's done. Logic for Programmers is now 1.0 and available in print. Full announcement here, official website here, direct Amazon link here. If you got an early version of the ebook, you can go back to leanpub to downloa…

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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.

• 🛠️ hunk 0.17.0 is out Patches from 10 new contributors, w/ small fixes & quality-of-life improvements like: - official homebrew install (brew install hunk) - launch hunk w/o menu bar - better session reliability - esc no longer quits, proper transparent bg colours, & more

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Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.

• pytheory-skill — Compose music from Claude Code — official PyTheory plugin marketplace

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Genomics researcher and investor; writes The Century of Biology on where biotechnology is actually going.

• CSHL: AI in Biology

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Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.

• Ahead of the first FOMC press conference today for new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh: We made predictions in our podcast on May 18. What did Gary Gensler and I get right, and what is going to play out differently in light of oil prices, the stock market, AI?

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

• Logic for Programmers extra credits

  So I said there wasn’t a proper newsletter this week, since I’m in Budapest prepping for a conference. But I still got a thing for y’all. There’s a lot of interesting topics I wanted to cover for Logic for Programmers,…

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

• Knowing about things is cheaper than knowing things

  Short one this week because I'm way behind on book and conference prep. Last week a LinkedIn Influencer wrote about how math has nothing to do with programming, so I spite-wrote a rejoinder about how math is necessary t…

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Writes Strange Loop Canon, on the intersection of technology, economics and business — "building models of the world to understand these problem areas and to define them better".

• Aligned Agents Still Build Misaligned Organisations

  agent handoffs launder uncertainty into official truth

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Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.

• Build yourself flowers

  This is an edited transcript of the keynote I gave at the Applied Machine Learning Conference in Charlottesville, VA in April 2026. I first wrote a draft of this talk by hand. This part took 2 months. I then recorded my…

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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.

• txjs-1997 — This is the source code for the 1997 Texas JavaScript conference home page.

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Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.

• I am looking forward to speaking at this @GUAmericas conference on Monday, November 10. Registration is available here (including for the livestream):

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Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.

• I had a great trip to the @Krafton_inc Developer Conference to do the keynote. Everyone was welcoming and questions were high level. Thanks guys.

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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.

• Network State Conference 2025

  On October 3, come in person or watch online at ns.com/conference.

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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

• Examples are the best documentation

  When I'm searching for docs, 95% of the time a single example would suffice. Yet, 95% of the time I can't find one in any official source. It seems that by default formal technical documentation is targeted towards some…

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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.

• The Year in Agents - AI Engineer Paris

  I gave a short address for the first AIE Paris conference organized by Koyeb!

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Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.

• What I Learned about Sex at the Rationalist Bloggers' Conference

  Sufficiently advanced integrity is indistinguishable from a sex cult.

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Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.

• London's robot conference is going crazy over it! Today we're unveiling our 1st robot Hugging Face 🤝 Pollen Robotics A low-cost $250 open-source robot designed as an open-source platform for fun human computer interactions powered by HF Spaces, models and community. =>

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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.

• Had a fun couple of hours this weekend with Codex & Windsurf • Migrated off deprecated jekyll-algolia to official sdk (better indexing) • Added recommendations + relevance scores to each post • Improved site responsiveness; fixed dark mode flicker • Marie Kondo-ed unused files & dead code

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FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.

• My re:Invent asks

  As an AWS Hero I get free admission to the AWS re:Invent conference; while it's rare that I'm interested in many talks — in previous years I've attended "Advanced" talks which didn't say anything which wasn't alre…

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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

• bpf-perf-tools-book — Official repository for the BPF Performance Tools book

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Astrophysicist and coffee researcher; author of The Physics of Filter Coffee and The Physics of Espresso, and writer of the Coffee ad Astra blog on brewing science and equipment.

• Recent Insights into Espresso Dynamics April 14 Chicago Conference

  I will be presenting a conference on the topic of espresso dynamics during SCA 2024 in Chicago !

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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.

• The Network State Conference

  Come to Singapore on September 22, 2024 to build technodemocracy.

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• Network State Conference 2023

  Come to Amsterdam on October 30, 2023 to build the parallel establishment.

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Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.

• I'm grateful for so many things about the closing keynote that @jasonkoppe and I gave at the @LFISoftware conference. All fields looking to make progress need exemplars, and when it comes to learning effectively from incidents, this is such an exemplar:

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Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.

• Our Future Cyborg Brains: My Keynote at XTech 2017

  I had a fantastic time keynoting the XTech Experiential Technology conference last week.

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Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.

• Physics tips for game developers

  In 2015 I gave a short talk on the best ways to use game physics engines at the Game Developer’s conference, and it’s now online for free. The idea is: nearly everyone who makes games has to deal with a physics engine t…

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