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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.

• lavish-axi — HTML is the new markdown. Lavish is the new editor for your HTML artifacts.

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Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.

• dotfiles — macOS / Linux / Codespaces compatible dotfiles with 1-line setup script. Tested on Apple Silicon Macs. Supports both zsh and fish. Managed with Chezmoi

  Commitskarabiner: skip Colemak std -> DH remap in Try Omarchy · herdr-plus: add encrypted eventpop project template · herdr: add ctrl+cmd+; for previous workspace

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• This is SO interesting because the OS market share for developers seems to be the inverse, based on devs in my “bubble” (those at startups + Big Tech) #1 MacOS #2 Linux #3 Windows I ran a survey here + on LI with 4,000 responses each - it’s what I mean by “bubble”
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

• The age of agents belongs to Linux!

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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.

• Many people think that the words “Artificial Intelligence” are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence. A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI). This is a Poll, and I would appreciate everybody voting! Which is the best name for this ever growing “Revolution?” President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Former options market maker who writes Moontower, a newsletter on trading, volatility, decision-making and how to think about risk outside markets too.

• The option arbitrage stuff via yesterday's poll, @DeepDishEnjoyer dividend, and the silver early exercise post has spawned a bunch of chats on TL & DMs. Seems to be a lot of people screwing with options but missing fundamental education. Another first-principles type example:

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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.

• The Russian drone that crashed in Lithuania the other day had curl installed. As part of a default Linux install presumably, it seems unlikely it used curl for any "drony" things.

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Former options market maker who writes Moontower, a newsletter on trading, volatility, decision-making and how to think about risk outside markets too.

• Smart followers. Would love to see the same poll run on some other timelines.
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Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.

• The agent stuff is meh, but having a cute little dedicated linux machine like this would be kind of neat.

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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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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.

• If you haven't given Linux a go lately, try with agents. You can fix anything with a prompt now. Got a Dell XPS. Webcam wasn't working, told codex, it rebooted and now things work.

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Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.

• We Found The Vandal

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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

• It looks like 2026 might be a record year for the number of commits to the Linux kernel. 2024 (6.7–6.12): 75,314 commits 2025 (6.13–6.18): 75,462 commits 2026 (through 7.2, released Aug 17): 60,862 commits

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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. I'm deep in my Massachusetts visit, becoming one of those people who can't look at a place without remembering what used to be there. My birthday is tomorrow, so there are all sorts of opportunities for reflecting and remembering. Oh and I guess it's a holiday weekend in the US, so maybe schedule those emails for Tuesday. Image credit: Library of Congress, on Flickr Commons

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• livecore — Linux low-pause core file dumper from an existing running process

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• Congratulations to alix e. harrow for winning the Hugo for best novel and also, in a slightly less distinguished award nobody should care about, the Incomparable’s annual poll for our favorite Hugo/Nebula novel nominee.

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• x.comHere's my conversation with @DHH. He is back for round 2! It was an epic fun 5 hour conversation about the future of programming, AI, Linux, and human civilization. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 1:27 - Introduction 2:56 - Programming with AI agents 18:14 - How software will change 27:30 - AI impact on open source 37:21 - Building Omarchy Linux distro 47:05 - Vibe coding vs agentic engineering 1:00:06 - The end of manual programming 1:10:24 - Advice for programmers 1:22:30 - Surviving Internet Hate 1:31:46 - Programming set…

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• Reflecting on the Reflecting Pool, and Whether Our Government Can Manage a Two-Car Funeral

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• Pronunciation poll! Which of the following is the closest to how you pronounce “sherbet”?

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• Devbox from @namespacelabs is fantastic. I can easily instruct the agent to compile and test Rust code on Linux without any complications. Plus, the Namespace GitHub Actions runner is incredibly fassssst. Running the gh actions for https://t.co/kEGJe02vUE very smooth and fast.

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Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.

• Same Playbit program running on a Mac and a Raspberry Pi, local-first multiplayer over internet relay (not LAN; real-world latency) and webgpu. Exact same wasm running in both places. @playbit_ for Linux (Wayland) coming soon!

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• Is there a service where I can rent access to Linux desktop machines with actual displays? We're implementing the Playbit runtime for Linux and it's surprisingly difficult to test various desktop configurations. We need a real GPU with a display connected, for testing dawn/webgpu, vsync, display sleep, etc. We use Modal and AWS, neither have had machines that I've been able to test with properly. Ideally there's a way to test a variety of systems (like ubuntu, arch, alpine etc) × GPUs (nvidia, amd, intel) × window managers.

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Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.

• Being Linux Torvalds

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Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.

• AI in Linux

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• The Conformity Gap: What American Catholics Actually Believe and Practice

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• libxev — libxev is a cross-platform, high-performance event loop that provides abstractions for non-blocking IO, timers, events, and more and works on Linux (io_uring or epoll), macOS (kqueue), and W…

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Journalist and author of The Art of Noticing; writes the newsletter The Art of Noticing (TAoN) on attention, creativity and the everyday.

• Summer Update

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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.

• POLL: ICE has been abused by the Fake News Media at levels never seen before. They are Great Patriots who work hard, and do a fantastic job in a very hostile environment. Much of this hostility is caused by the Dumocrats and the Fake News. The concept I have had for quite some time — A strong feeling that the name of these Patriots, “ICE,” should be changed to, “NICE,” in that it will totally discombobulate Crooked, Dishonest, and Unpatriotic Reporters and Journalists. For them to say, “We went to a NICE Facility today,” as opposed to “ICE” or, “NICE Agents have deported a Violent Drug Dealer…

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• shellspectre — A Rust/eBPF utility for recording SSH/TTY/PTY sessions. Useful for tracing agent sessions and remote sessions on a Linux machine. Submission for a 1 day hackathon event at Canonical.

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Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.

• I like how I can have a 12 year old dev box not only be "good enough", but run very well on a modern Linux system. I just added this to the DotFriedRice FAQ in case you're wondering if an Arch / niri based desktop environment runs well on older machines.

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Mac and iOS developer; created NetNewsWire and MarsEdit, co-created the JSON Feed format, and blogs at inessential.com.

• Tidemark — Markdown parser and renderer written in Swift. Mac and Linux.

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

• Omacon comes to New York

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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.

• This is supposed to be a dig against Linux, but it's actually why Linux is so great. There are so many different versions, all of which benefit from work on the kernel, software that runs on it, etc., but users can have the experience they want. I run Arch with Hyprland, but I'd never suggest that's the best for the average consumer. And if Arch or Hyprland become crappy in some way (like Windows has done...), I can switch to something else without losing my software, files, etc. This is also one of the reasons why Android is so much better than iOS. I can have a big folding phone (eventually…
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Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.

• Frankenwine: Multiple personas in a Wine process

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Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.

• What's new with Himitsu 0.9?

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Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.

• just gonna put this out there in case any Godot contributors see this! I know it's not a high priority issue, but I use Wayland on Linux and the latest Godot 4.5 beta spams an error message in the console constantly, which is really very annoying. Would *really* love it if somebody could fix this for the Godot 4.5 release, or even just comment out the specific line that's outputting this message. It's line 1052 in display_server_wayland.cpp, I'm guessing!

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Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.

• Terry's Other Games launches today! 5pm CET on steam and itch.io, for Windows, Mac and Linux!

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• Ghostty: Reflecting on Reaching 1.0

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Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.

• Anyone here done modern laptop research recently? I'm thinking of getting a new one, recommendations welcome! Things I care about: - good build quality (especially, good quality keyboard and track pad) - lightweight - good battery life - powerful enough to run e.g. Godot and blender well, but it's just for work so it doesn't have to be a gaming machine - wanna exclusively run Linux on it 🤓

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Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.

• Ok, thanks all! After my current project wraps up I think I'm going to backup my windows laptop and try single booting Linux Mint for a while, with a virtual machine for making Windows builds of things.

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Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.

• anyone have a link to a nice non-techy guide for people considering Linux dual booting in 2024?

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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.

• New blog post: Linux crisis tools

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Programmer and author of Modern C++ Design and The D Programming Language; a lead contributor to the D language.

• Wondering how to grok this. Cannot write to ‘nvhpc_2023_2311_Linux_x86_64_cuda_12.3.tar.gz’ (Success).

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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.

• perf-tools — Performance analysis tools based on Linux perf_events (aka perf) and ftrace

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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-tools — Performance Tools using Linux eBPF

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Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It, How Can I Get Through to You? and Us; argues that Western individualism is what makes couples' work hard.

• The Best Men Can Be: Reflecting on the Infamous Gillette Ad

  On January 13th 2019, Gillette released its already famous commercial, “The Best Men Can Be,” which garnered an immediate and emphatic backlash. The commercial juxtaposed men engaging in bullying behaviors with men perf…

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Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

• I've been reflecting recently on Wave's growth spurt in 2019-21. Most teams grew 2-4x a year for multiple years, and culture and effectiveness stayed remarkably strong compared to what I'd have expected (or heard of elsewhere). Some thoughts on what might have helped:

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French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.

• vscode-extension-maxpou — You can author your README using Visual Studio Code. Here are some useful editor keyboard shortcuts: Split the editor (Cmd+\ on macOS or Ctrl+\ on Windows and Linux) Toggle…

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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

• The Strength of Being Misunderstood

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