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20 September
President of the European Commission since 2019; previously Germany's defence minister.
Back in New York for the @UN General Assembly. New geopolitical realities. New troubled waters. But the same urgent priorities for Europe and our partners. Peace for Ukraine. Stability in the Middle East. Climate action and a clean energy transition that powers our industries. The world is changing fast. But cooperation and multilateralism remain our best answer. Proven time and again, especially in difficult times. A busy week of hard work ahead. And I’m looking forward to it. energy Europe 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.
"Statistically, the mean … decamillionaire is a white, college-educated, sixty-two-year-old man … unusually likely to be married … They tend toward monomania. Their days are … 'full, busy, and mundane.'" newyorker.com
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16 September
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
Laziness can mean blurred priorities and indiscriminate action. You can be very busy running around with a cell phone to your head 24 hours a day and still be very lazy because you’re not taking the time to prioritize. Related
12 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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Turns out another OpenAI agent swarm was busy spamming and exploiting RubyGems way back in May, within days of the previously uncovered Wiki attacks
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11 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.
This is your yearly reminder to figure out which test devices are going to stay on the older OS releases, and which ones get the new one. You may or may not want to disable beta updates on the newer releases, too. This weekend is a good time to do it, because we'll all be busy next week. Related
9 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.
On this busy day, I'm also jumping through a few hoops to fix a deadname for a Kickstarter backer. Reminder to future self: nothing about a person is immutable nor something that I get to decide. Related
5 September
Software engineer and founder of Block Party; previously an engineer at Pinterest and Quora, and a co-founder of the non-profit Project Include and the tech diversity data project Where are the Numbers?
been a little skeptical of all the ai assistants (is it just vcs who love them?) but instinct is busy handling tax extension filings in 5 different states + federal for me and i am SOLD Related
2 September
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
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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Superlogical makes it up at scale and there is an early breakpoint with busy terminals and clients where we use significantly less memory than tmux or anyone else.
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1 September
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
if you feel "too busy" to exercise, instead try finding active moments you can do throughout the day: - walk after lunch - take stairs instead of elevator - choose a parking spot farther away - give your kids an extra piggyback ride - listen to your all-hands call on a walk remind yourself you're doing it to have more energy to be more focused to be more present with your family to live a more enjoyable life whatever it may be energy Related
31 August
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
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
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
it feels like every day the bar is getting lower and lower people are - too busy to work on their health problems - too tired to hang out - too overwhelmed to respond - too trapped in the black mirror - too distracted to do deep work dont get caught in these loops Related
13 August
Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.
7 August
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).
Just saw that the LLMs-from-scratch repository passed 100,000 stars on GitHub! This is super cool and motivating. I am really happy to see that this open-source repo has helped so many people. Thanks also to everyone who shared ideas and opened PRs with improvements! Of course, I plan to keep adding new material, including new attention variants and architectures (while bigger projects like RL and Reasoning From Scratch live in their separate repositories). I am also currently working on a larger applied custom “small” LLM project. It has been keeping me super busy this month, but I will shar… LLMs Related
29 July
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
the most difficult part of staying healthy is when life feels busy and crowded you push your workouts farther and farther out until you look up and it's 1am and you still haven't done your workout that's a big red flag - something needs to change Related
22 July
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.
Remember busy beavers? Now meet wily weasels: Turing machines that hide their bugs for as long as possible. (The wily weasel function WW says how wily a Turing machine of a given size can be.) Related
2 July
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
New Article: How to Find Time for Learning https://t.co/PczMpCbpL2 Learning is exciting in theory, but fitting it into a busy life is another matter entirely. In this article, I share some of the strategies that have helped me make learning a consistent part of life. Related
3 June
Engineer and teacher; wrote Kubernetes the Hard Way, was a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, and retired from full-time work in 2023.
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It is a luxury to be able to afford to go slow because when you're really, really busy, you need an admin because you can't afford to book your own tickets. When you're really busy, you cannot afford to clean your own house.
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2 June
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
Just run `laravel new` on a side project idea. Solo by @aarondfrancis is busy creating to-dos, spinning up agents, creating sandboxes and running my dev stack. All while I'm sitting back watching YouTube! Related
18 May
Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.
15 April
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
1 April
Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.
15 May 2025
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
6 February 2024
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
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