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18 September
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
17 September
Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.
16 September
Artist and developer who makes esoteric software, games and tools aboard a sailboat as part of Hundred Rabbits with Rekka Bellum; creator of the Uxn virtual machine and the Orca livecoding environment.
One of the first game we ever published for #Uxn was Donsol, five years ago, to celebrate, we've made a whole new version of the game with new monster sprites, better resolution and animations. We had originally made it with the Playdate in mind, but they didn't want it so we're making available to play it directly in the itchio page, or via your favourite Uxn emulator! https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/donsol We hope that you enjoy it. Have a good autumn. :) Rek & Dev Related
9 September
Canadian software developer and writer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications and formerly of Sun Microsystems, Google and AWS. Has written the blog ongoing since 2003.
4 September
Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.
Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026 Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our more typically ~6,000) which left me with some non-blog catching up to do. Next week, we’ll be starting our next Teaching…
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Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.
30 August
Writer of the 25iq blog, where he distils "a dozen things I've learned" from investors, founders and thinkers. Author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor and A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs.
Before he was the Professor on Gilligan's Island, Russell Johnson was a star in the 1957 film Attack of the Crab Monsters. He lived very close to my home for many years, which would have been useful if we needed to defend ourselves against killer crustaceans. I'm eating 🦀 now. Related
27 August
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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this is a critically important moment for cyber defense with AI; there is not much time to act.
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20 August
Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
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Today, it seems more likely that it was we who were the monsters out of the dark, the demons about which Neanderthal mothers would tell their little-ones.
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19 August
Chief AI Scientist at Databricks, after its acquisition of MosaicML, where he was a founding team member; known for the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis from his MIT PhD (ICLR 2019 Best Paper).
An incredible way to celebrate the amazing PR partner who kindly allows the "Chief AI Scientist" at Databricks retweet Cookie Monster. Quoting @gracelynch (2/2) But it’s also so cool that I am 1) alive and 2) that I have a weird ass curly mullet right now. To celebrate, I’m donating to the #jimmyfund to #KCANCER. Join: Related
4 August
Chief AI Scientist at Databricks, after its acquisition of MosaicML, where he was a founding team member; known for the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis from his MIT PhD (ICLR 2019 Best Paper).
When I said Cookie Monster was inspirational, I wasn’t anticipating that someone on my team had a secret stash of googly eyes. Related
28 July
American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.
7 July
Game designer and programmer, co-founder of id Software and co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. Now runs Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.
I’m so sorry for everyone at id Software affected by these layoffs. I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on. It’s a strange and painful thing to step away from a place that holds so much of your work, friendships and history. The people at id have done a great job moving that legacy forward. DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein are not easy names to carry on, especially in today’s industry. The last few games showed real care, skill and respect for what those worlds mean to people. A note on digital preservation: id's history is critically important to the history of games. I’ve preser… Related
11 May
Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
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