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20 September
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
Massive Qi chargers for cars! https://electrek.co/2026/09/18/its-finally-here-porsche-puts-wireless-ev-charging-into-production-video/ I can see the utility of using this for slow charging. But is it really that much of a faff to plug in a cable? I wonder how perfectly aligned the car needs to be. Still, interesting to see whether this gets picked up or standardised. Related
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
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The fact that we don't have swarms of drones prefabbing houses in the relatively benign atmosphere of our planet should be evidence that maybe these claims aren't quite matched with reality.
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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.
19 September
Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
You can now easily use Jev in @kodykoala: https://t.co/9wowF8KzV9 You can use this when you need typed decisions fast: - An inbox floods in and you need to know which messages are actionable, which can wait, and which are noise. - A support thread arrives and you want the right team, an urgency score, and whether to escalate in one pass. - You're checking a refund against order and policy text and need a clear yes/no with confidence. - Chat or tickets mix bugs, feature asks, and banter; you want a label and whether there’s enough detail to file an issue. - Alerts keep firing and you need “rea… Related
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
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Most bugs won’t be “coding” bugs. They’ll be “you asked for the wrong thing” bugs.
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in the future, humans won’t find a bug or an issue with the code produced by a model, at least not in a reasonable time. Humans will only review the system and its composition, but it won’t be in PRs and it won’t be by looking through every line of the code.
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Open source in its current form doesn’t make sense anymore. “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow” is still true but now we have artificial eyeballs
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18 September
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
There are moments where I wonder if I’ll run out of jokes. And then I see posts like this. Quoting @SecScottBessent Great to welcome @jakepaul to the Treasury Department today. Jake’s path from content creator to entrepreneur and professional boxer is a distinctly American story. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Related
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.
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
I wonder if at this point there couldn't be a very of MCP that is literally codemode + openapi + RAG for openapi docs instead. The reference Radius skill is just OpenAPI and it works so well. MCP Related
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
17 September
Writer of Today in Tabs, a daily media-and-internet newsletter started in 2013; earlier founded the community site Kuro5hin.
I will never stop feeling extremely smug when I look around at a landscape and think “huh, I wonder why it’s like this?” and later find out that there’s a very interesting historical reason it’s like this and actually it underlies the entire history of the region. Related
Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
“Every night I close my eyes And there is something that I visualize I hear a voice, say, ‘I love you’ I picture all things that we're gonna do And I wonder who he'll be Wonder if he'll be good to me Wonder, gosh oh gee Wonder if he'll love me forever” Related
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
x.com When an “honest mistake” by an insurance company is so commonplace it can be fixed with a checkbox, yet fixing it requires a paid consultant, you have to wonder whether insurance companies exist to deliver healthcare at all. Related
Mastodon When an “honest mistake” by an insurance company is so commonplace it can be fixed with a checkbox, yet fixing it requires a paid consultant, you have to wonder whether insurance companies exist to deliver healthcare at all. Related
Programmer, writer and musician; author of the Learn Code the Hard Way books and of Mongrel, the Ruby web server.
If you ever wonder where I get ideas for my videos that get 500k+ views it's from idiots like this: Related
Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.
Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.
16 September
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
"for months on end now, most of our teams have just been triaging bugs and coordinating releases. It has truly taken all the fun out of the job" blog.nlnetlabs.nl
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15 September
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
Boooo. I did try and get it back once. I wonder if we could still make that work. chriscoyier.net/2024/02/28/w... I’m down to find a win-win situation, DO. Call me. 🤙 Quoting @geoffgraham.me 📝 Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately (cc: @digitalocean.com @css-tricks.bsky.social ) geoffgraham.me/why-css-tric... Related
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.
14 September
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
I wonder if the call for AI to slow down happened because they asked it and claude was like you're right to push back Anthropic Related
11 September
Author and journalist writing on food, plants and consciousness. Professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of its Center for the Science of Psychedelics.
What Are We Doing to Our World of Wonder? https://t.co/9S23FZsYD5 via @NYTOpinion Related
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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We ran an extensive audit using Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, then fixed a range of different bugs.
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10 September
Former option trader and risk analyst, now a distinguished professor at NYU. Author of the Incerto essay series, including The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness.
It's going to be an interesting screen adaptation. I wonder who wil play the main character. Related
9 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.
One very visible effect of AI this summer has been a large influx of bug fixes. In some sense, it is the opposite of AI slop. I manage widely deployed libraries and, in some cases, the number of pull requests has been doubled. In the simdjson library, I merged 92 pull requests in 2024, I am at 134 thus far. In many instances, AI found long standing well hidden bugs. It makes me happy because I dislike bugs. But this puts stress on people packaging and distributing these libraries. Sadly, I have also never received so many pull requests that I have not merged. For simdjson, I received 219 pull… Related
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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@AntithesisHQ – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. https://t.co/AKYm4cbVCU
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@AntithesisHQ – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. https://t.co/AKYm4cbVCU
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7 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.
Huh, I was at Apple.com and glanced at the Mac Studio page - https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/ - I notice they're explicitly pitching it for LLM on the desktop. I wonder how realistic that is… Hmm, let’s ask @simon, he’s closer to this stuff than most of us. I’m pretty convinced that irrespective of all the issues, the economics of #genAI just don’t work with the current compute infrastructure requirements. Open models and what’s left of Moore’s law could be a really big deal. #apple LLMs Related
Programmer and writer; co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, and author of the Coding Horror blog, which he has written since 2004.
"Multiple people now literally have the wealth of nations, or at least that of large government agencies. No wonder public policy is in shambles." government Related
5 September
Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system.
Data structures are *hard*, y'all. I've been using this library for ~10 years successfully, but this summer I've managed to find at least three really gnarly bugs: github.com
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4 September
Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
3 September
Writer and programmer; co-founder of the software studio Postlight and author of the Bloomberg Businessweek essay What Is Code?
A neat project at work: We built an archive for Lapham's Quarterly as part of its (gradual, ongoing) relaunch—full access if you subscribe. It's been nice to see and read it again. Ping if you find bugs. archive.laphamsquarterly.org (they relaunched temporarily at laphamsquarterly.substack.com). Related
2 September
Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.
Bugs are solved, coding is not Quoting @karrisaarinen Our bug autofix loop in @linear has fixed 300+ bugs in the last 30 days. The team set it up as part of triage: it connects to Datadog and Sentry to investigate issues, then assigns them to Linear’s coding agent to fix Related
Our bug autofix loop in @linear has fixed 300+ bugs in the last 30 days. The team set it up as part of triage: it connects to Datadog and Sentry to investigate issues, then assigns them to Linear’s coding agent to fix Related
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
My favorite CarPlay feature is when it's reading a text message to me and I go to tap the "Done" button and it suddenly turns into a "Call” button underneath my finger and I have to wait for all of the animations to finish before I can actually end the call and then I wonder (a) did the person notice that I called them for a few seconds and (b) do I need to explain that now and (c) are they going to call me back now and (d) HOW DID THIS INTERFACE EVER SHIP oh my god Related
1 September
Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.
We are very close to 7% mortgage rates yet again We've now had mortgage rates >6% since late-2022 And still no housing market crash I do wonder if housing is the shock absorber for the economy if/when AI causes an economic slowdown (and rates fall) Related
Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.
52% Across the 6 Founders Weekends this summer, 52% of the students attending, 253/484, made their first dollar within 48 hours. I wonder what percent of adult entrepreneurs make their first dollar that fast? Or ever? startups Related
31 August
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
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At the limit, and also well before that limit is reached, if all you do is fix the bugs, the AI will learn perfect optimization of reward, will realize not to reward hack in the perfect test environments, then turn around and reward hack in the imperfect real world environments.
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30 August
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
Whenever you are told “Trust the experts” you are better off doing the opposite. Remember when Covid “Trust the experts” led to a civilizational hoax that broke our economy and retarded our children? The AI “Trust the experts” version will make that pale in comparison. I’d encourage all of you to approach this with wonder but also a healthy dose of skepticism. Related
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
I think I’ve realized that GUIs, even though they have much better primitives for displaying all sorts of information and interacting with it, are also very restrictive. There’s usually only one way of doing things in a UI. You either love it or hate it. Which brings me to terminals and multiplexers. When you think about it, a terminal is basically a small GUI builder, letting you create your own environment from small, well-crafted tools that each do one thing well. So it’s no wonder people keep coming back to terminals. Quoting @mitchellh Quick Superlogical demo to end the week. This demo is just of the basic functionality, but I want to highlight just how FAST it is. There's a WHOLE lot more functionality already present and coming but I wanted to keep the demo short. But seriously, check out that speed. I'm showing the macOS app h… Related
Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.
Spent a good part of the day repairing my electric lawnmower. It would be easy to find someone to do small engine repair on a gas one, and it would be easy to throw out a ~8 year old mower and get a better replacement that uses the same large batteries as my chainsaw. This does make me wonder how environmentally friendly this kind of electric tool really is. Anyway, it seems to be either a hall effect sensor problem or an off balance blade that's causing the hall effect sensor to think the mower is overloaded or has hit something. Runs fine without the blade it turns out. So I'll try replacin… Related
26 August
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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And this was with models we had six months ago. At this point, 100% in the majority of domains we work in today, agents are better at finding bugs.
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18 August
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
Before releasing Cargo earlier this year, I thought I was gonna hire someone to help me keep up with bugs & feature requests. Today, I barely look at bug reports. I point Claude at the issue, it opens a PR, and after a quick review I ship it. 🚀 Anthropic Related
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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The chart of housing affordability is almost a direct inverse of how many new homes are built It's that simple Build more houses!
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Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.
11 August
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
6 August
Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.
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Progressive slopulism really fucked us with this "Private equity is buying up all the houses" argument. It's a fractally stupid concern AND an excuse for deferring zoning reform.
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5 August
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
I wonder if Amazon has ever considered launching a simple storage service. Related
4 August
Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com.
I saw Atul's tweet and it made me wonder too. How many establishments are actually compliant? So we asked the FDA. Here's what they say! mid-day.com
Quoting @atulkasbekar Serious question Of all the raids that were carried out on food establishments, were there any places that were given a clear green chit? As in, everything is perfect, well done! I’d really like to know which places were adhering to standards Related
3 August
Political scientist and Baptist pastor; writes Graphs about Religion, charting American religious life from survey data.
29 July
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
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23 July
Political scientist and Baptist pastor; writes Graphs about Religion, charting American religious life from survey data.
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
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
Looks like Bangalore's Metro website is built on @nextjs and running in Dev Mode. Sourcemap is exposed and I can see the dev loader at the bottom. I wonder which agency is doing this, the city is flooded with talent yet the government gave the project to someone who messed up. government Related
21 July
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.
"What could possibly go wrong?" Exploring the ruliology of the unexpected ... to develop a theory of bugs ... Related
20 July
Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.
14 July
Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com.
I wonder why old trees keep dying or falling down when BMC takes such good care of them. Related
1 July
Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.
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So one of the things is that the pace of development is definitely accelerated. One thing I wonder the pace of business hasn't accelerated though and that mismatch is going to become more and more apparent.
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16 June
Editor at Works in Progress writing on architecture, urbanism and housing policy, and a fellow of the Centre for Policy Studies and Create Streets. Has worked in think tanks, academia and government in Britain.
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Without densification restrictions, housing shortages will only ever be serious in cities where land is really intensely scarce, as in Hong Kong.
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9 June
Historian of maritime strategy at the US Naval War College; wrote The Wars for Asia and works on why continental and maritime powers fight differently.
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It was a miracle of your lifetimes. It lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The problem for the likes of Putin is that this wealth producing trade was not happening at his house, but the houses of those vested in the trading order, not in extortion.
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28 May
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
25 May
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.
x.com Nowadays, I often see people say they have access to unlimited tokens. Usually for work, although in response to https://t.co/BuzKs79xk5, someone from Microsoft said they have unlimited tokens for personal projects. I wonder what this means in practice. Surely there's a limit? Quoting @danluu What do people like for token-intensive workflows for personal projects? With a semi-autonomous workflow, I can exhaust a week's quota on the $200/mo codex plan in ~10 minutes of my time. If I'm in the loop, I get ~10x(?) the productivity per token, but it's time inefficient and Related
Mastodon I was thinking about this prediction that we were going to see a lot more CPU bugs, danluu.com/cpu-bugs/, as yet another Intel CPU bug story is on the front page of HN. At the time, Intel threw quality under the bus in the name of velocity. I've seen this happen quite a few times now, sometimes with the stated intention of improving quality later. I'm sure it's ever happened, but I don't think I've ever seen a company do this and then ship very high quality products later. Related
20 May
Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.
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I think part of what I liked about Rust is this feeling that as you write the code when it compiles it works. I mean this has to be in quotes right because obviously it's possible that there are bugs but this is something a lot of people say about Rust and there's a reason people say it even though it's not necessarily literally true.
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Memory safety is this idea that no matter how stupid the code you write is, it's not going to have a certain class of bugs. And this is the, you know, the kind of bug that usually leads into security vulnerabilities.
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I mean, that's the thing with memory safety, right? You make some sort of trivial mistake. It it's not some complex thing. It's just you make some trivial mistake and there's a bajillion places you could make it.
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I think the same kind of principle applies with agents in that they can talk to the compiler. It will tell them what to fix. So I guess this could be a case. We we'll see. But Rust could be a pretty promising candidate for to use for agents because they can get more feedback and it's just hard it's harder to to ship certain type of bugs or maybe impossible to have certain type of bugs.
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What Rust ensures is that if you have no use of unsafe, then no matter how stupid your code is, you will never have one of those bugs.
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18 May
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.
Cloudflare on their vulnerabilty discovery harness • Recon: Read the codebase, return an architecture doc • Hunt: ~50 agents look for bugs concurrently • Validate: Independent agents try to disprove findings • Gapfill: Areas that need a 2nd pass are flagged • Dedup: Findings with the same root cause combined • Trace: Confirms if attacker input reaches the bug • Feedback: If reachable, becomes new hunt tasks • Report: Write report with predefined schema blog.cloudflare.com
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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.
Over the last 3 months I lost 300 followers (about 10%). I wonder if these were bots. I feel like within the last year Twitter engagement has gone from quite good to almost nothing. It sometimes feels like I'm shadow banned. Has anyone noticed the same? Related
8 May
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.
Mozilla fixing more bugs in April that the past 15 months is what riding the exponential looks like 🎢 Related
23 April
Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.
11 April
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
10 April
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.
State of Agentic Coding #5 with @mitsuhiko.at is live. In this episode: - death of the IDE premature? - what's with all the bugs - will future models fix yesterday's AI code? - token abuse, slowing down, and more! YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCpY... Spotify: open.spotify.com
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7 April
Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.
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And one of the things I noticed is for 25 years we've kind of had the answers. Somebody comes to us and says we have too many bugs or like, all right, well, here's how you write tests. Oh, I can't write tests. Well, here's how you design so you can write tests. It's just kind of press play uh on the recorder. And the thing that's changed is at this moment nobody knows the answers to anything.
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18 March
Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
This Mac app bug is one of the single most enraging bugs I've encountered in years! It's in all of the betas too. You get someone's @ mention randomly added to the chat when you press "Enter" and you have to click to get rid of it (and then it will come back on the next message). Quoting @benthompson Mac app: if you @-mention someone in a group chat, the @-mention is just permanently stuck in the UI and enters itself into the chat if you press Enter iPhone app: tweets only unfurl at half-height, making them unreadable. Mac bug debilitating. Related
11 March
American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.
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You know, obviously, we patch our games and that’s where we fix a lot of bugs, but if you really wanna run a game like Overwatch or World of Warcraft successfully, you need master level engineers who have architected the client and server in such a way that you can hotfix the game on a dime.
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25 January
Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.
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And I realized it was the first one on the list and I thought, huh, I wonder if people are just picking the first one. So then then we randomized the list so everyone saw a different order of the list and now all the items were picked equally
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23 January
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
jeresign instead of jeresig in Claude Code (w/ Opus) - I wonder how often this happens and how many tokens I end up burning due to this? 🫠 Pretty funny 😆 Anthropic Related
31 December 2025
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
28 December 2025
Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.
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Ghostman by Roger Hobbs is a crime thriller about robbing a Malaysian bank and an Atlantic City casino. Riveting characters. A gut-punch of a story. I love a good heist, and this one is bristling with technical details that make you wonder whether the author has some secrets of his own.
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22 December 2025
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
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A very good and readable book on this interaction, with excellent discussions of Donna Summer, Stevie Wonder, La Monte Young, and Penderecki, among many others.
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8 October 2025
Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.
Lots of games can be made by just starting to mess around and seeing what works. You get a guy on screen, have him jump on stuff, or shoot stuff. Or you put a city on screen, click on squares to build houses. And so on. Such games are easy to find because they don't require a theory of what's going to work. You just try random simple things and see what feels good and chase that. It's not easy to do well, but it's a shallow process. But as time goes on, such low-theory games are more and more oversaturated. The basic "objects bumping into each other" and "map painting" and "number goes up" de… Related
6 October 2025
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
25 August 2025
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.
19 August 2025
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
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Charlie Jane Anders' Lessons in Magic and Disaster drops today: it's a novel about queer academia, the wonder of thinking very hard about very old books, and the terror and joy of ambiguous magic. It's my kind of novel!
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4 August 2025
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
So I've been experimenting with some 1:1 coaching, mostly from people who are close to FIRE but looking for a final checkup. Here are some of the things some people miss consistently: 1) If you're going to go to all the trouble of owning rental houses, the damned things should at least outperform the stock market. So make sure your cap rate is better than ~8% after all expenses. But this takes some skill, so I keep sending people to @CoachChadCarson's excellent all-in-one book on the subject, "The Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor" 2) If you're going to invest in stocks, you should unders… Related
22 March 2025
Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.
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For me personally, I kept introducing bugs, and I couldn't figure out why. And what I realized is that I developed... I wasn't copiloting well, I was autopiloting much better.
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30 September 2024
Archaeologist of the Maya and the ancient Americas; directs the Maya Exploration Center and presents the ArchaeoEd podcast.
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I think it’s a failing of archeology to properly see what was happening. I think that most of those cities populations moved no more than 20 to 40 kilometers out and started their own farm, and they lived in perishable houses.
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16 July 2024
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
4 January 2023
Urban planner, co-author with Charles Marohn of Escaping the Housing Trap, and policy director at the Parking Reform Network. Wrote for Strong Towns from 2015, mostly about how housing markets actually set prices.
11 October 2022
Psychologist and science writer; wrote Science Fictions on how research goes wrong, and writes the newsletter of the same name.
25 July 2022
Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.
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sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at
korrents.com .
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else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public
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About the English under a post
Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they
do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in
this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the
serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to
quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter,
especially about tone.
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article and a belief on korrents.com
are left in their original language.
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