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20 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.
12 September
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.
every model provider should learn from meta's pricing model for muse spark, with fully transparent subsidization labeled for the contributor tier stop doing "in order to use our model at a good price, you must use our harness which secretly collects your data and/or upload your codebase" meta clearly proved there's a way to collect training data without relying on a harness. just be transparent about when you collect data vs not, clearly communicate how much the data is worth, and give the choice to the user and i really don't need your harness. i already have SO MANY state of the art harness… Related
9 September
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
2 September
Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.
This is a perfect example of how the right visualization can describe something better than 1,000 words. Related
21 August
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
14 July
Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
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Carlson, author of the aptly named blog A Wealth of Common Sense, brings a similar approach to this book. While much of it might seem familiar to sophisticated readers, Carlson's clean and clear use of data — both in charts and text — makes basic points memorable.
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7 July
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 Related
29 June
Technology journalist; writes Understanding AI, after reporting at Ars Technica, Vox and the Washington Post.
28 June
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
21 June
Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.
9 June
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 v0.15.0 is out: - supports git --color-moved - transparent backgrounds - color token fixes - more themes - Sapling support (it's a VCS from Meta) also now there's a website → hunk.dev
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22 April
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.
14 March
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
This is what more people need to understand about migrating to AWS. @CloudflareDev’s pricing may not be transparent for Enterprise, but the DX is unmatched. Why piece together 8 things I need to make it “kinda work” when with Cloudflare it’s a couple lines in the config? Quoting @evanyou @JLarky With 3x the effort and worse DX Related
26 January
Writes Nintil, long researched essays on metascience, biology, economics and whatever he has decided to read the literature on.
20 January
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
20 December 2025
Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.
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Lazygit: give me better Git terminal visualization support.
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19 December 2025
Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.
Building a Transparent Keyserver We apply a transparency log to a centralized keyserver step-by-step, in less than 500 lines, with privacy protections, anti-poisoning, and witness cosigning.
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9 December 2025
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
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I instead use Datawrapper to create interactive charts very quickly. They follow great data visualization principles, have influenced my work, and their styles look great.
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25 October 2025
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
Getting excited for the conf, just 2.5 weeks away The density of top-notch developers speaking (and attending) is off the charts! Quoting @sync_conf Full lineup and schedule for @sync_conf in SF on Nov 12. Link in the 🧵 below 👇 Featuring 👉 @angeliquemari @NotionHQ 👉 @arushibandi @figma 👉 @swyx @cognition 👉 @leeb @OpenAI 👉 @threepointone @Cloudflare 👉 @frankmcsherry @MaterializeInc 👉 @kylemathews @ElectricSQL 👉 @jamesacowling @convex �… Related
31 August 2025
Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.
nano banana thinks making something transparent means putting a white and grey checkerboard all around the image, which is heartwarming Related
15 August 2025
Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
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You you also don't know like in order to make that money back, you have to then operate that plant at that capacity for 20 years, right? And if I was looking at the same charts as they're looking at right now, I'd say what are the odds that in 25 years time we can produce gas turbines at a price that is relevant in a world where solar is already at its current price and batteries at a price where they're already like you cannot win.
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23 June 2025
Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI, and author of Co-Intelligence. Writes One Useful Thing, where the claims are dated and testable because the thing they describe keeps changing under them.
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by Elon Musk’s xAI is good if you are a big X user, though the company has not been very transparent about how its AI operates.
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28 May 2025
Engineering leader and writer; wrote The Manager's Path and Platform Engineering, and blogs at Elided Branches.
25 March 2025
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
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When I have conversations with breached companies, my messaging is crystal clear: be transparent and expeditious in your reporting of the incident and prioritise communicating with your customers.
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22 December 2024
Astrophysicist at the University of Rochester; works on the search for life elsewhere and wrote The Little Book of Aliens and Light of the Stars.
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I am all in favor of an open, agnostic, transparent, scientific investigation of UFOs and UAPs. But the idea that there's any data that we have that links UFOs and UAPs to non-human technology, I just think the standards, none of what is claimed to be the data lives up to the standards of evidence.
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16 October 2024
Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.
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I don’t think that makes sense. I think somebody was mapping the world during the last ice age, but that doesn’t mean that they had our kind of tech.
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25 July 2024
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.
20 April 2024
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
26 August 2022
Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.
8 July 2022
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
28 October 2020
Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.
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This is the book that started the Lean Startup movement. While it is not an easy read, it is packed full of good information and helpful charts and guides.
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jasonevanish.com
2 February 2018
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
30 March 2015
Interpretability researcher at Anthropic, which he co-founded; before that at OpenAI and Google Brain, where he wrote the explanations of neural networks most people learned them from.
16 January 2015
Interpretability researcher at Anthropic, which he co-founded; before that at OpenAI and Google Brain, where he wrote the explanations of neural networks most people learned them from.
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The problem is that in dimensionality reduced plots of high-dimensional data, position doesn't explain the data points.
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4 June 2013
Complexity scientist and writer, author of The Half-Life of Facts and Overcomplicated; scientist in residence at Lux Capital.
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For data visualization, I use gephi for networks, an amazingly powerful tool which many describe as "Photoshop for networks."
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usesthis.com
6 January 2012
Computer scientist and professor; author of The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. and of a long-running blog on programming languages, research and academia.
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For charts (like this one), OmniGraphSketcher for OS X is a joy to use.
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18 August 2011
Co-founded GiveWell and led Open Philanthropy; writes Cold Takes, on the most important century and how to think about it.
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EEV doesn’t seem to allow rewarding charities for transparency or penalizing them for opacity: it simply recommends giving to the charity with the highest estimated expected value, regardless of how well-grounded the estimate is.
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6 July 2011
Analyst of the business of technology; writes Asymco on Apple, disruption and, latterly, micromobility.
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I use Numbers for most of my analysis and charts and occasionally I use Keynote and Pages for presentations or reports.
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usesthis.com
6 August 2009
Danish Mac developer; author of the TextMate text editor and founder of MacroMates.
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