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19 September
American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
Nope, that's accurate. I started making myself reach for the handrails when I turned 40 so it would be muscle memory when I got older, and it's already saved my ass a couple of times when I've slipped on the stairs. Quoting @allouryesterdays.bsky.social @scalzi.com - for reasons I can't explain, my brain remembers you urging people to use handrails, because stairs are a technology actively trying to kill you. If I've misremembered this, sorry. Related
18 September
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
til the printscreen function in #Ubuntu saves the screenshot to ~/Pictures/Screenshots as well as letting you copy to the clipboard (I just deleted about 8,000 saved screenshots!) (then I rebound printscreen to Flameshot) Related
Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.
16 September
President of the European Commission since 2019; previously Germany's defence minister.
Our emergency crews have saved countless lives and homes from the wildfires this summer. And I wanted to tell the story of a Danish pilot, Rune Kyndal. Rune gave his life to save others. Today, all of Europe owes him ↓ Europe Related
14 September
Technology writer and podcaster; former Macworld editor-in-chief, writes Six Colors and hosts podcasts on Relay FM and The Incomparable.
13 September
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
Here’s my pal Libby's most recent video on her cruise ship life asking for my take on what ‘retirement’ means. https://t.co/fkQGa2BAtc See less 📷 https://t.co/x9AvCQ4ecG I Saved Just Enough Money to Retire & Live on Cruise Ships (FIRE) Related
28 August
American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.
24 August
Researcher of social media, privacy and youth culture; founder of Data & Society and author of It’s Complicated.
"Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census" comes out in one month! Please pre-order the book if you can (or ask your library for a copy). You can choose French or English, audio, e-book, or hardcover. Related
22 August
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Tore a hole in my tire on a bump today. Only thing on hand: a sticker I made for Yves. Stuck it inside the tire and rode home on it. Yves died last year from cancer. Today his sticker saved my ride. Weirdest place I ever pictured one of his stickers ending up. 💫 🚴♂️⚡ Related
19 August
Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.
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its Chrome extension provides near-instant text summaries of YouTube videos. Over the past year, I’ve saved myself many hours by dumping podcasts I feel like I should listen to for work into Recall and simply skimming the summaries.
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12 August
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Startup employees and investors don't nearly pay enough attention to QSBS. Would have saved me millions of dollars at GitHub (ugh). QSBS got much more complicated, too, so I just shipped the most comprehensive QSBS calculator out there. Give it a shot: signed.com
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Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Mastodon 16% totality in Boston. No, I didn't get a photo. Go look. (With the eclipse glasses you saved from 2024. I can't be the only person with that kind of junk drawer...?) Related
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31 July
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
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So, anyway, I'd say it like it both seemed like an obviously good idea in that people really wanted this, but also a bad idea in that nobody took it seriously. Um but I I think that I think the fact that it was ultimately the fact that it was grounded in such a concrete actual real user problem saved us.
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28 July
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.
We’re going to bring this heroic young man, and his family, into the White House with, perhaps, the boy he saved, to give him a High Civilian Honor. Very brave, he deserves it! President DONALD J. TRUMP Quoting @EricTrump Give this 16-year-old lifeguard the highest civilian honor. This is truly the best of America! Well done! Related
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
The Orchestrator's Tax Subagents get justified by time saved and parallel execution, but Rahul Garg explains that's not what matters most. Every token in the orchestrator's context is competing for its attention, and the real value of a subag…
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22 July
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
15 June
Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.
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I've only used Laravel Shift a few times, but each time I did it saved a lot of time upgrading my Laravel projects.
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27 May
Founder and editor of ToolGuyd, a tool review site covering power tools, hand tools, workshop equipment and EDC gear. He writes under his first name on the site.
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Summary: Shipping damage. Residue on some of the components. Loud pings and pops from the assembled weight rack. A design that looked great and saved space but was painfully unusable. Restocking fee. Non-refunded shipping fees. Ghosted me about the refund.
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30 April
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
27 January
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
I’m deeply sad to learn of the passing of Dr. Bill Foege. Bill was a towering figure in global health—a man who saved the lives of literally hundreds of millions of people. He was also a friend and mentor who gave me a deep grounding in the history of global health and inspired me with his conviction that the world could do more to alleviate suffering. Bill and I often talked together about the future of global health. The legacy of his career is that many of the remarkable developments to come will have his imprint all over them. gatesnot.es
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20 October 2025
Designer, illustrator and writer; author of The Shape of Design and of widely read essays on design and the web.
16 July 2025
Chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, which he has led since 2005 after turning around Bank One.
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So, you while we kind of saved the system a lot, we bailed a lot of people out, they made us pay 5 billion dollars on the more the bad mortgages that Bear Stearns had done. And that's what made me make the statement I wouldn't do it again.
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1 July 2025
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
U.S. global health and development aid is estimated to have saved 92 million lives over the past 20 years. We can't afford to let that kind of progress unravel: America Related
17 November 2024
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.
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sign in to load saved settings for my MX Ergo
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29 September 2024
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
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Setapp - App bundles, saved money since I already use tons of apps.
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12 May 2024
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
A bit surprised by how little I've heard about GCP literally fat-finger *deleting a customer account.* Seems like their business was only saved by cross-cloud backups, a practice I previously thought was compliance theater bullshit and will never, ever, ever, question again. Related
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