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16 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
datasette 1.0a40 Release: datasette 1.0a40 Same security fix as 0.65.5, plus some neat new features and bug fixes: Plugins can now launch and manage background tasks using the new datasette.add_background_task() method. Thanks, Alex Gar…
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Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
The agent stuff is meh, but having a cute little dedicated linux machine like this would be kind of neat. pamir.ai
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13 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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This is pretty neat: ChatGPT Work and GPT-6 Astra (I used "Max") can take an address and produce a 5K/10K circular running route starting from that address, using OSM data
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This is pretty neat: ChatGPT Work and GPT-6 Astra (I used "Max") can take an address and produce a 5K/10K circular running route starting from that address, using OSM data
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10 September
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
Super neat. Already have a use case. knap.md just needs a favicon! Feel free to snag one copy-and-paste style. favicons.codepen.school
Quoting @stephango.com This is Knap. It's a new language I created that turns data into Markdown. Knap should feel familiar and comes with a wonderfully pleasant syntax to modify and format plain text. Related
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
Things I’ve put in my t-shirt pocket: - King Size Reese’s - Cigar - Boarding pass - Parking garage receipt - Field Notes - Sticker that someone gave me - Drum key - SD card - Dog treats - Napkins for eating popcorn in a movie theater - Studio Neat pen - Socks - Apple TV remote - Tiny nuts and bolts Not all at once, mind you. Here ends my enthusiastic endorsement of the powerful pocket tee. Related
Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.
7 September
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
x.com Hello, world! My latest newsletter issue is out full of neat articles, some fascinating videos, practice coding, a joke, and mooore: cassidoo.co
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Bluesky Hello, world! My latest newsletter issue is out full of neat articles, some fascinating videos, practice coding, a joke, and mooore: cassidoo.co
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4 September
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
Wire wrapping is neat. Never tried it before, but now I have and I love it for prototyping! (And no that is not AI-generated, somehow the physics of wire wrapping results in these beautiful little towers of gas-tight low-resistance connections!) Related
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
25 August
Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.
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24 August
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
Had a long week and it was nice writing my newsletter thinking about web dev, neat videos about construction, and chuckling at puns. Join me and read the latest issue here, out now! cassidoo.co
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16 June
Interviewer; the Dwarkesh Podcast runs long, heavily researched conversations with AI researchers, historians and economists.
5 June
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
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If this were $200 I'd complain, but not for $25. For that, it's a neat little box that maybe more people could contribute to, to make it the most handy way to jack in from a crash cart.
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23 March
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
Just about every >150 IQ person I know made up their IQ score. Making up your IQ score is underrated and misunderstood. Quoting @maxmarchione Just about every >150 iq person I know uses nicotine. Nicotine is underrated and misunderstood Related
6 March
Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. Writes Eating Policy on why governments cannot do what they decide to do.
2 March
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
Neat new location. #LaraconEU Related
28 October 2025
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
18 September 2025
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
Bluesky Much of Euclid’s Elements is easily misunderstood. Some proofs seem to have logical gaps. Some constructions seem pointless, others seem needlessly convoluted. Each of these provides a window into how the ancient Greeks thought about math and the philosophical role that geometry played. Related
x.com There is a lot about Euclid’s Elements that is easily misunderstood. Some proofs seem to have logical gaps. Some constructions seem pointless, others seem needlessly convoluted. Each of these provides a window into how the ancient Greeks thought about math and the philosophical role that geometry played. In the fifth and final of a series of guest videos I've been posting, @BenSyversen delves into a question anybody who has had to do ruler and compass constructions in a geometry class may have wondered: What's the point? youtu.be
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23 April 2025
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.
Product evals are misunderstood. Many teams think that adding another tool, metric, or llm-as-judge will solve all their problems and save their product. But that just dodges the hard truth and avoids the real work. Here's how to fix your process instead. eugeneyan.com
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3 July 2024
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
I wrote up Jaccard similarity and the MinHash trick for locality-sensitive hashing. I only learned about this algorithm recently and thought it was neat! blog.nelhage.com
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23 November 2023
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
Thanksgiving This year we give thanks for a feature of nature that is frequently misunderstood: quanta. (We’ve previously given thanks for the Standard Model Lagrangian, Hubble’s Law, the Spin-Statistics Theorem, conservation of mom…
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30 May 2023
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.
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If you’re interested in learning more about the history of Africa, its central role in the world, and the ways in which both have been misunderstood in the West, I highly recommend Born in Blackness.
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17 January 2023
Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.
What is Heisenberg uncertainty, anyway? Like relativity, uncertainty is a deeply beautiful topic that is widely misunderstood. Many people are familiar with the idea that you cannot simultaneously know, for example, a particle’s position and momentum to perfe…
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1 December 2020
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
The Strength of Being Misunderstood A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong question. Almost everyone cares what someone thinks (though caring…
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15 August 2020
Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.
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quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter,
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