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19 September
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
You are crazy about skills because you haven't discovered what's better yet. 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.
Gonna experience Death Stranding as Kojima intended it, on an iPhone Related
17 September
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.
Mastodon [1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/24/indigenous-rock-art-border-wall The intended Texas border wall, purely for completeness' sake, will extend over an area of cliffs and come damagingly close to ancient rock art. I think it is an exaggeration to compare rock art to "books". To suppose that this rock art image has a precise message encoded in little details, as writing would have, has no factual basis that I know of. Nonetheless, ancient rock art is precious, because it Related
Site Intended Texas border wall The intended Texas border wall, purely for completeness' sake, will extend over an area of cliffs and come damagingly close to ancient rock art. I think it is an exaggeration to compare rock art to "books". To suppose t…
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13 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.
12 September
Founder and chief executive of Replit. Previously an engineer at Facebook and Codecademy. Writes essays on programming, philosophy and entrepreneurship at amasad.me.
Not a bad idea to slow down to harden systems. Especially since we haven’t even discovered all the systems that agents hacked recently. Quoting @DarioAmodei We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they… Related
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
https://t.co/OL0LzGsXKY can now orchestrate subagents with different models & reasoning efforts. e.g: Fable planning and Grok executing. Fable is a genius, Grok is a fast workhorse. ① Simple. 𝙰𝙶𝙴𝙽𝚃𝚂.𝚖𝚍 or your prompt can indicate this preference. ② Steer as you please. It’s extremely enjoyable to use. You just talk to the agent and interrupt at will. Worth noting this works with any model, any gateway. No fancy server-side routing. Just harnessing (no pun intended) the model’s intelligence and ability to orchestrate. Quoting @fazxes fx v0.0.9 Use a frontier model to steer, then hand implementation to a fast workhorse. • Give each subagent its own model and reasoning effort • Subagents keep working while you steer • Send feedback to subagents mid-task • Switch models with Ctrl+P without losing your draft or images • New convers… Related
11 September
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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No problems, clearly a skill issue. No cases for me, using the device as it was intended by design.
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10 September
Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.
Zitelmann on Hitler’s Economics After my series on the Nazi economy, I discovered the work of independent scholar Rainer Zitelmann. He’s had an amazing career in Germany doing two things I greatly admire: making lots of money in real estate, and judic…
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British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to.
8 September
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE is now available: https://t.co/uA4zmhbt6u Note that this is a "legacy" release intended primarily for maintaining existing systems; most users should deploy FreeBSD 15.1 on new systems. Related
7 September
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.
The AI bots have discovered my 'bug bounty' system, spotted an important error in my code, and sent me an email to notify me. Guess what the error was? An undefined colour palette. Related
5 September
British historian, Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford; author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed.
In 1914, Aurel Stein unearthed an extraordinary textile fragment at ancient Loulan in the Tarim basin- showing the unmistakable face of Hermes. A Greek god, discovered in a desert cemetery in what is now western China 1/5 China Related
4 September
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
This question... I have spent far too many hours contemplating it. I have discovered multiple answers depending on how deep you want to go. The most pragmatic answer: you want to win a marathon, not a sprint. Too much sprinting makes you worse at marathons. The hard part, of course, is knowing how much is 'too much sprinting.' But in my experience, if the person thinks they need a break, they need a break (or, more extremely, they are not a good fit for the company.) Related
1 September
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Visited a library today which was named after a rich guy from Harvard (class of 1834). Discovered, through very minor research, that the money given to the library (claimed to have been left in his will) was, in fact, given by his sister, the sole beneficiary of his $$ after he left no will at all. After correcting the Wikipedia record on this point, I have now gotten lost reading about The Harvard College Rebellion of 1834 which is about as ridiculous as it sounds. scholarship.law.wm.edu
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22 August
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
A couple of days ago, I did a quick explainer on Claude’s new watermarking process and implementation. Since it’s such a popular topic and sparked such a lively discussion, I thought it might be interesting to go into a bit more detail when explaining how it works. So, instead of the usual text article, I recorded a little lecture on the topic (to change it up a bit from my usual articles). It ended up a bit longer than intended, but I hope it clarifies a lot of things: - Sampling the next token in an LLM and pseudorandom number generators - How watermarking relates to the regular LLM samplin… LLMs Anthropic Related
20 August
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
Breakthrough: New Type of Matter Discovered Scientists have discovered a new type of matter. Inside a cooled crystal, structures spontaneously arranged themselves into a three dimensional weave, and they did it at around room temperature. The researchers can even…
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18 August
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
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Every single thing I had here was excellent, and this might be the best new restaurant I’ve discovered this year.
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17 August
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
Trajectory have generally impressed me with their tasteful execution on ambitious goals. on our Continual Learning track, @rronak_ gave a very thoughtful overview on how they're tackling the main data problems left in CL, including why GRPO isn't enough and they had to go on-policy.... and then subsequently fix all the issues that come up with it nice overview from one of the early leaders in this field! (see the rest of the track for more, this one was quite stacked) Quoting @trajectorylabs It's time to rethink RL. Translating real world use into model improvements requires redesigning post-training algorithms for non-verifiable, per token rewards. At @aiDotEngineer 's World Fair, we share our insights into scaling algorithms like SDPO for continual learning. Related
12 August
Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.
10 August
Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
4 August
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
Fragments: August 4 There’s been a fair bit of publicity of the Open AI “rogue agent” that hacked into Hugging Face. This prompted Anthropic to check what their models were up to and, to my complete lack of surprise, discovered three incid…
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28 July
Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the Denver company building the Overture supersonic airliner and its Symphony engine.
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one of the most important things we discovered along the way is it's extremely difficult to iterate with outside suppliers, particularly outside suppliers in aerospace, which are let's just say I have no kind words for them. So we chose to build our own machine shop. And now we can go from a digitally designed engine part to a prototype part in about 24 hours.
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27 July
Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.
Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.
21 July
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Wolves, sheep, and gypsies In 2012, the first Danish wolf in nearly two hundred years was discovered in the northwestern part of the country. Their numbers increased slowly in the years that followed, and by 2020, fewer than ten wolves were still…
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14 July
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs LLMs generate code incredibly fast, but to ensure they generate exactly what is intended, they need clear boundaries. Abstractions and Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) provide a strong harness that guides LLMs right fro…
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1 July
Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.
Short I think the idea of the pathless path I discovered from a writer, David Whyte, one of my favorite wr Related
28 June
Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.
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I discovered the IBM Model M in 1993 when I went over to the neighbor who owned an IBM PS/1 2168. I was immediately hooked to the feel of the keys and their clicky sound. It felt like using a typewriter and I loved it.
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fabiensanglard.net
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 never liked Spotlight on macOS, and previously I used Alfred as a replacement. However, now I've discovered Raycast. Raycast is my primary mode of navigating through macOS, as I've bound the keyboard shortcut to
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randallwilk.dev
4 June
Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.
This is really cool. I've been super into strandbeests since I discovered the Gakken kit (which was many, many years ago): japantrendshop.com
Quoting @amitsheen.bsky.social 👣 CSS Strandbeest This one took a while... Somewhere along the way, this stopped being a CSS experiment and became a trigonometry exercise. 😅 But if there was ever a way to find out what CSS trig functions can do, Jansen's linkage is probably it. 🔗 Live on @codepen.io: codepen.io/editor/amit_... Related
27 May
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
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General problem solving abilities are neither learned nor taught. While some problem-solving methods have broader applicability than others (such as the scientific process of hypothesis testing), students learn these methods better when they’re explicitly taught rather than simply giving students projects and hoping they’ll reinvent them on their own.
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scotthyoung.com
7 April
Scientist and writer on quantum computing, memory systems and metascience; co-wrote the standard quantum computation textbook and wrote Reinventing Discovery.
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Um, there's just too many interesting ways of combining things. There's too many sort of deep ideas waiting to be uh, discovered and when it you know, not only we, but but nobody ever is going to to discover most of them. So, choices about how to make how to do the exploration actually matter quite a bit.
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Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.
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I discovered Campbell's work during that great transitional period of my life (in my early 30s, when I left the wrong career and the wrong relationship, and set sail into the unknown) and it has been a mainstay ever since.
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susancain.substack.com
1 April
Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.
28 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 loved this book. I enjoyed learning about the early, often wildly speculative theories of immunity, how blood groups and allergies were discovered
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scientificdiscovery.dev
24 November 2025
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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If you're stuck on a rock in the middle of nowhere, and you somehow haven't discovered the glory of Starlink, maybe just stick to your old full-disk backup ways.
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world.hey.com
7 November 2025
Founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group; wrote Inspired, Empowered and Transformed on how product organisations work.
Prototypes vs Products Note: This is part of the product creator series of articles, based on the overview article, The Era of the Product Creator. This series is intended for anyone that wants to create a successful product, whether or not t…
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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.
17 September 2025
Founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group; wrote Inspired, Empowered and Transformed on how product organisations work.
Forward Deployed Engineers Note: This is part of the product creator series of articles, based on the overview article, The Era of the Product Creator. This series is intended for anyone that wants to create a successful product, whether or not t…
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12 September 2025
Founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group; wrote Inspired, Empowered and Transformed on how product organisations work.
The Purpose of Prototypes Note: This is part of the product creator series of articles, based on the overview article, The Era of the Product Creator. This series is intended for anyone that wants to create a successful product, whether or not t…
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8 September 2025
Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.
14 August 2025
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
Fellow #amiga friends, I have only just now discovered IMP3 and first of all how dare you keep this a secret from me https://www.forgottencomputer.com/retro/imp3/ Astonishing in a dozen ways Related
24 June 2025
Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
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I took inspiration from Omakub, which is where I discovered Tactile - a GNOME extension for tiling windows to a custom on-screen grid using the keyboard. I’ve found this to be invaluable, and easily the best window management experience for GNOME.
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jnsgr.uk
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I switched to zsh around 2013 and have used it every day since: starting with the infamous Oh My Zsh, powerlevel9k, and subsequently powerlevel10k, and finally settling on Starship with a couple of zsh plugins such as zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting.
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jnsgr.uk
5 March 2025
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
A Happy Day for Rust A while back, I wrote A sad day for Rust about the Actix-web unsafe controversy. The short of it was, Actix-web was using some unsound unsafe code. When this was discovered, people responded pretty harshly, and the main…
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28 November 2024
Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.
24 November 2024
Artist and writer based in Oakland, California; author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time, and a longtime teacher of digital art.
I think I have discovered the true purpose of this bike handlebar bag: carrying one (1) loaf of bread Related
2 October 2024
Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
11 September 2024
Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.
13 May 2024
Medicinal chemist; has written In the Pipeline, the drug-discovery blog, since 2002, and the “Things I Won’t Work With” posts about chemicals that try to kill you.
4 April 2024
American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.
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It was around this time, in the summer of 2021, that I discovered the Muji pens. I discovered them as every minimalism fetishist discovers them perhaps.
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25 March 2024
Independent policy analyst on space and national security, formerly of the RAND Corporation, who writes on counterspace weapons and rules for keeping satellites safe.
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If a Chinese spacecraft can dock with a friendly satellite to refuel, repair, or transport it, the same robotic arm can also disable a US satellite’s solar panels and antennas. Alternatively, China can use these spacecraft to tow satellites into locations where they can, at best, only sub-optimally perform intended duties such as early warning, surveillance, or geolocation.
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thespacereview.com
10 January 2024
Writes Useful Fictions on agency and how to get better at things; a former appellate lawyer and the top-ranked woman in professional poker in 2017.
31 December 2023
Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.
in which an escape route is discovered I was initially something of a skeptic when I first read about the Language Server Protocol. As a huge fan of REPL-based development, I thought it was a step back from the nREPL protocol, which had several years head st…
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8 December 2023
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 got nerdsniped much harder than intended by Advent of Code and so here's a writeup of how to process a 20,000 element list in C++ template metaprogramming without blowing your compiler's stack, and also about manually compiling a regular expression into a compile-time state machine. Sorry but also not sorry: blog.nelhage.com
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17 November 2023
Political scientist at the University of Chicago and the leading exponent of offensive realism; wrote The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.
Russia
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There's no evidence he was interested in conquering all of Ukraine. There was no evidence beforehand that he was interested in conquering any of Ukraine. And there's no way that an army that had 190,000 troops, at the most, could have conquered all of Ukraine, it's just impossible.
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16 August 2023
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
9 May 2023
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.
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MacWhisper is a little app I just discovered that changed the game for me when it comes to creating high quality subtitles for my videos.
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thesweetsetup.com
14 January 2023
Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.
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The Fed needs PCE inflation to average 1.96% for the remainder of the decade in order to hit their AIT target.
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I assumed they intended inflation to average roughly 2% during the 2020s.
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21 December 2020
Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.
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A korrent is a belief a person has stated in their own words: one
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Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public
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