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Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.

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  Knip

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  Knip is a fantastic tool

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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  You Are Not So Smart

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  More like a series of blog posts than a cohesive narration, but still a fantastic book about most common cognitive gotchas.

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  Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

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  Feynman was a Teacher. This book is as fantastic as the man himself.

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  The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

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  One of those cases when a nonfiction book can be 10 times shorter, but you don’t really want it to be, since is’s so fun and interesting. Author’s style is fantastic.

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  Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

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  The book that sparked my interest in discrete math and abstract algebra. Other books by Simon Singh are also fantastic.

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  AI-validated pull requests beat human review at exactly the things humans are bad at, which frees the humans to argue about direction instead.

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  It's like they have all the wisdom of their most senior engineers looking at every single diff and that is fantastic. Which means that you don't have to worry about remembering and looking and nitpicking and all the things that we're not good at anyway

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Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

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  Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

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  Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass. In essence, this is a book about an industry that refuses to learn. That was true 25 years ago when this book was published, and it's probably twice as true today. (Just think about all the AI adoption metrics being rolled out — back to productivity mistaken for lines of code produced, only more elaborate. And expensive). What I like about this book is that Glass doesn't present anything new. Quite the opposite, actually. Rather, it's about research lessons that we all should know, but tend to forget. Ever had to do an estimate, or plan according to a requirements spec? Or maybe you thought that enough eyeballs make all bugs shallow? Then this book is for you. A great work by a fantastic author.

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Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.

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  Sony WH1000XM4

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  Headphones: Sony WH1000XM4. The noise-cancelling is fantastic. These just work

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Indian software engineer working on Android and React; writes about his setup and side projects at ishubhamsingh.dev.

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  Moondrop Aria 2

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  Fantastic in-ear monitors, to satisfy my audiophile needs, currently my favorite

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Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

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  Prisma

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  Prisma - A fantastic ORM for Node.js (I use it with Postgres/SQLite hosted on Fly.io).

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  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

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  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Great spy thriller. Gary Oldman is fantastic in this. Cold War? Spies? Britain? I will pretty much watch as many of this type of movie as you can make. (A)

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  A House of Dynamite

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  A House of Dynamite. A very tough watch, but I thought this was fantastic as a tour of some of the different kinds of people who hold the fate of every single person on the planet in their hands every damn day. They’re tired, stressed, distracted, at cross-purposes with themselves, set in their ways, more celebs than leaders, and mediocre. And none of them have ever seen Dr. Strangelove? (A)

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  Fantastic Four

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  Fantastic Four. It was ok? Aside from a few things, I’m having trouble getting excited about post-Infinity Saga Marvel. There was just a special alchemy about that whole arc that is proving impossible to reproduce. (B)

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Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.

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  Visual Studio Code

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  My primary code editor. Extensible, fast, and has excellent TypeScript support. The integrated terminal and Git features are fantastic.

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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.

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  City on the Edge

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  It’s fantastic and is going to be a powerful and definitive story of San Francisco from 1990 to the present day.

  feld.com

Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

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  Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

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  Dan Wang suggests in his fantastic forthcoming book, Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

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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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  Useful Fictions

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  the rate of return on considering them, why they might work and what you might want to do with them is fantastic, and it’s a joy to read about it.

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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.

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  Young Money: A Field Guide to Wealth and Purpose in Your Twenties

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  Fantastic memoir of figuring it out in your twenties and alternatives to blindly pursuing the default path.

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Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.

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  Most of the price gap between o1 and R1 is margin rather than efficiency: OpenAI's inference gross margins are north of 75% because nobody else could serve the capability.

  OpenAI

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  OpenAI has a fantastic margin. When they're doing inference, their gross margins are north of 75%. So that's a four to five X factor right there of the cost difference, is that OpenAI is just making crazy amounts of money because they're the only one with the capability.

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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

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  Building a business on open source is a good thing; the objection is to trademark abuse, not to commercial use.

  open source

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  I think it’s fantastic when businesses are built on open source, the WordPress ecosystem is at least 10B+ a year; Automattic and WP Engine are less than 5% of that.

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Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.

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  Stay True

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  Hua Hsu's memoir Stay True: This book is now out in paperback, and you probably don't need me recommending it (it won a Pulitzer), but it is fantastic.

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Writer of the personal-finance blog Of Dollars And Data and author of Just Keep Buying and The Wealth Ladder. Chief Operating Officer at Ritholtz Wealth Management.

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  The Great Depression: A Diary

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  This fantastic work is a primary source material to one of the darkest times in American economic history.

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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.

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  The World-Ending Fire

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  After years of people recommending him to me, I finally took the plunge into the literary world of Wendell Berry. Now I can't help but wonder what took me so long. This 2018 collection of Berry's best essays is a fantastic introduction into his genre-defining polemic style, which mixes razor-sharp commentary with a poetry grounded in lived experience, to argue on behalf of land, the environment, and a slower, richer approach to life.

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British novelist, author of the His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust trilogies.

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  Oxford historical thesaurus

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  Have you seen the Oxford historical thesaurus? Fantastic. It must be one of the last great books produced as a printed object.

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Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.

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  CodeTrack

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  CodeTrack is a free .NET Performance Profiler and Execution Analyzer. It works on basically every version of .NET and will give you massive insight into how your code is running! The flamegraph view is fantastic.

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  LINQPad

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  A fantastic learning tool for those who are just getting into LINQ or for those who want a code snippet IDE to execute any C# or VB expression. Free and wonderful.

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  Ear Trumpet

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  Ear Trumpet - Fantastic advanced volume control for Windows! If you have ever wished that volume on Windows could turn their UI up to 11, Ear Trumpet is that app.

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Front-end developer and writer on Svelte, Vue, CSS and WordPress; blogs at joshcollinsworth.com.

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  Notion

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  my current favorite notes app. Can grow and get as complex as you need it to be, but for simple notes, the markdown and code highlight support is fantastic.

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American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.

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  Keeping You Awake

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  Keeping You Awake is a fantastic app for preventing your mac from going to sleep.

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  The Bhagavad Gita

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  Fantastic, many similar ideas to Stoicism and Virtue Ethics, though with more mystical elements thrown in. Would highly recommend it as a “first taste” of eastern religion.

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Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.

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  Audio Hijack Pro

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  I use this to record all of my podcast interviews. Fantastic software, highly recommended.

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Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.

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  The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

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  David McCullough, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West: Ever since I read The Wright Brothers” (on an earlier summer reading list of ours — and it was fantastic) I have been a fan of the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough writes about. This tale of how the American Northwest Territory was settled looks intriguing.

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Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.

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  Bose QuietComfort 35

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  My go-to headphones are wireless Bose QuietComfort 35’s, which are fantastic for when you need to concentrate or you’re just tired of noise from a plane or train.

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Wine writer and Master of Wine; Financial Times wine columnist, editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine and co-author of The World Atlas of Wine.

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  The Wines of Bordeaux

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  He was chairman of the Wine Society and wrote a fantastic book called The Wines of Bordeaux, which was an increasingly thick Penguin paperback.

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  World Atlas of Wine

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  The World Atlas of Wine has unrivalled maps. Hugh did a fantastic job, the real spadework, of getting some top quality maps of the world's classic wine regions and many of the new ones. The original editions had Hugh's matchless prose, trying to encapsulate the spirit of each region in surrounding texts, but the maps are the thing, and some photographs.

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Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.

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  Nexus

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  Nexus is fantastic.

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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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  Origin Story

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  It does a fantastic job distilling the latest thinking about the origins of the universe.

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  Factfulness

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  Factfulness is a fantastic book, and I hope a lot of people read it.

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