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• As the view from Moscow becomes increasingly embarrassing, it seems increasingly likely Putin will start a new more desperate phase of his war against Ukraine. Experts expect him to start a quiet mobilization of troops shortly after tomorrow's parliamentary elections. He seems to want 300,000 - 500,000 new soldiers. Despite increasing payments, recruitment has been failing to keep pace with the rising casualties. We can also expect Putin to step up attacks against Europe. More drones flying into European air space, and more stuff like this: • On August 4, 2026, a bomb squad at Leipzig/Halle A…

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• 10 Sunday Reads

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• houseagent — AI smart home assistant using MQTT and GPT to generate playful event notifications

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• Our Candlelight Chat is TOMORROW, Sunday, from 1-2 pm EST, on Zoom

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American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.

• Tomorrow, I'll be at @symposiumbooks.bsky.social in Providence, RI, to talk about my new collection. See you there!

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• I'm currently streaming my attempt to polish this OpenGL turd until it's got specular highlights and shadows:

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• I just had a phone call with President @ZelenskyyUa. Tomorrow we will disburse €3.3 billion for missile and drones in Ukraine. Full read-out ↓

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• unstable government: jev + claude type a terrible law. claude invents reactions and directs the set pieces. jev decides how each of 40 citizens responds. the town sim plays those choices out, then prints the disaster as tomorrow’s front page. fun.

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• After a hiatus brought on by tragedy, I'm planning to return to livestreaming tomorrow (Friday) ... and will start with a personal update and AMA. What would people like to ask about?

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• I'm sitting down with 0xSero tomorrow to talk about Omarchy, the malleable computer, and local AI. That is... If we can find a studio. Halp?
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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

• If you’re in NYC tomorrow (Thursday), last event I’ll be at! Come along if you can. Also love New York’s energy: tech + hardcore engineering is here, everywhere, v impressed with the tech scene all-round
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• OmFest: A Celebration of Curiosity, Connection, and the Future

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• Will The Kennedy Center Be There Tomorrow?

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• A few highlights from week 1!
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• Empire of Grift

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• Newsletter: The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions in the industry-written Clarity Act exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists. Senators must vote no on cloture tomorrow. https://www.citationneeded.news/clarity-act-ethics-charade/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #ClarityAct #CitationNeededNewsletter

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• Serre's 100th birthday conference starts tomorrow: https://serre100.sciencesconf.org/?lang=fr . I was on the organizing committee, but unfortunately am not able to participate in the event.

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President of the European Commission since 2019; previously Germany's defence minister.

• Democracy. It’s about giving people the power to shape the society they want to live in. Tomorrow, on Democracy Day, the @EU_Commission launches the “Shape our Democracy” campaign. To invite people to share their ideas. And to make our democracy stronger and more resilient, together.

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• Zuck profile tomorrow Mike Moritz interview Wednesday
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• Nearly a year in the making… This is the best thing I’ve ever read about one of the most important people shaping the world around us. Set aside an hour tomorrow. You don’t want to miss it.
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• Tomorrow is the first ever screening of 'Andy Goldsworthy in Conversation with Andrew Graham-Dixon' at ActOne in London - and I will be there to introduce the film and do some Q&A. @actone_cinema More screenings on the website -

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• microlighter — A zero-dep syntax highlighter that uses the CSS Highlights API

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• Liked “Agency workflows, components, and highlights from WCUS”

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• Register for my FIRST EVER live workshop on how to become a Supercommunicator. This isn't a workshop on listening harder or being nicer. Instead, it's a specific, learnable move to connect with anyone - even the people you disagree with - that you can start using in your very next conversation. Tonight's dinner. Tomorrow's meeting. That call you've been dreading. I'm super excited about this and hope to see you there! Click the link below:

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• Wrote up my thoughts on the whole OpenAI Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem story, and how it highlights the still confusing question of what using my data "to improve model performance" actually means

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• I hope this Nathan Fielder guy is at the iPhone event tomorrow because I have questions.

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• This looks interesting; happening tomorrow and Thursday at Columbia:

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• This is tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing everyone!
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• Chapter 28.1: Road and Bridge An FBI supervisor closes County Road 306 at six tomorrow. He has never driven it. The sheriff waits until the order is written down. "There's no gate on 306. Anywhere. The road just goes." "Then put something across it."

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• Tomorrow, folks! Just what DOES Emma Hamilton make of Lady Nelson? And Lady Melbourne of Caroline Lamb? And Jane Austen of the lot of them? Only one way to find out...
  Quoting@holland_tomI finish a rehearsal with @MarinaHyde for the must-see show of the season - THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF REGENCY LONDON!!! Lady Melbourne! Lady Nelson! Lady Hamilton! Jane Austen! Plus - Lord Byron’s ultimate ex!!!

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• Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I'm deep in my Massachusetts visit, becoming one of those people who can't look at a place without remembering what used to be there. My birthday is tomorrow, so there are all sorts of opportunities for reflecting and remembering. Oh and I guess it's a holiday weekend in the US, so maybe schedule those emails for Tuesday. Image credit: Library of Congress, on Flickr Commons

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• Join me tomorrow, September 5th at 9:00 AM MST for a Vagus Nerve Yoga class live via zoom! We'll focus on vagal tone, stress reduction, and trauma recovery. All classes are donation based. Learn more & register: https://t.co/kPAdAisWDh See you on the mat!

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Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.

• Top Links 1214 Dollar exposure. Starbase Louisiana. Spain's lost empire & "The Acropolis of the New World".

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• Why first impressions are often correct. Today’s jerk is tomorrow’s techno-fascist....

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• Lions of today, sheep of tomorrow

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• A Clear and Classic Big Test of U.S. Power

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• everyone should go read @dwarkesh_sp’s post - it does a great job of laying out the timeline and what we know ( and don’t know) I do have two issues with it A) the use of anthropomorphic language. These are not civilizations nor do they have desires just like a CPU thread or a bunch of programs don’t. this doesn’t mean we downplay the importance of this moment for cyber - but using human parallels for what I believe is code is dangerous territory. B) IMO it gets the impact of open source models wrong and is unreasonably dismissive for reasons that are not clear. As @ClementDelangue highlights…

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• Conviction today will be seen as arrogance tomorrow.
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• Great piece that highlights the open oppty for someone to reinvent social!
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• Our Candlelight Chat is TOMORROW, Sunday, from 1-2 pm EST, on Zoom

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• Register for my FIRST EVER live workshop on how to become a Supercommunicator. This isn't a workshop on listening harder or being nicer. Instead, it's a specific, learnable move to connect with anyone - even the people you disagree with - that you can start using in your very next conversation. Tonight's dinner. Tomorrow's meeting. That call you've been dreading. I'm super excited about this and hope to see you there! Click the link below:

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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

• BlueskyI agree with this take by @billgates.bsky.social, who also highlights several of the growing risks of AI systems, including cyber, bio and loss of control. We need to be far better prepared to address the risks of frontier models being developed by leading AI companies.

  English, from FrenchJe suis d'accord avec ce point de vue de @billgates.bsky.social, qui souligne également plusieurs des risques croissants des systèmes d'IA, notamment cyber, bio et perte de contrôle. Nous devons être bien mieux préparés à faire face aux risques des modèles de pointe développés par les principales entreprises d'IA.

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• x.comI agree with this take by @BillGates, who also highlights several of the growing risks of AI systems, including cyber, bio and loss of control. We need to be far better prepared to address the risks of frontier models being developed by leading AI companies.

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• Congratulations billing department you have successfully recreated a gag poster from the 1970s which wasn't really even funny then. (I am fine, I can actually talk to a real human tomorrow, I was just like "I have seen that one before....")

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• I thoroughly enjoyed going deep with @nxthompson on AI and the future of writing and creativity for The Most Interesting Thing in AI podcast. A few highlights: • How Nick and I have used @Gemini_Notebook to write our books • Why AI can lead to more serendipitous discovery in the research process (at least using Notebook’s citation-based approach) • The brilliance of the “explain” button in Notebook’s quiz feature • AI as the anti-social-media, with its gravitational pull towards mainstream consensus (citing @danwilliamsphil) • Why our attachment to the human voice of the writer is not going a…
  Quoting@nxthompsonFew people have put more time into figuring out how creativity works than @stevenbjohnson. How do we link ideas in our mind, and how can we use tools to make that linking easier? He's not only written some of my favorite books of the past few decades; he's also written some of my favorite essays ab…

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• BlueskyTomorrow I am heading to Providence for NecronomiCon. Not my usual con haunt, but I'm looking forward to it as a change.

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• MastodonTomorrow I am heading to Providence for NecronomiCon. Not my usual con haunt, but I'm looking forward to it as a change. See you there if you're there.

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• 🚨 BKC-WEH connector to be opened for traffic from tomorrow

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• Mapping Trump’s crypto empire on Last Week Tonight

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• Are you a Highly Sensitive Person? Our next Candlelight Chat tomorrow (Sunday) is for you.

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• A World of Empire

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• Making sense of the data center backlash

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• x.comHere's my conversation with Anthony Kaldellis about the deep history of the Roman Empire in the west and the east (the Byzantine Empire). This was a truly fascinating conversation with a lot of wisdom for the modern world and for the future of human civilization. The Roman state lasted over 2,200 years. If we want to understand human nature, the modern world, and how humanity can flourish, it is valuable to study history, especially the history of why societies survive and why they collapse. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 1…

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• The June newsletter ships tomorrow! Sign up if you haven't already, and thanks for supporting independent game devs.

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  Quoting@romeroSign up now to receive the June newsletter, coming out soon! Lots of cool stuff to share!

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• I'm doing a reading in Asheville tomorrow night. We've already maxed out on RSVPs but you can still attend; hope to see you there:

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• Looking forward to playing around with Oeuf's multiplayer map editor tomorrow evening!
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• (1) Most countries do not actually have a military. Instead, most countries outsource their security to the US (most common), to Russia (like Belarus), or to China (like North Korea, partially). Iran is unusual in that they're going it largely alone. They're also unusual in that they actually appear to be winning. And if Iran does manage to drive the US out of not just Afghanistan and Iraq, but the entire Middle East, they'll have unfortunately undermined the idea that America can or will provide any security guarantees at all. (2) So, with the withdrawal of the American Empire, every country…

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  Quoting@Madeline_ZimmRoman Helmet Guy gets it. Reminds me of my book review of Balaji’s Network State, wherein I argue that yes, we still need the military 🤡

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• I've been reading Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart novels on and off, each is about a specific topic in Second Empire France and all have some striking contemporary parallels or relevant insights. Most recent was Money (or L'Argent) which is about private credit. Review link below.

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

• Fireside chat at Sequoia Ascent 2026 from a ~week ago. Some highlights: The first theme I tried to push on is that LLMs are about a lot more than just speeding up what existed before (e.g. coding). Three examples of new horizons: 1. menugen: an app that can be fully engulfed by LLMs, with no classical code needed: input an image, output an image and an LLM can natively do the thing. 2. install .md skills instead of install .sh scripts. Why create a complex Software 1.0 bash script for e.g. installing a piece of software if you can write the installation out in words and say "just show this to…
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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.

• Software Factory Meetup, day after tomorrow, get on it. I'll be there too. 🍻
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American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.

• The WordPress AI plugin 0.8.0 is now available! Highlights in this release: • New Refine from Notes experiment to automatically apply editorial feedback • New AI dashboard widgets • Integration with Gutenberg Guidelines • Image Generation promoted to a stable Feature

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• What an amazing couple days at #MicroConf 2026. Here’s a video recapping some of the highlights 👇
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

• Denmark desperately needs more inequality

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• It was an honor to hang out with Jensen Huang, CEO of @nvidia, and do a long-form podcast with him. Really fun & fascinating technical deep-dive conversation on & off the mic. One of the most brilliant & thoughtful human beings I've ever met. NVIDIA is the most valuable company in the world by market cap and is the engine powering the AI revolution. Podcast probably out tomorrow (Monday) unless I get stuck in too many interesting conversations while running around in SF ;-) PS: I haven't checked my messages in days. Sorry for slow replies 🙏 Trying to stay deeply focused at in overwhelmingly…

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Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.

• Just published my Laracon EU 2026 recap. Lots of great talks this year — highlights for me were Dan Harrin on abstractions, Peter Suhm on unblocking users with AI, and Shane Rosenthal showing NativePHP rendering actual native iOS and Android elements. Also a good reminder to finally look more seriously at PostgreSQL. https://stefanzweifel.dev/posts/2026/03/12/laracon-eu-2026-recap/ #LaraconEU

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• 🚀 Live from #SREDays #London at Everyman Canary Wharf! 🛳️ Checked in and ready for a day packed with SRE, observability, and production reliability stories. I’ll be sharing highlights throughout the day. #SREDaysLondon #SRE #DevOps #CloudNative

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Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.

• All packed and ready for #laraconeu next week. Tomorrow will be the long train travel day. Fingers crossed I make it through Germany.

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• Hi! I made a Chrome extension that highlights creeps from the Epstein emails. Depending on how much news you read on your computer, enabling it might be really depressing.

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• Highlights from Stanford's AI+Education Summit

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Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.

• I've updated my 2025 reading list with the 121 books I read in the year. Highlights were The Thursday Murder Club by @richardosman, Piranesi by @susannaclarke_, The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball and Little Eyes by @sschweblin.

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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.

• I am asking all America First Patriots in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District to please GET OUT AND VOTE TOMORROW for a phenomenal Candidate, Matt Van Epps, on Election Day, Tuesday, December 2nd! You can win this Election for MAGA Warrior Matt Van Epps, who has my Complete and Total Endorsement. HE WILL BE A GREAT CONGRESSMAN and, unlike his Opponent, he cherishes Christianity and Country Music — She has openly stated that she hates them both! TN-07: Polls open in all Counties no later than 9:00 A.M., but some open as early as 7:00 A.M. Polls close at 7:00 P.M. IF YOU ARE IN LINE BY 7 P.M…

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Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.

• Excited to chat with @JulianGewirtz tomorrow at Asia Society in New York
  Quoting@chinabksreviewDan Wang. LIVE at Asia Society. Next TUESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2025 @ 6:30. Spaces limited, buy your TICKETS now ➡️ https://t.co/n0bGaB9u2V In a conversation moderated by Julian Gewirtz, Dan Wang will discuss his new New York Times bestselling book, "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future." ft.…

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Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.

• For friends in DC, I’ll be speaking tonight at an IFP/FAI event hosted by @AlecStapp and @hamandcheese https://t.co/48qiMEW8mG tomorrow at Politics and Prose Wharf with @DKThomp https://t.co/QjrL5urP3y and on Thursday at JF Books in Dupont Circle

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Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.

• Just released a v1.1 patch for my Other Games. Things are feeling pretty stable, so this might be the last one? Highlights are: it shows a pop-up on itch for achievements now, it has improved accessibility options, and I added Japanese and LATAM Spanish localisations:

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Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance; writes and speaks on clean energy, hydrogen and the economics of the transition, and hosts the Cleaning Up podcast.

• BloombergNEF: Generative AI – The Power and the Glory

  In his newest piece for BNEF, Michael Liebreich explores the transformative potential of generative AI, particularly in creative and industrial sectors. He highlights its ability to boost efficiency and innovation, from…

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Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.

• I've updated my 2024 reading list with the 88 books I read in the year. Highlights were Oryx and Crake by @MargaretAtwood, The Husbands by @hollygramazio and Dungeon Crawler Carl by @mattdinniman

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Scottish crime writer, author of the Tony Hill and Karen Pirie novels; former journalist and broadcaster.

• Join me in conversation tomorrow on @bbcradio4.bsky.social at 4pm. Take Four Books, presented by James Crawford, talks to the writer and son of John Le Carré - Nick Harkaway - about his new book Karla's Choice and its connections to three other literary works. (I get to chip in...)

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Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.

• I've updated my 2023 reading list with the 105 books I read in the year. Highlights were The Future, by @NaomiAllthenews, Station Eternity by @mightymur and Titanium Noir by @Harkaway

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Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.

• Some amazing leaders have joined @SlackHQ! Welcome, Fuzzy Khosrowshahi, Product Eng VP; @Rukmini_Reddy, Platform Eng VP; and Sean Catlett, CSO. To hear more about the future of Slack that we’re building together, join us for Frontiers 2020, tomorrow:

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