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Artist and developer who makes esoteric software, games and tools aboard a sailboat as part of Hundred Rabbits with Rekka Bellum; creator of the Uxn virtual machine and the Orca livecoding environment.

• I see folks building bedrock-type abstractions more and more these days and adding on @tbsp's list, I tried to gather every single virtual machine designed explicitly to fend of bitrot or digital obsolesce by targeting a frozen specification I could think of. I was wondering, I'm sure I must have forgotten some, if you can think of one that is not on the list, could you please let me know!

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Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.

• dotfiles — macOS / Linux / Codespaces compatible dotfiles with 1-line setup script. Tested on Apple Silicon Macs. Supports both zsh and fish. Managed with Chezmoi

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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.

• This is SO interesting because the OS market share for developers seems to be the inverse, based on devs in my “bubble” (those at startups + Big Tech) #1 MacOS #2 Linux #3 Windows I ran a survey here + on LI with 4,000 responses each - it’s what I mean by “bubble”
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Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.

• ds4 — DeepSeek 4 Flash and PRO local inference engine for Metal, CUDA and ROCm

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

• The age of agents belongs to Linux!

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CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.

• Great talk by @bgurley He really had me locked in wondering where it was going
  Quoting@theallinpodAll-In Summit: Bill Gurley (0:00) Bill Gurley takes the stage at the All-In Summit (1:29) Bill's Presentation: Searching for Feynman Links to additional resources mentioned in talk and used in research: https://t.co/LrixEr9Bw6 @bgurley

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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.

• One thing I’ve been wondering: how bad will AI toolkit hit outsourcing companies like Accenture? Their business depends on co’s not having enough in-house dev capacity, and thus “renting” devs from them. But with AI tools, in-house dev teams can do more, and need less “renting”
  Quoting@AnthropicAIWe’re partnering with Accenture on independent evaluation of frontier AI—part of our recent commitment to embed evaluators at Anthropic. Both we and Accenture expect to invest at least $1 billion to build capacity in this area over the next five years.

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Artist and developer who makes esoteric software, games and tools aboard a sailboat as part of Hundred Rabbits with Rekka Bellum; creator of the Uxn virtual machine and the Orca livecoding environment.

• Anyone else having intrusive thoughts wondering if FRACTRAN is a good livecoding computer to make beats?

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Linux kernel maintainer; runs the stable kernel releases and maintains the USB and driver core subsystems.

• kernel-development — Presentation on how the Linux kernel is developed

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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.

• The Russian drone that crashed in Lithuania the other day had curl installed. As part of a default Linux install presumably, it seems unlikely it used curl for any "drony" things.

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Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.

• Seven million views is a difficult number to comprehend. So I think about it differently: millions of moments when a founder was wrestling with a hard decision, trying to grow their company, or wondering whether to keep going, and trusted me enough to listen. That means far more to me than the number itself.

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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.

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Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.

• Translating Sam

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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.

• For those who were wondering: my total write time for this article was 16 hours not including research and development. The diagram format is a complete experiment. Hope you all like it!
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Linux kernel maintainer; runs the stable kernel releases and maintains the USB and driver core subsystems.

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

• If you haven't given Linux a go lately, try with agents. You can fix anything with a prompt now. Got a Dell XPS. Webcam wasn't working, told codex, it rebooted and now things work.

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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

• It looks like 2026 might be a record year for the number of commits to the Linux kernel. 2024 (6.7–6.12): 75,314 commits 2025 (6.13–6.18): 75,462 commits 2026 (through 7.2, released Aug 17): 60,862 commits

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Linux kernel maintainer; runs the stable kernel releases and maintains the USB and driver core subsystems.

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Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.

• The Situation at Columbia XXXVII

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Statistician at Columbia; writes Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and wrote Bayesian Data Analysis.

• Update on U.S. government’s Soviet-style push for “gold standard science”

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Linux kernel maintainer; runs the stable kernel releases and maintains the USB and driver core subsystems.

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Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later joined Tailscale.

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Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.

• x.comHere's my conversation with @DHH. He is back for round 2! It was an epic fun 5 hour conversation about the future of programming, AI, Linux, and human civilization. It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 1:27 - Introduction 2:56 - Programming with AI agents 18:14 - How software will change 27:30 - AI impact on open source 37:21 - Building Omarchy Linux distro 47:05 - Vibe coding vs agentic engineering 1:00:06 - The end of manual programming 1:10:24 - Advice for programmers 1:22:30 - Surviving Internet Hate 1:31:46 - Programming set…

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Cartoonist and comics theorist, author of Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, Making Comics and the graphic novel The Sculptor.

• Stephen Marche on Trump: "He's following in the grand tradition of American leaders starting wars with people they don't understand—then wondering what went wrong."

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Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.

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Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.

• Devbox from @namespacelabs is fantastic. I can easily instruct the agent to compile and test Rust code on Linux without any complications. Plus, the Namespace GitHub Actions runner is incredibly fassssst. Running the gh actions for https://t.co/kEGJe02vUE very smooth and fast.

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Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

• The Pattern Behind x64 CMPPS/PD Immediates

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Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

• poll: when you first learned linux/unix, did you use (you can pick more than one): (not looking for extra details right now, I'm just reflecting on the role of "free internet resources" recently)

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Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.

• Same Playbit program running on a Mac and a Raspberry Pi, local-first multiplayer over internet relay (not LAN; real-world latency) and webgpu. Exact same wasm running in both places. @playbit_ for Linux (Wayland) coming soon!

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Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.

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Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.

• Is there a service where I can rent access to Linux desktop machines with actual displays? We're implementing the Playbit runtime for Linux and it's surprisingly difficult to test various desktop configurations. We need a real GPU with a display connected, for testing dawn/webgpu, vsync, display sleep, etc. We use Modal and AWS, neither have had machines that I've been able to test with properly. Ideally there's a way to test a variety of systems (like ubuntu, arch, alpine etc) × GPUs (nvidia, amd, intel) × window managers.

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Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.

• I’ve been wondering where weird LLM language like this comes from. Much of it I hadn’t seen before LLMs, so —intuitively at least—it doesn’t seem to come from training data. Perhaps it’s reverb; echo in recent corpus from its past self’s attempts..? Another example is “I ran a smoke to explore” (where it means “smoke test” but abbreviates it like a cool teenager)
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Linux kernel maintainer; runs the stable kernel releases and maintains the USB and driver core subsystems.

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Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.

• Being Linux Torvalds

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Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.

• AI in Linux

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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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American front-end engineer and design-systems specialist; built the Pantsuit design system for Hillary for America and has worked at Slack and IBM.

• I’ve been meaning to make a dentist appointment and wondering why I keep putting it off. After calling and arguing with an annoyingly sycophantic AI pretending to be a human receptionist, I remembered. And it still didn’t make my appointment.

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Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.

• shellspectre — A Rust/eBPF utility for recording SSH/TTY/PTY sessions. Useful for tracing agent sessions and remote sessions on a Linux machine. Submission for a 1 day hackathon event at Canonical.

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Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.

• I like how I can have a 12 year old dev box not only be "good enough", but run very well on a modern Linux system. I just added this to the DotFriedRice FAQ in case you're wondering if an Arch / niri based desktop environment runs well on older machines.

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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.

• The Accidental Therapist

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Mac and iOS developer; created NetNewsWire and MarsEdit, co-created the JSON Feed format, and blogs at inessential.com.

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

• Omacon comes to New York

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American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.

• This is supposed to be a dig against Linux, but it's actually why Linux is so great. There are so many different versions, all of which benefit from work on the kernel, software that runs on it, etc., but users can have the experience they want. I run Arch with Hyprland, but I'd never suggest that's the best for the average consumer. And if Arch or Hyprland become crappy in some way (like Windows has done...), I can switch to something else without losing my software, files, etc. This is also one of the reasons why Android is so much better than iOS. I can have a big folding phone (eventually…
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Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.

• Frankenwine: Multiple personas in a Wine process

  I came across a recent article on making Linux system calls from a Wine process. Windows programs running under Wine are still normal Linux processes and may interact with the Linux kernel like any other process. None o…

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Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.

• What's new with Himitsu 0.9?

  Last week, Armin and I worked together on the latest release of Himitsu, a “secret storage manager” for Linux. I haven’t blogged about Himitsu since I announced it three years ago, and I thought it would be nice to give…

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

• just gonna put this out there in case any Godot contributors see this! I know it's not a high priority issue, but I use Wayland on Linux and the latest Godot 4.5 beta spams an error message in the console constantly, which is really very annoying. Would *really* love it if somebody could fix this for the Godot 4.5 release, or even just comment out the specific line that's outputting this message. It's line 1052 in display_server_wayland.cpp, I'm guessing!

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

• llm.c — LLM training in simple, raw C/CUDA

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

• Terry's Other Games launches today! 5pm CET on steam and itch.io, for Windows, Mac and Linux!

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

• Anyone here done modern laptop research recently? I'm thinking of getting a new one, recommendations welcome! Things I care about: - good build quality (especially, good quality keyboard and track pad) - lightweight - good battery life - powerful enough to run e.g. Godot and blender well, but it's just for work so it doesn't have to be a gaming machine - wanna exclusively run Linux on it 🤓

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Machine-learning researcher at Cursor working on post-training for coding models; a professor at Harvard and then Cornell from 2016 to 2026, and a researcher at Hugging Face from 2019 to 2024.

• GPU-Puzzles — Solve puzzles. Learn CUDA.

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

• Ok, thanks all! After my current project wraps up I think I'm going to backup my windows laptop and try single booting Linux Mint for a while, with a virtual machine for making Windows builds of things.

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

• anyone have a link to a nice non-techy guide for people considering Linux dual booting in 2024?

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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

• New blog post: Linux crisis tools

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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

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