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20 September
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
How's this: without Kody, it's 1995 and you've got all your files on your Windows in Microsoft word. You don't want to switch to Mac because transferring all that stuff is too hard. Kody is like Google docs here. You don't have to bother transferring anything. It just works. Google Related
19 September
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
Programmer, musician and author of The Passionate Programmer; organised RubyConf and RailsConf and has worked as a CTO.
“A local, agent-first store that links the written intent behind a code change to its VCS commit and to stakeholder systems such as Jira, Confluence and Linear.” ❤️ rubygems.org
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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.
18 September
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
I wonder if at this point there couldn't be a very of MCP that is literally codemode + openapi + RAG for openapi docs instead. The reference Radius skill is just OpenAPI and it works so well. MCP Related
17 September
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.
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16 September
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
Also today: Claude Docs, Claude Slides, and Claude Design are in every conversation. Ask Claude for a presentation and you get one you can open, edit, and export as PowerPoint or PDF. Same for a document or a design. There's no separate tool to navigate to. They're just in the chat. Quoting @claudeai You can also now make decks, docs, and designs in your conversation. Draft the one-pager in Claude Docs, turn it into a deck with Claude Slides, and mock up a matching visual in Claude Design, all from one place. Anthropic Related
15 September
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.
ok great now I have 3 messy inboxes I have to check: - stuff my agents have done on scheduled loop that I need to review - bookmarked slack messages off Google Docs and slides to review - my actual email inbox lol Google Related
14 September
Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.
With this update we prioritized product management use cases: @linear Loops can now respond to project, initiative, cycle, and issue changes, update Linear documents, and share tailored Slack updates automatically. Quoting @linear New capabilities for Linear Loops: • Trigger from project, initiative, cycle, and issue changes • Edit documents automatically • Send tailored Slack updates 🔗: Related
12 September
Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.
Grateful we decided to build the @linear mobile app native from the beginning. We wanted to make the best mobile experience we could. Some really nice additions coming soon. Related
11 September
Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.
Linear docs getting better and better Quoting @guglielmodanna Small, big addition to Linear docs: callout components. Related
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
Mastodon microlighter@v2.2.0 is out 🚀 - new themes: gruvbox, flexoki - new grammars: astro, ini, nginx, + fixes - custom element improvements - now ~2000x faster on large files thanks to @daniel - and now has full typescript types (also @daniel) Still ~2.09kb. github.com
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Bluesky microlighter@v2.2.0 is out 🚀 - new themes: gruvbox, flexoki - new grammars: astro, ini, nginx, + fixes - custom element improvements - now ~2000x faster on large files thanks to @danielroe.dev - and now has full typescript types (@danielroe.dev again) Still ~2.09kb github.com
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10 September
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.
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
I've never seen this "Add to Preferred Sources" button like @flaviocopes.com has on posts. developers.google.com/search/docs/... Seems like a good idea?! Google Related
9 September
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
Design engineer; formerly at Linear and Vercel; author of Sonner and Vaul; teaches animations.dev.
A small quality of life update: When you were using the Linear Agent and a toast was render, it covered the chat. Now the toast renders next to it and changes position when the chat is open/closed. Related
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
8 September
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
Was playing around with the device @imkarthikk got which had a closed source firmware without a docs on pin mapping for each peripherals. Used @grok to reverse engineer the pin config and wrote a new firmware on top of it Related
Co-founder and CTO of Linear; previously an engineer at Uber.
What if the Linear agent were to review every single code change and automatically merge those that are deemed relatively safe to land and don't introduce any regressions. Would that be of interest? Related
Anyone from @1Password here? Your extension is making Linear slower and can't have that. We'd want to dynamically enable/disable the extension via data-1p-ignore on body, but you extensions reads it only once at page load and not continuously. Fix possible? Related
Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.
7 September
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
New improvements coming to the @link agent wallet every week. Related
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
6 September
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
Great idea. Will support this on Shopify docs Quoting @cramforce Request to harnesses: I love that you now send "Accept: text/markdown`. Next thing is: Put the programming language you prefer into the Accept-Language header. Accept-Language: "en-us, python" So, I don't have to feed you the TS examples when you're looking for python. Related
Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.
Agents 🤝 @linear Linear documents are just documents meant for writing down things. Projects, issues, views and other entities have different types. I think the structure makes it easier for both agents and humans alike to use the right one. Quoting @faruk_parhat Our coding agents did something interesting… We are both a @NotionHQ and @linear shop, but over time our coding agents seem to have preferred writing docs in Linear over Notion (since they were already creating tickets). And this kind of natural bias and proclivity of coding agents toward Linear sl… Related
5 September
Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.
Don’t sleep on @linear diffs and reviews Quoting @ralphghannam One of my favorite features in @linear right now is the reviews feature It centralizes all my repository PRs in one place and provides a better UX than GitHub for the code review Crazy to think this is supposed to be GitHub's entire job... Related
Gear reviewer who publishes long-form hi-fi audio and camera equipment reviews, plus video reviews, at stevehuffphoto.com.
3 September
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.
One more for the night: emulate v0.11 – Shared Next.js/Nuxt adapter runtime with persistent GitHub App key state – Linear issues now expose priorityLabel – GitHub token inspection adds perms, repo access, expiry and status github.com
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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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1 September
Co-founder and CTO of Linear; previously an engineer at Uber.
I don’t really care about these kinds of lists, but it is noteworthy that 90% of the listed companies are running on Linear! Related
31 August
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.
I'm working on phase 2 of Project Improve Git's documentation and I need beta readers! Here's a signup form: https://forms.gle/swn1jhCULndnCxG87 The first topic is going to the docs on merge conflicts. I'd love signups from anyone who uses Git on the command line and who would be interested in reading the current version of some man pages and leaving feedback about what's confusing. Especially if you're not 100% comfortable with Git! documentation Related
Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School, the private school network built around two hours a day of AI-delivered mastery learning.
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AI because it's on a onetoone basis is giving us a data loop that nobody in learning science no one in education has ever had and we have it. It's a closed loop and that magical data loop is what's allowing us to get the five to 10 times improvements in education because it's our microscope.
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26 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).
Now we know: The popular Ox Alpha LLM was GLM-5.3-Flash... Compared to GLM-5.2, this new GLM-5.3-Flash model uses: - a Kimi Linear-style 3:1 (super*) hybrid attention pattern with 34 Kimi Delta Attention layers (KDA) and 11 Multi-heat Latent Attention (MLA) / DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) layers; - a scaled-down GLM-5.2-style sparse MoE backbone, going from 744B-A40B to 320B-A18B; - a DeepSeek V4-style mHC residual path with four parallel streams; - plus a native vision encoder (not shown). * "Super hybrid" because both KDA and MLA/DSA are "efficient" components. E.g., Kimi only uses KDA +… Quoting @Zai_org Introducing GLM-5.3-Flash - Leading capabilities at a highly competitive price - Natively multimodal with a 1M-token context window - A 320B-A18B model released under the MIT License - Previously previewed as Ox Alpha, running entirely on Chinese AI chips Blog: https://t.co/tzOmB7gdZP Available now… LLMs Related
25 August
Design engineer; formerly at Linear and Vercel; author of Sonner and Vaul; teaches animations.dev.
Linear Diffs has been a joy to use, but one detail I like about the merge queue specifically is that the little icon on the left animates subtly. It made me smile the first time I saw it. Nice work, @yangit. Quoting @linear New: Merge queue status in diffs See where a PR is in the queue and when it’s expected to merge. Related
22 August
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Two internet pages that has been low key crushing it for me lately is @modal and Cloudflare. So good. Especially impressed by Modal. Feels like the Linear/Stripe of infra (“just do what they do and you’ll be fine because they thought through every detail”) Related
19 August
Co-founder and CTO of Linear; previously an engineer at Uber.
Linear Diffs now Diff Giffs. (as well as other visual assets). Quoting @Griveau We updated diffs in @linear. You can now preview images, SVGs, and GIFs, compare changes side by side, adjust opacity, and view sources. We’re still pushing to make diff reviews faster and nicer to use. Give it a try we’ve shipped a lot of improvements lately. Related
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
The small quality of life improvements keep coming. When you’re using Desktop every day, slow startup makes the app feel sluggish. Working on improving this even more! Quoting @ClaudeDevs Claude Desktop now starts ~2x faster than it did a month ago. When the app started in the background, its timers got throttled and the JS engine dropped into power-saving mode. We now boot at full speed even while the window's still hidden, along with some smaller perf fixes! startups Related
18 August
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
Small quality of life improvements like this add up. More on the way Quoting @ClaudeDevs Perf win of the day: Claude Code CLI now uses 2x less CPU at p99. Bun's garbage collector was running on a fixed timer, so it would kick in mid-turn and steal CPU right when Claude Code was busiest. Now it waits until the process is idle. Related
15 August
Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.
14 August
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
9 August
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Super-organized I have so many tools for organization and management across Asana, Google Workspace, P2, and Linear, but they’re not really connected. I’m trying to get everything in one place so there’s no data duplication, a single s…
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7 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).
Just saw that the LLMs-from-scratch repository passed 100,000 stars on GitHub! This is super cool and motivating. I am really happy to see that this open-source repo has helped so many people. Thanks also to everyone who shared ideas and opened PRs with improvements! Of course, I plan to keep adding new material, including new attention variants and architectures (while bigger projects like RL and Reasoning From Scratch live in their separate repositories). I am also currently working on a larger applied custom “small” LLM project. It has been keeping me super busy this month, but I will shar… LLMs Related
30 July
Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.
25 July
Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.
20 July
Physician and neuroscientist at the University of Washington; researches brain health, metabolism and athletic performance.
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However, there's an increasing body of literature that shows that by engaging older adults in novel cognitive activities, you see improvements in function. So that can be language learning. Uh that can be uh complex like coordinative movement or exercise. You see the same things with um like musical training like people learning a new musical instrument or learning um musical theory trying to identify different patterns in music. And you see in randomized control trials improvements particularly in executive function that seems to be most common across those different interventions.
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15 July
Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.
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13 July
Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.
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there's some interesting work on you know happiness being more curve linear like midlife is actually some of the lowest levels of happiness and life satisfaction
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7 July
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
🛠️ hunk 0.17.0 is out Patches from 10 new contributors, w/ small fixes & quality-of-life improvements like: - official homebrew install (brew install hunk) - launch hunk w/o menu bar - better session reliability - esc no longer quits, proper transparent bg colours, & more Related
4 July
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.
30 June
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.
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but it would be a little bit disappointing and a little bit surprising if there weren't over the next 5 years like, uh, economically valuable improvements that were made that were directly like referable to the like AI progress in math.
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1 June
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
27 May
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.
20 May
Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.
18 May
Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
4 May
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
In 3 weeks at the next Devtools Toronto: traces.com - share agent coding sessions polarity.so - sandboxes for agent testing superuser.app - agents in your team chat tidra.ai - AI code maintenance at scale docsalot.dev - docs agents can read codepathfinder.dev - trace vulns across your codebase Related
26 March
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
When I built menugen ~1 year ago, I observed that the hardest part by far was not the code itself, it was the plethora of services you have to assemble like IKEA furniture to make it real, the DevOps: services, payments, auth, database, security, domain names, etc... I am really looking forward to a day where I could simply tell my agent: "build menugen" (referencing the post) and it would just work. The whole thing up to the deployed web page. The agent would have to browse a number of services, read the docs, get all the api keys, make everything work, debug it in dev, and deploy to prod. T… Quoting @patrickc When @karpathy built MenuGen (https://t.co/2OjrUJ3aLS), he said: "Vibe coding menugen was exhilarating and fun escapade as a local demo, but a bit of a painful slog as a deployed, real app. Building a modern app is a bit like assembling IKEA future. There are all these services, docs, API keys, con… Related
25 March
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
A eulogy for Vim Vim is important to me. I’m using it to write the words you’re reading right now. In fact, almost every word I have ever committed to posterity, through this blog, in my code, all of the docs I’ve written, emails I’ve s…
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18 March
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
Just posted @marsedit 5.4 with native macOS Versions support, Share Extension improvements, and a bunch of bug fixes. redsweater.com
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25 January
Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.
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Marketing grows only as fast as you can improve marketing. We all know that's quite hard actually. It's linear. It's hard to find new channels that aren't trivial. Like, it's hard. Of course, we're going to do it, but like it it's hard. Whereas, cancellations grow automatically as you grow, right? So, cancellations always overtake marketing for this reason.
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23 January
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
18 January
Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.
8 January
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.
4 January
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
9 December 2025
Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.
5 December 2025
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.
12 November 2025
Chairman and chief executive of Microsoft since 2014; joined the company in 1992 and ran its cloud business before that.
6 November 2025
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
4 November 2025
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).
27 September 2025
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
Examples are the best documentation When I'm searching for docs, 95% of the time a single example would suffice. Yet, 95% of the time I can't find one in any official source. It seems that by default formal technical documentation is targeted towards some…
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11 September 2025
Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.
The 30-Minute Daily Routine: My Study Strategies The most effective study strategies aren't always the ones that look perfect on paper. Most people imagine polyglots engaging in flawless, high-level conversations from day one. They picture a smooth, linear path to flu…
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Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.
16 July 2025
Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.
25 June 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.
Wrote an intro to evals for long-context Q&A systems: • How it differs from basic Q&A • What dimensions & metrics to eval on • How to build llm-evaluators • How to build eval datasets • Benchmarks: narratives, technical docs, multi-docs eugeneyan.com
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21 May 2025
Labour politician. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 2024 to June 2026, and MP for Holborn and St Pancras from 2015 until standing down in 2026. Director of Public Prosecutions before entering Parliament.
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No Prime Minister wants to do what we have to do in relation to the winter fuel allowance, but we have to take the tough decision to stabilise our economy to ensure that we can grow it for the future.
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However, I recognise that people are still feeling the pressure of the cost of living crisis, including pensioners, and as the economy improves, we want to make sure that people feel those improvements each day as their lives go forward. That is why we want to ensure that more pensioners are eligible for winter fuel payments as we go forward.
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17 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.
Great list of what the best devs do, such as: • Read the source, docs, error msgs • Simplify problems, write simple code • Get their hands dirty • Write to share & write well • Have beginner's mind & keep learning • Not afraid to say: I don't know endler.dev
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6 April 2025
Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.
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When the factory floor is down the hall, instead of 30 hours of travel away, it’s easier to make improvements and invent.
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25 March 2025
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
22 March 2025
Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.
10 March 2025
Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.
We're super excited to introduce the Academia Hub! A game-changer for school, university, courses, research, projects, collaborations, publications. Learn more: huggingface.co/docs/hub/aca... It's a per-school offer, not individual => your faculty/admin have to apply Go schools, go universities! HuggingFace Related
9 March 2025
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.
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It's easy to get impressive-looking results if you're comparing against a poorly-tuned baseline, and that observation turns out to explain a surprising fraction of supposed improvements.
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27 January 2025
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.
14 November 2024
British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.
16 March 2024
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.
Many great things you missed this year This week: Birth seasonality, causes of death across the lifespan, progress against HIV/AIDS & cystic fibrosis, very rare infectious form of Alzheimer’s, improvements in cholesterol, and more.
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13 March 2024
Environmental researcher; writes on land use, agriculture and whether decoupling human welfare from nature is possible.
11 October 2023
Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.
27 January 2023
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.
2 September 2022
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
2 February 2022
American backpacking guide, writer and endurance athlete who has hiked more than 30,000 miles; author of The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide and publisher of gear reviews and trip-planning tutorials at andrewskurka.com.
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I own an inReach Mini, used it for several years, and have no intention of upgrading to the Mini 2 because I don't see $400 of value in these improvements (or even $250, if I was able to sell my used Mini for $150).
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17 January 2022
Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.
How much time do you have set aside for working on tech improvements? At @STIM_Sweden we're currently doing 10% and we've seen some big returns the last two years. #technicaldebt Related
1 June 2020
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.
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This is what I wish I learned from in my freshman year of college. The part of it about linear algebra is one of the best linear algebra resources out there, and remainder shows you how those tools apply to non-linear mathematics.
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30 January 2020
British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
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My browser of choice is Chrome, mainly because I use Google's tools (Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and so on) on a daily basis.
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15 October 2019
Writer and education-technology critic; published Hack Education for a decade and wrote Teaching Machines.
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When I'm writing articles etc that need to be shared with an editor, I typically write in Microsoft Word. I hate all word processing software, and anyone who insists that Google Docs is so much better than Word is a liar.
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20 June 2019
Professor of cognitive science at UC San Diego working on human-computer interaction and programming tools; creator of Python Tutor, the online code visualizer.
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In terms of iOS apps, I use PDF Expert, which is a great PDF reader and annotator (using Apple Pencil), Notability as a virtual whiteboard (again with Apple Pencil), Google Docs for document editing, Google Calendar, and Gmail.
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21 May 2019
Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.
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For coding, I use Visual Studio Code. I use Git for source control, Photoshop for 2D art, Audition for audio editing, Premiere for video editing, and our team coordinates on Google Docs and Skype.
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19 October 2018
Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.
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Now, almost everything happens in Google Docs, except for when I write straight into the Axios or Substack CMS. (Both of which are lovely, WYSIWYG, very simple and easy to use.)
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22 June 2017
Game designer and programmer, co-founder of id Software and co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. Now runs Romero Games in Galway, Ireland.
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I use a ton of software. Here's a list: Xcode, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Sublime Text, Corona SDK, Unity, Final Cut Pro, Versions, Perforce, VMWare Fusion, Messages, REAPER, Transmit, Coda, Dropbox, Skype, Dashlane, Slack, Terminal, Assembla, Airmail, Spark Mail, Google Docs, Pixelmator, Pixen, TexturePacker, Particle Designer, Tiled, iTunes + Music + Match, Screenium, Steam, Twitter, Facebook.
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I use a ton of software. Here's a list: Xcode, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Sublime Text, Corona SDK, Unity, Final Cut Pro, Versions, Perforce, VMWare Fusion, Messages, REAPER, Transmit, Coda, Dropbox, Skype, Dashlane, Slack, Terminal, Assembla, Airmail, Spark Mail, Google Docs, Pixelmator, Pixen, TexturePacker, Particle Designer, Tiled, iTunes + Music + Match, Screenium, Steam, Twitter, Facebook.
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12 June 2017
Civil engineer and land use planner, founder and president of Strong Towns, author of Escaping the Housing Trap. Argues that the American pattern of development since the Second World War does not generate enough wealth to maintain the infrastructure it obliges cities to keep.
25 March 2017
Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
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sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at
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