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20 September
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
18 September
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
Does anyone know how to use @nextcloud on a headless *client*? They used to have a `nextcloudcmd` utility but that appears to have been deprecated. > nextcloudcmd is not in focus for us anymore as virtual file systems are the future. https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues/1086 Anyone know where the latest nextcloudcmd is? Or how I use a "virtual filesystem" on a headless Ubuntu client? Related
16 September
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
Echoes of OpenAI renaming the Codex desktop app to "ChatGPT" here - everyone's racing to establish themselves as a general agent now Quoting @mikeyk Claude Cowork and Chat are now one Claude, starting today. The most common thing we hear: people aren't sure which product to start with. That friction gets in the way of getting the best from what these models can do. I've been on the unified version for a few weeks and really enjoy it. Claude doe… OpenAI Related
14 September
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.
2027 i will sail to hawaii with voice mode on the chatgpt desktop app OpenAI Related
13 September
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.
🌶️Codex can do a anything Muse, Bot etc can do quite easily I get the appeal in the form factor “less is more” but if you are already a codex desktop and are a power user (computer use, remote access, thread management, voice control etc), YAGNI I still like playing with the other things for educational purposes but also need to avoid tool sprawl unless there is a real benefit Related
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.
current homelab setup for local AI experimentation: - hermes box hosted on a Framework Desktop Mainboard AI Max+ 395 - 5090 eGPU running Qwen 3.8 27B for fast tok/s LLM use - sometimes 150+ tok/s - 2x DGX Spark: running Deepseek v4 Flash 0731 - better but slower model - pi 5 for monitoring - Mac mini as a dev box - use Herdr and ohmypi/codex/claude depending on the use case - housed in a 10" DeskPi mini rack (mostly) Hermes is defaulted to local AI but with a homegrown routing plugin hitting a small low TTFT model (Arch-Router) to decide whether to go local or upgrade to cloud/frontier. Tryin… LLMs Anthropic Related
8 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.
7 September
Canadian software developer and writer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications and formerly of Sun Microsystems, Google and AWS. Has written the blog ongoing since 2003.
Huh, I was at Apple.com and glanced at the Mac Studio page - https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/ - I notice they're explicitly pitching it for LLM on the desktop. I wonder how realistic that is… Hmm, let’s ask @simon, he’s closer to this stuff than most of us. I’m pretty convinced that irrespective of all the issues, the economics of #genAI just don’t work with the current compute infrastructure requirements. Open models and what’s left of Moore’s law could be a really big deal. #apple LLMs Related
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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The case for *total* Linux victory (desktop, mobile, server, iot, robots, embedded…): 1) Most agent-programmable People will want fully personalized computing experiences.
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2 September
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
30 August
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.
26 August
Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Linux
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Linux conquered everything else. All the AI infrastructure that everyone runs off, it's all running on Linux. All the systems, all the servers, everything is Linux. So it was kind of a curiosity that the desktop and the personal computers we were using really hadn't been captured, but clearly it was just waiting for this moment. Linux spent the time from '91 to now waiting for agents to fully flourish as an end user operating system.
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19 August
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
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
11 August
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
Omarchy
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You can literally just wish for the tools you want now. Omarchy has every skill to make them. It’s magical.
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10 August
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. Linux Related
22 July
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
14 July
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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As I said, I've spent months using an XPS 14 as my main machine. It's been so good I even gave up on using a dedicated desktop machine.
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world.hey.com
11 July
Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.
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Since I switched the monitor, I have never experienced a failure. The system works perfectly, flawlessly waking the laptop and bringing the desktop online in under a second.
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fabiensanglard.net
8 July
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
It is always nice to support @Docker, a company I am working with just signed up for Docker Desktop licenses to leverage some of Docker's offerings. Without saying too much, it is a double digit license count! 🐳 Related
30 June
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
With Arch Linux, installing Docker Desktop is really straight forward. In this post, we'll go over installing Docker with and without Docker Desktop. It works no problem even with niri and Waybar to see and use the Docker Desktop tray icon. nickjanetakis.com
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7 June
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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Void Linux on my desktop
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sive.rs
5 June
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab Since the PiKVM came out in 2017, there's been an explosion of IP KVMs. I've tested almost every one. But what are they good for? You can use Remote Desktop, Screen Sharing, or VNC to remote control a computer from anyw…
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12 May
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
I added a ~90 minute demo video of using DotFriedRice. It covers configuring and installing it too. It's a niri / Arch desktop environment with modern CLI tools. The CLI set up works on any Debian / Arch based distro (WSL 2 included) and macOS! github.com
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6 May
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. Linux Related
10 March
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
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Loopback - To record my desktop audio (and alias my microphone so I can tell which Camlink to use).
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kentcdodds.com
15 February
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
8 February
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Virtual Desktops on Windows aren't used enough. Mac has the "maximize to Virtual Desktop" button so I did a similar thing for Windows. Please go test it and file issues. SHIFT-CLICK on the Maximize button will maximize a window to a new Virtual Desktop. Also a hotkey. github.com
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12 January
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
28 December 2025
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.
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I usually work on two Macs. My MacBook Pro on the big screen, and a Jump Desktop session to my Mac Studio on another screen.
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steipete.me
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I usually work on two Macs. My MacBook Pro on the big screen, and a Jump Desktop session to my Mac Studio on another screen.
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steipete.me
25 November 2025
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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It's an incredible machine, but in the day-to-day, I've actually found I barely notice the difference compared to a $500 mini PC from Beelink
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world.hey.com
17 September 2025
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
Benjamin Button Reviews macOS Apple's first desktop operating system was Tahoe. Like any first version, it had a lot of issues. Users and critics flooded the web with negative reviews. While mostly stable under the hood, the outer shell — the visual…
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6 September 2025
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
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Claude is currently my main AI tool. I use the Claude desktop app, and Claude Code via Opencode.
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duncanmcclean.com
1 September 2025
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
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24 June 2025
Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
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I’ve grown to like Space Bar - it provides desktop workspaces akin to those in Sway/Hyprland which enabled me to use the muscle memory I’d developed over years.
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jnsgr.uk
14 May 2025
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
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Wavebox — bundles Gmail and Google Calendar into a single open source app on desktop and keeps this outside browser tabs.
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jeffpaul.com
31 August 2024
Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.
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Then use free and lovely rsync to synchronize: rsync -av --delete desktop:/home/me /home/
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sive.rs
24 January 2021
Technology writer and podcaster; former Macworld editor-in-chief, writes Six Colors and hosts podcasts on Relay FM and The Incomparable.
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I recently bought a new desk, the Uplift V2, with a reclaimed wood desktop, and I love it.
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usesthis.com
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I recently bought a new desk, the Uplift V2, with a reclaimed wood desktop, and I love it.
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usesthis.com
2 October 2020
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
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Audioengine A2+ Speakers - Powered desktop speakers. I previously owned the A5+, but they took up way too much desk real estate. I also have them sitting on the DS1 Desktop Speaker Stands to isolate the speakers and reduce vibration.
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adamdehaven.com
1 August 2020
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
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For the rest (e.g., oddly, most Google web apps), I use a command-line tool called nativefier to turn them into desktop apps.
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benkuhn.net
16 June 2020
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
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AudioEngine A2 Desktop Speakers
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daverupert.com
4 May 2020
Danish Mac developer; author of the TextMate text editor and founder of MacroMates.
21 November 2019
Programmer and writer; specified JSON, wrote JavaScript: The Good Parts, JSLint and How JavaScript Works.
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I keep my projects on OneDrive. I use GitHub Desktop to push my public code.
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usesthis.com
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I keep my projects on OneDrive. I use GitHub Desktop to push my public code.
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usesthis.com
15 October 2019
Writer and education-technology critic; published Hack Education for a decade and wrote Teaching Machines.
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I export HTML from Byword into Sublime Text. My website runs on Jekyll and I use the GitHub desktop tool to commit files to my site.
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usesthis.com
4 October 2019
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.
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I dislike big desktop environments, so instead I use OpenBox - bare-bones, without any task bar, start menu, etc.
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usesthis.com
27 August 2019
President of the VideoLAN non-profit and one of the lead developers of the VLC media player; active on the project since 2005.
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My desktop is KDE/Plasma, tweaked to a minimal state, with very few widgets.
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usesthis.com
17 July 2019
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
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I use KDE Connect to sync my files and clipboard across my Android phone and Ubuntu desktop.
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amitmerchant.com
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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On my laptop and desktop computers, I just have a Chrome web browser and terminal window open most of the time (I like iTerm2 for macOS).
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usesthis.com
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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I've got a giant home-built desktop PC and a Dell XPS-15 laptop I use for development.
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usesthis.com
26 April 2019
German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.
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I have a System76 Lemur laptop which I carry around, and an Acer Predator G3-605 desktop.
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usesthis.com
17 January 2019
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
Uses their own rcmnd.app
sway
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My desktop environment, naturally, is sway, built fresh from the master branch daily.
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usesthis.com
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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For desktop I use a lot of native Apple apps, including Mail, Notes, Calculator, Preview (which is powerful and very underrated), even Safari.
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usesthis.com
14 March 2017
Designer and developer; created the Solarized colour scheme and the Kinkless task system that became OmniFocus.
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