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19 September
Programmer and writer; co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, and author of the Coding Horror blog, which he has written since 2004.
It is amazing what you can do if you build the right team, point them in the right direction, and get the hell out of their way Related
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
✨ Finally built a timeline for https://t.co/HGCLKS5BD6 now I always wanted to make my site a bit more social, because I had profiles and trip overlaps and you could kinda see where other people went, but not something like this So on this new page you can see people near you, where everyone's traveling too, etc. There's the [ For you ] tab and [ Following ], like on X. So you can see people you follow, or just everyone I hope I can improve it more so the site will result in more serendipitous connections, especially now that's it's free Also nice you can see where people will be in the future… Quoting @levelsio 🌎 https://t.co/1z6UN2d0nh globe is now ready for space travel too 😊 Related
17 September
Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.
This is the weirdest damn timeline. Quoting @DoWCTO The United States will NEVER be an effective altruist country. 🇺🇸 Related
16 September
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
If you need one definition of "experience design" it's this. Experience happens moment by moment. Therefore any experience design is about what happens on a timeline. It's all about linking multiple steps together. Brand design is more spatial. It's all at once across screens. Related
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
I'm curious how this is going to go down. Collective wisdom among academics who study this stuff (unsurprising if you think about it) is that consumer facing businesses are a hell of a lot more vulnerable to brand damage and boycotts. Related
14 September
Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.
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I bet against this timeline and say they will not. The winner has to buy a round of gelato.
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9 September
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
8 September
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
It’s amazing to see people discover the joy of making your own personal-scale software. Interestingly most of what at least I see on my timeline is art/entertainment, not productivity software. I have a growing suspicion that existing productivity software is quickly becoming a “middle man” (which means their days are numbered.) Someone says “but people use email, I need to do email” — what they mean is people communicate and that’s true, but it being email or as text on a screen is kind of irrelevant on a human level. The economy of software is moving so quickly right now that it’s hard to e… Related
6 September
Co-founder of AQR Capital Management; quantitative investor and writer.
Can you design a portfolio that is behind January through September but in the fourth quarter kicks the hell out of everyone? Quoting @shortsqueeznews BREAKING: Several Knicks players, such as Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, and Mikal Bridges have reportedly become Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management clients to reunite with former Villanova teammate Matt Kennedy as their financial advisor. The Villanova-to-New York Knicks pipeline runs deep. Related
4 September
Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.
Important reminder you can mute to cleanse your timeline... Just go to Related
3 September
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
New Article: Book Review: China’s Examination Hell https://t.co/qJGWKpTLEZ I found China’s Examination Hell fascinating. It offers a very different perspective on education, learning and competition. Here’s my review. China Related
Political scientist and Baptist pastor; writes Graphs about Religion, charting American religious life from survey data.
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.
Guess which one is Rust btw. 🤣 (The point is the language isn't a free lunch for performance. Rust could be just as small as any other here. It isn't a given. Fundamentals and system design trump everything else. Language wars are stupid as hell.) Quoting @mitchellh The Superlogical server is built to run anywhere and everywhere and serve a level of scale (terminals+clients) unmatched w/ prior solutions. So let's start talking about that, starting with memory usage and comparisons to other popular multiplexers. I want to start by talking high level: why does t… Related
2 September
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).
A lot of hype around OpenAI's Astra model here on my timeline today. Apparently, this goes back to a new article from The Information, which said Astra is a "recurrent depth or looped transformer". It's always interesting to read about new or different approaches (including rumors about what the closed labs may be up to), but let's debunk this a bit. About 2 months ago, I shared the architecture details of Nanbeige, for example, where "Nanbeige4.2-3B is pretrained from scratch on 28T tokens with a Looped Transformer that reuses the layer stack to increase capacity without adding parameters."… OpenAI Related
1 September
Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.
Web standards author and speaker; wrote the CSS: The Definitive Guide series and co-founded the An Event Apart conference.
Article starts out, literally kicks off the opening sentence with, “We’ve all used AI to help us write code” and brudda, let me stop you right the hell there. No, we all have not. Some of us are still resolutely hewing code out of text editors and actual human thinking, and it’s still usually better than whatever your steroidal autocomplete extruded for you. Related
31 August
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.
Curious why machine learning is not applied to the X timeline more? If somebody is replying once a minute for 8 hours they should be flagged. When I look at reply bot replies its super obvious Quoting @simonw Question for people who run autoreply bots here: are you not worried about the negative impact they have on your professional reputation? Anyone checking your profile here - a potential future employer for example - will instantly be able to tell you automated replies with a bot Related
30 August
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
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… open source Related
27 August
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
25 August
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and Supercommunicators. Writes for The New Yorker.
There's no science behind the idea that it takes 21 days to build a habit. Some habits lock in within a single day. Others take months, no matter how disciplined you are. Here's what actually decides the timeline: Related
14 August
Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites.
Of all the super hyped things that eventually flopped, I’m most bummed about the Segway. Those things are fun as hell Related
1 August
Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.
31 July
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.
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That's a hell of a lot slower than knowing it in cognitive L1 cache. And you can have way more round trips in your brain than you can, you know, muttering through, you know, super whisper or typing it out or whatever.
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16 July
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
11 July
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.
Norway 1 - 2 Jude Bellingham. @JonasGahrStore, your boys took one hell of beating 🏴 Related
2 July
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
x.com Everybody hates AI mandates -- unsurprisingly, since most of them are terrible and poorly resourced. But they don't have to be terrible. A mandate plus enablement is the most honest and effective way to fund a lot of change on a tight timeline. charitydotwtf.substack.com
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Newsletter In defense of AI mandates When you need to execute a coordinated change on a tight timeline, a mandate is the best and most honest way to fund it.
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3 June
Engineer and teacher; wrote Kubernetes the Hard Way, was a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, and retired from full-time work in 2023.
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So I'm looking at this like guys the fundamentals of this isn't like everything is going to change because of MCP. What the hell? A whole conference guys? This is just API design.
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2 June
Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.
13 March
Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.
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Dylan Patel — The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI compute
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And so I think people are figuring out how to build these things and permitting like I I just like ultimately like permitting and red tape in middle of nowhere Texas or middle of nowhere Wyoming or middle of nowhere like New Mexico is probably a hell of a lot easier than sending stuff into space
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China
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I think they'll have working tools. I don't think that they'll be able to manufacture a bunch yet, right? You know, there's they're sort of having it work and then there's production hell, right?
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2 March
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
1 February
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
Hey @steipete - you must be going through heaven and hell right now. What a blessing and curse to upheave the whole world's attitude towards AI. I'm so impressed and happy that it's you who did it. Keep going. Related
13 January
Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
18 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.
22 September 2025
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
I guess the right thinks that this is a normal, appropriate amount of affection for a widow to express to the US President at her husband's funeral. Looks weird as hell to me. Related
26 August 2025
Historian of invention; writes Age of Invention on where the Industrial Revolution actually came from.
14 May 2025
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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the tool is used when you are overwhelmed with too many options. You've said yes to too many things, and you need to raise the bar all the way up so that almost everything doesn't pass the bar. It's a tool for a certain situation so I rarely use it. I would not call it a approach to life that everyone should use all the time.
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22 December 2024
Astrophysicist at the University of Rochester; works on the search for life elsewhere and wrote The Little Book of Aliens and Light of the Stars.
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And what I've come to now is the most important question for physics is, what is life? What the hell is the difference between a rock and a cell, fundamentally? And what I really mean by this, this is where I'm going to go non-traditional, is that really the fundamental question that is agency.
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11 December 2024
Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.
2 April 2024
Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.
18 March 2024
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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And I’ve said for a long time that you think of a quadrant of slow timelines for the start of AGI, long timelines, and then a short takeoff or a fast takeoff. I think short timeline, slow takeoff is the safest quadrant and the one I’d most like us to be in. But I do want to make sure we get that slow takeoff.
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30 April 2023
Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.
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Mind candy fantasy / campus novel, in which Yale is literally a gateway to Hell.
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10 April 2023
Software engineer who worked on Chrome and Polymer at Google, and writes about the web, emoji and Elm at meowni.ca.
I think the thing that shocks/scares me the most isn’t that there’s white supremacists amongst my peers, it’s that they’ve become so comfortable with it that they’re ok suggesting lynching in a public forum, for the world to see. This is the worst fucking timeline. Quoting @polotek Holy shit. I used to work with this woman. I'll repeat that. I used to work in the same office with this white woman who is thinking "I wish we could go back to vigilante groups that could just go around hanging people." Related
31 December 2022
Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".
22 June 2022
Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.
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It's incredibly written, deeply complex, confusing as hell, and you'll probably throw it at the wall when it's done. But then you'll kinda go "okay... I'm glad I did that" and maybe start it again.
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3 June 2018
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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If you're not feeling “hell yeah!” then say no
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31 January 2017
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
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