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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  AI is at its best when it reuses great existing components rather than regenerating everything from first principles.

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  AI is still at its best when it can reuse great components than regenerating every time from first principles.

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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.

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  C is the only programming language where this kind of memory-safety vulnerability regularly happens.

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  This is due to the affected components being written in C, the only programming language where these vulnerabilities regularly happen.

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

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  Performance test results are highly dependent on the specific machine, library versions, and other components used, making them hard to compare over time.

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  Performance tests are highly specific and dependent on the exact machine it runs on, the exact third party libraries and their versions that are used, the other components involved in the tests, such as the servers, and more.

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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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  Caldigit TS4

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  I got the CalDigit TS4 as soon as it was released, in 2022. It was perhaps a little bit better but overall I was disappointed to still sometimes encounter a machine that would not wake up.

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Founder and editor of ToolGuyd, a tool review site covering power tools, hand tools, workshop equipment and EDC gear. He writes under his first name on the site.

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  Synergy Alpha Elite dumbbell rack

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  Summary: Shipping damage. Residue on some of the components. Loud pings and pops from the assembled weight rack. A design that looked great and saved space but was painfully unusable. Restocking fee. Non-refunded shipping fees. Ghosted me about the refund.

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Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

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  Higher-level abstractions do not abolish low-level knowledge; they concentrate it in the smaller group of people who build the abstractions.

  the cloud

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  But, somebody still has to build those lower-level abstractions and from lower-level components. Somebody's got to implement the cloud services.

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Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

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  Radix UI

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  Radix UI - An accessibility-focused set of easy-to-use and easy-to-style components.

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  Tariffs on imported components and machinery hurt the American manufacturers they are supposed to help.

  America

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  These end manufacturers (new and old) are vulnerable to tariffs on their inputs and they are the buyers that the "speed strategy" is relevant for.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Manufacturing and mining in space will never be lucrative enough to pay for human settlement of space.

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  Furthermore, I believe it’s very unlikely that space-based manufacturing or mining could be lucrative enough to fund the venture.

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  Today, exploding demand for power-intensive AI applications provides enough of an upside to justify producing components in space, providing the economic engine necessary to justify and fund the trillions of dollars necessary to build and sustain space factories.

Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.

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  Titanium Noir

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  Curious about his earlier work, I was not disappointed.

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Vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Group, the advertising agency; author of Alchemy (2019) and the Wiki Man columnist at The Spectator.

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  Cutting a job defined by its narrowest function destroys the tacit value that job was quietly creating.

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  the dorman was doing multiple things, many of which were human and kind of tacit. Security would be one. You know, there are no vagrants to sleep in the doorway, hailing taxis, dealing with luggage, recognizing regular guests, providing status to the hotel. There are loads and loads of value creation components to that dorman which aren't captured in the open the door definition.

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

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  Small modular reactors have so far underdelivered, remaining as slow to permit as full-scale reactors and more expensive.

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  The inconvenient facts are that SMRs has so far disappointed, and look like being as slow to get through the permitting process as GW-scale reactors, and even more expensive.

  Why Tony Blair needs to reset his climate resetliebreich.com

Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.

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  The malaise in the game industry needs no complicated theory: the games that failed recently simply were not fun enough to compete with everything else in people's lives.

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  And when you look at a lot of the games that failed recently, they just didn't deliver fun or they didn't deliver fun in a manner that was nearly competitive with the other sources of fun just in people's lives. And so at a basic level, we don't need a terribly complicated theory to explain a lot of the malaise in the game industry.

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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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  Tariffs on imported components and machinery hurt the American manufacturers they are supposed to help.

  America

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  They applied the same tax to the components that you need to make things in America that they did to finished goods that were made outside of America.

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Founder and chief executive of Superhuman, the email client; previously founder of Rapportive, which he sold to LinkedIn; a professional game designer before that.

From one piece Superhuman's secret to success | Rahul Vohra (CEO and founder) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The share of users who would be very disappointed to lose your product predicts success far better than net promoter score, and forty percent is the line.

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  What he found is that the companies that struggled to grow almost always had less than 40% very disappointed. Whereas the companies that grew the fastest almost always had more than 40% very disappointed. And this question, this metric is way more predictive of success than something for example like net promoter score.

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  Ignore both the users who love your product and the ones who are indifferent to it; the only feedback that raises product-market fit comes from the somewhat disappointed.

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  And the trick here is not to act too much on the feedback that the very disappointed people are giving you because they already love your product. Also, not to act at all really on the feedback that the not disappointed people are giving you because they're so far from loving your product that they are essentially a lost cause. but to focus on the segment of the somewhat disappointed people.

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Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."

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  As AI products converge on the same underlying models, product design becomes the real differentiator, not the model itself.

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  Because everyone uses the same models nowadays, the AI components of AI products are similar, and the differentiation is product.

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Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."

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  Most real-world AI agent systems are actually multi-agent systems made of multiple components.

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  Because most agentic workflows are sufficiently complex to involve multiple components, most agents are multi-agent.

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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.

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  Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries

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  An eye-opening view on considerations going into building a widely used public API or reusable library. While the book focuses on the .NET framework, many of the conventions apply to maintainable and reusable components, in general. This book had an outsized impact on me as I read it when I was a mid-level .NET developer.

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Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.

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  Three-Inch Teeth

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  For what it is worth, this is the only one of his 25 odd novels Joe Pickett novels that left me disappointed in the ending. See what you think.

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Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.

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  Hit Man

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  Hit Man (US) 3.5 Highly entertaining due to its killer plot. So why not a higher rating? I was disappointed that Linklater did so little with the plot—much of the execution (not all) is fairly bland. Where’s the style? As a comedy, it’s only OK. As film noir, it’s nowhere near as intense as Body Heat. It’s sort of Soderbergh-lite. And yet more people will like this one than any other film on my list, because of the great plot.

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Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.

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  TailwindCSS

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  Side note for CSS, I'm cool to use what ever tech available out there that makes my task done quickly & well, I have personally used Bootstrap 3 & 4, Bulma, Lostgrid, Materliaze, Skeleton, Tailwindcss, Styled-components, emotion, CSS modules, Tachyons & made my own micro CSS framework called Unnamed that has over 200 stars on GitHub. Still I prefer using Tailwindcss.

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Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.

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  The same law that made chips cheaper made the factories that produce them enormously more expensive.

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  These enormous costs are ultimately due to the same factor that has steadily driven down the cost of semiconductors: Moore’s Law, the observation that the number of components on an integrated circuit tends to double every two years.

  How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fabconstruction-physics.com

Designer, architect and scientist, who led the Mediated Matter group at MIT and founded OXMAN, a company that builds products in collaboration with living organisms.

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  Living systems can be laid out on two axes, material sophistication and communication, and an organism that excels on one is usually poor on the other.

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  So if you think about entire all of nature, let's say all of living systems as a matrix that runs across two axes one is material sophistication, which is terribly relevant for designers, and the other is communication. The termites ace on communication, but their material sophistication is crap.

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Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.

From one piece RedwoodJS’ Next Epoch: All In on React Server Components 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  React Server Components are still an immature, early-stage technology.

  JavaScript

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  When it comes to React Server Components, it's still the first inning.

  tom.preston-werner.com

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  React Server Components represent the future direction of the React framework.

  JavaScript

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  RSC is the future of React. The React team has made this very clear and we are lucky to be in touch with their amazing team members to help us along this path.

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Research scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before that.

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  Modular AI development could shift model development away from a few dominant institutions and toward the wider community.

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  But modularity may also facilitate a shift away from a concentration of model development in a few institutions and to distributing the development of modular components across the community.

  Modular Deep Learningruder.io

Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.

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  Vanmoof X3

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  The Vanmoof is much smarter — the brain and software within it are refined, the app good, the acceleration curves smooth — but the bike is all custom components, and they aren't the highest quality at that.

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Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.

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  Cathedral of the Wild

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  I picked up this book after hearing Varty's recent appearance on Tim Ferriss's podcast and I wasn't disappointed.

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American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.

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  Enlightenment Now

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  Optimism porn. I’m a bona fide Pinker fanboy, but was disappointed with this, for a few reasons.

  markmanson.net

Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  Tools of Titans

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  I was disappointed. I love Tim’s work, but this didn’t deliver in the way his past books have. There’s zero thematic organization, so you can’t reference certain topics you want to learn more about except in a few cases. While this has some interesting pieces, I doubt I’ll refer back to it like I have with Workweek, Body, and Chef.

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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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  Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo

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  I don't actually remember this one in much detail. However, as I mentioned above, Mission Control was the beating heart of Apollo and one of the most fascinating and critical components of the program, so I recommend it anyways.

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Sociologist and founder of Bismarck Analysis; writes on live players, institutional decay and why societies lose knowledge.

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  Institutions die at succession, and it is two problems rather than one: handing over power, and handing over the skill to steer.

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  The succession problem has two components: power succession (handing off the reins of the institution, keeping it piloted) and skill succession (transferring the skill needed to pilot the institution well, keeping it a live player).

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