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20 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.
This is SO interesting because the OS market share for developers seems to be the inverse, based on devs in my “bubble” (those at startups + Big Tech) #1 MacOS #2 Linux #3 Windows I ran a survey here + on LI with 4,000 responses each - it’s what I mean by “bubble” Quoting @dhh The age of agents belongs to Linux! Linux startups Related
19 September
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
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app developers don't have to start from square one and reconceptualize their apps for larger displays because a lot of them have already done that by supporting the iPad.
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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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18 September
Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.
There’s lots of hand-wringing about people being principled in not supporting candidates who will not stand by basic human rights for trans people, a point they wouldn’t concede just a few years ago. I have a simple solution: support killing dogs instead. Some people don’t like dogs. Be pragmatic. Related
17 September
American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
16 September
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since July 2026 and leader of the Labour Party. MP for Makerfield since a by-election in June 2026; Mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017 before that.
Britain should be a country that makes things. It's how we create good jobs, give more opportunities to young people, and build pride in our communities. That's why today’s announcement from McLaren matters. They’re backing Britain, keeping design, engineering and manufacturing here at home - with plans to build their engines in-house for the first time. Their £500m investment will drive growth far beyond their factory gates, creating a thousand jobs, supporting thousands more in the supply chain, and providing apprenticeships to young people. This is what reindustrialising Britain looks like. Related
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.
15 September
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
Excited to formally introduce Vercel Labs. https://t.co/zCNVryaiin is the home for the in-public research and experimentation arm of Vercel. 247 million downloads in, we wanted to, also in public, share what we're supporting, what we're researching, and what experiments didn't pan out. Kudos to @ctatedev and @cramforce for shaping this great initiative and iterating in public. Related
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
Products for devs are quite dead. SaaS for devs is dead. There are exceptions, though I think you have to extrapolate on variables that are not raw software. I have ideas and am implementing them. Mostly in private because building in public also can no longer be capitalized upon. Seemingly. Quoting @alex_holovach my WHOOP subscription expired so i had codex reverse engineer it and build my own app - telemetry goes to my prometheus server - grafana and the app visualize it - hermes monitors metrics and plans workouts next wanna build my own Zwift and Strava the era of personal software is here SaaS Related
14 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.
Introducing Vercel Labs Tools for devs in the AI era agent-browser, skills, json-render, deepsec, fx, just-bash, portless, vgpu and more We experiment in public: ship early, learn from feedback, and keep working on what people find useful We've been shipping under the Labs name for a while. Now, Labs is an official team at Vercel focused on exploring new capabilities and primitives that change what developers and agents can do. Here's what to expect: → Labs products: maintained, supported, built to be relied on → Active experiments: moves fast, expect rough edges and breaking changes → Past e… vercel.com
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Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Are the normies in your life using AI past being a glorified search engine? Do you have any friends/family that aren't devs/spreadsheet warriors that use agents? What for? Related
13 September
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
Here’s my pal Libby's most recent video on her cruise ship life asking for my take on what ‘retirement’ means. https://t.co/fkQGa2BAtc See less 📷 https://t.co/x9AvCQ4ecG I Saved Just Enough Money to Retire & Live on Cruise Ships (FIRE) Related
10 September
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
another implication of AI manifesting in real world engineering react native existed for a single reason which was to reduce the development and maintenance cost of multi-platform mobile apps. they allow you to write a single codebase (kind of) that can work on both ios and android, with a tech stack that many web devs are already familiar with but with AI being particularly good at mechanically repeating something that already exists, replicating one platform's implementation to another has become trivial in general LLMs can write a ton of code at very low cost, especially when there's a sou… LLMs JavaScript 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
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
A fixed, forward, insufficiently defended logistics hub is a single point of failure; its loss propagates faster than any combat loss of ships. Distance is a hidden tax on military operations—doubling to thousands of miles broke just-in-time resupply cadence. And the Navy had no institutional plan for prolonged loss of its primary regional base—resilience was assumed, not engineered: **CROSSPOST: RILEY CEDER & J.D. SIMKINS: Navy Not Returning to Damaged Bahrain Base ‘Anytime Soon,’ Top... 1/ Related
6 September
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
We’re collectively realizing that experts, analog or digital, make strange decisions from time to time. Non-determinism, we learn, is both awesome and dreadful. It’s more powerful, but like people, these tools need active management (and resist it just like our best devs). Quoting @heyJordanParker Astra is such a weird model. 1. It makes better architectural decisions than Fable 2. It is more diligent & disciplined than Fable 3. It communicates better than Fable 4. Seems to compact better than every other model I've tested But also… 1. Is slow to answer 2. Is extremely slow & inefficient whe… Related
2 September
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.
They're nearly there! Support indie game devs and especially @DoubleFine and @TimOfLegend in their Kickstarter. kickstarter.com
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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.
Still find it so wild that SO MANY European banks schedule 1-2x per month 4-8 hour maintenance windows between 10pm-6am local time. INSTEAD of biting the bullet and learning how to do zero downtime migrations & infra upgrades Devs pull all-nighters instead + learn nothing about modern engineering Europe Related
1 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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29 August
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 is now available: https://t.co/BeAEaG6Srq This being a release candidate, by definition this might be what ships as 14.5-RELEASE next week. If there are any critical issues which should block the release, you have approximately 96 hours to find and report them. Related
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.
I love how many people are attaching to the "half-bounch" startup time metric. I used to do paid macOS dev ~20 years ago and most macOS devs I knew then used the bounce metric! Back then multiple bounces was the norm due to HDDs. One bounce really wasn't possible until SSDs. We've lost this obsession and its time to bring it back. startups Related
26 August
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
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So the good news is in order to write software that's much better than a lot of the software you use today, you don't have to know that much.
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25 August
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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With thousands of developed in a mono repo, it just does happen that one directory is missing one of the two files and this means that a subset of devs work with lobotomy. We fix this with automation but it’s a stupid complexity tax that shouldn’t have to be paid.
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22 August
Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.
Here is the actual threat to Western democracy and freedom. AIPAC is battling the DSA and extreme left but portrayed as anti American. Meanwhile Qatar, muslim brotherhood, CAIR are supporting the most America hating candidates. Hiding in plain sight as always. Quoting @paulsperry_ BREAKING: The Shariah-ruling arm of the US Muslim Brotherhood has issued a fatwah unlocking an estimated $140 million a year in tithing (zakat) from American Muslims to finance the campaigns of Muslim leaders for public office including the House & Senate America Related
19 August
Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.
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But they're the person that's on the hook for understanding, for gating, for making sure that someone is deciding what ships, what's blocked, what do we defer. And so, I think that that is something that engineers are going to continue to be valuable for.
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17 August
Emeritus professor of war studies at King's College London; wrote Strategy: A History and Command, and writes about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as they happen.
14 August
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
This is such a cool list, published by Brex, based on startups' newsletter spending patterns. The Pragmatic Engineer one of the most frequently expensed newsletters, and it was, indeed, massive growth within startups over the last year: Thank you to everyone reading and supporting! startups Related
10 August
Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.
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They are the most important people in our society. We should be talking to them. We should be uplifting them. We should be supporting them. We should be providing resources to them.
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8 August
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
22 July
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.
When evaling models, we anchor on the median task. But this is like how devs estimate the median task accurately but underestimate the mean which tends to be ~2x estimated (thus "double your estimates"). This applies to models too—we optimize for time/cost on median tasks. But it's the tail tasks that determine a project's completion, and reliable models (like Fable and Opus) are the diff between success and failure. Work with models as collaborators, not tools. Go beyond pair-programming, where given a narrow spec, the tool just executes in minutes. Instead, explain your intent and what succ… Quoting @Steve_Yegge Fable is careful. None of the other models are careful. GPT-5.6 Sol, Opus, Kimi, Grok. You can compare them all day long on capabilities, and it doesn't matter, because in order to use a model for real production work, it must first and foremost be careful. That's the only dimension that matters to… Related
19 July
Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix, previously VP of Science at Lyft and an economist at Analysis Group.
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I get really nervous about having different design languages or different types of user interactions and shipping Frankensteins, basically. So, designers need to then be the people we're hiring again for design systems thinking.
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16 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.
I’ve visited Ukraine four times as Prime Minister, and I’ve seen first-hand the devastation caused by Russia’s invasion. The UK’s support for Ukraine will never waver. That’s why we’re funding fighter jets for Ukraine, strengthening their ability to defend themselves while supporting thousands of skilled jobs in the UK. So good to see you again my friend, @ZelenskyyUa. Russia Related
15 July
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.
What an incredible honor, and DOOM is the only video game on the list! Congrats to DOOM devs, players, modders, and the entire games community. This one is for all of us. Thanks @GenePark @washingtonpost! Related
14 July
Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
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His narrative of the development of decision-making research over the past half-century is rich with personal anecdotes, gentle humor, continuous learning, and profound humility about how prone we all are to misjudge and misunderstand risks.
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29 June
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
26 June
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
23 June
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
Mastodon Took a photo of Baker’s Island on the Whaler, used Ships Whistle inspired from lettering on the Martha’a Vineyard ferry along with Paint Factory inspired by lettering on a building in Gloucester Harbor (where WB was filmed). Synergy! Also? #widowsbay Related
Bluesky Took a photo of Baker’s Island on the Whaler, used Ships Whistle inspired from lettering on the Martha’a Vineyard ferry along with Paint Factory inspired by lettering on a building in Gloucester Harbor (where WB was filmed). Synergy! Also? #widowsbay Related
7 June
Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone at Apple, founder of Nest, and author of Build.
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you should really make the press release before you you before you more or less start the project.
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5 June
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
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My Dad and I tested all the PiKVM models, and I like everything but the price. I 100% recommend them, especially since you're directly supporting the folks who wrote the software.
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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.
28 April
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
Kennedy supporting Trump's maths: a great example for teaching school students about percentage change. youtube.com
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26 April
Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, which he started in 2011 while studying product design at Stanford.
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I think technology leaders think that folks will just blindly adopt uh new technology as it comes out and I think we're going to enter a period of time where there's going to be a huge amount of societal pushback on a lot of the changes that are coming uh with AI.
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7 April
London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.
Just checked in at #GitHub Social Club #London! 😎 🎟️ Lanyard secured, vibes already immaculate! ✨ Devs, builders & creators all in one spot… 📍 This is gonna be GOOD! 🚀 Oh and we’ve got @viola_idncod here! 💪🏻🤩 Here’s a thread! 🧵 #DevCommunity #LondonTech #BuildInPublic Related
29 March
Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
23 March
Cryptographer; teaches cryptography at Johns Hopkins and writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering.
I’ve been working on a little simulator for MeshCore, written entirely using Claude Code. I was hoping some MeshCore devs might take a look and let me know if there are features they could use. https://github.com/matthewdgreen/meshcore_sim #meshcore Anthropic Related
22 March
Researcher on developer productivity; co-wrote Accelerate and the DORA research, and created the SPACE framework.
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I I will say I tend to start with adoption. I am not a fan of an adoption metric. I don't like it, but also devs are like a gloriously cranky bunch.
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19 March
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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it turns out you can do this if you think really hard about okay, how do I have agents prove to me that the stuff they've written works?
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5 February
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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The command palette that ships for macOS in Ghostty today is only very lightly modified from what Gemini produced for me in seconds.
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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.
1 January
Founder and CEO of SaaStr, the B2B software community and events business, and a SaaS investor who previously co-founded EchoSign and sold it to Adobe.
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This is inverted. The FDE's number one job is to make the customer a success.
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2 December 2025
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.
In case you're unfamiliar, the @prisonmathproj is a nonprofit supporting prisoners learning math. There is a great podcast on Numberphile with its founder, Christopher Havens, describing the background: https://t.co/GrfoD9Cybb It's an organization I'm donating to today, and if you like what they're doing, consider joining. Quoting @prisonmathproj This Giving Tuesday, consider the gift of second chances. What if you could actually gift someone a second chance? With your help, we can #UnlockPotential and change the trajectory of someone's life. A simple $20 donation buys the first geometry set many of our students have ever had. Today, a gene… Related
7 September 2025
Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.
A lot of the time the devs want to do the same thing again too. They are afraid to start from zero and want to extend the previous success. Or they are the kind of people who make a certain game and they can't do anything else. Narrow genius. Quoting @SandyofCthulhu Why game sequels sometimes get worse. The sequence: 1) the devs make a hit game. 2) publishers want the devs to shab out more the same. 3) we want to do something new. SO, either the devs are forced to do a game they don't want, or the game license is taken away (Banjo Kazooie & Spyro the Dragon) a… Related
1 September 2025
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
21 August 2025
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
We're also announcing today that "Ratcheteer", a fan favorite from Playdate Season 1, is coming soon to your computer as "Ratcheteer DX", complete with COLOR GRAPHICS. Thank you for supporting our weird little games. I hope you have a good day. store.steampowered.com
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13 August 2025
Economist specialising in China's economy, international macroeconomics and global trade, and author of The New China Playbook.
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Industrial policy was heavily criticized and again, if I talk to my Harvard professors, they’ll be very, very, very skeptical about the role of the state, especially in such a major way. But if you look at the Chinese experience, the evidence for success is all there. The cities that have pushed the most on supporting that particular sector ultimately did the best in terms of production, but also in terms of innovation, measured by patents. It’s all in the data.
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31 July 2025
Anthropologist; wrote Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World and The Secret History of the Mongol Queens.
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But I think Japan had defeated the Mongols. I would say. Japanese deserve credit for that victory. And then the sinking of the ships was more caused by the typhoon.
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7 July 2025
Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite.
rqlite, the lightweight distributed database build on SQLite, now supporting automatic backup-and-restore to Google Cloud Storage. Improved Disaster Recovery options. philipotoole.com
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17 April 2025
Co-founder of Ximian and Xamarin; CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021; now an independent investor and funder of open technical projects, including the Vesuvius Challenge to read the Herculaneum Papyri.
Anyone have a mexico government connection? A project I’m supporting to LIDAR the jungle there just got rejected by some bureaucrat. Please DM if you can help. Thanks! government Related
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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9 April 2025
Co-founder of Ximian and Xamarin; CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021; now an independent investor and funder of open technical projects, including the Vesuvius Challenge to read the Herculaneum Papyri.
Let's build ships in California! Quoting @jansramek 1/ @CAForever is answering the call to propel American shipbuilding for the next century. With today’s @POTUS Executive Order and the bipartisan SHIPS Act, we’re offering 3 miles of our waterfront to build the Solano Shipyard, the largest shipbuilding complex in America. 🧵 Related
4 March 2025
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
15 January 2025
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
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