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21 September
Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.
19 September
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
You can now easily use Jev in @kodykoala: https://t.co/9wowF8KzV9 You can use this when you need typed decisions fast: - An inbox floods in and you need to know which messages are actionable, which can wait, and which are noise. - A support thread arrives and you want the right team, an urgency score, and whether to escalate in one pass. - You're checking a refund against order and policy text and need a clear yes/no with confidence. - Chat or tickets mix bugs, feature asks, and banter; you want a label and whether there’s enough detail to file an issue. - Alerts keep firing and you need “rea… Related
18 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.
1. Work for months on a major update of iOS & macOS app 2. Test, test, test 3. Submit to App Review a week before launch 4. Schedule a price increase 5. Get an in-app event approved 6. Have iOS app approved on the same day 7. Have macOS app go into review on the same day 8. Wait a day for macOS 9. Wait another day 10. Wait another day 11. Wait another day 12. Panic 13. Investigate how to unschedule price increase and abort in-app event Mac App Review is actively harmful to the app ecosystem. Related
Former options market maker who writes Moontower, a newsletter on trading, volatility, decision-making and how to think about risk outside markets too.
I can't wait to show this to my Vietnamese MIL who thinks dogs are all part of a species wide sleeper cell biding time with their cuddly mans best friend act before the uprising. She has no disbeliefs to suspend Quoting @davidrbelldave On I-15 right now🤣😲 Related
Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.
Me: "How are you?" 7yo: "I'm fine. Wait., no dad jokes. My name isn't fine." Me: "Nice to meet you, N't Fine! I'm dad!" Related
17 September
Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.
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Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
Very impressed by the TypeSafe/Jev onboarding. They knew they needed to overcome the question of "wait, so it's not an LLM?" and then threw everything at it. Really good. LLMs Related
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
If America had open borders from the get go, we would have mastered the automobile in 1803, invented airplanes in 1804, harnessed the atom in 1805, and landed on the moon in 1806. Instead we deprived ourselves of the world's brilliance and had to wait more than a century. Quoting @loganclarkhall I think about this post every day. America Related
16 September
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
the main thing i was excited about launching this week will be next week instead, but imo worth the wait! Quoting @sama big 🚢 this week and then for devday 🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢 Related
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
Remember when locking your keys in your car was a thing? Like, a real problem. You’d have to call someone, wait around, and pay a bunch of money to get back into your own car. Then one day, technology just… solved it. No fanfare. No celebration. We all just stopped locking our keys in our cars. (Yes, assuming you have a reasonably modern car with a key fob. Don’t @ me with your 2003 Corolla.) Related
Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
a positive but modest correlation between patience and risk tolerance. those more willing to wait for larger future rewards are also somewhat more willing to accept risk. r = 0.2 low time preference = more risk tolerance Related
15 September
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
Watched a bit of @poteto + team on the Grok Bot stream today. Surprised by how normal the work is, but faster. So many micro judgements and steps that weren't automated. You could pause at many moments and be like "wait why that?" and it would lead to an interesting discussion. Related
Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.
it is crazy the extent to which procrastination is purely an anxious behavior. the less anxious I am over time, the less I procrastinate on literally everything. It doesn’t even occur to me to wait (“why deal with it later when I could deal with it now”) Related
Art critic, broadcaster and author; wrote on art for The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph and presents BBC art documentaries. Author of Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane.
I'm excited to be appearing at Gloucester History Festival this Autumn - you can catch me on the 20th Sept at 4pm, at Blackfriars Priory. https://t.co/9kwJ2iJTr8 Come along and say hello—I can't wait to see you there! @gloshistfest #GlosHistFest26 Related
14 September
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.
New week new demo! Today I want to showcase the CLI to control the @superlogical multiplexer. The CLI is an extremely powerful tool for automation and hooking into other tools like editors, agentic coding tools, and more. And, it's super fun! Everything you can do in the GUI, you can do via the CLI. Actually, you can do more in the CLI. You can create sessions, run commands, make splits, move things around, change focus, simulate any input device (key/mouse/etc.), wait on scripts, and more. There are a couple unique parts of Rex I'm showing off here too: our streaming event system that any cl… Related
Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.
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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
The world deserves confidence that American companies developing increasingly capable AI will act responsibly, especially as the trajectory of progress has steepened. Every frontier lab must deliver on this, and there is no reason any of us should come to work if we cannot. We welcome a federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements for frontier AI. But we do not believe we need to wait for an anti-trust exemption or legislation to begin the work of providing this confidence. Consistent rules to manage frontier risk so that we can maximize the benefits are a good idea (and we are… America Related
11 September
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've never had a case on any iPhone, I've never cracked a screen or broken the phone. People used to say "oh wait until you have kids." Well, I have a couple now, and one is 3. No problems, clearly a skill issue. No cases for me, using the device as it was intended by design. Related
I can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea. I have had the privilege of knowing and sometimes even working with some of the most successful people (by various metrics). The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency. In practice this means: they dont wait for things to happen to them they go out and make things happen for them. They don’t wait for someone else to do something, for someone to teach them, for someone to give them the path, etc. They just go out and find a way to do it.… Related
9 September
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
A quick overview of atomics in C If you write in C, by default, you use a single thread. Extra cores do not help until you create more threads. However, if you include the header , you can pass a function to thrd_create, and wait for it with thrd_join.…
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3 September
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.
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the way you make a new Google is not by attacking them head on. You have to wait for things to change so much that their model is is obsolete and that's when you can do it. And that's what Open AI is.
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2 September
Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.
My favorite CarPlay feature is when it's reading a text message to me and I go to tap the "Done" button and it suddenly turns into a "Call” button underneath my finger and I have to wait for all of the animations to finish before I can actually end the call and then I wonder (a) did the person notice that I called them for a few seconds and (b) do I need to explain that now and (c) are they going to call me back now and (d) HOW DID THIS INTERFACE EVER SHIP oh my god Related
1 September
Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
26 August
Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.
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If every uh software engineer knew to watch out for false serial dependency chains, things where they were creating series of dependent operations that could not be optimized away or other sorts of architectural problems like that that cannot be easily fixed, then the world would look more like just wait and optimize the hotspot, right?
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25 August
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.
No child should be raised in a hostel room. And no family should wait ten years for a front door of their own. Today we’re announcing funding for the biggest council housebuilding comeback in decades. Nearly £10 billion will go to councils and housing associations to build genuinely affordable homes, most of them for social rent. This funding will directly help families trapped in temporary accommodation or stuck on housing waiting lists into safe, secure homes. Related
19 August
Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.
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the models are going to in some cases, I think, provide a homogeneous take on what writing looks like. And you start to feel like, wait, what was my writing style, you know?
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18 August
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
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I’d give the edge to Taishoken, since it takes reservations and doesn’t require you to wait an hour on the street in the middle of SF’s worst neighborhood like Mensho does.
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11 August
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
Never would’ve had any success in business without the things I’ve learned from Jason over the past 10 years, cannot wait to read this. Quoting @asmartbear After more than a year of labor, my book 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘴 has launched! It's all my best ideas -- and best writing -- on how to grow your company with your existing budget and team. And yes, I read the audiobook myself. :-) 𝗕𝘂𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁: You can buy cheaper bundles directl… Related
7 August
Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.
5 August
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
Wait until you see what you can do when using the same CSS file to style different HTML files 🧠 Quoting @jmddotfm @sheherenow_ You're telling me its the same markup structure, with totally different designs???? CSS Related
21 July
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
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"How to Survive Boiling Water" is a quintessential effort post. Cook accidentally drinks some probiotic tea, and then she's like, wait, how could "probiotic tea" possibly be a thing?
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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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Following along as he picks data fallacies apart is a lot of fun, and I can't wait to read the whole book.
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7 July
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
Go read this post from Mat Duggan right now -- "@ClickhouseDB is Winning the Observability Wars". Go! I'll wait. https://t.co/LOsYeGNUJH "Every other observability backend I've worked with mutates as it grows... ClickHouse at 10 TB a day looks like ClickHouse at 1 TB a day with more shards. That's it. That's the pitch. That's the whole reason I'm writing this." Duggan's piece is a riot from start to finish. He talks you through all the pain of scaling Elastic, LGTM, and Datadog, and shows why a little tiny bit of upfront effort buys you SO MUCH EASE down the road, as you scale indefinitely. W… Related
1 July
Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.
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You look under the underneath though at the code and it was just a horrible unmaintainable mess. But the fact that people could program the programs that they wanted was a a significant step forward as opposed to I'm going to write a thousandpage requirements document and then wait 8 years and not get what I want which was the alternative that we were offering at the at the time.
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16 June
Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.
9 June
Historian of maritime strategy at the US Naval War College; wrote The Wars for Asia and works on why continental and maritime powers fight differently.
Russia
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You set them up to fail, you destabilize the rising, you ingest the failing, and you set up buffer zones in between, and you await the opportune moment to pounce and absorb. This is Vladimir Putin's game.
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2 June
Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.
I got to spend all day today with Jensen in Taiwan: talking with thousands of engineers and eating street food at a night market. Jensen is received as a rockstar in Taiwan, like it's Beatles in the 60's. It's mind-blowing and fun to watch. But most importantly, through all the interactions and all my conversations with him, he remained the same humble, kind, thoughtful, funny guy he always was, even as a kid who went to these same night markets many years ago. Btw, we tried a crazy amount of different street food. It's legit some of the most delicious food I've ever had. I can't wait to shar… Related
28 May
Prime Minister of Canada since March 2025; formerly governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.
America
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Canada recognised these developments earlier than most, and our response reflects the core lesson we have taken from these tectonic shifts: We have to take care of ourselves and be true to ourselves.
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24 April
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
20 April
Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
Follow up on Bitcoin and Quantum: A proposed roadmap. https://t.co/QoOrvnxeOe tl;dr: we should work towards activating a PQ-safe output type with PQ signatures now. everything else (including escape hatches, zk proofs, commit/reveal, to freeze or not) can, and should, wait. Related
28 March
Founder of Pinboard; writes Idle Words — talks and essays on the web, aviation, politics and travel.
Artemis II Is Not Safe to Fly “Our test facilities can’t reach the combination of heat flux, pressure, shear stresses, etc., that an actual reentering spacecraft does. We’re always having to wait for the flight test to get the final certification th…
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18 February
Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.
12 February
Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
Wait, the bathrooms at a festival cost how much??? We peeled back the curtain for a behind the scenes look at the biggest event in wealth management. Related
21 January
Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.
Man. What a week! Started on a high on the weekend with doing good progress on a secret project and on Monday at work as well. Tuesday, still good progress but also had a quick shocker as a friend didn't answer their phone for 3 hours and we thought something happened to them. And today started with getting the notice that a friend from the local gym died after their cancer returned. 😭 And the whole world politics definitely starts to pull me down more and more. Can't wait for Saturday! Related
17 October 2025
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
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And it just so turns out that um this was extremely early, way too early. so early that we shouldn't have been working on that, you know, uh because um if you're just stumbling your way around and keyboard mashing and mouse clicking and trying to get rewards in these environments, um your reward is too sparse and you just won't learn and you're going to burn a forest uh computing and you're never actually going to get something off the ground.
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18 September 2025
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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I I think most companies play too much with pricing all the time. It's like it just like causes all these problems with data and like it makes it hard to predict and then suddenly you you do you AB test discounts and then you cheapen the product because now people are just going to wait for the next discount
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10 August 2025
Programmer and author of Modern C++ Design and The D Programming Language; a lead contributor to the D language.
Can’t wait to destroy!!! Quoting @CppCon CppCon 2025 SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT: How to Tame Packs, std::tuple, and the Wily std::integer_sequence by Andrei Alexandrescu https://t.co/gX2sj3AtVj Register now: https://t.co/A9Xq2fMpll #cpp #cplusplus #coding #programming Related
21 May 2025
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
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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As much as possible, try to not predict what the future may hold, but just wait as long as possible for that future to become the present and show you what it actually needs.
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8 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.
Can't wait for when I can vibe code a production recommender system. Until then, here's some system designs: • Retrieval vs. Ranking: eugeneyan.com/writing/syst... • Real-time retrieval: eugeneyan.com/writing/real... • Personalization: eugeneyan.com
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2 April 2025
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.
WOW. I finally got around to transferring my biggest 401k out of @AscensusInc , and should have done it long ago! Backstory: @Vanguard_Group got out of the business of offering employer 401ks last year, unfortunately. But I trusted them enough to leave my account invested with the new company they moved us all to. Bad idea. Not only does Ascensus have high recurring fees, the web interface is also incredibly clunky, customer service phone line had a 19-minute wait, and after all that they tell me they *DON'T SUPPORT ELECTRONIC TRANSFERS OF YOUR MONEY!!!* So in order to move my account, they a… Related
17 March 2025
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
Does unsafe undermine Rust's guarantees? When people first hear about unsafe in Rust, they often have questions. A very normal thing to ask is, “wait a minute, doesn’t this defeat the purpose?” And while it’s a perfectly reasonable question, the answer is both…
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12 March 2025
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
3 February 2025
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
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And these reasoning behaviors emerge naturally. So these things like, "Wait, let me see. Wait, let me check this. Oh, that might be a mistake." And they emerge from only having questions and answers.
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1 October 2024
Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.
Personal news: I'm joining @AnthropicAI! 😄 Anthropic's approach to AI development resonates significantly with my own beliefs; looking forward to contributing to Anthropic's mission of developing powerful AI systems responsibly. Can't wait to work with their talented team, including a number of great ex-colleagues from OpenAI and Google, and tackle the challenges ahead! Anthropic OpenAI Related
22 March 2024
Investigative journalist; wrote Area 51, The Pentagon's Brain and Nuclear War: A Scenario, reconstructing what secret programmes actually did from interviews and declassified records.
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Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy | Lex Fridman Podcast #420
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Russia
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But that was their official position, and that changed just two years ago when Putin gave a speech and he said that their position had changed, that they will no longer wait to absorb an attack.
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America
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Because we have that policy, Launch on Warning, which is exactly like it says. It means the United States will not wait to absorb a nuclear attack. It will launch nuclear weapons in response before the bomb actually hits.
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3 November 2022
Language mentor and polyglot; teaches people to design their own learning method rather than follow a course.
24 January 2021
Engineering leader and writer; wrote The Manager's Path and Platform Engineering, and blogs at Elided Branches.
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