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19 September
Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.
“Psychiatric treatment is often enough a frustrating affair, for the patient, for the clinician, for the caregivers, basically for everyone involved…” On imperfect tools psychiatrymargins.com
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18 September
Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
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.
On this busy day, I'm also jumping through a few hoops to fix a deadname for a Kickstarter backer. Reminder to future self: nothing about a person is immutable nor something that I get to decide. Related
British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.
3 September
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
We are working towards getting Astra in everyone's hands as quickly as we can; I know it is frustrating and I appreciate the patience. It should be quick. 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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Technology writer and podcaster; former Macworld editor-in-chief, writes Six Colors and hosts podcasts on Relay FM and The Incomparable.
It’s not just a Kickstarter project anymore, it’s a real podcast. The first new Designed in California episode is out today (along with six previously previewed episodes), and members received the ENTIRE seven-episode series about Apple’s ‘90s OS crisis. @imyke and I hope you listen! relay.fm
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1 September
British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.
25 August
Design engineer; formerly at Linear and Vercel; author of Sonner and Vaul; teaches animations.dev.
Linear Diffs has been a joy to use, but one detail I like about the merge queue specifically is that the little icon on the left animates subtly. It made me smile the first time I saw it. Nice work, @yangit. Quoting @linear New: Merge queue status in diffs See where a PR is in the queue and when it’s expected to merge. Related
14 August
Graphic designer and type designer, who created the original Macintosh icons and typefaces at Apple from 1982 and has since designed interface graphics for NeXT, Microsoft, Facebook and Pinterest.
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Susan Kare: Designing Icons & Graphics For the Original Mac
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So, in general, I think it's not good in icons to show pictures of a particular product design because like the 3 and 1/2 in floppy for save. Um even though some there's still a few of those kicking around, but obviously it it didn't age well. Better to use a metaphor.
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But um I think the whole point of that project and the graphics was it isn't really just about a grid of pixels. It's the metaphor and the idea and the meaning behind everything.
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But again, too much detail. It would have had a much longer lifespan if I had just stopped and made it simpler.
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So, I my bias in icons is the a salient detail or two, but don't lard it with a lot of extra stuff.
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and I like the idea that since it was a process it looked kind of active and um and then it could be paired with a document that resembled it so our system was kind of a verb and a noun
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13 August
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.
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This is a disappointing and frustrating book - not least because it so nearly hits the mark. The subtitle is "How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing" - but it never gets close to discussing that topic, let alone deeply examining it.
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7 August
Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.
26 July
British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.
Added a cute extra font to Poem/1 as a treat for backers who do the firmware update 🌼 (See today’s Kickstarter email for how) Related
2 July
American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.
Am I the only one who uses @Spotify ~6-8 hours a day and sees zero change? Was that disco ball icon change 4,499 deploys? Quoting @ClaudeDevs Boris sat down with Spotify VP of Engineering Niklas Gustavsson. Spotify ships 4,500 production deploys a day, and 73% of PRs are now AI-assisted. Related
30 June
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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18 March
Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.
The quirky Ma Qianzu explains why the Chinese internet is so frustrating to read: there’s little actual analysis, only a straightjacketed state media and a proliferation of dramatic narratives And a metaphor from a great interview by @afrazhaowang China Related
5 January
Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.
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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
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14 August 2025
Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.
How to Improve Vocabulary: A Practical Method Figuring out how to improve vocabulary can be frustrating, but with the right approach, it's a skill anyone can master. A good friend of mine was once in a Paris restaurant, confidently trying to order a steak for dinne…
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5 February 2025
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
23 January 2025
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.
1 June 2024
Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
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Midjourney for logo, icon and illustration design
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10 January 2023
Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering; formerly SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy and co-author of Web Operations.
Real progress has some bits that can feel frustrating. That’s how you can tell it’s actually progress. Related
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sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at
korrents.com .
Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said.
The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in
korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who
else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public
statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
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About the English under a post
Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they
do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in
this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the
serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to
quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter,
especially about tone.
Only the post's own words are translated. A quoted post, a linked
article and a belief on korrents.com
are left in their original language.
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