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I'm Justin Duke — an engineer, writer, and founder. I currently work as the CEO of Buttondown , the best way to start and grow your newsletter, and as a partner at Third South Capital .
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Adam Johnson
Django performance, testing, and a steady stream of tips.
rss Adam Wiggins
Heroku and Muse co-founder, on tools for thought.
Alex Komoroske
Complex systems, strategy, and organizational gardening.
A rss Amy Nguyen
Notes on boundaries, balance, and mental health at work.
A Andy Matuschak
A public working notebook on memory and tools for thought.
Anthony Hobday
Visual design rules, stated plainly.
rss Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive explainers that make physics obvious.
rss Ben Borgers
Short posts on shipping small, strange web projects.
Benji Taylor
Interface craft and the open-source tools behind it.
rss Books & Boots
Reflections on books and art.
rss Brandur Leach
Postgres, Go, and running software carefully.
B Brent Simmons
NetNewsWire, Mac indie software, and the open web.
Cal Henderson
Flickr and Slack's CTO on building web software.
rss Cedric Chin
Business expertise, studied like a discipline.
rss Dan Abramov
React internals, explained from first principles.
rss Dan McKinley
Choose boring technology, and other hard-won advice.
rss Dorian Taylor
Information architecture and the semantic web.
rss Eevee
Games, Python, and long personal essays.
rss Entropic Thoughts
Statistics, queueing theory, and engineering judgment.
Fernando Borretti
Essays on programming languages, formal methods, and design.
G rss Glyph
Twisted's author on Python, async, and packaging.
Guillermo Rauch
Vercel's founder on where the web is going.
rss Gwern Branwen
Exhaustive research on whatever he is currently obsessed with.
rss Jakub Krehel
Motion, gestures, and the details that make interfaces feel right.
J rss James Shore
Agile practice, test-driven development, and craft.
J rss Jasdev Singh
Personal and technical writing, distilled.
rss Jason Cohen
Long essays on startup strategy from WP Engine's founder.
rss Jeremy Morrell
Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, and building with LLMs.
rss Jim Nielsen
Short, sharp posts on the craft of the web.
rss John Cutler
Product management, org design, and the mess in between.
J John Millikin
Deep systems rabbit holes: Rust, QEMU, and retro UNIX.
rss Jordan Scales
A public Notion notebook of experiments and half-formed ideas.
K rss Kelly Sutton
Engineering management, written in short posts.
Lee Robinson
Next.js, Vercel, and developer experience.
rss Mandy Brown
Reading notes and essays on attention and work.
rss Matt Lakeman
Books, experiments, and exhaustively researched travelogues.
rss Myles Marino
Investing history and the psychology of being right too early.
rss Mythical Strength
Strength training and conditioning, at length.
rss Nate Meyvis
Short notes on reading, chess, and thinking well.
n nedrelow.com
Merino wool felt accessories, made in a one-person studio.
Nick Disabato
Design research and conversion work for small shops.
rss Paweł Brodziński
Building early-stage products, with zero hype.
rss Robin Rendle
Typography, newsletters, and the personal web.
rss Robin Sloan
A novelist on olive oil, media, and small internets.
rss Roman Kudryashov
Where people and systems overlap: careers, expertise, and reading.
rss Sam Rose
Animated explainers for hashing, memory, and load balancing.
rss schpet.com
Command-line tools, developer setup, and small workflow wins.
rss Sean Goedecke
Working effectively as a senior engineer at scale.
S rss Sebastián Bensusan
APIs, business, and whatever else is currently interesting.
Shu Ding
Design and developer tools, from a Vercel engineer.
rss Simon Willison
Daily notes on LLMs, Datasette, and the open web.
rss Tanner Greer
History, strategy, and Chinese statecraft.
Vicki Boykis
Machine learning, embeddings, and industry skepticism.
Will Larson
Engineering leadership, written down and systematized.
rss Zach Holman
GitHub's early culture, startups, and being fired.
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