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Jamie Thingelstad is the writer of the Weekly Thing. He explores tech, the open web, AI, and escape rooms. Minneapolis is home. He is married to Tammy and they have two children, Mazie and Tyler. He enjoys being a Dad. Jamie has a Bernadoodle named Lucky. He likes to explore new things and has many hobbies. He considers himself an amateur photographer and is an avid blogger at thingelstad.com. He is a member of the R/W Book Club. Jamie supports the open web and organizations like Wikipedia, Creative Commons, Archive.org and the EFF. He has been a CTO for a long time, and is currently CTO for SPS Commerce. He is also a board chair at the Minnesota Technology Association.

Robert Birming appreciates old things, finding them inherently cool and a source of hope. He enjoys exploring and photographing the hidden alleys and backyards of Chiang Mai, often discovering interesting details. Robert uses both ChatGPT and Claude for CSS tasks. He posts shorter content on birming.com and longer content on robertbirming.com. He likes this setup.

Herman Martinus writes words, rides bikes, climbs mountains, and makes things. He currently lives in Cape Town. Herman is the creator of Bear, a no-nonsense blogging platform, and a few other things. He writes short-to-mid length essays about life, tech, and whatever he currently finds interesting.

Jon is a person who maintains a website featuring a blog. He has a Github and a resume. His blog posts cover a range of technical topics, including comment systems, online advertising, databases like DuckLake and TimescaleDB, PubSub with PostgreSQL, application building with Go and SQL, Kubernetes, Apache Airflow, Observable Plot, Python geographic plotting, and JWTs in Go. He also writes about the adapter pattern in Go.

Stefan Abi-Karam is a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering under Prof. Cong (Callie) Hao as part of Sharc Lab. His Ph.D. work focuses on AI for hardware design and EDA, with a focus on FPGA and high-level synthesis (HLS) design flows. His research includes creating large-scale HLS/HDL datasets, benchmarking LLMs for hardware code generation, and integrating LLMs into HLS and FPGA design tools. He is also a full-time research faculty at Georgia Tech through Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) within the Cybersecurity, Information, Communication, Command and Control and Software Systems (CIPHER) lab division. He was awarded the inaugural LAD Fellowship to continue working on rapid design of domain-specific hardware accelerators using AI agents for HLS design.

Joe Wintergreen is an Australian video game developer. He has worked on many games, often credited as a "systems designer" or "technical designer." Currently, he is a "senior technical designer" at RiffRaff Games. He makes tools, tutorials, and resources. He is an expert in the use of the Unreal Engine. He has an internet blog.

This person is a PhD student from Australia. Their work involves trying to find loopholes in the "No Smooshing Theorem" for light, specifically using lasers to talk to astronauts. They are interested in optics and photonics, astronomy (particularly SETI), quantum sensing, metamaterials, engineered microbiology, and AI/ML. Outside of their PhD, they enjoy cooking, drinking coffee or beer, and tinkering with technology. They are a co-owner of Hopsters, a brewery in Enmore, Sydney. They are also a fan of Wildflower brewing, The Klosterbrauerei Andechs, and Monkish.

Luca Lombardo has a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Computer Science at the University of Pisa, Italy. His main interests are in succinct data structures, algorithms and data structures, high-performance computing, and Rust and low-level code optimization. For his Bachelor's thesis in mathematics, he presented a new succinct data structure for extending the classical rank query to Directed Acyclic Graphs. He is also a member of PHC, a group of students interested in technology, software, and hardware. They manage servers, websites, and services for the mathematics department students and organize seminars.

Sharif Shameem is the founder of Lexica, a company building creative tools backed by state-of-the-art generative models. Previously, he worked on Debuild, a low-code tool powered by language models. Before that, he built Vectordash, a peer-to-peer GPU cloud backed by Y Combinator. He lives in San Francisco and spends his free time experimenting with software design, researching genetics and longevity, and trying to build the future. He can be reached on Twitter at @sharifshameem or via email at samin100@gmail.com. He tries to respond to every message he receives.

Marcin Zelent is an entrepreneur with a background in software development and cloud architecture. He is currently the Founder of Viridate, a startup focused on helping companies with the standardization and evaluation of carbon data. Marcin is also a student of MSc Technology Entrepreneurship at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He has experience as a Senior Developer at Kraftvaerk, where he designed and developed cloud-based solutions. Previously, he was the Founder and CTO of ArchitectureQuote, where he built a SaaS platform. Marcin is motivated and resourceful, with a strong interest in innovation and entrepreneurship. He is curious about the world and its future, and eager to learn and take on new challenges.

Andi Roberts is an executive coach, facilitator, and leadership development specialist. Andi works with consultants, internal advisors, and senior leaders in complex organizations, including NGOs and mission-driven enterprises. With over 30 years of experience working in and with organizations, Andi's background includes leading a healthcare business, managing in a global professional services firm, and building learning and events companies. Andi has taught in European business schools for almost two decades. Andi holds professional credentials in both coaching (PCC via ICF) and facilitation (CPF via IAF). Andi's academic background includes systems thinking, design and innovation, and online education.

Annie blogs. She finds things fascinating. She had a spot under her right eye that turned out to be basal cell carcinoma, which required Mohs surgery and eyelid reconstruction. The reconstruction involved taking skin from her left eyelid and grafting it onto her right eyelid. She did not have health insurance at the time of the surgery.

Dominik Weber is the creator of Lighthouse. He supports smaller businesses with their software development efforts, specifically companies where software is not their core business, but vastly improves their efficiency and leverage, and web-product companies bootstrapped by non-engineers. As a solo founder by choice, he combines skills relevant for building a successful product company, and creates a mental model for getting products from zero to one. He was previously at Vercel, where he managed a team of engineers and shipped product features. Prior to that, he was at Dynatrace and Bitmovin, where he was also a team lead. Earlier, he developed a web-based IDE at Springtime.

Connor Boyle is a former research programmer at Information Sciences Institute and a former M.S. student in Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington. At ISI, he worked on the LESTAT project under Marjorie Freedman. At UW, he worked with Tao Yu as part of Noah’s Ark and with Thomas Schaffter on NLP Sandbox. He contributed to the development of Cartograph as an NSF grant-funded undergraduate research assistant to its creator, Shilad Sen. His projects include NLP Sandbox and NL-Augmenter, where he contributed transformations, filters, and bugfixes.

Nathan Brown is a second-year mathematics major and economics minor at UT Austin. He is a 99th-percentile chess player with a 1922 USCF rating and a 2150 chess.com blitz rating. He works part-time as an investment analyst and software engineer at MOZAYYX. Nathan is also the chief organizer of large-scale games, such as 10-day tag. He enjoys sports, including pickleball, volleyball, and foosball. He lived in NYC from 2007–2017 and has lived in Austin since 2017. He writes a blog and has written articles about organizing a 10-day game of tag, hosting a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag, Wikipedia racing, and journaling with Terminal and plaintext files. He enjoys receiving emails.

Seth Purcell helps founders build and lead exceptional dev teams. He fights complexity for a living. Over twenty years, he has led software teams in a variety of roles and industries. He believes engineering, product management, design, security, marketing, and operations are all different flavors of the same fundamental approach. He enjoys building great teams and cultures. His career goal has always been to do work he’s proud of, with people he admires, for a good purpose.

Zak Morgan is a 4th year PhD student in the department of Computer Science at UCL in London. He likes all things Tech, be it Software or Hardware, as well as Physics, Economics, Climbing and Running amongst other things. He loves being creative and has projects, photos, a blog and publications available to view. He is available for contracting.

Alex is a Senior Research Scientist on the AGI Safety and Alignment team at Google DeepMind. His research interests include deep reinforcement learning and agents. Previously, he conducted research in robotics. He graduated from the UC Berkeley Computer Science program in 2016, where he did undergraduate research in the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab. He was an Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Outside of machine learning, he enjoys complexity theory, theoretical cryptography, and mathematical logic. In his free time, he plays card games and video games, including Magic: the Gathering and Dominion. He is a puzzlehunt enthusiast and has helped write multiple hunts, including MIT Mystery Hunt 2023.

Roy loves to write, both on his blog and in his journals. He also enjoys reading and brewing coffee, preferably artisanally as a pour-over. He has a soft spot for craftsmanship and skills that demand it. Roy writes small to medium sized essays about topics such as reading, writing, thought and self-improvement, as well as programming, and philosophy. He is currently a Tech Lead at the Dutch Railways, where he creates software. Before that, he was a Software Engineer at a few consulting companies. Before that, he flipped burgers.

Benyamin Limanto is a Christian who believes being Christian is a daily process of growing to be more like Christ. He describes himself as an ordinary boy with an extraordinary God to serve. He is a geek who likes instant noodles and playing Minecraft. Benyamin works full time as a Software Engineer. He is a contributing author at TahuTek, a Mozillian at Reddit, and contributes to the Joomla repository at GitHub as a silent reader. He also contributes translation at Transifex Virtuamart. He enjoys sleeping, writing articles, coding, and drinking green tea. He can be contacted via email at me@benyamin.xyz.