Dmytri Kleiner

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At some point in my adult life, "I'll have" became "I'll do," "I believe" became "I feel like," and "by accident" became "on accident." I never really noticed, but I guess others did.

Well, I’m not prepared for everything, but if the moment calls for usb cables I’m ready.

AI cannot make art any more than cameras, graphics software, or swinging buckets dripping paint can. People make art with these, yes, most of it unremarkable. AI won’t change that.

I dunno, I’ve been rolling these two dice, and they seem to want to roll seven. It’s incredible. I think they might be sentient.

I blogged about my daft new social network mgdm.net/weblog/dotpl...

Hey, a software update to Hanko broke public.monster log in for a bit, but it's fixed now, so your personal corner of the web is there for you

Is it time we start replying to all LLM policy threads with "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" yet?

People should have listened to you sooner @dmytri.to we might not be in this mess :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK31...

The build-vs-buy clock keeps ticking towards buy. Merchants in 1997 had to become a software company or lose the market. In 2027, they need stop being a software company or lose their margin. As merchants rely more on tech vendors, free software becomes critical to avoid lock-in

Hamilton Mountain

Saleor Principles We believe TCO should be <1% of GMV We believe you should pay for a working system, not hours We believe your commerce system must be available 99.99% We believe your commerce partner should be part of your team We believe you should own your code and data

Coffee in Canada always has a weird caramel taste and comes way too hot, so the secret to making it drinkable is to order "short americano with a splash of cold water." Will confuse some people, but most good places will understand.

3 weeks in Canada, already half a drawer of unused usb cables. This is how it sarts.

Hamilton, ON

but what if I have shoes that are not unique at all?

I'm at the Pizza Hut. I'm at the Taco Bell. I'm at the combination... Wait what? I'm at the Pizza Bell??

On our way

So Berlin people, this is my last Tuesday until next summer, so if you could stop by, I would be very happy to see you -- Dmytri On Tuesday, August 11, 1942, Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil patented frequency-hopping communication. Today is Stammtisch

Today!

Museum of Visual Explorations. July 27, 2026 7 PM Museum of Visual Explorations Frankfurter Allee 91 10247 Berlin

Repeated retrieval tool calls create many unnecessary model round trips. Yoink it all at once into one structured multipart bundle. ~> github.com/dmytri/yoink npx skills add dmytri/yoink npx @dk/yoink

The six most terrifying words in the AI era are "Let me try an alternative approach." If your agent even thinks this, TINA takes its tools away. TINA: There Is No Alternative. ~

On Tuesday, July 21, 1925, a Tennessee jury found substitute teacher John Scopes guilty of teaching human evolution in the famous "Monkey Trial." Today is Stammtisch (2 of 3 before I move to Canada for a year)

On Tuesday July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) in New Mexico issued an official press release announcing that the military had recovered the remains of a "flying disc" from a ranch near Roswell. Today is Stammtisch (1 of 3 before I move to Canada for a year)

On Tuesday, August 22, 1995, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted US Patent 5,443,036 to inventors Kevin T. Amiss and Martin H. Abbott for a method of exercising a cat with a laser pointer. Today is Stammtisch

Use this one cool trick to make every agent work better. Add this instruction: **The problem is always you.** When something doesn't work, assume you are doing it wrong first. Do not blame the tools, APIs, docs, or environment until you have found and fixed what you messed up.

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/07/03/r... #Pluralistic 1/

On Tuesday, August 3, 1993, Apple introduced the Newton MessagePad, a pocket computer famous for misunderstanding handwriting. Today is Stammtisch

Over on LinkedIn: on Context, Custody and Traceability in agent assisted software development.

welcome to Bluesky, @lush.com as a member of the Saleor team, we're so lucky to get to work with you.

Can someone make a monitor that instantly kills any agent the moment it says "let me try a different approach"?

It's Do the Right Thing weather.

good friend and stammtisch alumuni Aly soliparty: stressfaktor.squat.n...

We don’t need AI to generate code. Just make the markdown executable.

Arrr matey, is your coding bot giving you the Pyrrhic productivity blues? Safely cut through seas of Ptolemaic Code with Shipshape. Add these fearless roles to your rig and sail! github.com/dmytri/sh... #TheGeneralTheoryOfSlop

On Tuesday, September 9, 1947, Grace Hopper’s Harvard Mark II team found an actual moth stuck in the computer and taped it into the logbook. Stammtisch is today.

tfw I look at before/after “I quit X” photos and the before is me, but I never do that, so like what do I start and quit to get the after look?

It's crazy, but before the web, we walked around not knowing stuff, repeating wrong information we heard from dubious sources. But after, we could just look things up instantly and just always know. I guess we missed having more nonsense in our social fabric, so we did AI.

On Tuesday, August 25, 1835, the New York Sun reported that astronomers had found bat-people living on the Moon. Stammtisch is today.

This is really a rough draft of the future. Specification as control surface, code as disposable and organisations of AIs with specific responsibilities.

Ahoy, #SlopPunk, put this in your pi: github.com/dmytri/sh... The simplest/stupidest/most portable spec-driven workflow with context isolation for any agent. This is still *very new* and *very stupid*, so ymmv. > Specs are durable. Code is disposable. Agents are replaceable.

Latte left? Latte is so basic tho.

With AI, software features can finally be self-deprecating.

Uwes boatverleih and beach bar

Tuesday, March 13, 1781, Uranus was Discovered. Today is stammtisch.

Ok, Oxford comma people: where does the comma go in "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"?

#KeepAndroidOpen

me and Ernst