Ken Kunz

Ken Kunz

@kenthropic.com

kenthropic.com creating software for humans πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» @svelte.dev ambassador | svelte chicago co-organizer πŸŒƒ purveyor of high-concept mischief 🎭

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​Just 5 days away: Svelte Chicago (your favorite "JIT" meetup) returns this Wednesday, May 27th at M1 Finance! I'll be giving a tour of what's new in Svelte over the last ~6 months: query​.live, remote functions glow-up, server-side error boundaries, and more! Plus open-🎀 ⚑️talks, πŸ•πŸ» and πŸ’¬. RSVP πŸ‘‡

This will be a sign unto you. A bearded prophet, wandering among the deer and the lambs, bringing tidings of great joy, which will be for all the people – all who are willing to venture forth. And suddenly, there was with the prophet a quintet of angels… youtube.com/shorts/Wu3kc... #svelte #jsjesus

Great, now everyone in the blue svelte sky knows about my "Low-Bar Lightning Talkβ„’" 🀣 Good reminder for Svelte Chicago folks – see you in 2 hours! guild.host/events/svelt...

Ilja@fubits.dev

The Svelte Berlin meetup (2025-12-09) is now part of the Svelte Society Guild (thanks to @kevinak.se πŸ™) So - either sign-up via the Guild: guild.host/events/svelt... - or use email via our website: svelte-berlin.de

πŸŽ‰ Last Svelte Chicago meetup of 2025 – Nov 18th at PartySlate! Cleveland Pitts presents: Building Culturally Grounded AI with SvelteKit – The Harold Washington Ancestral Algorithm. Join us for pizza, drinks, and great conversations with the Chicago Svelte community πŸ• guild.host/events/svelt...

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While the Svelte community was buzzing about Apple's App Store leak, here's the real gem: llama.cpp's new official WebUI – built with Svelte/SvelteKit! Run any of 150k+ GGUF models with a gorgeous interface. Fully local, fully open source πŸš€ #Svelte #SvelteKit #LlamaCpp πŸ‘‡ github.com/ggml-org/lla...

Am I the only one who found the options to this question confusing? None of these is consistent with the TS39 "Type Annotations" (aka "Types as Comments") proposal. Erasable types should be _ignored_ (like comments) at runtime. Also… please take the survey! πŸš€ #JavaScript #TypeScript #StateOfJS

πŸŽ‰ Just 3 days away! Join us Tuesday (Oct 28) at Svelte Chicago! RSVP πŸ‘‡ 🎀 @mikerourke.bsky.social will show how to build accessible Svelte apps – covering roving tabindex, focus traps & more. Thanks to @8thlight.bsky.social for hosting & @storyblok.com for sponsoring! πŸ™Œ #Svelte #A11y #ChicagoTech

guild.hostSvelte Chicago - October 2025 | GuildOct 28th 5:30PM: Come hang out with us at Svelte Chicago! Interested in Svelte? Join us for pizza, beverages, and networking at the 8th Li

Had a blast hanging with Kev and the gang! We hit all the expected topics: baby goats, authoritarianism, rock climbing… and of course: Macrodata Refinement, finite state machines, Rethinking Reactivity, and Svelte > React. Give it a listen! #svelte

Svelte Society@sveltesociety.dev

πŸŽ™οΈ Just published a new episode of Svelte Radio: Macrodata Refinement with Ken Kunz. Have a listen:

⏰ Just 4 days until Svelte Chicago! Tuesday 5:30pm. Whether you're debugging something tricky or building something cool – or just want to meet other Svelte devs – we've got you covered. See you at 8th Light! guild.host/events/svelt... #svelte #chicago #javascript

🌠 Excited to see Svelte Chicago gaining momentum! From "Svelte-curious" to "Svelte-master" or just "free pizza and hanging with fellow nerds" … come join us next Tuesday! πŸ‘‡

Svelte Society@sveltesociety.dev

πŸ™οΈ Svelte Chicago is back! Our second meetup is September 30th at 5:30pm CDT. After great feedback from our first event, we're doing something new: Svelte Q&A and show & tell! Bring your projects, questions, or just come for pizza and networking. πŸ• #svelte #chicago #javascript

Doorbell rings, rapid knocking. Rush to the door to find Amazon package… but… ZERO sign of delivery person. Like… VANISHED πŸ’¨! Are they a NINJA πŸ₯·?! ⬇️

πŸ‘‹ Chicago frontend crowd – curious why Svelte keeps ranking #1 in "admired" and "positivity" in JS surveys year after year? It's the framework … AND the people 🫢. Come hang with us next Tuesday to see for yourself #Chicago #JavaScript #Svelte #React

Svelte Society@sveltesociety.dev

πŸŒƒ Svelte Chicago is here! πŸŽ‰ Our newest chapter launches August 26th! Featuring πŸ•, networking, and a live React β†’ Svelte migration demo in ~20 minutes! Founded by two Svelte Summit 2025 speakers. Join them building this new local Svelte community! πŸš€ guild.host/events/svelt...

3+ months since Svelte Summit … missing Spain … made Tortilla EspaΓ±ola πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Έ. Not that difficult tbh (except maybe "the flip" πŸ˜…), and soooo worth it πŸ˜‹. #SvelteSummit #Spain

Senators voting "yea" on the Big Beautiful Bill(ionaire Bonanza) and Rescissions Act (Ruthlessly Eliminating Compassionate Services) represent just 44% and 46% of US population respectively (GovTrack.us). Tragic to see such wanton harm to the US/world's most vulnerable through minority rule.

On its surface, this sounds like a glorious innovation. Alas, upon further reflection, I am troubled. These "remote functions" could arguably be called "severance barrier transgressors" – providing a direct innie/outie communication channel. Lumon views all such reintegration efforts as anathema. 𝍋

rich harris@rich-harris.dev

hard to overstate how excited i am about this RFC β€” @dummdidumm.bsky.social is doing incredible work. this raises the bar for data fetching in frameworks, and unlocks some very cool new use cases for SvelteKit. we have a lot more ideas that will build on top of this work github.com/sveltejs/kit...

Where would MDR be without Svelte? Sputtering along on a "virtual DOM"?? Lumon expresses gratitude to @rich-harris.dev and the Svelte community for eliminating developer suffering. May more experience the joy of truly refined, un-severed web development. #svelte #severance #lumonislistening

Svelte Society@sveltesociety.dev

Last but not least, the final talk from Svelte Summit Spring 2025 is now available tooβ€”Macrodata Refinement with Svelte, by @kenthropic.com! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yuQ...

PSA: "/" = slash/forward slash, "\" = backslash. Only one of these lives in URLs (irregardless of how many podcasters mis-speak this). Just look at the direction the character leans πŸ“ … you got this! πŸ€“

This talk by @theosteiner.de was truly exemplary. Theo's systematic approach replaces the Dread of imperative spaghetti code with Svelte's declarative Frolic. Praise Kier!

Svelte Society@sveltesociety.dev

If you want to build Web Components with Svelte this Svelte Summit talk from @theosteiner.de is for you β€” Ultimate Guide to Building Web Components with Svelte. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDWf...

2/2 Decided to try Claude Sonnet 4 for the whole thing. The results exceeded my expectations – much faster than doing it myself, with genuinely better outcome given the time I realistically would have allocated to this throwaway code. Vibe coding has its uses. Use it wisely.

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Attachments are now out as part of Svelte 5.29! They're a better version of the `use:` actions that Svelte has historically used and let you "attach" actions like: <button {@attach tooltip('Hello')}>Hover me</button>

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Leaving Barcelona with a whole bunch of new friends and wonderful memories. The #sveltesummit energy is special and unique. Feel very lucky to be part of it 🧑

Thank you for accepting our balloon offering, @rich-harris.dev. Per protocol, I've distributed the remaining units among trusted Svelte operatives to ensure continued morale enhancement. Please enjoy each balloon equally. #sveltesummit #severance