Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦

I added edit tracking to editmd so you can see which agents made which changes as you’re working. kirahowe.com/2026/oct/23/...

I made a wysiwyg markdown editor for macOS that merges concurrent edits in (like from agents) and auto-saves as you work. If you are editing a lot of markdown these days, especially if you have agents touching the same files at the same time, try it out: kirahowe.com/2026/oct/22/...

If you are a product engineer adding "AI" to things, please consider your users and their experience! kirahowe.com/2026/aug/31/...

TIL that TypeScript declaration emit can fail on types that type-check fine. Turns out the world is just one big mutable state and there's nothing we can do about it.

LLMs are incidental complexity generators

There are increasingly many cool ideas for things to do with AI but so far most of them seem to barely work. Turns out software engineering is just hard. kirahowe.com/2026/aug/8/i...

It is always, always a mistake to build a text editor. You will not “not need” the features you think will make it simple enough. Save yourself the time and tokens and skip to the part where you realize you do, in fact, need a real text editor and that you don’t actually want to build one of those.

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Writing "agents" is like writing a book on good software engineering practices.

stopcitingai.com

What if we did a single run and declared victory

This is one of my favourite conferences I’ve ever been to. Really high quality and genuinely interesting. Plus Berlin is one of the coolest cities in the world! Well worth checking it out if you can: bobkonf.de/2026/en/

So since they removed launchpad from macOS and you can only launch things from spotlight now, does that mean you can't open an app until spotlight finishes indexing?

The world is being cleaved into people who overuse AI and people who deal with the fallout of people overusing AI. Frustratingly, I don't really like being in either of these camps. Where do we go from here?

I don't want non-deterministic, randomly wrong answers to my vaguely worded spoken-language requests. Do people really want this? I want tools that reliably do one thing well and consistently.

Just WHY Javascript You're killing me.

Working with AI assistants/LLM-driven development feels like coaching a really dumb, belligerent, and obsequious intern _all day_. It's exhausting and no fun. Super curious how other people are working with these tools for positive outcomes How do you use LLMs in your day to day, if at all?

My trusty robot that will take my job any day now.

📢 Amazing job alert! 📢 Seeq is hiring for a few different engineering roles (some of which may have us working together 😄). I've had a really great experience working here the last few months and happy to chat anytime. If you're interested let me know! apply.workable.com/seeq/

LLMs might just be the thing that convinces developers that good docs and well described APIs are worth writing.

Apple really shilling hard for pizza today 😂

how did web apps work at all before Typescript

How long do you spend upgrading JS libraries?

Tim Pratley’s summary of the Scinoj Light conference is excellent, check it out for a great take on the main themes plus overviews of each talk. Thanks to everyone in the community who made this happen and who’s contributing summaries and responses like this clojurecivitas.github.io/conferences/...

Shared mutable state is a curse. Writing software doesn't have to be terrible. Do not use shared mutable state.

After a long bit of toiling, we're proud to announce the launch of Gander Social—a project to bring a new kind of social to Canadians. Canadian owned and hosted, a feed you control, privacy-first, consent-based, respectful by default. Join the Early Access program: gandersocial.ca

This is the best thing I’ve read in a while.

This is the best thing I’ve read in a while.

Our very first ✨Scinoj Light✨ conference is wrapping up soon, it's been such an inspiring couple of days, so cool to see so many amazing ways people are using Clojure's data stack. Can't wait to go back and watch some of the talks I missed. scicloj.github.io/scinoj-light...

TIL there's a way to see *all PRs on GitHub* ever. Wild.

Reminder to check out Scicloj's very first miniconf this Friday and Saturday! Free and virtual, this is for anyone interested in working with data in Clojure. The schedule spans many timezones so something should be on no matter where in the world you are! scicloj.github.io/scinoj-light...

This is a great opportunity for some free mentorship in one of the most exciting Clojure projects. Reach out if you have any interest in bringing Clojure and C++ together for great fun and (maybe someday but probably not) profit 😄

State management is the bane of my existence as a web developer.

If you're wondering what's up in the world of Clojure for data @daslu.bsky.social and I made a recording going over some exciting ongoing community activities. Highlights: ⚒️ Noj is maturing and growing 🗓️ Many meetups thriving with new audiences ✨ Scinoj light, our very first miniconf, is coming up!

This is my favourite part of living in the Maritimes. Where else on the entire planet can you get a beach like this all to yourself on a sunny day?

What percentage of software you have to buy through a sales person is actually vapourware? Honestly feels like 95%. Or am I just too much of a software person? If I can’t see the app do what you say it does first, I just don’t believe you that it does.

What a crazy time to be alive