Kitson Kelly

Kitson Kelly

@kitsonkelly.com

CPTO at A2B. Formally CTO Labs, @deno.land, Thoughtworks, SitePen, NOW and Sky.

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To think this is what supporters are praising of the President of the United States.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Joe Mitchell: "Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa."

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Developer:

p(Dulany)@dulanyw.bsky.social

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Person who wrote the layout engine for Microsoft Word: absolutely not

Maybe I should actually consider moving to NYC. This is crazy populist fodder I can get behind.

Cancelling a subscription shouldn't be this hard. If you can sign up with a click, you must be able to cancel with one. Head to nyc.gov/click-to-cancel to file a complaint against any business that makes it hard to cancel a subscription.

Planning my migration away from Deno CLI to other, decisions to be made: - Runtime local - Runtime remote - Edge Runtime - Package manager - Local persistence - Formatter - Linter - Test harness - Code coverage - LSP - Typescript support - Scheduled jobs - OTEL I really forgot how good I had it.

Also have to move away from Fresh, but I had already started that, and made a decision on Astro, which so far quite happy with.

I have been away from the US for too long. Been living outside since 1999 and coming back just reminds me how weird people from my country of birth have become.

It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what _____ is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of _____ and instead views _____ through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.

lastpositivist.bsky.social@lastpositivist.bsky.social

It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.

Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

Brian Kardell@bkardell.com

Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer. I used to get second hand Coco magazines and spend hours typing programs into the computer. We had an old cassette recorded with a dodgy motor and bootleg cassette tapes where you would spend 30 minutes to load Donkey Kong 50% of the time.

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For once, I am not offended by the use of ComicSans. Epic!!!

Ben Phillips@benphillips76.bsky.social

You need to read Mamdani’s “Mayor’s Order” repealing kids’ bedtime so they can watch the Knicks in the final. This is how to do politics with joy.

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"some tasks were trivial for AI while others required my intense direction and oversight. AI constantly made mistakes and unfounded assumptions, some egregious, but I estimate roughly a 10x boost over my own time spent coding this." @markrussinovich.bsky.social on using AI for a new Zoomit feature

linkedin.comAI-coded ZoomIt update with Panorama feature and more | Mark Russinovich posted on the topic | LinkedInThe latest Sysinternals ZoomIt update has features that are entirely AI-coded, and I wanted to share a bit about them and experience I had coding them. I used GH Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex with...

I worked for Ry for over two years and have known him a lot longer. Whatever has happened, I know it has been very considered and taken it very personally, likely with great anguish and self-accountability. He has always been there as CEO of Deno. 1/

Both he and Bert are extroverts, they never go out and shoot off their mouth. Both have had way more written and assumed about them that is ever true, and I know they both have a hard time letting that go, but they never publicly clap back. They just internalise it. 2/

I don't know what happened, but keeping it to themselves is the way they have always rolled, and you can tell by those who left and are still there, that is the way Deno rolls. I am sure something will be said or announced, but it won't be immediate and it will be well thought out. So just wait. 3.

Ok, I'm sold. Been forcing myself to use Claude Code for my side projects to see what all the fuss was about and wow, just threw it a gnarly problem I couldn't fix (CSS) it made one attempt and actually tried what I had tried before to no luck. I was giving up hope, but told it to maybe look...

...further up the DOM tree and it found it, fixed it, but then there was one other minor glitch it exposed, which I asked it to fix and whammo, fixed! I really felt like the principal engineer pair programming with a really skilled engineer. This is the assistive tool that held promise.

Now though I am very worried about how people would get a foot on the ladder. All the "growth" aspects from seniors will be focused on making the "junior AI" better, not the junior humans. 😟

Kitson Kelly reposted

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

James Cameron on leaving the US: “Where would you rather live? A place that actually believes in science and is sane and where people can work together cohesively to a common goal, or a place where everybody’s at each other’s throats, extremely polarised...” www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

theguardian.com‘Everybody’s at each other’s throats’: James Cameron says he has left the US permanentlyAvatar director, who moved to New Zealand after the Covid pandemic says he will soon be a citizen of a country where people ‘are, for the most part, sane’

I left the US permanently 20 years ago for family reasons, but it is clear now the country that raised me, which I love, no longer exists. I find more of the American way of life I was raised with abroad now than I can find back there.

Yes, AI coding agents maybe accelerating the decline of the OSS business models, but it has been broken for decades. You can't make money doing OSS. It is only out of a position of privilege that you can do OSS over the long term, and we must continue to demand that of those who have privilage. 1/

Just because an entity is commercial, doesn't mean all its fruit is poisoned. Many entities can be altruistic while still maintaining their position of privilege. The can abuse that privilege too. We have to hold them into account. 2.

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Pretty wild that LLMs seem to have trained on my 2019 article of "The product-minded engineer" and I now find blog posts published in 2025 that are an exact rehash of my post. Because if you ask an LLM "write a blog about a product-minded engineer" they spit out mine!!

Now we are going to fixate on the East Wing instead of murdering foreign nationals, kidnapping citizens and disappearing non-criminal immigrants. Perfect distraction politics.