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Kitson Kelly
@kitsonkelly.com
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Director at CTO Labs. Formally @deno.land, Thoughtworks, SitePen, NOW and Sky.
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Saw the letter to Norway, thought for a moment I wad reading @theonion.com then realised, nope, reality.
January 19, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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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.

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January 13, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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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!!
January 12, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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Besotted
January 3, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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My goal in life is to be wrong enough to warrant a sub-skeet by @searyanc.dev. His takes on the trials and tribulations of OSS are so good.
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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If feel so old. My 7yo is all 67, Ballerina Cappucina and Bombardiro Crocodillo. It is almost a full time job to keep upto speed so I can understand.
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Hey @deno.land Deploy EA ability to add environment variables is broken. I don't know for how long. Tried on multiple browsers.
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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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.
October 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction.

My friends, they have lost the flag.
October 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Victor Kugler?
October 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Dear Leader says Tylenol is bad.

2016 me would think 2025 me had gone completely insane or had gone way too dark in the humour department.
September 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.
September 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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My biggest frustration with Fresh 2 was the removal of the component, which has now been restored! I have reverted my personal blog as well as updated my post below! Thanks @marvinh.dev!
September 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver
Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver
ST. GEORGE, UT—As questions continue to swirl regarding the motive behind last week’s assassination of Charlie Kirk, The Wall Street Journal published a bombshell investigation Monday that suggests al...
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September 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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This is effectively the textbook definition of the Luddites. Technology including AI itself is amoral, it is up to us to properly integrate it into our society which maximises benefit and minimises harm, not stick our fingers in our ears and go "I can't hear you."
anildash.com Anil Dash @anildash.com · Sep 7
this is the really ineffective head-in-the-sand reaction a lot of folks on Bluesky tend to have if you talk about any harm reduction-based approach to the reality that millions of people are using AI tools today. The current approach to critiquing AI is obviously not working, but they don't care.
alert saying "@auska.esq has added you to the "Al Apologists" moderation list"
September 8, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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7yo morning question: What does the tilde key do?

Apparently watching some sort of Minecraft video some time ago and creator named the key without explanation, and the 7yo has been pondering it potential use for a while.
September 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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The King is dead, long live the King!
deno.land Deno @deno.land · Aug 20
Patience rewarded. 🎊

Deno Deploy EA now supports KV

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August 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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These Gavin tweets are almost making me want to rejoin Xitter (pronounced like Xian), almost.
August 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Migrated my personal website to Fresh 2 and @deno.land Deploy Early Access and wrote some thoughts on the process and the current state of both solutions. kitsonkelly.com/posts/fresh-...
Fresh 2 and Deno Deploy Early Access
Both Fresh 2 and Deploy Early Access are being heavily worked on, but I wanted to take both for a "test drive" to see what the current state of play was for both of these, in particular what it takes ...
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August 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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The semver library used in npm, yarn and pnpm could be made 33x faster.

Ran into that while wondering why running `npm install` takes so long on the Preact repo.

marvinh.dev/blog/speedin...
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - Semver
During the installation process, package managers run a bunch of semver comparisons. The semver library used in npm, yarn and pnpm can be made around 33x faster.
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August 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Tried updating my homepage to Fresh 2 and Deploy isn't happy: github.com/kitsonk/home...

Any ideas @lcas.dev @marvinh.dev?
deno-deploy commented "ISOLATE_INTERNAL_FAILURE"
August 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM