Kenneth Kalmer

Are you okay?
Are you okay, Annie?

So happy and proud to see my little brother’s new chapter in writing music garnering such positive reviews ❤️

Ditto for the UK

This works great thanks, been using it on and off these two days and loving it

I switch, depending on the trick

And missing Bojack, just like that

Does anyone know of a simple pager, ala less, that has syntax highlighting for source code?

That would be amazing, but my youngest needs to get to nursery and the eldest needs to be at swimming lessons by 9.

So with 90 mins to go I rise like some half-dead prop from a black & white film

100% can relate as I lie here snoozing alarms…

Hear me out: Curling, but with ducks

It does seem that agentic coding allows these kinds of ideas to get off the ground very quickly. We’ll have to see in the long run how sustainable it is. That said, I’m really impressed with that video, definitely gonna give it a shot

Clojure and indeed all lisp style languages are the final boss of density here though. Almost every line is an expression of business logic. I never really got into it myself, but looking at these results are starting to make me rethink that decision. If you compare Clojure (77.91%) to C# (58.4%), it seems the average C# developer writes 20% more redundant code every single day just to satisfy the compiler. Even with tools like resharper and LLM’s to help thats not a insignificant amount of effort.

The developer of a code counting tool ranked popular proglangs by density. I am not surprised that "according to the data, if you want the highest ratio of human thought to keystrokes, the winner is the 60 year old concept, Lisp running as a modern JVM language Clojure."

boyter.org/posts/boiler...

Browser war in the 90s

A little memory from the first browser war in the ’90s.

Is your website best viewed using:

Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer?

#WebDesignHistory

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Can highly recommend! Did this last year and it was so so worth it. The forest walk is amazing and the rest of the grounds are pretty spectacular as well

Discworld QOTD, from Eric

“‘There’s a door.’

‘Where does it go?’

‘It stays where it is, I think.’”

It’s called ‘vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting

Brilliant storytelling Jim, just couldn’t put it down until the end

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

Sure it just went over their heads

Feeling of Computing London | January 2026 · Luma Welcome to the 16th edition of the London Feeling of Computing meetup! formerly known as Future of Coding New year, new computer. Can you imagine a world with…

I'm excited to announce that we're bringing back the Future of Coding events in London, with the first happening in January.

@mimireyburn.bsky.social and @chee.party and I will keep these regular under the new and updated name: FEELING OF COMPUTING

luma.com/qe8iexzs

That is incredible. And for some unexplained reason I have “9 million bicycles” stuck in my head, despite this clearly not being Beijing 😩

He coins a term: verification debt. AI generates code faster than humans can comprehend it. The gap between generation and understanding allows software to reach production before anyone validates what it actually does. "Vibe coding is fine," Vogels says, "but only if you pay close attention to what is being built. We can't just pull a lever on your IDE and hope that something good comes out." He pauses. "That's not software engineering. That's gambling."

that's not software engineering. that's gambling.

www.implicator.ai/werner-vogel...

Big congratulations!

Screenshot of Good Law Project & Just Treatment’s tool, reading: “Is your local NHS trust using Palantir’s software? Enter your postcode”

Is your local NHS trust using Palantir software?

Find out with our easy tool – then tell them what you think about it:
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Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.

an important read for at least 2 reasons:

1. shows how big tech operates on intuitions and vibes and not rigorous research

2. this is a masterpiece in how to breakdown complex scientific concepts in simple language and elegant pros that captivate the lay reader

taranis.ie/datacenters-...