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Kris πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ Kowal

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The economics are also not so clearly tilted toward rich getting richer. There is a pay to play aspect, but if you were middle class when you got laid off, because the company thought they didn’t need you, you also might be able to build a product of your own without VC before COBRA runs out.

07.03.2026 01:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

warning: the clocks change in the US this weekend. you care about that if you're in the EU or UK because we *don't* spring forward yet, so all your calls and meetings with US folks will be off by one for a couple of weeks

05.03.2026 23:39 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2

Paternal grandmother was a single working mom in the 50s, daughter of Dutch immigrants, an animator, member of the ScreenΒ Writers’ Guild, and responsible for some words that BugsΒ Bunny said, purportedly made the owl blink in Bambi, and died young. Maternal G.M. was Irish mother of 6 and died young.

05.03.2026 19:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They’re the same picture.

05.03.2026 04:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Paternal grandfather was a WWII army veteran, son of immigrants coming from Ukraine and Hungary, and spent what remained of his life drilling oil wells in Venezuela until cancer took him in the throat. Maternal grandfather designed the turbopumps for Saturn V and who-knows-what-else at Skunk Works.

05.03.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

…is to print custom bins for office supplies on an 5 ⨉ 8mm stride that fill exactly this footprint.

03.03.2026 15:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A weird and unfortunate coΓ―ncidence.

01.03.2026 23:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Any technologist who cares about how much control users should expect from platforms like the web and social media should watch these presentations:

@dustyweb.bsky.social on Re-decentralizing Social Nets
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8uq...

MarkM on Geeks Bearing Gifts
youtube.com/watch?v=KoM_aCuFk1w

25.02.2026 03:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Consider: a compile-to-JavaScript language that is JavaScript except typeof 3.14 == "number" and typeof 2 == "bigint".

23.02.2026 23:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
YAY β€” Yet Another YAML

The culture in JavaScript is due to change since support for bigint (1n) has become pervasive. At Agoric, we use bigints to the exclusion of floats. To that end, JSON needs a rethink. For OCapN, we are promoting a CBOR mapping that covers the JSON model plus bigint and bytes. Also kriskowal.com/yay

23.02.2026 23:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Friend of mine did all this and also had LLM Jepsen it. I’m spending some of my personal tokens taking my old CASK idea way too far. I posted this as a subtoot because 1. it’s true 2. obviously everyone else is too 3. specifically someone.

23.02.2026 01:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dear @epopt.bsky.social,

22.02.2026 18:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It appears I am building a database.

22.02.2026 17:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Fine, but what about β€œon-premise”?

22.02.2026 06:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It has come to my attention that this is a reference to the lobsters in Stross’s Accelerando, and of course the obvious pun.

21.02.2026 04:07 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Run a command, display the output, and capture the output in the Mac pastebin:

… | tee >(pbcopy)

21.02.2026 03:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I didn't know if @marthawells.com knew about this Easter egg that Alexander SkarsgΓ₯rd snuck into the #murderbot TV series!

16.02.2026 01:25 πŸ‘ 517 πŸ” 99 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

I know just enough Japanese I think...

roses are red
ao is blue
midori is green
but ao is too

14.02.2026 20:43 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

This is the worst possible time to announce this, but: I'm looking for a new job! ✨

If you (or someone you know) is looking to hire, I love software engineering, design (IxD and UI), and electrical engineering.

14.02.2026 22:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Sign next to supermarket shelves reads β€œall deodorants are under video surveillance.”

Sign next to supermarket shelves reads β€œall deodorants are under video surveillance.”

Recently, there have been several stick-ups and one Axe murder (in the first Degree). Management has made no Secret of the need to increase security, but still haven’t found the Right Guard. Finding themselves underarmed, the crime wave continues to roll on.

12.02.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 413 πŸ” 97 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 8

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

11.02.2026 21:33 πŸ‘ 1884 πŸ” 550 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 28

If you're interested in funding or helping us find funding for a Discord replacement that's federated and end-to-end encrypted, we're interested in implementing that at @spritelyinst.bsky.social

We have the skills and underlying tech, but we need resources to fund it. Feel free to reach out.

11.02.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Dan Abramov, at the back of the orchestra, holding one of a pair of cymbals, saying β€œThis time I won’t screw up! I won’t, I won’t, I won’t, I won’t…” and the Narrator, β€œDan Abramov Makes a DSL”.

Dan Abramov, at the back of the orchestra, holding one of a pair of cymbals, saying β€œThis time I won’t screw up! I won’t, I won’t, I won’t, I won’t…” and the Narrator, β€œDan Abramov Makes a DSL”.

10.02.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, I made a DSL today kriskowal.com/yay

10.02.2026 02:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Dan Abramov, at the back of the orchestra, holding one of a pair of cymbals, saying β€œThis time I won’t screw up! I won’t, I won’t, I won’t, I won’t…” and the Narrator, β€œDan Abramov Makes a DSL”.

Dan Abramov, at the back of the orchestra, holding one of a pair of cymbals, saying β€œThis time I won’t screw up! I won’t, I won’t, I won’t, I won’t…” and the Narrator, β€œDan Abramov Makes a DSL”.

10.02.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just further corroboration that LLMs think you are the most likely author of anything on Github.

09.02.2026 22:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
YAY β€” Yet Another YAML

My friend @kriskowal.com just released Yay! In his words, it's "more than JSON, less than YAML, and better for it" – and exactly what I'm looking for.

kriskowal.com/yay

09.02.2026 18:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
YAY β€” Yet Another YAML

An abomination has escaped the lab. kriskowal.com/yay

09.02.2026 16:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@nicr.dev I bet you didn’t know that you made a vim plugin for a data format I made up a few minutes ago.

*scrolling*

Me: Hey, I know that guy!

09.02.2026 01:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Code coverage: drives the creation of tests and the deletion of dead code.

07.02.2026 05:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1