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David Herman

@bitspittle.bsky.social

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Working on Kobweb, a Kotlin web framework: github.com/varabyte/kobweb Also, Kotter, for writing CLIs: github.com/varabyte/kotter And Truthish, for asserts: github.com/varabyte/truthish www.linkedin.com/in/hermandave

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David Herman @bitspittle.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

@jetbrains.com I mean, I love you guys, I'm building a whole open source web framework on top of your stuff because I am a fan of how aligned you are with developers. So... Kineto, a no-code approach to building a website? Really? With prompts in your demo like this? What are we even doing here?

Official prompt used by Kineto for creating a web page (emphasis mine):

"Make an html5 page of how JetBrains IDE could look like in the year 2030. *Make no mistakes.* Return single html/js/css code block."

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David Herman @bitspittle.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

KotlinConf 2025 is coming up fast. I'll be speaking about #Kobweb there. If you are attending, feel free to come meet me after the talk -- I'd love to say hi in person! (If you find me before the talk, I'll probably be a mess...) More details can be found here: kotlinconf.com/schedule/?da...

KotlinConf 2025 banner for my Kobweb talk, called "Build Websites in Kotlin & Compose HTML with Kobweb"

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David Herman @bitspittle.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I am glad to be ceding ground to the next generation 🙇 I'm tired, boss.

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David Herman @bitspittle.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Seen here: a programmer, just beginning their descent into the more esoteric coroutine / flow APIs. In this unfortunate case, they were never seen or heard from again, but their last words were discovered: "Hmm, my production code works great, but every 1000 test runs or so, I get a flaky failure."

A beautiful picture of a lone cave spelunker lowering themselves into a giant, vast cave.

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David Herman @bitspittle.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

chatgpt.com/share/674a18...

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David Herman @bitspittle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🦦 Latest #Kotter 1.2.0 🦦 github.com/varabyte/kot... Kotter is a Kotlin-idiomatic library for building CLI applications, tailored for the terminal's simplicity. It's fun to use! First time hearing about it? Check it out! The README is pretty comprehensive and there are a bunch of examples.

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