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My lack of interest in AI stems from how I've structured my life around freedom and intentionality. I'm in the fortunate position that allows me to move slow and optimize for experience not productivity.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 29/09/2026

I've been playing with @duckdb.org and I gotta say the docs are amazing. The built-in web shell is a really nice touch. You can play with DuckDB right inside your web browser. This might be my SQLite replacement. duckdb.org/docs/current

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 28/09/2026

USB-C is the best technology in so long. I bring ONE type of adaptor on business trips now (to charge my computer, my phone, my tablet, my earbuds, my watch, my headphones). I'm sitting in a meeting right now using my Mac and am borrowing the cord from a ThinkPad user. Standards win.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 28/09/2026

I hope we keep writing docs for people who want to understand and build things without using AI.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 28/09/2026

People who lack soft skills are going to have a hard time.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 18/12/2024

I'm about to rebrand all my cron jobs to AI agents and raise a $100,000,000 seed round.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 24/09/2026

We removed the compilers from the servers to make them more secure. Now we're racing to put the compilers back with tools that can generate their own code and use them.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 24/09/2026

Seems the AI Labs are running a free pen testing service.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 23/09/2026

I did something I haven't done in a long time, I wrote some code in preparation for this talk, just to remind myself why software development is so hard, and understand why some people are hoping AI can bail them out.

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 17/09/2026

Join me and Kelsey Hightower as we talk to Luca from PlatformEngineering.org about how AI is changing the role of Platform Engineers! Later this morning, 10am PDT. Pass this on to your friends, colleagues, neighbors and passersby! Registration Page: platformengineering.org/events/enter...

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 21/09/2024

At this point I'm willing to pay more money for appliances with zero smart features and physical controls for everything.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/09/2026

There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 08/09/2026

🚨 OCTOBER 17 — NO KINGS: VOTE EARLY! With our democracy at stake, we're showing up again to promote unprecedented voter participation in the midterms. Our goal is to translate the historic protest power of No Kings mobilizations into a massive wave of voter turnout.

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VOTE EARLY
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We broke records for the biggest mobilizations in American history Now it’s time to break the record for the largest early vote turnout in history

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 06/09/2026

Have humans reached full potential? If the answer is no, what kind of investment would it take to move us forward?

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 03/09/2026

Never too early to check your voter registration. www.vote.org/am-i-registe...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/09/2026

Somehow, the orange site is discussing something I wrote without the top comment being a racist riff on my name? This is progress!

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 31/08/2026

Most of my life has been surrounded by this level of kindness. People I have never met take the time to say nice things and practice kindness. It's one of the reasons I still have faith in humanity.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 31/08/2026

Just when I think I'm done reading the comments. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

I’ve met him only once, back in KubeCon Europe ‘23. I will never forget how the room was absolutely packed to the brim and people still wanted to keep coming in. And his keynote, which was originally scheduled to last for 45 minutes, which he carried on to almost double that time…. with no slides. No screen, just him, sitting down at the edge of the stage, like an old friend sharing stories over a few drinks. Talking not about the glamor of Kubernetes and how it can save businesses but quite the contrary - about the ugly side of it. The incidents. The times when things went wrong. And how he dealt with them. And then, he went around the room asking the same from all of us - to share, to dig in, to overcome our shyness and be present in that moment when, truly, we all forgot for over an hour that we were in KubeCon, that he was the speaker, that it was a keynote, and instead connected us all there and then.

I still chase that feeling when attending keynotes, none have come par to it.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 27/08/2026

I love this framing, but in reality we treat developers of our internal platforms like users, and not customers, because most enterprise developers cannot behave as customers, and are forced to use whatever the platform engineering team gives them.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 27/08/2026

Some people have reduced their own value to what can be accomplished with a computer, and consider anything that can match their limited capabilities to be as human as they are.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 27/08/2026

People don't hire AI agents, nor do people hire mouse and keyboards. AI agents are software tools; not people.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 24/08/2026

Telling everybody we just got the Nobel Prize

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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 19/08/2026

if you’ve never seen @kelseyhightower.com speak, he’s one of the best in the game at weaving deep knowledge into a captivating story I’ve got a 30% off code for @wearedevelopers.bsky.social event in San Jose if you want to go see Kelsey and a bunch of other great speakers Sep 23–25:

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Kevin Stewart @kstewart.me · 16/08/2026

Finally starting to catch up on The Full Stack. @kelseyhightower.com and @jason.energy have produced an incredibly interesting and compelling show. My builder 🔥 is stoked! Also, so great to see @ashley.dev as one of the guest judges. Miss ya, girl!

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 15/08/2026

It was a long talk with @kelseyhightower.com that got me to move from Mastodon and to delete my (then dormant) X account. He convinced me that AT and Bluesky were the right combination of technology and stewardship. My opinion: ANYONE posting on X is supporting Musk (by donating content).

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 26/01/2026

Twitter died a long time ago and X isn't worth it. Before I made the jump, my ego was holding me back. I was too concerned with vanity metrics. I finally realized if you're posting stuff people want to follow, then they'll follow you, even when you leave. www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/k...

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Open-source champion Kelsey Hightower on the promise of Bluesky

Ann O’Dea spoke to US software engineer and open-source champion Kelsey Hightower about the promise of the AT protocol.

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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 13/08/2026

@kelseyhightower.com’s wish list

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Chisomo Chiweza @chisomochiweza.com · 09/08/2026

This was my favourite episode. It was heart-warming to see some teams grow and as a programmer, I've picked up a bunch of lessons abut building great products too!

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 09/08/2026

Came across a dev saying they couldn’t do their job without LLMs now just like they wouldn’t have been able to do their job without being able to copy and paste from Stack Overflow 5 years ago

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 07/08/2026

What is the US national debt? $39,829,652,708,623 fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-fin...

The national debt ($39.83 T) is the total amount of outstanding borrowing by the U.S. Federal Government accumulated over the nation’s history.

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Ryan @blog.kilasuit.org · 07/08/2026

I'm tired. Not retired.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 07/08/2026

Thanks for the kind words. Way to make someone’s day.

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