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Ken Kunz

@kenthropic.com
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kenthropic.com creating software for humans 👨‍💻 @svelte.dev ambassador | svelte chicago co-organizer 🌃 purveyor of high-concept mischief 🎭

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Svelte Society @sveltesociety.dev · 27/07/2026
Svelte Summit tickets are coming in the next few days 🎟️ Join the launch list and we’ll email you a discount code when they go live. See you in Ljubljana on November 19–20. → sveltesummit.com/ticket-updates
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Ticket Launch Updates | Svelte Summit Ljubljana 2026
Join the Svelte Summit ticket list for the sales date, discount code, and program news.
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 22/05/2026
​Just 5 days away: Svelte Chicago (your favorite "JIT" meetup) returns this Wednesday, May 27th at M1 Finance! I'll be giving a tour of what's new in Svelte over the last ~6 months: query​.live, remote functions glow-up, server-side error boundaries, and more! Plus open-🎤 ⚡️talks, 🍕🍻 and 💬. RSVP 👇
Event graphic for Svelte Chicago, May 27th 2026 at 5:30pm CT. Title: "What's New in Svelte, 2026: query.live and friends." Background: Marina City towers along the Chicago River at sunset. Sponsored by Storyblok.
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Svelte Society @sveltesociety.dev · 18/02/2026
Looks like @kenthropic.com and @mikerourke.bsky.social are doing another meetup in Chicago next week! Don't miss out on any meetups and events by going to the Svelte Society events page: sveltesociety.dev/events
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Events - Svelte Society
Join us at upcoming Svelte Society events, meetups, and workshops
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 15/02/2026
🏙️ Svelte Chicago is back! Join us Feb 24th at M1 Finance for our first meetup of 2026. 🔍 Job Search Panel: @mikerourke.bsky.social and I share our experiences alongside fellow devs and a hiring manager. 🍕 Plus lightning talks, pizza & networking! #Svelte #ChicagoTech guild.host/events/svelt...
Svelte Chicago February 2026 meetup promotional image with Chicago skyline at sunset. Shows event date February 24th at 5:30pm CT, featuring Job Search Panel Discussion and Open Mic Lightning Talks. Sponsored by Storyblok.
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Ilja @fubits.dev · 12/01/2026
I did not realise that the documentation for Svelte @attach amounts to a whole page now! Wanted to do a quick skim and now I can’t stop exploring… svelte.dev/docs/svelte/... And ICYMI: day 3 of Advent of Svelte 2025 has a quick intro to attach by @kenthropic.com advent.sveltesociety.dev/2025/3
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{@attach ...} • Svelte Docs
{@attach ...} • Svelte documentation
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Morgan @xcc.es · 16/12/2025
☕️Svelte meetup in Barcelona next week! 🎄Mon Dec 22 🗓️ @sveltesociety.dev guild.host/svelte-barcelona
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Svelte Society – Barcelona | Guild
Building the Svelte community in & around Barcelona
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 10/12/2025
🙇‍♂️🎭
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 06/12/2025
This will be a sign unto you. A bearded prophet, wandering among the deer and the lambs, bringing tidings of great joy, which will be for all the people – all who are willing to venture forth. And suddenly, there was with the prophet a quintet of angels… youtube.com/shorts/Wu3kc... #svelte #jsjesus
Bearded prophet Rich Harris wandering among the animals, bringing tidings of async components.
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 05/12/2025
Day 5 of Advent of Svelte 🎄 Boundaries help your app (and family) stay sane during the holiday season. youtu.be/Fhno5Ln1CwI?...
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Advent of Svelte 2025 - Day 5: svelte:boundary
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 18/11/2025
Great, now everyone in the blue svelte sky knows about my "Low-Bar Lightning Talk™" 🤣 Good reminder for Svelte Chicago folks – see you in 2 hours! guild.host/events/svelt...
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 14/11/2025
Things you can count on in November in Chicago (from worst to best): leaf cleanup in the dark at 4:30p, finding a random Jackson in the coat you haven't worn since March, and a Movember email from Virgil 👨🏻. Worthy cause! us.movember.com/mospace/1316...
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Virgil Bistriceanu's Mo Space
Virgil's Motivation: Put this old moustache to work for the benefit of men’s health.
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 10/11/2025
🎉 Last Svelte Chicago meetup of 2025 – Nov 18th at PartySlate! Cleveland Pitts presents: Building Culturally Grounded AI with SvelteKit – The Harold Washington Ancestral Algorithm. Join us for pizza, drinks, and great conversations with the Chicago Svelte community 🍕 guild.host/events/svelt...
Svelte Chicago meetup flyer: November 18th, 5:30pm CT. Features talk on Building Culturally Grounded AI with SvelteKit. Chicago skyline at sunset background.Speaker presenting at Svelte Chicago meetup in modern office space. Attendees at conference tables with pizza, watching presentation on screen.Group photo of Svelte Chicago meetup attendees around conference table with laptops and pizza. About 10 developers smiling at camera.
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Ilja @fubits.dev · 09/11/2025
I know it already made its rounds on Reddit and HN but from all the products / brands adopting Svelte, llama.cpp migrating the WebUI from React to SvelteKit is like the ultimate testimonial github.com/ggml-org/lla...
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SvelteKit-based WebUI by allozaur · Pull Request #14839 · ggml-org/llama.cpp
Overview This PR introduces a complete rewrite of the llama.cpp web interface, migrating from a React-based implementation to a modern SvelteKit architecture. The new implementation provides signif...
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 05/11/2025
While the Svelte community was buzzing about Apple's App Store leak, here's the real gem: llama.cpp's new official WebUI – built with Svelte/SvelteKit! Run any of 150k+ GGUF models with a gorgeous interface. Fully local, fully open source 🚀 #Svelte #SvelteKit #LlamaCpp 👇 github.com/ggml-org/lla...
llama.cpp WebUI interface showing chat window with Qwen3 VL 30B model loaded, displaying clean minimal design with text input, file attachments, and voice input support
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 03/11/2025
Am I the only one who found the options to this question confusing? None of these is consistent with the TS39 "Type Annotations" (aka "Types as Comments") proposal. Erasable types should be _ignored_ (like comments) at runtime. Also… please take the survey! 🚀 #JavaScript #TypeScript #StateOfJS
Screenshot of State of JavaScript Survey question regarding types:

How would you like to see types implemented natively in JavaScript?
• Runtime types: Types that are parsed at runtime by the browser.
• Type annotations: Compiler-level TypeScript-like type annotations that get stripped during bundling.
• JSDoc-like types: JSDoc-like types written as code comments.
• I would not like to see them implemented
• Other…
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 25/10/2025
🎉 Just 3 days away! Join us Tuesday (Oct 28) at Svelte Chicago! RSVP 👇 🎤 @mikerourke.bsky.social will show how to build accessible Svelte apps – covering roving tabindex, focus traps & more. Thanks to @8thlight.bsky.social for hosting & @storyblok.com for sponsoring! 🙌 #Svelte #A11y #ChicagoTech
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Svelte Chicago - October 2025 | Guild
Oct 28th 5:30PM: Come hang out with us at Svelte Chicago! Interested in Svelte? Join us for pizza, beverages, and networking at the 8th Li
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 23/10/2025
Had a blast hanging with Kev and the gang! We hit all the expected topics: baby goats, authoritarianism, rock climbing… and of course: Macrodata Refinement, finite state machines, Rethinking Reactivity, and Svelte > React. Give it a listen! #svelte
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 30/09/2025
I hereby nerd-snipe @evbogue.com to create the Svelte hscrpt preprocessor. #svelte #chicago #hscrpt
Example Svelte component using hscrpt preprocessor syntax
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 26/09/2025
⏰ Just 4 days until Svelte Chicago! Tuesday 5:30pm. Whether you're debugging something tricky or building something cool – or just want to meet other Svelte devs – we've got you covered. See you at 8th Light! guild.host/events/svelt... #svelte #chicago #javascript
Svelte Chicago September 2025 meetup promotional image with Chicago skyline at sunset. Event details show September 30th at 5:30pm CT, hosted at 8th Light at 25 E Washington St. Format includes Show & Tell and Svelte Q&A. Sponsored by Storyblok. Photo credit: Max Bender on Unsplash.
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 20/09/2025
🌠 Excited to see Svelte Chicago gaining momentum! From "Svelte-curious" to "Svelte-master" or just "free pizza and hanging with fellow nerds" … come join us next Tuesday! 👇
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 18/09/2025
Doorbell rings, rapid knocking. Rush to the door to find Amazon package… but… ZERO sign of delivery person. Like… VANISHED 💨! Are they a NINJA 🥷?! ⬇️
Man at front door looking around puzzled, searching empty suburban landscape for missing delivery person. Amazon package on doorstep.
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 16/09/2025
"tearing-by-default" = me every time I see @rich-harris.dev and @adamrackis.bsky.social arguing on BlueSky 😢 #svelte #solidjs #react #rainbowsandunicorns
Screenshot of two Bluesky posts discussing framework differences. The first post by rich harris mentions using 'await' without boilerplate and criticizes 'tearing-by-default.' The second post by Adam Rackis questions where the tearing occurs in the Solid version.
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James @43081j.com · 09/09/2025
some thoughts about the bloat introduced by edge-case first libraries
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The bloat of edge-case first libraries
How building edge-case first led to bloated, overly-granular libraries and what we can do about it
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shivan.xyz @shivan.xyz · 31/08/2025
A video and blog about animations in SvelteKit. Hope it's useful to you :) youtu.be/F2AvpvQjXtc shivan.xyz/posts/animat...
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Animations in SvelteKit
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 17/08/2025
👋 Chicago frontend crowd – curious why Svelte keeps ranking #1 in "admired" and "positivity" in JS surveys year after year? It's the framework … AND the people 🫶. Come hang with us next Tuesday to see for yourself #Chicago #JavaScript #Svelte #React
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 16/08/2025
3+ months since Svelte Summit … missing Spain … made Tortilla Española 🇪🇸. Not that difficult tbh (except maybe "the flip" 😅), and soooo worth it 😋. #SvelteSummit #Spain
A golden-brown tortilla española on a white plate, sitting on a red and white checkered tablecloth. The thick Spanish potato omelet has a beautifully cooked surface with characteristic wrinkles and golden coloring.A plated serving of tortilla española cut into a wedge, accompanied by a slice of bread topped with red tomato spread and a small salad of fresh arugula greens. The meal is presented on a white plate on an outdoor dining table.
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 12/08/2025
Request for comments… The TSTFU Principle: 90% of coding in TypeScript is writing code that works. The other 90% is convincing the type checker to STFU. #TypeScript #DevLife #Svelte | CC: @gazit.me, @jyc.dev, @michaelaufreiter.com
Venn-pie chart showing TypeScript development time: two overlapping 90% sections labeled 'working code' and 'type checker STFU', with most of the circle showing blended colors representing simultaneous effort on both tasks.
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 11/08/2025
Slime mold! Huzzah!
Bright yellow slime mold with branching networks spreading across a surface, showing brown secretions typical of an active organism.
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 31/07/2025
Fantastic post. The best take I've read on vibe coding. "The worst possible situation is to have a non-programmer vibe code a large project that they intend to maintain. This would be the equivalent of giving a credit card to a child without first explaining the concept of debt." #vibecoding
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 30/07/2025
Svelte: come for the DX, stay for the @rich-harris.dev commit comedy 😂 #svelte #webdev github.com/sveltejs/kit...
GitHub commit history showing Rich Harris's debugging journey from "debug windows nonsense" through frustrated messages like "gah", "wtaf", "come ON" to final success: "fucking FINALLY" ✓
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 18/07/2025
Senators voting "yea" on the Big Beautiful Bill(ionaire Bonanza) and Rescissions Act (Ruthlessly Eliminating Compassionate Services) represent just 44% and 46% of US population respectively (GovTrack.us). Tragic to see such wanton harm to the US/world's most vulnerable through minority rule.
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 17/06/2025
On its surface, this sounds like a glorious innovation. Alas, upon further reflection, I am troubled. These "remote functions" could arguably be called "severance barrier transgressors" – providing a direct innie/outie communication channel. Lumon views all such reintegration efforts as anathema. 𝍋
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 10/06/2025
Where would MDR be without Svelte? Sputtering along on a "virtual DOM"?? Lumon expresses gratitude to @rich-harris.dev and the Svelte community for eliminating developer suffering. May more experience the joy of truly refined, un-severed web development. #svelte #severance #lumonislistening
Ken Kunz presents Rich Harris with a bouquet of balloons at Svelte Summit in Barcelona.A live code demo of the Svelte MDR interface.
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 03/06/2025
PSA: "/" = slash/forward slash, "\" = backslash. Only one of these lives in URLs (irregardless of how many podcasters mis-speak this). Just look at the direction the character leans 📐 … you got this! 🤓
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 29/05/2025
This talk by @theosteiner.de was truly exemplary. Theo's systematic approach replaces the Dread of imperative spaghetti code with Svelte's declarative Frolic. Praise Kier!
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 29/05/2025
✨ Vibe coding FTW! ✨ While I regularly use LLMs to support my day-to-day dev work, I'd never used one to code something from scratch for a real scenario. Today presented the perfect use case: a one-off analysis of a large JSON document. See session for details: claude.ai/share/4f8d05... 🧵 1/2
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Claude
Talk with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 29/05/2025
I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...
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Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"
YouTube video by Annie Andrews
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Svelte Society @sveltesociety.dev · 25/05/2025
Rich Harris' talk from this month's Svelte Summit is now freely available on our YouTube channel. The other videos will follow: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dAT...
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What Svelte Promises, Rich Harris — Svelte Summit Spring 2025
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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 14/05/2025
Attachments are now out as part of Svelte 5.29! They're a better version of the `use:` actions that Svelte has historically used and let you "attach" actions like: <button {@attach tooltip('Hello')}>Hover me</button>
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kiwistian @kaisermann.me · 11/05/2025
My satisfaction with the presentation by @kenthropic.com exceeds the designated threshold. I acknowledge and appreciate this. #SvelteSummit
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 11/05/2025
people kept telling me my profile photo was very out of date. updated it to something more accurate
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 10/05/2025
Leaving Barcelona with a whole bunch of new friends and wonderful memories. The #sveltesummit energy is special and unique. Feel very lucky to be part of it 🧡
Survivors of Svelte Summit 2025
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 10/05/2025
Thank you for accepting our balloon offering, @rich-harris.dev. Per protocol, I've distributed the remaining units among trusted Svelte operatives to ensure continued morale enhancement. Please enjoy each balloon equally. #sveltesummit #severance
Photo of Ken Kunz and Rich Harris; Rich holds a bouquet of balloons bearing his likeness in miniature.
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 10/05/2025
Brittney Tames the Five Riches @brittneypostma.bsky.social @rich-harris.dev #svelte #sveltesummit
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Ken Kunz @kenthropic.com · 09/05/2025
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 09/05/2025
Praise Kier #sveltesummit
Ken Kunz from Lumon Industries
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Scott Spence @scottspence.dev · 09/05/2025
@kenthropic.com getting set up for his severance talk at Svelte Summit
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Ermeen ✌️ @ermeen.com · 09/05/2025
Announcement: Lumon acquired Svelte Cc @rich-harris.dev @kenthropic.com
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Scott Spence @scottspence.dev · 09/05/2025
I’ve not even watch severance all the way through but the way @kenthropic.com is weaving this into his talk about animations in Svelte (at Svelte summit) and how it improves the user experience is top notch!
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Willow (GHOST) @willow.sh · 09/05/2025
Thrilling talk from @kenthropic.com, Lumon has acquired Svelte! It's a must watch
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