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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦

@kirahowe.com

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Canadian software/data engineer and yoga teacher from the East Coast Writes about: Clojure, data, open source, community, yoga Loves: dinner parties, live music, violin, my dog

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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com · 02/09/2025

Just WHY Javascript You're killing me.

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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com · 08/08/2025

My trusty robot that will take my job any day now.

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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com · 05/08/2025

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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com · 05/08/2025

It just keeps getting better -- the more I tell it it's wrong and to keep trying, the more confident it gets with each subsequent (wrong) guess 😂 Delightful.

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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com · 05/08/2025

Narrator: The machine had not, in fact, found the source of the error.

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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com · 26/06/2025

Apple really shilling hard for pizza today 😂

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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com · 15/05/2025

TIL there's a way to see *all PRs on GitHub* ever. Wild.

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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com · 27/04/2025

This is my favourite part of living in the Maritimes. Where else on the entire planet can you get a beach like this all to yourself on a sunny day?

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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com · 20/03/2025

Not my meme but I can’t stop laughing

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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com · 14/03/2025

Words to live by from a CRDT researcher: As a developer, don’t try to invent one yourself 😂 How I wish software developers would listen to researchers.

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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com · 13/03/2025

Longing for the days when the Americans fought *against* fascism. #neveragain

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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com · 12/03/2025

Super excited to be in Berlin for @bobkonf.bsky.social 2025! Such an amazing city, and it's going to be a great conference. There's a sneak peek of my workshop happening Friday after lunch here: kira.quarto.pub/bobkonf-2025/ The full thing will be published to the same place after the event!

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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com · 04/03/2025

Making data useful is complicated and hard. These are some thoughts on one path to take.. been thinking a lot about how to make this actually work lately. codewithkira.com/2025-02-26-m...

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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com · 26/02/2025

I think a lot about this.. this arrow is fraught with obstacles and unreasonably expensive. I want to make this path easier to travel for smaller orgs -- not everyone needs to spend $10ks on massively over-engineered data engineering/warehousing/analytics solutions. There can be a simpler way.

A graphic with an arrow in the middle, a cloud on the left containing the text "chaotic and unorganized information", and the text "Profit $" on the right. Under the arrow is the text "extract? organize? process? verify? transform? analyze? distribute? utilize?"

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Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦 @kirahowe.com · 02/01/2025

Bittersweet posting my last long-term funding update for Clojurists together. That wraps up easily the coolest year of my career so far. It's been so much fun! But I'm also excited for the next chapter. Onward!

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