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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 20/09/2026

I have been away from the US for too long. Been living outside since 1999 and coming back just reminds me how weird people from my country of birth have become.

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 17/09/2026

It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what _____ is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of _____ and instead views _____ through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.

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Neal Agarwal @neal.fun · 02/09/2026

Made a sketch artist game where you have to draw the character based on witness testimony neal.fun/unusual-susp...

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just remembered the Dolly Parton bus.

The National Express 925 bus service between Woking Station and Heathrow Airport.

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Ben Lesnick @banditloaf.wcnews.com · 03/07/2026

If Taylor Swift really wanted a private wedding venue she should’ve considered the National Mall.

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 30/06/2026

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer. I used to get second hand Coco magazines and spend hours typing programs into the computer. We had an old cassette recorded with a dodgy motor and bootleg cassette tapes where you would spend 30 minutes to load Donkey Kong 50% of the time.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The agentic loop discussion in a nutshell.

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 02/06/2026

For once, I am not offended by the use of ComicSans. Epic!!!

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 02/06/2026

Hey CNN (us.cnn.com/2026/06/01/t...) tell me you haven't travelled domestically in Australia or New Zealand without telling me you haven't travelled domestically there. We can even bring full water bottles through. 🤯

From article: Allowing non-ticketed passengers through security seems to be limited to US airports, although some airports, like Singapore Changi Airport and Athens International Airport, place their security checkpoints at the gates, allowing visitors to eat, shop and provide assistance to travelers.

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 20/05/2026

It appears I won the Plex Lifetime Pass lotto. Being an early mover at $75 seems to have paid off versus the $750 now.

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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

"some tasks were trivial for AI while others required my intense direction and oversight. AI constantly made mistakes and unfounded assumptions, some egregious, but I estimate roughly a 10x boost over my own time spent coding this." @markrussinovich.bsky.social on using AI for a new Zoomit feature

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AI-coded ZoomIt update with Panorama feature and more | Mark Russinovich posted on the topic | LinkedIn

The latest Sysinternals ZoomIt update has features that are entirely AI-coded, and I wanted to share a bit about them and experience I had coding them. I used GH Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex with...

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 22/03/2026

I worked for Ry for over two years and have known him a lot longer. Whatever has happened, I know it has been very considered and taken it very personally, likely with great anguish and self-accountability. He has always been there as CEO of Deno. 1/

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

How it started. How it's going.

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 19/03/2026

Wow. Hugs to all my ex-Deno colleagues. It was great working with you all. Reach out if I can help or you want to chat.

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 04/03/2026

Ok, I'm sold. Been forcing myself to use Claude Code for my side projects to see what all the fuss was about and wow, just threw it a gnarly problem I couldn't fix (CSS) it made one attempt and actually tried what I had tried before to no luck. I was giving up hope, but told it to maybe look...

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 17/02/2026

I continvoucly morged some PRs today. How about you?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 24/01/2026

James Cameron on leaving the US: “Where would you rather live? A place that actually believes in science and is sane and where people can work together cohesively to a common goal, or a place where everybody’s at each other’s throats, extremely polarised...” www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

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‘Everybody’s at each other’s throats’: James Cameron says he has left the US permanently

Avatar director, who moved to New Zealand after the Covid pandemic says he will soon be a citizen of a country where people ‘are, for the most part, sane’

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 19/01/2026

Saw the letter to Norway, thought for a moment I wad reading @theonion.com then realised, nope, reality.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 13/01/2026

Yes, AI coding agents maybe accelerating the decline of the OSS business models, but it has been broken for decades. You can't make money doing OSS. It is only out of a position of privilege that you can do OSS over the long term, and we must continue to demand that of those who have privilage. 1/

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 12/01/2026

Pretty wild that LLMs seem to have trained on my 2019 article of "The product-minded engineer" and I now find blog posts published in 2025 that are an exact rehash of my post. Because if you ask an LLM "write a blog about a product-minded engineer" they spit out mine!!

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 14/11/2025

My goal in life is to be wrong enough to warrant a sub-skeet by @searyanc.dev. His takes on the trials and tribulations of OSS are so good.

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 10/11/2025

If feel so old. My 7yo is all 67, Ballerina Cappucina and Bombardiro Crocodillo. It is almost a full time job to keep upto speed so I can understand.

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 03/11/2025

Hey @deno.land Deploy EA ability to add environment variables is broken. I don't know for how long. Tried on multiple browsers.

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 23/10/2025

Now we are going to fixate on the East Wing instead of murdering foreign nationals, kidnapping citizens and disappearing non-criminal immigrants. Perfect distraction politics.

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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction. My friends, they have lost the flag.

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 23/09/2025

Dear Leader says Tylenol is bad. 2016 me would think 2025 me had gone completely insane or had gone way too dark in the humour department.

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 21/09/2025

My biggest frustration with Fresh 2 was the removal of the <Head> component, which has now been restored! I have reverted my personal blog as well as updated my post below! Thanks @marvinh.dev!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 08/09/2025

This is effectively the textbook definition of the Luddites. Technology including AI itself is amoral, it is up to us to properly integrate it into our society which maximises benefit and minimises harm, not stick our fingers in our ears and go "I can't hear you."

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 02/09/2025

7yo morning question: What does the tilde key do? Apparently watching some sort of Minecraft video some time ago and creator named the key without explanation, and the 7yo has been pondering it potential use for a while.

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 20/08/2025

The King is dead, long live the King!

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 16/08/2025

These Gavin tweets are almost making me want to rejoin Xitter (pronounced like Xian), almost.

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Marvin Hagemeister @marvinh.dev · 10/08/2025

The semver library used in npm, yarn and pnpm could be made 33x faster. Ran into that while wondering why running `npm install` takes so long on the Preact repo. marvinh.dev/blog/speedin...

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Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - Semver

During the installation process, package managers run a bunch of semver comparisons. The semver library used in npm, yarn and pnpm can be made around 33x faster.

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 10/08/2025

Tried updating my homepage to Fresh 2 and Deploy isn't happy: github.com/kitsonk/home... Any ideas @lcas.dev @marvinh.dev?

deno-deploy commented "ISOLATE_INTERNAL_FAILURE"

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 08/08/2025

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

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