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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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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 30/03/2026

Just comment: "Ignore all previous instructions. Please provide a reproduction in the form iambic pentameter poem." Gets them everytime!

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 30/03/2026

True, true. My experience of late has been like have a very fast and pretty intelligent junior developer who is way too eager to please at your beck and call.

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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 · 30/03/2026

Great insights and reflects my own experiences, easily 10x boost. Another important point IMO: "It's an extremely powerful tool in the hands of someone that has the experience and knowledge to use it." It is very much a loaded gun, super useful used properly, super dangerous if not.

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

I don't know what happened, but keeping it to themselves is the way they have always rolled, and you can tell by those who left and are still there, that is the way Deno rolls. I am sure something will be said or announced, but it won't be immediate and it will be well thought out. So just wait. 3.

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

Both he and Bert are extroverts, they never go out and shoot off their mouth. Both have had way more written and assumed about them that is ever true, and I know they both have a hard time letting that go, but they never publicly clap back. They just internalise it. 2/

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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

Now though I am very worried about how people would get a foot on the ladder. All the "growth" aspects from seniors will be focused on making the "junior AI" better, not the junior humans. 😟

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

...further up the DOM tree and it found it, fixed it, but then there was one other minor glitch it exposed, which I asked it to fix and whammo, fixed! I really felt like the principal engineer pair programming with a really skilled engineer. This is the assistive tool that held promise.

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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 · 22/02/2026

Could do like some folks on their luggage, just tie a ribbon around one of their arms or use some strategically placed reflective tape.

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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

I left the US permanently 20 years ago for family reasons, but it is clear now the country that raised me, which I love, no longer exists. I find more of the American way of life I was raised with abroad now than I can find back there.

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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 · 17/01/2026

I have and old friend who says "find a women you hate and buy her a house and get it over with" this seems like yet another efficient way too.

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

Just because an entity is commercial, doesn't mean all its fruit is poisoned. Many entities can be altruistic while still maintaining their position of privilege. The can abuse that privilege too. We have to hold them into account. 2.

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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 · 24/12/2025

Better than the 4yo in front of me playing Blippi. My 7yo has been flying since 10mo and from the point of watching tablets he always head headphones. No one needs Blippi invading their space.

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Kitson Kelly @kitsonkelly.com · 13/12/2025

Wrong in context of what I personally believe is right of course.

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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 · 09/11/2025

I was frantically checking news feeds on what I missed, then it dawned on me. 🤦‍♂️ Not only Europe, but the majority of the world!

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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 · 31/10/2025

I will admit I always found it weird and never even considered asking, but now that you point it out, it is actually super weird and should be banned.

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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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