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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 06/07/2026
Antenna / Coaxial switch
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 06/07/2026
Just a little older.
PS/2 to AT adapter.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 11/06/2026
And some cards, like these from 2006 and 2014 respectively. *slaps suspenders*
Business card, reading “Kris Kowal: Sourcerer (Apple)”Business card: “Kris Kowal: open sourcerer (Uber)”
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 03/06/2026
Someone has to.
Don Quixote, when the wind farm became animate, like Martian tripods run amok.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 29/05/2026
Brutal.
proof of work
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 18/05/2026
Remembering my late father because of his steam powered car hobby.
My father with me, driving the replica he built of a 1901 Locomobile in the Simi Valley in the 90s.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 01/05/2026
kriskowal.com/cowbert
Mr. Can, in a very digital voice: “I would serve you better if you gave me legs and Internet access.”

This being made in 1999, I have taken the liberty of spelling Internet as a proper noun, as has fallen out of fashion since.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 01/05/2026
Cowbert’s pencil, “So far, it’s scared away all our visitors and electrocuted the goldfish.”Cowbert: “Undaunted by these early setbacks, we hope to have the finished product on the market by next year.”
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 01/05/2026
Cowbert, with an anthropomorphic pencil in his nerd pocket, “At this time, I proudly announce Bovine Labs latest invention…”.On display, Mr. Can, bearing a markèd resemblance to an infamous droid. Cowbert: “We have created the very first self-contained, artificial intelligence. I call him, Mr. Can.”
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 01/05/2026
Cowbert, 1999 🧵
A cartoon bovine coat of arms. A shield blazoned geometrically. A sword in one hoof, a pencil in the other, with one hoof standing on a keyboard sufficient only for typing variations of “moo”. One foot in a bucket. Captioned, “Cowbert, by Kris Kowal”.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 10/02/2026
Dan Abramov, at the back of the orchestra, holding one of a pair of cymbals, saying “This time I won’t screw up! I won’t, I won’t, I won’t, I won’t…” and the Narrator, “Dan Abramov Makes a DSL”.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 30/01/2026
From the Foresight Institute, “We're excited to support Kris Kowal and Mark S. Miller with a grant to make AI-written code safer!
Grantees Kris Kowal & Mark S. Miller, Decentralized Cooperation Foundation, “Safely empowering AI-written code with Endo”, Foresight Institute, Secure AI, with profile photos.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 11/01/2026
A 3D printed Menger sponge (a fractal through the omission of cubes within cubes) where one face has ENDO recessed into it and an internal face has JS embossed upon it.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 07/12/2025
How to organize React components in your application, as illustrated in The Cell, 2000. The protagonist notes that the word “organ” in “organize” implies encapsulation at the boundary of organs, not this abomination.
Instead of encapsulating a horse’s organs, this scene from the film The Cell, with Jennifer Lopez in 2000, depicts organization of a horse into cross sections.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 24/09/2025
The Cheese Wiz and the Sand Witch strike again.
A witch of the desert.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 20/08/2025
Found it! Also, search engines don’t work any longer.
“It is inspired by the name of the mage Nemmerle in Ursula K. Le Guin's book "A Wizard of Earthsea" (spelling with a single 'm' is a design decision ;-) )”
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 01/08/2025
“Bequeath the beneficient boon of binary for all born beneath blue. Between binary binding, in Babylonian Bibliothec, beats bountiful bits beyond billions. Buy Basic Binary Board Book before blinking!” — B is for Binary kriskowal.com/bbbb
Front and back covers of Basic Binary Board Book featuring the numbers 0 and F, with a depiction of the binary bits as concentric rings with a quantity of segments denoting their place value, with each segment having the same area.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 28/07/2025
You wouldn’t alter a builtin meme.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 23/07/2025
True. I’ve already made some notes for a chapter in my upcoming novel, “Lies: for the children” or “ðu evuwlwcon uv ðu komn tuñ in ðu þrd kiluwnjm”.
| interogative | proximal demonstrative | distal demonstrative |
| - | - | - |
| where | here | there |
| whence | hence | thence |
| whither | hither | thither |
| when | +hen | then |
| which | +hich | +thich |
| what | +hat (this) | that |
| why | +hy | +thy |
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 24/06/2025
Ah, but *which* Bush Administration.
Richard Harris, best known for playing Dumbledore in the first installment of the TERF WARS, but for his best moment in The Count of Monte Cristo, where the protagonist brags that he’s counted all of the bricks in his cell and he response, “Ah, but have you named them?”.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 04/06/2025
3rin.gs, my hand-drawn, zoomable map of Middle-earth is still alive 15 years later. I cleaned up some bit rot, fixed a few bugs, polished some rough edges, and removed jQuery with two plugins. It is one, small JS file, no dependencies, no build step. The platform has risen to meet us where we were.
Map of the Lonely Mountain and its environs, with conspicuous web app components.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 16/04/2025
10nd Basic Binary Board Book, now with interactive explainer for perplexèd parents kriskowal.com/bbbb
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