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I’ve been working in tech as a developer and consultant for going on 20 years now, and the number of times I’ve lost this fight over metrics with stakeholders is astounding. Thank you.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 20/09/2026

Chip Kelly still has it

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 10/09/2026

Fidium is _so_ down that their AI phone support system is lagging between each word.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 10/09/2026

Pretty sure this dude did the grout in my kitchen backsplash last year.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 06/09/2026

Here’s the only actual answer I can fathom: immediately prior to the play the white hat requested the game clock operator to reset the clock to 9 seconds, the game clock showed 8. Someone, somewhere, messed that up giving us a discrepancy of 1 second between the ref’s watch and the replay clock.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 06/09/2026

brb editing Wikipedia to reflect the truth

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 06/09/2026

We all agree Michigan lost right

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 06/09/2026

Should have hired a Michigan man.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 05/09/2026

I was driving a U-Haul so forgive me for being late, but: Quack.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 28/08/2026

Hot off the press, new version of Cassava ready to download. Vim key bindings. SQL autocomplete. Bug fixes. Super dope. cassava.dev

cassava.dev

Cassava CSV Editor

Open, edit, search, filter, and clean CSV files with Cassava, a fast native CSV editor for macOS and Linux.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 19/08/2026

You could do like I do and not take notes. If it's important I'll remember it. Don't remember? Not important.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 17/08/2026

I own the entire Lucero discography because I found a cassette tape in a dorm bathroom in college.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 17/08/2026

All metrics are bad. This is what’s wrong with modern life. I demand a return to vibes-based performance assessment.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 17/08/2026

That will give you plenty of time to practice getting mad about market price for a lobster roll being $35. Damn tasty though! Once you’re in Portland I can’t recommend Honey Paw enough, and don’t leave without trying Duck Fat.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 17/08/2026

Second Bob's Clam Hut in Kittery. Lots of good eats in Portsmouth NH — we like STREET. Both of those are much closer to the end of your drive though. Reins deli in Vernon, CT is a popular stop, probably not too exciting if you're coming from NYC. Very few options between Worcester and Portsmouth.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 15/08/2026

We’re moving soon and our new house doesn’t have an obvious room to use as an office. I’ve been contemplating how stupid it would be to buy an old train car and convert it into an office space in the back yard. I have a feeling the neighbors would not like it.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 06/08/2026

Content negotiation is already so messy, and rolling library-specific non-standardized headers into the mix makes my spidey sense tingle. I’m not saying it’s unworkable, I’m saying it smells.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 04/08/2026

Like a lot of my concerns I abstract this away under the rug and try not to think about it.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 04/08/2026

I've finally articulated what feels weird about htmx et al. I feel the pain point of duplicated rendering between server and client. I'm open to the idea of sending partial HTML instead of JSON data to rehydrate. I don't like relying on custom headers for content negotiation.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 04/08/2026

Oh no. The weight of expectation. Give me like a nice comfortable #8 or #11 to start the season.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 04/08/2026

You know, I’m a bit of a large language model myself.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 03/08/2026

Like it’s the past.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 03/08/2026

Trying something new I’m gonna call trad coding. It’s where I generate tokens by hand using only my brain.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 29/07/2026

Ross Douthat is not a serious person.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 28/07/2026

Finally had a good idea. Hope the next one doesn’t take another 4 decades to arrive.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 23/07/2026

@nytimes.com needs to hire this headline writer. Kerploding is exactly the right term for what happens to this sunfish.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 23/07/2026

Oh my god the video in this article is the best thing I've seen in weeks.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 23/07/2026

The neat thing about this is spreadsheets are already somewhat inherently modal editors, so vim is a great fit conceptually. The refactor to support this has been good leverage to get Cassava's overall architecture into a cleaner place. Plus it's cool.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 22/07/2026

I’ve been tinkering with this for a couple hours now and I cannot believe how well vim style keybindings work in a spreadsheet context. You’re gonna love this.* *if you love vim keybindings

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 22/07/2026

I put a new item into TODO.md. I think it's gonna be good.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 21/07/2026

rc22 is out for cassava.dev. Some good polish in this update, including an all-new autofill handle, highlighted cell references, and a tuned-up SQL panel experience.

cassava.dev

Cassava CSV Editor

Open, edit, search, filter, and clean CSV files with Cassava, a fast native CSV editor for macOS.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 21/07/2026

For reference, this is what it looks like in the current release. I think the cleanup is significant, even if functionally no different.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 21/07/2026

It's the little things that make an app feel good to live in. This took 2 days to get right, but I feel good about where we ended up for all the subtle interactions between selection borders and interactive edges at the seams of your sheets.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 21/07/2026

I can’t overstate how nice it is to have a camera that’s not a phone. Even a cheap one (mine is). Even if you don’t know what you’re doing (I don’t). The photos just feel so different, so much truer to life. The tiny smart phone lens warps everything just enough to fall into an uncanny valley.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 20/07/2026

AHAHAHAHA it's working.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 17/07/2026

Oh hey, rc21 is live with support for opening spreadsheet files (xls, xlsx, ods and more) — plus some other great stuff like performance improvements, recent file support, bugfixes, and more. cassava.dev

cassava.dev

Cassava CSV Editor

Open, edit, search, filter, and clean CSV files with Cassava, a fast native CSV editor for macOS.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 16/07/2026

I want beta users. XLS support drops this week. cassava.dev

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 16/07/2026

Cassava now natively opens xls, xlsx, and ods files. We are one step closer to my dream of never opening Excel again.

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Wyatt K. @wyattkirby.com · 14/07/2026

My apologies to anyone who downloaded rc20 yesterday — it was missing the auto-update URL. A corrected build has been uploaded and is available to install.

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