Kitson Kelly
@kitsonkelly.com
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Director at CTO Labs. Formally
@deno.land
, Thoughtworks, SitePen, NOW and Sky.
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Tim Onion
5 days ago
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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Merriam-Webster
15 days ago
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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’
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/23/james-cameron-left-the-us-permanently-covid-new-zealand
21 days ago
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Saw the letter to Norway, thought for a moment I wad reading
@theonion.com
then realised, nope, reality.
26 days ago
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Rebecca Solnit
27 days ago
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye:
pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
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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
about 1 month ago
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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about 1 month ago
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Andy Craig
about 2 months ago
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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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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.
3 months ago
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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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3 months ago
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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
4 months ago
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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Victor Kugler?
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4 months ago
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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.
5 months ago
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J. Elvis Weinstein
5 months ago
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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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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The Onion
5 months ago
Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver
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Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver
ST. GEORGE, UT—As questions continue to swirl regarding the motive behind last week’s assassination of Charlie Kirk, The Wall Street Journal published a bombshell investigation Monday that suggests al...
https://theonion.com/bombshell-wall-street-journal-investigation-finds-tyler-robinson-once-had-trans-uber-driver/
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Claire Willett
5 months ago
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
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
5 months ago
"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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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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5 months ago
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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.
6 months ago
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The King is dead, long live the King!
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6 months ago
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These Gavin tweets are almost making me want to rejoin Xitter (pronounced like Xian), almost.
6 months ago
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Migrated my personal website to Fresh 2 and
@deno.land
Deploy Early Access and wrote some thoughts on the process and the current state of both solutions.
kitsonkelly.com/posts/fresh-...
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Fresh 2 and Deno Deploy Early Access
Both Fresh 2 and Deploy Early Access are being heavily worked on, but I wanted to take both for a "test drive" to see what the current state of play was for both of these, in particular what it takes ...
https://kitsonkelly.com/posts/fresh-2-deploy-ea
6 months ago
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Marvin Hagemeister
6 months ago
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.
https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem-part-12/
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Tried updating my homepage to Fresh 2 and Deploy isn't happy:
github.com/kitsonk/home...
Any ideas
@lcas.dev
@marvinh.dev
?
6 months ago
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Merriam-Webster
6 months ago
We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.
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Mary Branscombe
6 months ago
As usual, I had great fun catching up with
@robpalmer.bsky.social
and
@ashley-c.bsky.social
to talk about the features coming to JavaScript this year 🧵
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JavaScript Standards Update: What’s New in ECMAScript 2025
JavaScript continues its annual momentum with new developer friendly features in the latest version of ECMAScript, due to arrive soon.
https://thenewstack.io/javascript-standards-update-whats-new-in-ecmascript-2025/
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Success! Husband (rhetorically): Where is this thing? 6yo: Don't know, wasn't my turn to watch it! **pause** I was just copying what Papa always says.
6 months ago
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Socket
6 months ago
🚨 Socket researchers just uncovered 11 malicious Go packages using obfuscated loaders to fetch and run remote payloads. 8 are typosquats. Details →
socket.dev/blog/11-mali...
#Golang
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11 Malicious Go Packages Distribute Obfuscated Remote Payloa...
Socket uncovered 11 malicious Go packages using obfuscated loaders to fetch and execute second-stage payloads via C2 domains.
https://socket.dev/blog/11-malicious-go-packages-distribute-obfuscated-remote-payloads
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nilay patel
7 months ago
McKinsey believing from its board of directors on down that the current state of AI is existential to its business says far more about McKinsey than it does about AI lol
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The manosphere uses the same mechanism that terrorist jihadist groups use, preying on young men trying to find in their place in the world, convincing them to fill their selfish desires is actually for the greater good and they will be rewarded.
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7 months ago
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Yeah, but those living outside the US are already used to this. "Faded" Froot Loops exist in Australia and the EU. Sort of like not selling cigarettes to minors kinds of "bad for business" impacts... Like maybe that isn't such a bad idea.
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7 months ago
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Luca Casonato 🏳️🌈
7 months ago
Do I know anyone who works on Google Safe Browsing? The entirety of one of our PSL'd domains has been incorrectly flagged again
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Laura Woods
7 months ago
I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.
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tierney cyren
7 months ago
fun news! I was laid off from Twilio. going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week. if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along! reposts from tech folks appreciated <3
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫
7 months ago
This thread is incredible.
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Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk)
.@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database
https://xcancel.com/jasonlk/status/1946069562723897802
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I was standing behind Robert Altman at a music concert concession line, realised who he was, awkwardly thanked him for some great movies to which he replied 'Well, thank you." End of interaction.
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7 months ago
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I flew United Airlines to and from Australia and the US in Premium Economy and I have to admit their soft product has really improved since I flew them two years ago. The meals have improved with a decent amenity kit. Plus each flight there was standout crew who made the flight memorable.
7 months ago
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The Challenger Explosion. 😔
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7 months ago
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Simon Willison
7 months ago
If you ask the new Grok (via
grok.com
without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens:
x.com/jeremyphowar...
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METR
7 months ago
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
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OMG, it never clicked until now. He thinks asylum seekers are people with psychological issues. 🤦♂️ Next he will want to bomb Mars to save us from illegal aliens.
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7 months ago
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NYT going to press with the revelation Zohran prefers Chicago deep dish even though he claims to be a New Yorker.
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7 months ago
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deno install --global -A npm:@google/gemini-cli
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8 months ago
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Mindy Weisberger
8 months ago
Sharing this for no special reason: In July 1933, a New York Times reporter toured Dachau and saw the entire camp "except possibly the disciplinary cells." According to the reporter, "it was an almost idyllic picture of a rest camp," though the inmates were "gloomy" (h/t
@monospace.com
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TIMES WRITER VISITS REICH PRISON CAMP; Taken Through Entire Place at Dachau in Bavaria Except Possibly Disciplinary Cells. 2,000 INMATES GLOOMY Incautious Word Has Landed Many There -- Machine Guns an...
https://www.nytimes.com/1933/07/26/archives/times-writer-visits-reich-prison-camp-taken-through-entire-place-at.html
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I was wrong about npm support, but I was right about `deno bundle`, glad to see that back after I sadly originally lost the argument.
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8 months ago
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It is not a Chesterfield.
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8 months ago
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