We'll be rocking the PubConf stage with @dylanbeatt.ie @rendle.dev @heatherdown.ing @eli.holderness.dev @hanneslowette.net (and hopefully @vagifabilov.bsky.social if his shoulder recovers in time!), putting a tech twist on all your favourite bangers, from AC/DC to Adele, The Killers to Taylor Swift.

Where you can find me this month: Workshops and talk at NDC London ndclondon.com/speakers/kev... The Hitchhiker's Guide to Computer Science ndclondon.com/workshops/th... Program with GUTs ndclondon.com/workshops/pr...

Related this week's WordFriday, I had a #FlashFiction published a few years back that was titled Evenfall: 365tomorrows.com/2019/06/14/e... #StorySunday

Ereyesterday's WordFriday: evenfall www.facebook.com/WordFriday/p... www.tumblr.com/wordfriday/8...

Yesterday's WordFriday: evenfall www.facebook.com/WordFriday/p... www.tumblr.com/wordfriday/8...

WordFriday: evenfall The beginning of evening, i.e., dusk, twilight, the fall of evening. www.facebook.com/WordFriday/p... www.tumblr.com/wordfriday/8...

@kevlin.bsky.social found a wild terminal screen at the airport! 😂

Blogged: Code Cleanliness "My first encounter with cleanliness in code: […] Kernighan and Plauger’s 1978 book, The Elements of Programming Style (2nd edition). […] The idea of clean code has been around in one form or another for at least half a century." kevlinhenney.medium.com/code-cleanli...

WordFriday: evenfall The beginning of evening, i.e., dusk, twilight, the fall of evening. www.facebook.com/WordFriday/p... www.tumblr.com/wordfriday/8...

Blogged: Code Cleanliness "My first encounter with cleanliness in code: […] Kernighan and Plauger’s 1978 book, The Elements of Programming Style (2nd edition). […] The idea of clean code has been around in one form or another for at least half a century." kevlinhenney.medium.com/code-cleanli...

Blogged: Code Cleanliness "Prior to becoming considered a brand or a dogma, cleanliness and cleaning of code was a suggestive and general metaphor rather than a specific checklist of practices and judgements." kevlinhenney.medium.com/code-cleanli...

Join me in a couple of weeks for one (or both) of my one-day sessions at NDC London @ndcconferences.com: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Computer Science ndclondon.com/workshops/th... Program with GUTs ndclondon.com/workshops/pr... See you there!

Join me in a couple of weeks for one (or both) of my one-day sessions at NDC London @ndcconferences.com: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Computer Science ndclondon.com/workshops/th... Program with GUTs ndclondon.com/workshops/pr... See you there!

Blogged: Code Cleanliness "Prior to becoming considered a brand or a dogma, cleanliness and cleaning of code was a suggestive and general metaphor rather than a specific checklist of practices and judgements." kevlinhenney.medium.com/code-cleanli...

New on the blog: Code Cleanliness On the origins of 'clean code' kevlinhenney.medium.com/code-cleanli...

New on the blog: Code Cleanliness On the origins of 'clean code' kevlinhenney.medium.com/code-cleanli...

What's the best new years resolution for a software engineer? (even better if it's impossible to actually keep 😅)

Ereyesterday's WordFriday: periastron www.facebook.com/WordFriday/p... www.tumblr.com/wordfriday/8...

Sometimes I open a new poetry manuscript and Adobe asks me if I’d like an “AI” summary of the document. I wish there was a way to make it clear that I’d rather have plague-carrying squirrels gnaw off my thumbs.

Yesterday's WordFriday: periastron www.facebook.com/WordFriday/p... www.tumblr.com/wordfriday/8...

WordFriday: periastron The periastron is the point in an object's orbit around a star at which the distance between between the star and object is a minimum, i.e., the closest point. www.facebook.com/WordFriday/p... www.tumblr.com/wordfriday/8...

On the blog: You Will Never Know Enough "The inevitability of imperfection doesn’t make whatever problem we’re dealing with go away, but it should temper our frustration and make us less ready to misattribute intention." kevlinhenney.medium.com/you-will-nev...

Where you can find me over the next few weeks: NDC London @ndcconferences.com ndclondon.com/speakers/kev... Voxxed Days Ticino @voxxed.com vdt26.voxxeddays.ch/speaker/?id=... Voxxed Days CERN @cern.voxxeddays.ch vdc26.voxxeddays.ch More in the pipeline waiting to be confirmed. Watch this space!

WordFriday: periastron The periastron is the point in an object's orbit around a star at which the distance between between the star and object is a minimum, i.e., the closest point. www.facebook.com/WordFriday/p... www.tumblr.com/wordfriday/8...

On the blog: You Will Never Know Enough "The inevitability of imperfection doesn’t make whatever problem we’re dealing with go away, but it should temper our frustration and make us less ready to misattribute intention." kevlinhenney.medium.com/you-will-nev...

On the blog: You Will Never Know Enough "Legacy codebases are mired in the regret of unapplied knowledge. Deferment to the future is a form of commitment rather than one of abandonment, as is so commonly practised." kevlinhenney.medium.com/you-will-nev...

On the blog: You Will Never Know Enough "Legacy codebases are mired in the regret of unapplied knowledge. Deferment to the future is a form of commitment rather than one of abandonment, as is so commonly practised." kevlinhenney.medium.com/you-will-nev...

“The knowledge you have at the moment is incomplete and imperfect — and, for any given moment, always will be — but your ability to acquire knowledge and put it into practice is ever-present.”

I $object to this template @kevlin.bsky.social

New on the blog: You Will Never Know Enough — Make peace (and progress) with incomplete knowledge kevlinhenney.medium.com/you-will-nev...

Earlier this month on Instagram: Sydney · Brisbane · Melbourne instagram.com/kevlin.henney

New on the blog: You Will Never Know Enough — Make peace (and progress) with incomplete knowledge kevlinhenney.medium.com/you-will-nev...

Earlier this month on Instagram: Sydney · Brisbane · Melbourne instagram.com/kevlin.henney

On my way to #39c3

We're excited to announce the speakers & agenda for SDD 2026, the UK's leading conference for software developers & architects (London, 11-15 May). There are dozens of sessions & workshops to choose from, and registration is now open - book by 16 January, & save up to £500! sddconf.com

Found a @kevlin.bsky.social last Saturday on the beach of Hoek van Holland at the beachguard station. The screen is showing that the page is not available in Dutch.

Top 10 most-watched talks from AmA: @simonbrown.je , @kevlin.bsky.social , @simon.bvssh.com & more. Hard-won lessons from practitioners. Watch: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Hey @gdinwiddie.bsky.social - what’s the name of the guy that collects these? I can’t remember.

I took a drive up to Less Than Less Than Open Curly Brace Rua do Farol Close Bracket. Maybe I'll see @kevlin.bsky.social there.

C: Yes, C can be a little cryptic at times *waves at the International Obfuscated C Coding Contest (IOCCC)* JavaScript: Hold my beer *https://jsfuck.com/*

📢 ADSP Ep 265 is out! 📢 In this episode, I record live from @yowconf.bsky.social 2025 in Sydney 🇦🇺! I talk with @kevlin.bsky.social about his YOW! talk and the future of programming languages, as well as @damianm.com on his first time as Technical Director of YOW! 🥳 adspthepodcast.com/2025/12/19/E...

C: Yes, C can be a little cryptic at times *waves at the International Obfuscated C Coding Contest (IOCCC)* JavaScript: Hold my beer *https://jsfuck.com/*

Something that brought me great joy this morning: the discovery that the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows had posted a new word and video — the first in many, many years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEi8...

Something that brought me great joy this morning: the discovery that the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows had posted a new word and video — the first in many, many years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEi8...

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

Hmm, 'addictive' is a poor wording choice. There are many things one might want from software infrastructure, but addiction is probably not one of them. Dependencies should be minimal and manageable, not unhealthy and uncontrollable.

Hmm, 'addictive' is a poor wording choice. There are many things one might want from software infrastructure, but addiction is probably not one of them. Dependencies should be minimal and manageable, not unhealthy and uncontrollable.

Gen AI tools giving us a whole new cadre of @kevlin.bsky.social

When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public.

I heard a rumour that the new Star Trek films will be set in the Kevlin timeline