Software Engineer | Working on the @kixx.dev open-source web development framework | Personal Website: https://www.kriswalker.me/
Kris Walker
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There are a *lot* of software organizations laying people off and the remainders are choosing to leave and do something else. Don't take a job just because it was offered.
I've made this mistake too many times in my career.
Times will change, and you'll have opportunities you won't want to miss.
It has now been 3 months since I've had to attend a meeting. I went from 100 to zero, almost overnight.
I get to live in the now, this moment, each day, every day.
Portability is absolutely critical for a truly open framework.
While it is true that Cloudflare and AWS Lambda are proprietary platforms, it's hard to image how else the edge compute and tiny isolated container concepts could exist.
I love the web.
80% of good software is deleting the thing you were proud your agents wrote yesterday.
Kris Walker
The Small Web is Beautiful: A Study of Web Development as if People Mattered.
Ben Hoyt wrote this in 2021 and I can't get it out of my mind these days.
It's a take on E. F. Schumacher’s "Small is Beautiful" economics treatise
benhoyt.com/writings/the...
Kris Walker
Kris Walker
Kris Walker
Code is cheaper now.
"Everyone wants to be the sorcerer and not the apprentice.
But a sorcerer must understand the code."
Great, thought provoking post (as usual) by Carson Gross
htmx.org/essays/code-...
Kris Walker
A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.
This is from a great read by @joanwestenberg.com
www.joanwestenberg.com/how-we-lost-...
Compelling idea: Create a small language model, trained on a single software development framework. Keep it extremely domain specific.
This is in contrast to the scorched earth approach taken by frontier models.
Cool project by @theletterf.bsky.social got me thinking
passo.uno/fine-tuning-...
Kris Walker
Kris Walker
passo.uno
In my predictions for 2030 I wrote that tech writers would be using specialized LLMs, running locally on powerful hardware. I see hints of this move to “local first” among engineering pundits, but we’...
We need to live "in the now", more often
"In 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor turned the commoditisation of the minute into a science when he published The Principles of Scientific Management - which he had assembled by standing over the shoulder of various factory workers, wielding a stopwatch"
