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kennethreitz

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Web Developer. Software Engineer. Thinker. Pythonist. OSX Addict. Software Junkie. Life is wonderful

https://kennethreitz.org :)

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kennethreitz··on Show HN: Niquests – Concurrent HTTP in Python, no async or threading code
cool!
kennethreitz··on When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow
thanks for posting this!
kennethreitz··on The cost of transparency: Living with schizoaffective disorder in tech
My name is Kenneth, not Keith.
kennethreitz··on The cost of transparency: Living with schizoaffective disorder in tech
I didn't lose control of my project, I removed myself from it intentionally (and unprompted).
kennethreitz··on The cost of transparency: Living with schizoaffective disorder in tech
Truth. This manifests as stigma, however, and needs awareness to compensate for.
kennethreitz··on The cost of transparency: Living with schizoaffective disorder in tech
FYI, I updated the post to acknowledge the public criticisms of my previous behavior:

> I need to be clear about something. I'm not claiming innocence in every workplace conflict or community dispute. I've made mistakes, handled situations poorly, and there's been legitimate criticism of my behavior in some cases. The Requests 3 fundraising situation, in particular, was handled badly - I took on commitments I couldn't deliver and didn't communicate well about the problems. I've apologized for this, though I understand the damage was already done. Mental illness doesn't excuse harmful behavior, and I'm not asking it to.

Thanks for the feedback!

kennethreitz··on PyCon US 2024 Recap
I remember vividly!
kennethreitz··on PyCon US 2024 Recap
I didn’t get to attend, but I enjoyed living vicariously through this post :-)
kennethreitz··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Remote (US)

Hello, my name is Kenneth Reitz and I am looking for work. You may recognize my name from the python community, where I am known for my API design and documentation skills.

I specialize in backend architecture and developer experience.

— me@kennethreitz.org 540-550-8939

kennethreitz··on Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”
really not that big a deal
kennethreitz··on Mark Zuckerberg confirms broad layoffs to begin at Meta
the problem is job market flooding
kennethreitz··on 1Password Refuses to support Orion browser for no reason
lol like tech companies are so consistient with their products nowadays
kennethreitz··on Python Environment
Also:

> From what I've heard, Pipenv "has been officially blessed" only insofar as its maintainer got commit access to PyPA's documentation and inserted a recommendation.

This is blatantly false.

kennethreitz··on Python Environment
I apologize for not meeting perfect standards of mood at all times. I have bipolar disorder, for what it's worth, and working on a packaging tool is very stress-inducing.
kennethreitz··on Assange's insurance: Password to a 1.3Gb file of unfiltered leaks
"A device that could check a billion billion (1018) AES keys per second would in theory require about 3×1051 years to exhaust the 256-bit key space." - wikipedia
kennethreitz··on Ask HN: 2011 Predictions
Flickr is far from dead. Photographers use it religiously.
kennethreitz··on Show HN: Spreadsheets using Python - Have you seen this?
Writing spreadsheets and other tabular data formats for Python is very simple with my Tablib library (http://tablib.org).
kennethreitz··on Ask Tom Preston-Werner, cofounder of GitHub, anything Today, Mon 18 Oct 2010.
GitHub's fandom is impressive considering how picky and opinionated developers are. How did you find an agnosticity balance that made such a diverse group of developers so happy?

I'm curious if the answer is being selective in features. You guys had a Gem builder for a while. Was it closed to help foster that idea that GitHub wasn't only a Ruby community site? And, did you consider creating similar tools for other languages?

kennethreitz··on Is Dvorak a Professional Troll?
Yes x 2.
kennethreitz··on Fully integrate Facebook Comments in Wordpress
pretty awesome!
kennethreitz··on What's In a Design, Apple?
what do you guys think?
kennethreitz··on Python, client side: Skulpt
Amazing!! I love python and i love this :)

site looks down though..