chriskrycho.com
Software craftsman, composer, theologian, writer, runner, photographer. Anglican Christian. Platform eng. at Vanta. Co-author of the Rust book. Previously LinkedIn; Ember TS & Framework alum. I can help you adopt Rust or TypeScript!
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There are good demos and there are "forced" demos
In this case, the AI agent managed to do the same thing that a human would in a few minutes... also in a few minutes. Except with less effort to get a non-memorable post.
The more of these go on LinkedIn the less anyone will pay attention to it TBH
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Running the same course with actual pros and that mammoth crowd both sound *super* fun! I don’t think I *can* turn it down!
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Thank you! It was *so* much fun. I thought I would like it *less* than the half marathons I have run, but I might have liked it *more*?!?
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Thank you! 🎉
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The obvious question is: will I do it again. The answer is “Almost certainly!” If nothing else, that pace is an official Boston Marathon qualifying time and should be many minutes past whatever lower cutoff they end up with for men 35–39. I’m jazzed!
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You can find my deep dive race report on the race here: v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/2025...
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You can find the Strava activity here: www.strava.com/activities/1...
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Thank you! Was a heck of a great day—couldn’t have had better weather, and everything came together perfectly. Loved it. Will do it again!
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Instead, I think we are ill-served by the empty cynicism of 'go to college to get a job' rather than the notion that education is a form of self-improvement that produces a better, more capable version of yourself.
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The thing is, I think it is valuable. Understanding the past more broadly helps in making decisions in the present. Being able to write and communicate effectively is useful. A basic understanding of How Science Works is important for workers and informed consumers.
The actual content is valuable.
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Dangit, now I feel a need to go find this on Mastodon and like it. 😂
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A touch of deliberateness, of hesitation, of something like a thoughtful use of such a paradigm-shifting thing would be a start. Nobody is being a Luddite by asking if every proposed or possible use of the technology is desirable. Especially if people are using it to replace living friends.
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And look: I get it. Competing with Microsoft giving away VS Code for free is tough. I am *extremely* not a fan of how Microsoft—and pre-acquisition GitHub before it with Atom!—basically nuked the market for text editors, for exactly this reason. It’s grossly anti-competitive. It just makes me sad.
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…definitely present on larger screens, too, just somewhat less so, probably because the layout engine has more flexibility and room to play with.
Just to be extra clear: I’m flagging this because I *love* the work you’re doing in this space and think directionally this is fantastic!
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…mean some paragraphs end up a solid 2–3em narrower than those above or below them. It’s visually jarring and feels like a mistake. I’ve attached the same section of v5.chriskrycho.com/essays/the-l... with and without `text-wrap: pretty`, which I think shows it pretty clearly. The same effect is…
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…that at this point I have opted not to use it unless you all revisit the approach, because it makes for significant differences in the widths of paragraphs, which can be quite notably when reading through long blocks of text. It’s particularly (though not only) distracting on mobile, where it can…
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Yes—sorry, I recognize now I wasn’t clear at all, but that’s what I was intending to communicate above! I have experimented with it locally on both v5.chriskrycho.com and chriskrycho.music (as well as another in progress), and I had independently concluded that it just looked a bit… off. Enough so…
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Yes. And I was talking about my own experience. 👋🏼
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Done! 🎉 ⚙️ 🦀
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If it works for you, great! Not everyone is “fine” with that, though! I *do* notice, and indeed I notice the difference between Bluetooth and wired and used a wired keyboard for that reason, and notice the difference between terminal emulators and likewise prioritize for that.
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Thank you! I think that’s a great description of the company.
Re: Rust: not at present—alas! It’s basically all TypeScript at present. Who knows what the future holds, though?
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What’s the best way to give feedback on the implementation of `text-wrap: pretty`?
The short version is: I agree with Gruber’s write-up a couple weeks ago. It works well within individual paragraphs but not across multiple paragraphs, so with the current implementation I wouldn’t use it. 😬
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Oh boy do I ever sympathize. From the outside, it feels like “it can’t be *that* much work, right?”
I just did the work to get true-myth.js.org migrated over to be a VitePress site that uses TypeDoc under the hood, rather than TypeDoc directly. 90% of it was “just” organization. It took 30+ hours!
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Thank you—appreciate it!
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Thank you! Day 1 seems good!
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An understandable assumption, so I will say clearly here: absolutely not. I think his views on race and slavery are morally monstrous, and I was quite surprised to learn about this last week. I will have more to say at some point later this week, but I wanted to clarify that ASAP.
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This was news to me—I accepted months ago and just found out about Yarvin’s being invited the other day. I will have more to say on all of this sometime soon, but in the meantime I’ll just be clear that I find Yarvin’s views on slavery and race abhorrent.