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Kris Walker

@kixxauth.bsky.social

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Building Kixx: A rapid web development framework for humans, and our AI tools Kixx: https://kixx.dev Website: https://www.kriswalker.me/

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Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · Sep 11

Working on Kixx - a concept for a rapid web development framework using AI

I want to be able to build blazingly fast without generating piles of shit code I’ll need to rewrite later.

www.kixx.dev

Kixx

Kixx is a rapid application development framework for human coders -- and our AI tools.

www.kixx.dev

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, good perspective. I wonder if there is a way to effectively frame it so that it doesn't matter for the product either? Think of it like building for yourself.

Maybe it just takes experience to get a better gut feeling about what we're working on.

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 2h

@jimmy.path.pub I love the concept of path.pub

I'm trying to do something similar with www.kixx.news

Kixx.News

Don't drink from a fire hose. Kixx.News finds the best stuff on the web, about the web, with new editions published most Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

www.kixx.news

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 2h

Oh really? I actually get it with developer tools and libraries, haha. I wonder what part of our psychology accounts for this? It might be something we can lean into when we make things if we understand it better.

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Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 4h

JavaScript is a really, really nice language in 2025 ...

when you strip away all the web framework garbage, TypeScript, tooling, build processes, etc

Writing code the way we did in 2008 with the JavaScript of 2025 is really amazing!

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Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 5h

What kills motivation?

This and more great web developer reads in Tuesdays edition of Kixx News

www.kixx.news/editions/202...

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 6h

Make your own luck

www.kriswalker.me/essays/make-...

Make Your Own Luck

Luck plays a role in our successes and failures. But, we can take deliberate action to make ourselves a target for good luck.

www.kriswalker.me

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 6h

What kills motivation?

"Maybe, working hard doesn’t lead to burnout, but the lack of hope leads to burnout"

Great read from @justinjackson.ca

justinjackson.ca/kill-motivat...

What kills motivation?

Working hard doesn't cause burnout, but losing hope does. Here's how to tell when to persist through difficulty vs. time to pivot.

justinjackson.ca

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Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 6h

What are your ambitions? Your dreams should get your best hours.

www.workingtheorys.com/p/best-hours

Your dreams demand your best hours

a short reflection on the inequality of time

www.workingtheorys.com

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 6h

What does ripgrep do?

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

overheard from table next to me:

"All these Chat GPTs are taking away entry level marketing jobs"

Is "ChatGPT" becoming a noun and a verb? Like "why don't you google for that?"

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

The Boomer Cloud; Ouch ... LoL

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 1d

I heard someone describe Azure as “the Boomer cloud”

Crude but also accurate

Cannot recall any startup that is not on AWS or GCP

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that's true. I'm halfway joking about the cup of coffee, but taking 5 - 10 minutes to sit back and think about the project is really helpful.

But, I've found that orchestrating more sophisticated agentic workflows is really hard, and *expensive*. There is more opportunity here.

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

By the time 20 talented and well paid programmers and managers have:

- created the requirements docs
- gotten the estimates
- approved the budget
- refined the requirements
- debated who owns it

One programmer could have just done it in 1/20 the time.

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

What would you need to see on the home page of an open source web development framework to think "damn, I really need to try that"?

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about rebranding the nascent little Kixx web framework

www.kixx.dev

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the core problem for agentic coding:

I get the best results asking an AI agent to implement little things here and there ... which leaves me with just enough time between tasks to ... make a cup of coffee?

Kris Walker @kixxauth.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about rebranding the nascent little Kixx web framework

www.kixx.dev