Kris Jenkins
@krisajenkins.bsky.social
Lifelong Programmer, Host of the Developer Voices podcast.
Will this problem go away if I make tea?
Yes.
But will this problem come back after I finish the tea?
Also yes.
So...do we have plenty of teabags?
I'm pleased to say we've got _hundreds_.
Yes.
But will this problem come back after I finish the tea?
Also yes.
So...do we have plenty of teabags?
I'm pleased to say we've got _hundreds_.
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Will this problem go away if I make tea?
Yes.
But will this problem come back after I finish the tea?
Also yes.
So...do we have plenty of teabags?
I'm pleased to say we've got _hundreds_.
Yes.
But will this problem come back after I finish the tea?
Also yes.
So...do we have plenty of teabags?
I'm pleased to say we've got _hundreds_.
For background music to work to, I’m really enjoying the Stellaris soundtrack right now.
And also anything by State Azure.
#randomMusicSuggestions
And also anything by State Azure.
#randomMusicSuggestions
December 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
For background music to work to, I’m really enjoying the Stellaris soundtrack right now.
And also anything by State Azure.
#randomMusicSuggestions
And also anything by State Azure.
#randomMusicSuggestions
This is an terrific 5-minute radioplay: They're Made Out Of Meat.
Absolutely loved it. You'll want sound on.
asciinema.org/a/746358
Absolutely loved it. You'll want sound on.
asciinema.org/a/746358
They’re Made Out of Meat
A radio play by PRI and WNYC Studios based on Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat" short story. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/studio/segments/168264-theyre-made-out-of-meat The visuals ...
asciinema.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This is an terrific 5-minute radioplay: They're Made Out Of Meat.
Absolutely loved it. You'll want sound on.
asciinema.org/a/746358
Absolutely loved it. You'll want sound on.
asciinema.org/a/746358
Gmail x 3, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, Twitter, Slack x2, Discord, and on and on.
I've got 99 inboxes and I can't cope with 1. 🫠
I've got 99 inboxes and I can't cope with 1. 🫠
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Gmail x 3, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, Twitter, Slack x2, Discord, and on and on.
I've got 99 inboxes and I can't cope with 1. 🫠
I've got 99 inboxes and I can't cope with 1. 🫠
Reposted by Kris Jenkins
Backend devs: you already have the data - now visualise it in minutes!
At GOTO, @krisajenkins.bsky.social showed how Streamlit + Python lets you skip REST APIs & React and jump straight to interactive dashboards. 🔥
At GOTO, @krisajenkins.bsky.social showed how Streamlit + Python lets you skip REST APIs & React and jump straight to interactive dashboards. 🔥
Building Data Visualisations in Python in Minutes • Kris Jenkins • GOTO 2025
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph
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Kris Jenkins - Lifelong Computer Geek and Podcast Host @krisajenkins…
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Backend devs: you already have the data - now visualise it in minutes!
At GOTO, @krisajenkins.bsky.social showed how Streamlit + Python lets you skip REST APIs & React and jump straight to interactive dashboards. 🔥
At GOTO, @krisajenkins.bsky.social showed how Streamlit + Python lets you skip REST APIs & React and jump straight to interactive dashboards. 🔥
Can Google take on LangChain? Is Python the right language for building agent workflows? And is AI an opportunity for Google or an existential threat?
Christina Lin joins me this week to discuss Agent Development Kit for building data pipelines that have LLMs in the middle.
youtu.be/nMnQ63YkftE
Christina Lin joins me this week to discuss Agent Development Kit for building data pipelines that have LLMs in the middle.
youtu.be/nMnQ63YkftE
Can Google's ADK Replace LangChain and MCP? (with Christina Lin)
YouTube video by Developer Voices
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Can Google take on LangChain? Is Python the right language for building agent workflows? And is AI an opportunity for Google or an existential threat?
Christina Lin joins me this week to discuss Agent Development Kit for building data pipelines that have LLMs in the middle.
youtu.be/nMnQ63YkftE
Christina Lin joins me this week to discuss Agent Development Kit for building data pipelines that have LLMs in the middle.
youtu.be/nMnQ63YkftE
AI has really improved my experience of using Nix.
Sometimes I want a specific version of a package. And quite often I want a version that's just been released, and isn't in nixpkgs yet. Claude is fantastic at the boring legwork of writing and testing a custom overlay so I can get it right now.
Sometimes I want a specific version of a package. And quite often I want a version that's just been released, and isn't in nixpkgs yet. Claude is fantastic at the boring legwork of writing and testing a custom overlay so I can get it right now.
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
AI has really improved my experience of using Nix.
Sometimes I want a specific version of a package. And quite often I want a version that's just been released, and isn't in nixpkgs yet. Claude is fantastic at the boring legwork of writing and testing a custom overlay so I can get it right now.
Sometimes I want a specific version of a package. And quite often I want a version that's just been released, and isn't in nixpkgs yet. Claude is fantastic at the boring legwork of writing and testing a custom overlay so I can get it right now.
AI generated art is art for people that don’t care about art.
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
AI generated art is art for people that don’t care about art.
Why is it that LLMs say, “You’re absolutely right! “ so often?
I don’t mean why are they so annoyingly obsequious. I mean why that exact phrase, nearly every time, from all the vendors? From all I know of LLMs, it doesn’t make sense that they’d ever be so predictable. 🤔
I don’t mean why are they so annoyingly obsequious. I mean why that exact phrase, nearly every time, from all the vendors? From all I know of LLMs, it doesn’t make sense that they’d ever be so predictable. 🤔
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Why is it that LLMs say, “You’re absolutely right! “ so often?
I don’t mean why are they so annoyingly obsequious. I mean why that exact phrase, nearly every time, from all the vendors? From all I know of LLMs, it doesn’t make sense that they’d ever be so predictable. 🤔
I don’t mean why are they so annoyingly obsequious. I mean why that exact phrase, nearly every time, from all the vendors? From all I know of LLMs, it doesn’t make sense that they’d ever be so predictable. 🤔
Can we start referring to him as The Andrew Formerly Known As Prince?
November 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Can we start referring to him as The Andrew Formerly Known As Prince?
How do you profile and observe your production software, regardless of language and tools, across all your machines?
Mohammed Aboullaite joins me this week to dive into the Linux kernel, explaining how eBPF can profile and monitor software from the very root of the stack.
youtu.be/sgzTo4dRU3w
Mohammed Aboullaite joins me this week to dive into the Linux kernel, explaining how eBPF can profile and monitor software from the very root of the stack.
youtu.be/sgzTo4dRU3w
Building Observable Systems with eBPF and Linux (with Mohammed Aboullaite)
YouTube video by Developer Voices
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
How do you profile and observe your production software, regardless of language and tools, across all your machines?
Mohammed Aboullaite joins me this week to dive into the Linux kernel, explaining how eBPF can profile and monitor software from the very root of the stack.
youtu.be/sgzTo4dRU3w
Mohammed Aboullaite joins me this week to dive into the Linux kernel, explaining how eBPF can profile and monitor software from the very root of the stack.
youtu.be/sgzTo4dRU3w
Have you ever been frustrated by a git merge? That’s a trick question - of course you have. 😁
This week we’re talking about a tool that’s git-compatible, but completely rethinks the way we handle merging, rebasing and undo/redo:
youtu.be/ulJ_Pw8qqsE
This week we’re talking about a tool that’s git-compatible, but completely rethinks the way we handle merging, rebasing and undo/redo:
youtu.be/ulJ_Pw8qqsE
Solving Git's Pain Points with Jujutsu (with Martin von Zweigbergk)
YouTube video by Developer Voices
youtu.be
October 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Have you ever been frustrated by a git merge? That’s a trick question - of course you have. 😁
This week we’re talking about a tool that’s git-compatible, but completely rethinks the way we handle merging, rebasing and undo/redo:
youtu.be/ulJ_Pw8qqsE
This week we’re talking about a tool that’s git-compatible, but completely rethinks the way we handle merging, rebasing and undo/redo:
youtu.be/ulJ_Pw8qqsE
It’s really surprising how often Gemini CLI will just stop. Just stop dead, like it’s dropped a message in transit and there’s no check-and-recover code.
Come on Google, you’re suppose to be good at this. 🫠
Come on Google, you’re suppose to be good at this. 🫠
September 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
It’s really surprising how often Gemini CLI will just stop. Just stop dead, like it’s dropped a message in transit and there’s no check-and-recover code.
Come on Google, you’re suppose to be good at this. 🫠
Come on Google, you’re suppose to be good at this. 🫠
This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long while: www.lego.com/en-gb/produc...
Game Boy™ 72046 | LEGO® Super Mario™ | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop GB
Nintendo® themed collectible building set for adults
www.lego.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long while: www.lego.com/en-gb/produc...
I take great pride in devising the intros for my podcast, but this is the first time one's been turned into a heavy metal logo. Love it! 😍
Developer Voices by @krisajenkins.bsky.social is one of our favorite podcasts at AntithesisHQ and he's just given our office metal band a name.
While you wait for their first album to drop, perhaps you'd like to watch his interview with Will Wilson? Links below.
While you wait for their first album to drop, perhaps you'd like to watch his interview with Will Wilson? Links below.
September 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I take great pride in devising the intros for my podcast, but this is the first time one's been turned into a heavy metal logo. Love it! 😍
How do you test software, if you want to be *really* thorough about it? To answer that question this week we're going as far back as the 8-Bit Nintendo, as far down as the CPU, and nearly as far up and away as Mars. Will Wilson joins me to explore how far you can push testing…
youtu.be/_xJ4maWhSNU
youtu.be/_xJ4maWhSNU
From Unit Tests to Whole Universe Tests (with Will Wilson)
YouTube video by Developer Voices
youtu.be
September 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
How do you test software, if you want to be *really* thorough about it? To answer that question this week we're going as far back as the 8-Bit Nintendo, as far down as the CPU, and nearly as far up and away as Mars. Will Wilson joins me to explore how far you can push testing…
youtu.be/_xJ4maWhSNU
youtu.be/_xJ4maWhSNU
Plenty of people complain about AWS' complexity, but could you build anything simpler, when every user wants something different?
I'm joined this week by Anurag Goel to discuss the many challenges of building a hosting platform, including scaling to 100bn requests per month! 😱
youtu.be/SLDMHLImEys
I'm joined this week by Anurag Goel to discuss the many challenges of building a hosting platform, including scaling to 100bn requests per month! 😱
youtu.be/SLDMHLImEys
Building Render: Inside a Modern Cloud Platform (with Anurag Goel)
YouTube video by Developer Voices
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August 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Plenty of people complain about AWS' complexity, but could you build anything simpler, when every user wants something different?
I'm joined this week by Anurag Goel to discuss the many challenges of building a hosting platform, including scaling to 100bn requests per month! 😱
youtu.be/SLDMHLImEys
I'm joined this week by Anurag Goel to discuss the many challenges of building a hosting platform, including scaling to 100bn requests per month! 😱
youtu.be/SLDMHLImEys
Today I tried bodyboarding for the first time. It’s rather like being so drunk you try to sleep on the dinner table.
August 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Today I tried bodyboarding for the first time. It’s rather like being so drunk you try to sleep on the dinner table.
It’s a very short journey from loading PNGs onto a bird to carrier pigeons that can rickroll you over long distances.
August 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
It’s a very short journey from loading PNGs onto a bird to carrier pigeons that can rickroll you over long distances.
How hard is it to write a billion-row-per-day database? Hard enough that its evolution has taken Paul Dix on a heck of a journey over the past ten years, figuring out everything from Time-Structured Merge trees to Go vs Rust to getting pricing models right the hard way:
youtu.be/r4LkaPkxang
youtu.be/r4LkaPkxang
InfluxDB: The Evolution of a Time Series Database (with Paul Dix)
YouTube video by Developer Voices
youtu.be
July 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
How hard is it to write a billion-row-per-day database? Hard enough that its evolution has taken Paul Dix on a heck of a journey over the past ten years, figuring out everything from Time-Structured Merge trees to Go vs Rust to getting pricing models right the hard way:
youtu.be/r4LkaPkxang
youtu.be/r4LkaPkxang
July 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
You know you've asked a good question when the guest makes this sound... 😁
(If you want to know what Paul's is about to explain, you'll have to tune in in a couple of weeks.)
(If you want to know what Paul's is about to explain, you'll have to tune in in a couple of weeks.)
July 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
You know you've asked a good question when the guest makes this sound... 😁
(If you want to know what Paul's is about to explain, you'll have to tune in in a couple of weeks.)
(If you want to know what Paul's is about to explain, you'll have to tune in in a couple of weeks.)
Working on a new talk. I think this slide is going to be a banger.
July 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Working on a new talk. I think this slide is going to be a banger.
Going beyond the hype of AI, and avoiding the cynicism, how is AI going to change the way we code?
Zach Lloyd joins me with his bet on what agentic tools might actually look like, and how the terminal is the perfect jumping-off point:
youtu.be/cwOrpH8feco
Zach Lloyd joins me with his bet on what agentic tools might actually look like, and how the terminal is the perfect jumping-off point:
youtu.be/cwOrpH8feco
"Beyond AI Hype, What Will Developers Actually Use? (with Zach Lloyd)"
YouTube video by Developer Voices
youtu.be
July 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Going beyond the hype of AI, and avoiding the cynicism, how is AI going to change the way we code?
Zach Lloyd joins me with his bet on what agentic tools might actually look like, and how the terminal is the perfect jumping-off point:
youtu.be/cwOrpH8feco
Zach Lloyd joins me with his bet on what agentic tools might actually look like, and how the terminal is the perfect jumping-off point:
youtu.be/cwOrpH8feco