André Klein
@andreklein.net
Writer, publisher, procrastinator … (will finish bio tomorrow) 🧉
https://andreklein.net
https://andreklein.net
“We used to deliver Christmas on a single php file over FTP” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMoql_RYVBQ #prodwithoutastagingenvironment #webdev
Santa Claus on delivering 99% Uptime
Interview with a Santa ClausInterview with a Santa Clause in 2025 with Santa Wallis - aired on © The Christmas.Programmer humorProgramming memesJavascript hu...
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December 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“We used to deliver Christmas on a single php file over FTP” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMoql_RYVBQ #prodwithoutastagingenvironment #webdev
Set up a pristine DietPi config on a brand new Pi -- PiHole, JellyFin, Samba, etc., all dialed in perfectly --only to snap the SD card while jamming it into a custom case. Murphy's Law strikes again. #RaspberryPi #TechFail #DietPiDisaster
December 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Set up a pristine DietPi config on a brand new Pi -- PiHole, JellyFin, Samba, etc., all dialed in perfectly --only to snap the SD card while jamming it into a custom case. Murphy's Law strikes again. #RaspberryPi #TechFail #DietPiDisaster
"Smurfahontas": A 3-hour nightmare of recycled tropes, zero stakes, and graphics that look like ... spit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQc0KEk9V74 #epicrant #avatar #fireandash
Mark Kermode reviews Avatar: Fire and Ash
#MarkKermode #SimonMayo #FilmReviewsJake and Neytiri's family grapples with grief after Neteyam's death, encountering a new, aggressive Na'vi tribe, the Ash ...
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December 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"Smurfahontas": A 3-hour nightmare of recycled tropes, zero stakes, and graphics that look like ... spit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQc0KEk9V74 #epicrant #avatar #fireandash
About time! Nobody likes gatekept "access-license-only" content:
"Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks" - https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/article/New-eBook-Download-Options-for-Readers-Coming-in-2026?language=en_US #epub #indiepub
"Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks" - https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/article/New-eBook-Download-Options-for-Readers-Coming-in-2026?language=en_US #epub #indiepub
December 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
About time! Nobody likes gatekept "access-license-only" content:
"Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks" - https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/article/New-eBook-Download-Options-for-Readers-Coming-in-2026?language=en_US #epub #indiepub
"Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks" - https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/article/New-eBook-Download-Options-for-Readers-Coming-in-2026?language=en_US #epub #indiepub
how it started: "let's build a quick masto/bsky/twit crossposter, quick 15 min adventure"
how it's going: *builds feature-rich unified social desktop client* #socialsox #buildinpublic
how it's going: *builds feature-rich unified social desktop client* #socialsox #buildinpublic
December 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
how it started: "let's build a quick masto/bsky/twit crossposter, quick 15 min adventure"
how it's going: *builds feature-rich unified social desktop client* #socialsox #buildinpublic
how it's going: *builds feature-rich unified social desktop client* #socialsox #buildinpublic
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I continue to think LLMs are absurdly powerful for learning, and I'm using them more often for it.
The problem is that a lot of people don't have solid metacognitive skills around epistemics and autodidactism.
You've got to have a handle on what you know, how you learn, and if you're learning.
The problem is that a lot of people don't have solid metacognitive skills around epistemics and autodidactism.
You've got to have a handle on what you know, how you learn, and if you're learning.
December 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I continue to think LLMs are absurdly powerful for learning, and I'm using them more often for it.
The problem is that a lot of people don't have solid metacognitive skills around epistemics and autodidactism.
You've got to have a handle on what you know, how you learn, and if you're learning.
The problem is that a lot of people don't have solid metacognitive skills around epistemics and autodidactism.
You've got to have a handle on what you know, how you learn, and if you're learning.
My real skill as an author isn't writing, it's taking procrastination to ever newer creative heights, so I almost convince myself it's productive. #writinglife
December 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
My real skill as an author isn't writing, it's taking procrastination to ever newer creative heights, so I almost convince myself it's productive. #writinglife
Currently reading ... #spinaltap #theboss
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Currently reading ... #spinaltap #theboss
Interesting talk about desktop UX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ #linux #desktop #ubuntu
Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
This talk focuses on that evil little term “UX/UI,” which is responsible for so much confusion and tension in open-source projects. Not only does it unnecess...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Interesting talk about desktop UX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ #linux #desktop #ubuntu
Continuing to build out the unified Home Feed that shows merged Bluesky/Mastodon in SocialSox:
- exclude languages from your feed
- follow/mute/block/boost/reply
- slide for mixing Bluesky/Masto items
#buildinpublic #bluesky #mastodon
- exclude languages from your feed
- follow/mute/block/boost/reply
- slide for mixing Bluesky/Masto items
#buildinpublic #bluesky #mastodon
December 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Continuing to build out the unified Home Feed that shows merged Bluesky/Mastodon in SocialSox:
- exclude languages from your feed
- follow/mute/block/boost/reply
- slide for mixing Bluesky/Masto items
#buildinpublic #bluesky #mastodon
- exclude languages from your feed
- follow/mute/block/boost/reply
- slide for mixing Bluesky/Masto items
#buildinpublic #bluesky #mastodon
Nice! Anthropic just donated its Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Linux Foundation. Real open-source infra & agent interoperability just leveled up. https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation #Linux #AI #llm #claude
Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Nice! Anthropic just donated its Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Linux Foundation. Real open-source infra & agent interoperability just leveled up. https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation #Linux #AI #llm #claude
At this point I'm convinced AWS & Google Cloud console GUIs are deliberately designed as obtuse labyrinths so you’ll inevitably flip the wrong toggle, enable a hidden service, and get quietly nickel-and-dimed to death by micro-requests.
#webdev #aws #googlecloud #serverless
#webdev #aws #googlecloud #serverless
December 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
At this point I'm convinced AWS & Google Cloud console GUIs are deliberately designed as obtuse labyrinths so you’ll inevitably flip the wrong toggle, enable a hidden service, and get quietly nickel-and-dimed to death by micro-requests.
#webdev #aws #googlecloud #serverless
#webdev #aws #googlecloud #serverless
Any kind of for-profit marketing messaging feels out of place on Mastodon/Bluesky, and that's a good thing #fediverse #mastodon #bluesky
December 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Any kind of for-profit marketing messaging feels out of place on Mastodon/Bluesky, and that's a good thing #fediverse #mastodon #bluesky
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I think software engineering will be needed as much as ever, but it will probably move to a higher level: less worrying about individual lines of code, more thinking about the overall properties that a system needs to satisfy, and finding ways of specifying those properties precisely.
December 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I think software engineering will be needed as much as ever, but it will probably move to a higher level: less worrying about individual lines of code, more thinking about the overall properties that a system needs to satisfy, and finding ways of specifying those properties precisely.
I love how seo guestpost spammers still lead with: "[dear site owner] The content on your site is amazing and thought-provoking..." Really Jane? Could have at least let some LLM run over some articles to pretend you've actually read anything. Come on, these are low hanging fruit! #seo #spam #webdev
December 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
well put
Why do AI agents converge to correct solutions — or get stuck in loops?
Agentic AI is contractive iteration toward a fixed point. Tools as negative feedback that forces stochastic output toward deterministic correctness.
#AI #AIAgents #LLM #MachineLearning
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Agentic AI is contractive iteration toward a fixed point. Tools as negative feedback that forces stochastic output toward deterministic correctness.
#AI #AIAgents #LLM #MachineLearning
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Why AI Agents Fail: The Stochastic Convergence Spiral
A topological framework for engineering deterministic outcomes from probabilistic models
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December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
well put
Experimenting with bringing a merged Bluesky/Mastodon feed straight into SocialSox - nice side-bonus: now i can finally filter for certain languages #buildinpublic #mastodon #bluesky
December 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Experimenting with bringing a merged Bluesky/Mastodon feed straight into SocialSox - nice side-bonus: now i can finally filter for certain languages #buildinpublic #mastodon #bluesky
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I made a thing sidetrail.app/@isaaccorbre...
learn to code
It's fun and you should try it
sidetrail.app
December 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I made a thing sidetrail.app/@isaaccorbre...
Higher education isn’t dying because kids use ChatGPT.
It’s dying because we’re still grading like it’s 1895 and pretending Google never happened.
https://andreklein.net/ai-isnt-killing-learning-our-standards-were-already-on-life-support/ #education #edchat #edtech #teaching
It’s dying because we’re still grading like it’s 1895 and pretending Google never happened.
https://andreklein.net/ai-isnt-killing-learning-our-standards-were-already-on-life-support/ #education #edchat #edtech #teaching
AI Isn’t Killing Learning. Our Standards Were Already on Life Support
You’ve probably seen that Current Affairs piece making the rounds, the one that declares higher education dead because “students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them,...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Higher education isn’t dying because kids use ChatGPT.
It’s dying because we’re still grading like it’s 1895 and pretending Google never happened.
https://andreklein.net/ai-isnt-killing-learning-our-standards-were-already-on-life-support/ #education #edchat #edtech #teaching
It’s dying because we’re still grading like it’s 1895 and pretending Google never happened.
https://andreklein.net/ai-isnt-killing-learning-our-standards-were-already-on-life-support/ #education #edchat #edtech #teaching
🚔 PSA: "The Darkside Detective" point-and-click adventure is currently free on Epic. Takes me back to the good old days of Zak McKracken and ManiacMansion. Witty, without being too on the nose. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-darkside-detective-ios-f97bd7 #pixelart #indiegames
December 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
🚔 PSA: "The Darkside Detective" point-and-click adventure is currently free on Epic. Takes me back to the good old days of Zak McKracken and ManiacMansion. Witty, without being too on the nose. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-darkside-detective-ios-f97bd7 #pixelart #indiegames
KarpeSlop: "The AI Slop Linter that Andrej Karpathy wishes existed" lol
https://github.com/CodeDeficient/KarpeSlop
"go forth and purge the slop." 🦸
#slopocalpyse #vibecoding #typescript #react #next
https://github.com/CodeDeficient/KarpeSlop
"go forth and purge the slop." 🦸
#slopocalpyse #vibecoding #typescript #react #next
GitHub - CodeDeficient/KarpeSlop: The AI Slop Linter that Andrej Karpathy wishes existed
The AI Slop Linter that Andrej Karpathy wishes existed - CodeDeficient/KarpeSlop
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December 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
KarpeSlop: "The AI Slop Linter that Andrej Karpathy wishes existed" lol
https://github.com/CodeDeficient/KarpeSlop
"go forth and purge the slop." 🦸
#slopocalpyse #vibecoding #typescript #react #next
https://github.com/CodeDeficient/KarpeSlop
"go forth and purge the slop." 🦸
#slopocalpyse #vibecoding #typescript #react #next
Spotify Wrapped dropping and everyone's flexing their “top 0.05% of Taylor Swift fans” like it’s a Nobel Prize.
Just say no to the algo overlords. Slap Jellyfin on a dusty old PC and flex on Big Music forever: https://andreklein.net/make-your-own-spotify-with-blackjack-and-hookers/ #Spotify #music
Just say no to the algo overlords. Slap Jellyfin on a dusty old PC and flex on Big Music forever: https://andreklein.net/make-your-own-spotify-with-blackjack-and-hookers/ #Spotify #music
Make Your Own Spotify, With Blackjack And Hookers
Earlier this year I found myself at a crossroads. Spotify's recommendation algorithms hadn't been what they used to be for a long time. I noticed they kept serving up the...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Spotify Wrapped dropping and everyone's flexing their “top 0.05% of Taylor Swift fans” like it’s a Nobel Prize.
Just say no to the algo overlords. Slap Jellyfin on a dusty old PC and flex on Big Music forever: https://andreklein.net/make-your-own-spotify-with-blackjack-and-hookers/ #Spotify #music
Just say no to the algo overlords. Slap Jellyfin on a dusty old PC and flex on Big Music forever: https://andreklein.net/make-your-own-spotify-with-blackjack-and-hookers/ #Spotify #music
I'm no video editor (in any sense of the word), but sometimes I need to quickly smash clips together, crop, and speed up footage. Most editors are bloated and annoying. Kdenlive's been a real game-changer: lightweight, fast, and minimal. https://kdenlive.org/
#FOSS #VideoEditing
#FOSS #VideoEditing
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I'm no video editor (in any sense of the word), but sometimes I need to quickly smash clips together, crop, and speed up footage. Most editors are bloated and annoying. Kdenlive's been a real game-changer: lightweight, fast, and minimal. https://kdenlive.org/
#FOSS #VideoEditing
#FOSS #VideoEditing
AI slop sucks.
So in SocialSox v0.3.0 I added AI that actually stays in its lane: spellcheck, shorten (basically a crop tool for text), and hashtag suggestions, nothing that drowns your voice.
Your words, just… less messy.
github.com/burninc0de/s... #indiedev #buildinpublic
So in SocialSox v0.3.0 I added AI that actually stays in its lane: spellcheck, shorten (basically a crop tool for text), and hashtag suggestions, nothing that drowns your voice.
Your words, just… less messy.
github.com/burninc0de/s... #indiedev #buildinpublic
December 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
AI slop sucks.
So in SocialSox v0.3.0 I added AI that actually stays in its lane: spellcheck, shorten (basically a crop tool for text), and hashtag suggestions, nothing that drowns your voice.
Your words, just… less messy.
github.com/burninc0de/s... #indiedev #buildinpublic
So in SocialSox v0.3.0 I added AI that actually stays in its lane: spellcheck, shorten (basically a crop tool for text), and hashtag suggestions, nothing that drowns your voice.
Your words, just… less messy.
github.com/burninc0de/s... #indiedev #buildinpublic