Kait
@kait.dev
Computer whisperer, improv comedienne, big-time Lurker energy 🤖 Senior Engineer / Team Lead @ Prompt (We’re hiring senior devs!)🏳️⚧️👸👩❤️💋👩
Fun fact #1: Alexa devices no longer use on-device processing
Fun fact #2: Even disconnected, Alexas remember alarms
Fun fact #3: If you set an alarm and the internet goes out, you literally can’t make it stop short of unplugging the device because Alexa can’t process “stop”
Fun fact #2: Even disconnected, Alexas remember alarms
Fun fact #3: If you set an alarm and the internet goes out, you literally can’t make it stop short of unplugging the device because Alexa can’t process “stop”
August 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Fun fact #1: Alexa devices no longer use on-device processing
Fun fact #2: Even disconnected, Alexas remember alarms
Fun fact #3: If you set an alarm and the internet goes out, you literally can’t make it stop short of unplugging the device because Alexa can’t process “stop”
Fun fact #2: Even disconnected, Alexas remember alarms
Fun fact #3: If you set an alarm and the internet goes out, you literally can’t make it stop short of unplugging the device because Alexa can’t process “stop”
Those warring feelings when you start a new book: “Oh! This is good! I’m gonna read it all I one sitting!” And “Oh! This is good! I need to savor it because you can only read it for the first time once!”
August 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Those warring feelings when you start a new book: “Oh! This is good! I’m gonna read it all I one sitting!” And “Oh! This is good! I need to savor it because you can only read it for the first time once!”
How do all of my uber rides end in me giving AI lectures? I swear I’m not doing it because I WANT to, but the general public views all technological progress as an inevitable escalation of magic.
July 31, 2025 at 4:36 AM
How do all of my uber rides end in me giving AI lectures? I swear I’m not doing it because I WANT to, but the general public views all technological progress as an inevitable escalation of magic.
#Laracon day 1 was an absolute blast! Super looking forward to day 2!!
I’ve been to many conferences before as a speaker, but this is my first go-round as a vendor. It's funny, I didn't realize the hardest part would be trying to convince people we're not selling anything!
I’ve been to many conferences before as a speaker, but this is my first go-round as a vendor. It's funny, I didn't realize the hardest part would be trying to convince people we're not selling anything!
July 30, 2025 at 2:34 AM
#Laracon day 1 was an absolute blast! Super looking forward to day 2!!
I’ve been to many conferences before as a speaker, but this is my first go-round as a vendor. It's funny, I didn't realize the hardest part would be trying to convince people we're not selling anything!
I’ve been to many conferences before as a speaker, but this is my first go-round as a vendor. It's funny, I didn't realize the hardest part would be trying to convince people we're not selling anything!
As a die-hard "own your media" person, the last few months have seen me do more and more listening on Spotify as the discovery algorithms are excellent. However, all that ground and more are being lost as it starts throwing more and more AI-generated garbage into my playlists.
July 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
As a die-hard "own your media" person, the last few months have seen me do more and more listening on Spotify as the discovery algorithms are excellent. However, all that ground and more are being lost as it starts throwing more and more AI-generated garbage into my playlists.
The decisions of others should absolutely inform ours. On the recent Supreme Court ruling:
kait.dev/posts/decisi...
kait.dev/posts/decisi...
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June 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The decisions of others should absolutely inform ours. On the recent Supreme Court ruling:
kait.dev/posts/decisi...
kait.dev/posts/decisi...
I want to say that an email sending service taking 5 minutes to send me the 2FA code over email is ironic, but mostly it's just intensely annoying.
June 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I want to say that an email sending service taking 5 minutes to send me the 2FA code over email is ironic, but mostly it's just intensely annoying.
TIL that if you run out of hard drive space Mac OS will ... shut off your external monitors through DisplayLink? Sure, yes, I definitely needed to empty trash, but weird that "no more external displays" was the first warning.
June 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
TIL that if you run out of hard drive space Mac OS will ... shut off your external monitors through DisplayLink? Sure, yes, I definitely needed to empty trash, but weird that "no more external displays" was the first warning.
Nothing is ever so important to bad SaaS companies as getting the customer to pay them money.
Good companies, by contrast, focus on the user loving the app enough to want to pay them.
kait.dev/posts/but-he...
Good companies, by contrast, focus on the user loving the app enough to want to pay them.
kait.dev/posts/but-he...
June 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Nothing is ever so important to bad SaaS companies as getting the customer to pay them money.
Good companies, by contrast, focus on the user loving the app enough to want to pay them.
kait.dev/posts/but-he...
Good companies, by contrast, focus on the user loving the app enough to want to pay them.
kait.dev/posts/but-he...
I was too young to appreciate it at the time, but after years of wisdom accumulation I can officially endorse the McAllisters’ HOME ALONE plan of “adults in first class, kids in coach” as a true Pro Baller Move.
June 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I was too young to appreciate it at the time, but after years of wisdom accumulation I can officially endorse the McAllisters’ HOME ALONE plan of “adults in first class, kids in coach” as a true Pro Baller Move.
I feel like maybe we're still not diverse enough as software engineers when the blurring algorithm on Google Meet is completely baffled by my cold-shoulder top and chooses to blur out my shoulders like a Victorian newspaper baron scandalized by a brazenly uncovered ankle.
May 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I feel like maybe we're still not diverse enough as software engineers when the blurring algorithm on Google Meet is completely baffled by my cold-shoulder top and chooses to blur out my shoulders like a Victorian newspaper baron scandalized by a brazenly uncovered ankle.
I have a hard time finding any general websites I want to pay for anymore. Somehow it seems more useful to me to pay $5/month for a specific creator than, say, Vox.
The Verge has me for at least a year. We’ll see how it turns out.
The Verge has me for at least a year. We’ll see how it turns out.
May 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I have a hard time finding any general websites I want to pay for anymore. Somehow it seems more useful to me to pay $5/month for a specific creator than, say, Vox.
The Verge has me for at least a year. We’ll see how it turns out.
The Verge has me for at least a year. We’ll see how it turns out.
www.theverge.com/nintendo/…
I paid $300 for what amounted to a Mario Kart player and I’ll probably pay $500 for the Mario Kart World player, but man is my appetite for buying more of the same thing waning.
I paid $300 for what amounted to a Mario Kart player and I’ll probably pay $500 for the Mario Kart World player, but man is my appetite for buying more of the same thing waning.
Nintendo’s bold new era is full of safe bets
A Nintendo expands with theme parks, Hollywood movies, and the Switch 2, it’s taking fewer creative risks.
www.theverge.com
May 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
www.theverge.com/nintendo/…
I paid $300 for what amounted to a Mario Kart player and I’ll probably pay $500 for the Mario Kart World player, but man is my appetite for buying more of the same thing waning.
I paid $300 for what amounted to a Mario Kart player and I’ll probably pay $500 for the Mario Kart World player, but man is my appetite for buying more of the same thing waning.
As someone who just flew through Newark, trust me when I say you don’t want this.
www.theverge.com/planes/67…
www.theverge.com/planes/67…
The Newark airport crisis is about to become everyone’s problem
A shortage of air traffic controllers, bungled IT management, outdated technology, and a brewing disaster in our airspace.
www.theverge.com
May 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
As someone who just flew through Newark, trust me when I say you don’t want this.
www.theverge.com/planes/67…
www.theverge.com/planes/67…
I love actually useful command line named programs/parameters: ouch https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch
GitHub - ouch-org/ouch: Painless compression and decompression in the terminal
Painless compression and decompression in the terminal - ouch-org/ouch
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May 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I love actually useful command line named programs/parameters: ouch https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch
Unplanned: https://kait.dev/2025/05/20/unplanned/
May 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Unplanned: https://kait.dev/2025/05/20/unplanned/
I am mystified by low-information voters who are supposedly charting their political course based almost solely on their subjective lived experience/vibes and somehow are not clocking a dramatic decline in services of almost every sort... https://kait.dev/2025/05/11/i-am-mystified-by-lowinformation/
May 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I am mystified by low-information voters who are supposedly charting their political course based almost solely on their subjective lived experience/vibes and somehow are not clocking a dramatic decline in services of almost every sort... https://kait.dev/2025/05/11/i-am-mystified-by-lowinformation/
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Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up
May 10, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up
Oooh, I like this analogy: Using LLMs to cheat through any kind of educational opportunity is like taking a forklift to the gym: Yes, you’ve technically moved weights around, but you’re going to realize the shortcomings of the approach the first time you need to use your muscles.
May 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Oooh, I like this analogy: Using LLMs to cheat through any kind of educational opportunity is like taking a forklift to the gym: Yes, you’ve technically moved weights around, but you’re going to realize the shortcomings of the approach the first time you need to use your muscles.
One of my favorite emails is to get is a “sorry we’re shutting our service down” for applications I could not tell you the purpose of even with thousands of dollars on the line.
December 27, 2024 at 8:35 PM
One of my favorite emails is to get is a “sorry we’re shutting our service down” for applications I could not tell you the purpose of even with thousands of dollars on the line.