Ken Bonny
@kenbonny.net
Software craftsman specialising in Microsoft technology
This is the reason why we need to keep humans in the loop. A lot of people seem to think AI is some magical tech that can replace devs. It isn't. It's a tool. A slightly smarter nailgun. I will not trust a nailgun to make decisions about the software that keeps my company running.
I love how this person with a vested interest in selling AI solutions is acknowledging that AI writes shit code and, instead of improving it, we should just lower our standards.
This is how you get the 737 Max 8.
This is how you get the 737 Max 8.
Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
December 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This is the reason why we need to keep humans in the loop. A lot of people seem to think AI is some magical tech that can replace devs. It isn't. It's a tool. A slightly smarter nailgun. I will not trust a nailgun to make decisions about the software that keeps my company running.
Reposted by Ken Bonny
If everything Rob Pike created vanished overnight, the Internet would stop working. If everything AI created vanished overnight, we’d all breathe a huge sigh of relief and get on with our lives.
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
If everything Rob Pike created vanished overnight, the Internet would stop working. If everything AI created vanished overnight, we’d all breathe a huge sigh of relief and get on with our lives.
If you've never heard of the linebreakers, you're in for a treat.
If you know them, you're in for a new treat.
If you know them, you're in for a new treat.
Chris Rea was a phenomenally talented guitar player. I recorded this back in 2021, but could never quite replicate his distinctive slide/picking style and it's been sat in a folder ever since... so here it is, rough edges and all.
RIP, Chris. Thank you for the music.
soundcloud.com/dylanbeattie...
RIP, Chris. Thank you for the music.
soundcloud.com/dylanbeattie...
The Road to Excel
Back in 2020, when the news headlines was full of reports that COVID patient data was getting lost because of government departments using Excel as a data interchange format, I recorded a version of
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December 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If you've never heard of the linebreakers, you're in for a treat.
If you know them, you're in for a new treat.
If you know them, you're in for a new treat.
The versatility, ease of reading and the language helps you prevent bugs are my most important reasons for liking #fsharp.
My post for #fsadvent2025 #fsharp #adventCalendar #dotnet #powershell comparing F# with PowerShell🎄 thank you @sergeytihon.com > jkone27-3876.medium.com/f-and-powers...
F# and PowerShell >🎄?
Included in Sergey’s F# advent calendar 2025, thank you Sergey and thank you F# dev community for this magic time of the year again 🎅🏾
jkone27-3876.medium.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The versatility, ease of reading and the language helps you prevent bugs are my most important reasons for liking #fsharp.
Reposted by Ken Bonny
We're very happy to help the FBI with processing another 630M passwords recently seized from a suspect. This includes 46M we'd never seen before, which are now all in @haveibeenpwned.com's Pwned Passwords, where they're queried 18 *billion* times a month: www.troyhunt.com/processing-6...
Processing 630 Million More Pwned Passwords, Courtesy of the FBI
The sheer scope of cybercrime can be hard to fathom, even when you live and breathe it every day. It's not just the volume of data, but also the extent to which it replicates across criminal actors se...
www.troyhunt.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
We're very happy to help the FBI with processing another 630M passwords recently seized from a suspect. This includes 46M we'd never seen before, which are now all in @haveibeenpwned.com's Pwned Passwords, where they're queried 18 *billion* times a month: www.troyhunt.com/processing-6...
So You Want To Speak At Software Conferences? : dylanbeattie.net
An article from dylanbeattie.net
dylanbeattie.net
December 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I've given a talk about #functionalprogramming in @fsharponline.bsky.social over at Build Stuff. I think it was well received.
December 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I've given a talk about #functionalprogramming in @fsharponline.bsky.social over at Build Stuff. I think it was well received.
Sometimes, especially in the past few years, this is what it feels like to work in tech.
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Sometimes, especially in the past few years, this is what it feels like to work in tech.
Hey, @jetbrains.com, it seems you have a little problem with your lastest release. 😯
It doesn't just detect usage, it also doesn't properly rename. This fails with all renames (classes, properties, functions,...). I think something is wrong with your symbol detection.
It doesn't just detect usage, it also doesn't properly rename. This fails with all renames (classes, properties, functions,...). I think something is wrong with your symbol detection.
November 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Hey, @jetbrains.com, it seems you have a little problem with your lastest release. 😯
It doesn't just detect usage, it also doesn't properly rename. This fails with all renames (classes, properties, functions,...). I think something is wrong with your symbol detection.
It doesn't just detect usage, it also doesn't properly rename. This fails with all renames (classes, properties, functions,...). I think something is wrong with your symbol detection.
Reposted by Ken Bonny
Trying to measure coding productivity is, and always will be, a fool's errand.
Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.
Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.
Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.
Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Trying to measure coding productivity is, and always will be, a fool's errand.
Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.
Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.
Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.
Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.
Reposted by Ken Bonny
F# 10 makes it possible to use let! .. and! to await two tasks in parallel. This brings back some memories!
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
F# 10 makes it possible to use let! .. and! to await two tasks in parallel. This brings back some memories!
@microsoft.com I love your products, but hate your sales department. I have Partner benefits package which includes Office 365. I just got the warning that my license is expiring in Feb 2026 (3 months before the expiration).
November 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
@microsoft.com I love your products, but hate your sales department. I have Partner benefits package which includes Office 365. I just got the warning that my license is expiring in Feb 2026 (3 months before the expiration).
My @polestarcars.bsky.social 2 can now display #Waze on the display behind my steering wheel. This is awesome, now I can use it just like Google Maps. Not sure who made this happen, but it's awesome!
November 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
My @polestarcars.bsky.social 2 can now display #Waze on the display behind my steering wheel. This is awesome, now I can use it just like Google Maps. Not sure who made this happen, but it's awesome!
I love that I'm getting an extra meal for my dog for Christmas from @butternutbox.bsky.social!
Thanks for the awesome surprise. ❤️
Thanks for the awesome surprise. ❤️
November 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I love that I'm getting an extra meal for my dog for Christmas from @butternutbox.bsky.social!
Thanks for the awesome surprise. ❤️
Thanks for the awesome surprise. ❤️
And dotnet just became a lot more secure and convenient.
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
And dotnet just became a lot more secure and convenient.
I hate these steps.
![Comic. PERSON 1 with white hat: How tall are you? PERSON 2: 5ft 24cm [caption] When switching to metric, make the process easier by doing it in steps.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifptvo6h6kdpf75j3i443ospzumiii7a3pblah2urjrawmyymh3ga@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I hate these steps.
Reposted by Ken Bonny
This talk is a must-watch for people in the Event-Driven space. I saw @noctovis.bsky.social giving it live at this year's DDDEU, and I truly believe that she nailed the versioning topic 👇🙂
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCb...
Change Is Inevitable: Versioning Event-Driven Systems — Laila Bougria
YouTube video by JetBrains
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This talk is a must-watch for people in the Event-Driven space. I saw @noctovis.bsky.social giving it live at this year's DDDEU, and I truly believe that she nailed the versioning topic 👇🙂
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCb...
Reposted by Ken Bonny
This is something I worry about for myself, as alluring as the convenience is. I've used it a couple of times to get over the "activation energy" but have rewritten for clarity/style/functionality/belligerence reasons
On the blog: Think for Yourself
"By skimming past the friction necessary for learning, the pursuit of convenience can end up deskilling rather than enhancing skills."
kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...
"By skimming past the friction necessary for learning, the pursuit of convenience can end up deskilling rather than enhancing skills."
kevlinhenney.medium.com/think-for-yo...
Think for Yourself
Understand and improve on LLM-generated code
kevlinhenney.medium.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is something I worry about for myself, as alluring as the convenience is. I've used it a couple of times to get over the "activation energy" but have rewritten for clarity/style/functionality/belligerence reasons
Reposted by Ken Bonny
It's Halloween. So here's a story about the horror of replacing your developers with AI:
accu.org/journals/ove...
accu.org/journals/ove...
Judgment Day
What if AI takes your job? Teedy Deigh finds out.
accu.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:27 AM
It's Halloween. So here's a story about the horror of replacing your developers with AI:
accu.org/journals/ove...
accu.org/journals/ove...
Found a nice post about syntax highlighting. I'm trying it out as we speak. Thanks to @tonsky.me !
tonsky.me/blog/syntax-...
tonsky.me/blog/syntax-...
I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong
Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting
tonsky.me
October 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Found a nice post about syntax highlighting. I'm trying it out as we speak. Thanks to @tonsky.me !
tonsky.me/blog/syntax-...
tonsky.me/blog/syntax-...
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Closing in on Wolverine 5.0. New docs today for SignalR and Redis integrations:
github.com/JasperFx/wol...
github.com/JasperFx/wol...
github.com/JasperFx/wol...
github.com/JasperFx/wol...
github.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Closing in on Wolverine 5.0. New docs today for SignalR and Redis integrations:
github.com/JasperFx/wol...
github.com/JasperFx/wol...
github.com/JasperFx/wol...
github.com/JasperFx/wol...
Feedback from @ursenzler.bsky.social ! 🎉
I know I did something right if he didn't walk out halfway through the session. 😉
I know I did something right if he didn't walk out halfway through the session. 😉
@kenbonny.net I'm watching your talk on F# and I guess I found a bug 😅
If drone is null then you should not use drone.Id in the error message.
Let me know if you'd like my feedback on your talk.
Go #fsharp!
If drone is null then you should not use drone.Id in the error message.
Let me know if you'd like my feedback on your talk.
Go #fsharp!
October 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Feedback from @ursenzler.bsky.social ! 🎉
I know I did something right if he didn't walk out halfway through the session. 😉
I know I did something right if he didn't walk out halfway through the session. 😉
It's not too late to join the #JetbrainsDotnetDays2025 and come and find out why functional programming in #fsharp is either a passing fad or absolutely fabulous!
blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2025/...
Many thanks to @jetbrains.com for organising this!
blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2025/...
Many thanks to @jetbrains.com for organising this!
Announcing: JetBrains .NET Days Online 2025 | The .NET Tools Blog
A free, online event for the .NET community. JetBrains .NET Days Online returns for two focused days of practical talks, live demos, and real-world tips from community speakers and the JetBrains .NET ...
blog.jetbrains.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
It's not too late to join the #JetbrainsDotnetDays2025 and come and find out why functional programming in #fsharp is either a passing fad or absolutely fabulous!
blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2025/...
Many thanks to @jetbrains.com for organising this!
blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2025/...
Many thanks to @jetbrains.com for organising this!
It seems like @vivaldi.com and @1password.bsky.social are fighting for password manager dominance. Unfortunately, I can't tell Vivaldi to let 1Password manage this part. Could you team up and make this experience a lot more smooth?
September 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
It seems like @vivaldi.com and @1password.bsky.social are fighting for password manager dominance. Unfortunately, I can't tell Vivaldi to let 1Password manage this part. Could you team up and make this experience a lot more smooth?