Kevin Highwater (née Kuchta)
@kevinkuchta.com
I ride a yak to work every day. Tech + bad jokes. He/him https://github.com/kkuchta.
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Twitter: @kkuchta
https://kevinhighwater.com
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Twitter: @kkuchta
https://kevinhighwater.com
Homebrew packages are usually pretty safe, but I'm starting to think I shouldn't have `brew install --cask amontillado`
November 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Homebrew packages are usually pretty safe, but I'm starting to think I shouldn't have `brew install --cask amontillado`
Has anyone tried just stamping “Do No Copy” on all their ssh keys?
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Has anyone tried just stamping “Do No Copy” on all their ssh keys?
Seriously considering building my own todo app. I really need something with better support for:
- A recurring task
- …that becomes due every, say, 3 months
- …that becomes more urgent the longer I put it off after 3 months
- …at an adjustable rate.
And I just can’t find a good option here.
- A recurring task
- …that becomes due every, say, 3 months
- …that becomes more urgent the longer I put it off after 3 months
- …at an adjustable rate.
And I just can’t find a good option here.
October 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Seriously considering building my own todo app. I really need something with better support for:
- A recurring task
- …that becomes due every, say, 3 months
- …that becomes more urgent the longer I put it off after 3 months
- …at an adjustable rate.
And I just can’t find a good option here.
- A recurring task
- …that becomes due every, say, 3 months
- …that becomes more urgent the longer I put it off after 3 months
- …at an adjustable rate.
And I just can’t find a good option here.
My house is under construction. My adjoining neighbor’s house is under construction.
Every day I get to play the game of “is that my phone vibrating or is it just power tools above, below, or beside the room I’m in?”
Every day I get to play the game of “is that my phone vibrating or is it just power tools above, below, or beside the room I’m in?”
September 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
My house is under construction. My adjoining neighbor’s house is under construction.
Every day I get to play the game of “is that my phone vibrating or is it just power tools above, below, or beside the room I’m in?”
Every day I get to play the game of “is that my phone vibrating or is it just power tools above, below, or beside the room I’m in?”
I heard a child screaming in distress outside last night. It went on for quite a while. It wasn’t moving on (like a family walking might), and really sounded pretty anguished. I put on some clothes and went out to investigate - as did some neighbors. I narrowed it down to an apt across the street.
September 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I heard a child screaming in distress outside last night. It went on for quite a while. It wasn’t moving on (like a family walking might), and really sounded pretty anguished. I put on some clothes and went out to investigate - as did some neighbors. I narrowed it down to an apt across the street.
I met a traveller from an antiquing land
Who sold me two vast and legless trunks of stone
Who sold me two vast and legless trunks of stone
August 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I met a traveller from an antiquing land
Who sold me two vast and legless trunks of stone
Who sold me two vast and legless trunks of stone
My latest side project: Tic Tac Toe as a hidden-information game! Play live vs a friend, a rando, or a bot at kttt.io. Inspired by Zach Wienersmith (of SMBC fame): mastodon.social/@ZachWeiners...
Kriegspiel Tic Tac Toe
kttt.io
July 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My latest side project: Tic Tac Toe as a hidden-information game! Play live vs a friend, a rando, or a bot at kttt.io. Inspired by Zach Wienersmith (of SMBC fame): mastodon.social/@ZachWeiners...
Higher-order mail truck
June 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Higher-order mail truck
There’s a poorly-attributed quote that goes, “When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”
I don’t think it’s terribly *true* but I like it as a way to frame different types of discussion
I don’t think it’s terribly *true* but I like it as a way to frame different types of discussion
June 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
There’s a poorly-attributed quote that goes, “When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”
I don’t think it’s terribly *true* but I like it as a way to frame different types of discussion
I don’t think it’s terribly *true* but I like it as a way to frame different types of discussion
welp.
w-e-l-p.com
June 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Visiting Seattle and the protest crowd is huge.
June 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Visiting Seattle and the protest crowd is huge.
Damn. I was pretty excited, some years ago, by RedwoodJS. A graphql-based, full-stack, TS-native, serverless-focused, very rails-like framework. Looks like it died and went into maintenance mode a few months back. :(
June 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Damn. I was pretty excited, some years ago, by RedwoodJS. A graphql-based, full-stack, TS-native, serverless-focused, very rails-like framework. Looks like it died and went into maintenance mode a few months back. :(
I’m replaying some late-90s space trading games. It’s a lot of fun. It’s impressive how thoroughly solved they are. One walkthrough from a decade after release will tell you how to achieve infinite money in exactly 13 hyperspace jumps.
May 25, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I’m replaying some late-90s space trading games. It’s a lot of fun. It’s impressive how thoroughly solved they are. One walkthrough from a decade after release will tell you how to achieve infinite money in exactly 13 hyperspace jumps.
There’s nothing like watching paid movers work to remind me that my job as a professional button pusher is not hard in any real sense.
May 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
There’s nothing like watching paid movers work to remind me that my job as a professional button pusher is not hard in any real sense.
I always feel a sense of disappointed victory whenever I successfully trick the American medical system into giving me basic medical care.
April 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I always feel a sense of disappointed victory whenever I successfully trick the American medical system into giving me basic medical care.
My equivalent of an old man using outdated terms is going to be “using actual emoticons like :) and :_(“
March 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
My equivalent of an old man using outdated terms is going to be “using actual emoticons like :) and :_(“
I wish that Markov chain mashups were still a thing. I feel like a cthulu/ncaa skeetbot named “At The Mountains of March Madness” would crush it.
March 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I wish that Markov chain mashups were still a thing. I feel like a cthulu/ncaa skeetbot named “At The Mountains of March Madness” would crush it.
Are you telling me a vibe coded this?
March 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Are you telling me a vibe coded this?
One of these days my CEO is *actually* going to be in a meeting and urgently need 30 target gift cards and then you’ll all be sorry!
March 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
One of these days my CEO is *actually* going to be in a meeting and urgently need 30 target gift cards and then you’ll all be sorry!
Whelp. I thought I new better than the react linter when it warned me “doing that will cause bugs.”
If we had a bug tracker, I’d be closing this bug with a root cause of “hubris.”
If we had a bug tracker, I’d be closing this bug with a root cause of “hubris.”
February 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Whelp. I thought I new better than the react linter when it warned me “doing that will cause bugs.”
If we had a bug tracker, I’d be closing this bug with a root cause of “hubris.”
If we had a bug tracker, I’d be closing this bug with a root cause of “hubris.”
Just got back from my physical therapy appointment. Got assigned exercises every day for a month.
I have been informed in no uncertain terms that "doing all 30 exercises back-to-back in one day" will not get me better faster and I am not happy about it.
I have been informed in no uncertain terms that "doing all 30 exercises back-to-back in one day" will not get me better faster and I am not happy about it.
February 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Just got back from my physical therapy appointment. Got assigned exercises every day for a month.
I have been informed in no uncertain terms that "doing all 30 exercises back-to-back in one day" will not get me better faster and I am not happy about it.
I have been informed in no uncertain terms that "doing all 30 exercises back-to-back in one day" will not get me better faster and I am not happy about it.
I will never not hear someone talk about Secrets Management without immediately getting Avatar: The Last Airbender’s “Secret Tunnel” stuck in my head.
February 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I will never not hear someone talk about Secrets Management without immediately getting Avatar: The Last Airbender’s “Secret Tunnel” stuck in my head.
Usernames I have no use for, but wish I did: Recurzion Dax
February 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Usernames I have no use for, but wish I did: Recurzion Dax
I’ve decided: the AWS’s MWAA service is officially pronounced “Mwuah!” and is to be accompanied with a chef’s kiss hand motion. Spread the word.
February 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I’ve decided: the AWS’s MWAA service is officially pronounced “Mwuah!” and is to be accompanied with a chef’s kiss hand motion. Spread the word.
Achievement unlocked: make a pun so bad that the entire office immediately puts on their noise-cancelling headphones.
February 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Achievement unlocked: make a pun so bad that the entire office immediately puts on their noise-cancelling headphones.