Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦
@kirahowe.com
Canadian software/data engineer and yoga teacher from the East Coast
Writes about: Clojure, data, open source, community, yoga
Loves: dinner parties, live music, violin, my dog
Writes about: Clojure, data, open source, community, yoga
Loves: dinner parties, live music, violin, my dog
Writing "agents" is like writing a book on good software engineering practices.
November 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Writing "agents" is like writing a book on good software engineering practices.
Reposted by Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦
What if we did a single run and declared victory
October 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
What if we did a single run and declared victory
This is one of my favourite conferences I’ve ever been to. Really high quality and genuinely interesting. Plus Berlin is one of the coolest cities in the world! Well worth checking it out if you can:
bobkonf.de/2026/en/
bobkonf.de/2026/en/
BOB - BOB 2026
BOB Konferenz, Best of Breed Konferenz für Software-Entwickler und Entscheider in der Softwareentwicklung.
bobkonf.de
October 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This is one of my favourite conferences I’ve ever been to. Really high quality and genuinely interesting. Plus Berlin is one of the coolest cities in the world! Well worth checking it out if you can:
bobkonf.de/2026/en/
bobkonf.de/2026/en/
So since they removed launchpad from macOS and you can only launch things from spotlight now, does that mean you can't open an app until spotlight finishes indexing?
October 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
So since they removed launchpad from macOS and you can only launch things from spotlight now, does that mean you can't open an app until spotlight finishes indexing?
The world is being cleaved into people who overuse AI and people who deal with the fallout of people overusing AI. Frustratingly, I don't really like being in either of these camps. Where do we go from here?
October 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The world is being cleaved into people who overuse AI and people who deal with the fallout of people overusing AI. Frustratingly, I don't really like being in either of these camps. Where do we go from here?
I don't want non-deterministic, randomly wrong answers to my vaguely worded spoken-language requests. Do people really want this? I want tools that reliably do one thing well and consistently.
October 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I don't want non-deterministic, randomly wrong answers to my vaguely worded spoken-language requests. Do people really want this? I want tools that reliably do one thing well and consistently.
Reposted by Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦
My boss: Can't you get Copilot to validate the info in the spreadsheet?
Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so...
Boss: What's the point of Copilot then?
Me: Exactly.
Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so...
Boss: What's the point of Copilot then?
Me: Exactly.
September 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
My boss: Can't you get Copilot to validate the info in the spreadsheet?
Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so...
Boss: What's the point of Copilot then?
Me: Exactly.
Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so...
Boss: What's the point of Copilot then?
Me: Exactly.
Just WHY Javascript
You're killing me.
You're killing me.
September 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Just WHY Javascript
You're killing me.
You're killing me.
Working with AI assistants/LLM-driven development feels like coaching a really dumb, belligerent, and obsequious intern _all day_. It's exhausting and no fun. Super curious how other people are working with these tools for positive outcomes
How do you use LLMs in your day to day, if at all?
How do you use LLMs in your day to day, if at all?
August 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Working with AI assistants/LLM-driven development feels like coaching a really dumb, belligerent, and obsequious intern _all day_. It's exhausting and no fun. Super curious how other people are working with these tools for positive outcomes
How do you use LLMs in your day to day, if at all?
How do you use LLMs in your day to day, if at all?
My trusty robot that will take my job any day now.
August 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
My trusty robot that will take my job any day now.
Narrator: The machine had not, in fact, found the source of the error.
August 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Narrator: The machine had not, in fact, found the source of the error.
The frequency with which front-end developers are expected to _completely_ re-architect fundamental aspects of their apps, like state management or data fetching or caching is sheer madness.
July 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The frequency with which front-end developers are expected to _completely_ re-architect fundamental aspects of their apps, like state management or data fetching or caching is sheer madness.
📢 Amazing job alert! 📢
Seeq is hiring for a few different engineering roles (some of which may have us working together 😄). I've had a really great experience working here the last few months and happy to chat anytime. If you're interested let me know!
apply.workable.com/seeq/
Seeq is hiring for a few different engineering roles (some of which may have us working together 😄). I've had a really great experience working here the last few months and happy to chat anytime. If you're interested let me know!
apply.workable.com/seeq/
Seeq
Seeq is a global leader in advanced analytics for process manufacturing industries. We’re transforming the way companies do business by harnessing the power of unused manufacturing data to generate fa...
apply.workable.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
📢 Amazing job alert! 📢
Seeq is hiring for a few different engineering roles (some of which may have us working together 😄). I've had a really great experience working here the last few months and happy to chat anytime. If you're interested let me know!
apply.workable.com/seeq/
Seeq is hiring for a few different engineering roles (some of which may have us working together 😄). I've had a really great experience working here the last few months and happy to chat anytime. If you're interested let me know!
apply.workable.com/seeq/
LLMs might just be the thing that convinces developers that good docs and well described APIs are worth writing.
July 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
LLMs might just be the thing that convinces developers that good docs and well described APIs are worth writing.
Apple really shilling hard for pizza today 😂
June 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Apple really shilling hard for pizza today 😂
how did web apps work at all before Typescript
June 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
how did web apps work at all before Typescript
How long do you spend upgrading JS libraries?
June 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
How long do you spend upgrading JS libraries?
Tim Pratley’s summary of the Scinoj Light conference is excellent, check it out for a great take on the main themes plus overviews of each talk. Thanks to everyone in the community who made this happen and who’s contributing summaries and responses like this
clojurecivitas.github.io/conferences/...
clojurecivitas.github.io/conferences/...
The Hallway Track: SciNoj Light #1 Data Analysis Stories – Clojure Civitas
clojurecivitas.github.io
May 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Tim Pratley’s summary of the Scinoj Light conference is excellent, check it out for a great take on the main themes plus overviews of each talk. Thanks to everyone in the community who made this happen and who’s contributing summaries and responses like this
clojurecivitas.github.io/conferences/...
clojurecivitas.github.io/conferences/...
Shared mutable state is a curse. Writing software doesn't have to be terrible. Do not use shared mutable state.
May 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Shared mutable state is a curse. Writing software doesn't have to be terrible. Do not use shared mutable state.
Reposted by Kira Howe (McLean) 🇨🇦
After a long bit of toiling, we're proud to announce the launch of Gander Social—a project to bring a new kind of social to Canadians.
Canadian owned and hosted, a feed you control, privacy-first, consent-based, respectful by default.
Join the Early Access program: gandersocial.ca
Canadian owned and hosted, a feed you control, privacy-first, consent-based, respectful by default.
Join the Early Access program: gandersocial.ca
Gander: The Social Media You Want, Built for Canada
Fun, private, and ethical. We're changing the way social media is done around here, all without your data taking an unexpected trip south.
gandersocial.ca
April 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
After a long bit of toiling, we're proud to announce the launch of Gander Social—a project to bring a new kind of social to Canadians.
Canadian owned and hosted, a feed you control, privacy-first, consent-based, respectful by default.
Join the Early Access program: gandersocial.ca
Canadian owned and hosted, a feed you control, privacy-first, consent-based, respectful by default.
Join the Early Access program: gandersocial.ca
This is the best thing I’ve read in a while.
dragging one of the most overrated tech titans on the planet into a multi-day social beef via olive oil snobbery is peak media performance imo
www.ft.com/content/b180...
www.ft.com/content/b180...
May 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is the best thing I’ve read in a while.
This is the best thing I’ve read in a while.
dragging one of the most overrated tech titans on the planet into a multi-day social beef via olive oil snobbery is peak media performance imo
www.ft.com/content/b180...
www.ft.com/content/b180...
May 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is the best thing I’ve read in a while.
Our very first ✨Scinoj Light✨ conference is wrapping up soon, it's been such an inspiring couple of days, so cool to see so many amazing ways people are using Clojure's data stack. Can't wait to go back and watch some of the talks I missed.
scicloj.github.io/scinoj-light...
scicloj.github.io/scinoj-light...
SciNoj Light #1
scicloj.github.io
May 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Our very first ✨Scinoj Light✨ conference is wrapping up soon, it's been such an inspiring couple of days, so cool to see so many amazing ways people are using Clojure's data stack. Can't wait to go back and watch some of the talks I missed.
scicloj.github.io/scinoj-light...
scicloj.github.io/scinoj-light...
TIL there's a way to see *all PRs on GitHub* ever. Wild.
May 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
TIL there's a way to see *all PRs on GitHub* ever. Wild.