Kris Jenkins' Blog

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Kris Jenkins's essays on software development, functional programming, developer tools, databases, and AI-assisted coding.

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Why fsyncing a File Isn't Safe Enough #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Databases
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Sep 3, 2026
Vibe Management #SoftwareDevelopment #AI #Programming
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Jun 22, 2026
The AI Bubble Will And Won't Burst #AI #SoftwareDevelopment #Tech
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Mar 22, 2026
The Shelf Life of an AI Study Is About Six Months #AI #MachineLearning #SoftwareDevelopment
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Feb 11, 2026
Making Your Agent See What It's Missing #AI #SoftwareDevelopment #MachineLearning
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Jan 16, 2026
Configuring Neovim & Nix to use Java's LSP Server #Neovim #Nix #Programming
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Jun 30, 2025
Delegated Coding Has A Bright Future #AI #SoftwareDevelopment #FutureOfWork
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Jun 10, 2025
Tustain's Law #SoftwareDevelopment #AI #Essays
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May 18, 2025
Why We Podcast #SoftwareDevelopment #AI #Programming
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Apr 11, 2023
Setting Up A kcat Config #SoftwareDevelopment #Databases #AI
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Oct 11, 2022
MicroServices - Check Size Before Ordering #SoftwareDevelopment #Microservices #AI
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Jul 9, 2018
Emacs Feature Branch Tip #Emacs #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming
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Jul 29, 2017
There's Immutable And Then There's Immutable #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming #DataStructures
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Jan 25, 2017
Type Bombs in Elm #Elm #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment
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Nov 8, 2016
Functional Mumbo Jumbo - ADTs #FunctionalProgramming #SoftwareDevelopment #ComputerScience
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Jun 10, 2016
How Elm Slays a UI Antipattern #Elm #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment
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Jun 3, 2016
Clojure-Fu with Juxt #Clojure #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment
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Jun 1, 2016
How I Structure Elm Apps #Elm #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment
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Apr 16, 2016
Git for Static Sites #SoftwareDevelopment #Git #StaticSites
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Feb 9, 2016
Which Programming Languages Are Functional? #Programming #FunctionalProgramming #SoftwareDevelopment
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Dec 29, 2015
What Is Functional Programming? #Programming #FunctionalProgramming #SoftwareDevelopment
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Dec 29, 2015
Quote of the Week - Doug Crockford #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming #AI
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Oct 30, 2015
Geocoding With Elm and ArcGIS, Part 3 #Elm #Programming #Geocoding
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Oct 7, 2015
Timing Code in ClojureScript #ClojureScript #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment
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Sep 25, 2015
Things I Love About Languages I Hate #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Opinion
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Sep 25, 2015
Geocoding With Elm and ArcGIS, Part 2 #Elm #Programming #Geocoding
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Sep 25, 2015
Geocoding With Elm and ArcGIS, Part 1 #Elm #Programming #Geocoding
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Sep 25, 2015
Dude, Do You Even Fizzbuzz? #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding
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Sep 12, 2015
Responsive YouTube Videos With Elm #Elm #WebDev #Programming
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Sep 6, 2015
When Should You Bother With A Reader Monad? #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #FunctionalProgramming
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Aug 6, 2015
Extending Esqueleto for Type-Safe Postgresql Queries #PostgreSQL #Programming #Databases
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Jul 28, 2015
Map, Reduce and the Fold-Twins #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #FunctionalProgramming
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Jul 7, 2015
This Week In The Browser #SoftwareDevelopment #AI #Programming
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Jul 1, 2015
JavaScript - The Collection of Parts #JavaScript #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment
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Jun 17, 2015
A Brief And Partial Review Of Haskell In The Browser #Haskell #Programming #WebDev
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Feb 3, 2015
Backwards Compatibility Testing For Your Clojure Project #Clojure #SoftwareDevelopment #Testing
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Feb 20, 2014
An Elegant Little core.async Solution #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Async
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Feb 20, 2014
Using Joda Time as your Clojure inst Class #Clojure #Programming #Java
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Feb 8, 2014
Our Total Quality Approach to Software #SoftwareDevelopment #Quality #Programming
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Jan 25, 2014
Book Review - Clojure for Domain Specific Languages #Clojure #Programming #BookReview
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Jan 18, 2014