Hello!
I’m Chris Krycho — a follower of Christ, a husband, and a dad. I’m a software engineer by trade; a theologian by vocation; and a writer, runner and cyclist, composer, and erstwhile podcaster by hobby.
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Next (November 12, 2023)
Leaving LinkedIn, taking a 3-month sabbatical, and thinking about what comes next.
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Fanfare for a New Era of American Spaceflight – Live Recording! ↩︎—❈ (March 31, 2023)
Last summer, I hired the Budapest Scoring Orchestra and recorded my fanfare. And now: you can listen to the recording!
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The Leica Q2 (December 28, 2022)
Mulling on a remarkable camera (that isn’t for me).
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cold (2) (December 22, 2022)
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The Great Unmooring↩︎—❈ (September 22, 2022)
At Mere O, on Richard Sennett’s The Corrosion of Character and Warzel and Petersen’s Out of Office, on work.
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Revealed and Stated Preferences (July 7, 2021)
On Ben Thompson’s weekly article on Instagram, Facebook, algorithmic feeds in general—and how economic analysis of behavior ranges from insufficient to awful.
The Latest
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Gut Feelings (February 11, 2024)
Introspection only gets you so far.
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jj init (February 2, 2024; started July 1, 2023)
What if we actually could replace Git? Jujutsu might give us a real shot.
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LambdaConf 2024—Two Talks! (January 9, 2024)
One technical deep dive on versioning, one philosophical exploration of our limits as software engineers.
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Confronted by Grace (November 9, 2023)
This little collection of sermons by John Webster did my soul great good.
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From Mount Muscoco (1) (October 15, 2023)
In Progress
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Whither Gradual Typing? (started July 29, 2023)
Thinking out loud prompted by recent comments from Richard Feldman and Jamie Brandon.
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Feeds are Not Fit for Gardening (started January 13, 2023; updated March 29, 2023)
—at least, in their current instantiations with RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, etc.
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jj init (February 2, 2024; started July 1, 2023; updated February 8, 2024)
What if we actually could replace Git? Jujutsu might give us a real shot.
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Next: Role? (November 12, 2023; updated January 12, 2024)
Ratchets over levers.
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Fanfare for a New Era of American Spaceflight ↩︎—❈ (July 18, 2021; updated July 20, 2021)
You can now search for my name in Spotify, Apple Music, etc., and you will find there: orchestra music!
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Motel Guest’s Only (April 3, 2021; updated April 6, 2021)
New Mexico Vacation, Day 1: An overflow lot in Las Vegas, New Mexico
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A path away from Kant? (January 25, 2021; updated January 26, 2021)
Koyzis’ provocative thesis on authority and liberty.