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, composer, and erstwhile podcaster by hobby.
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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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dimension change/code review (May 27, 2023)
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blossoming (April 18, 2023)
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Questions Posed (April 16, 2023)
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elsewhere
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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essays
The Leica Q2 (December 28, 2022)
Mulling on a remarkable camera (that isn’t for me).
In Progress
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Je ne sais quoi (June 5, 2023)
Programming languages and other technologies, and feel.
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Is GitHub Copilot Any Good? (June 5, 2023)
Betteridge’s Law applies, but the details of why I think so might still interest you.
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Note: On TypeScript Conversions (May 16, 2023)
Addressing a very common question: do-it-as-you-go or follow the dependency graph?
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Feeds are Not Fit for Gardening (January 13, 2023; updated March 29, 2023)
— at least, in their current instantiations with RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, etc.
Updated Recently
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Competencies (May 23, 2023; updated May 25, 2023)
An observation on the dynamics of (sufficiently) large organizations.
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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.
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Private Chat and DMs Are Good, Actually (November 30, 2020; updated December 27, 2020)
Don’t forget the lessons of physical offices when thinking about chat.