Kin Lane @kin@mastodon.kinlane.com

I am barely a C grade programmer. I admit it. It isn't what I am good at. Only thing I am good at is telling stories & I am only B grade on that. But, you know what? I love seeing the dependencies on the work I produce-links, references, citations to my work are 99% positive and long lived.

APIs Will Be Left Behind Because of AI - https://kinlane.com/2025/01/25/apis-will-be-left-behind-because-of-ai/

Audrey and I are listening to this in the evenings. It is a chillingly relevant narrative as a backdrop for what it is happening in government right now. https://bookshop.org/p/books/eichmann-in-jerusalem-a-report-on-the-banality-of-evil-hannah-arendt/16633983?ean=9780143039884&next=t&affiliate=93920

Why AI Agents Will Still Use Apps Instead of Directly Working With APIs - https://kinlane.com/2025/01/25/why-ai-agents-will-still-use-apps-instead-of-directly-working-with-apis/

I added the Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford to my list of books that have helped deprogram me from the world around me. It is a very accessible book and something I strongly recommend to anyone who is trying to understand this moment we find ourselves in. https://kinlane.com/deprogramming/

I won't be abandoning social media, but I will be very much limiting what I share here. To help keep friends and family up to date on my personal life I have setup an email newsletter. I encourage you to do the same, and I will happily subscribe to it. It will give you agency outside of social media, while helping your friends and family keep up with what is happening. It doesn't have to be a production or amazing work each week -- It just has to be you. https://buttondown.com/kin-lane/archive/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-january-26th-2024/

Falling Down an Abstraction Rabbit Hole https://kinlane.com/2025/01/25/falling-down-an-abstraction-rabbit-hole/

Getting Left Behind Makes Me Irrationally Angry - https://kinlane.com/2025/01/25/getting-left-behind-makes-me-irrationally-angry/

We are so going to win this war of AI just like we won the war on drugs and terror. #WinningAtLosing

This is an acceptable station and the alligator is at the center of the platform.

Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative To the Tech Oligarchy - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/21/2252212/decentralized-social-media-is-the-only-alternative-to-the-tech-oligarchy

The Internet knows your darkest secrets.

It is fascinating to watch Biden pardon Leonard Peltier and Trump pardon January 6th insurrectionist and think about all of the people I know who wield, “there is no difference between the candidates” every election season.

Liberal Visions and Boring Machines, The Early History of the Channel Tunnel - https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-early-history-of-the-channel-tunnel/

High Pressure Materials In Use With Digital Fracking - https://kinlane.com/2025/01/18/high-pressure-materials-in-use-with-digital-fracking/

Getting Started in the Morning is Hard - https://kinlane.com/2025/01/17/getting-started-in-the-morning-is-hard/

It is easy to hate on intellectuals over rich people, cause for many it is easy to dream that someday they will be rich, but very difficult to dream that someday you will be smart.

The people should own the town square - https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/