Kate Holterhoff, PhD

OpenFreeMap survived 100,000 requests per second Sorry Wplace.live

“Nice idea, interesting project, next time please contact me before.” 🔥

Fantastic write up by @hyperknot.com

blog.hyperknot.com/p/openfreema...

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You just blew my mind there

I’m switching back and forth a lot at this stage. Coming around to Claude’s way of approaching things tho! I like some of its strategies around research and writing. For instance, including a report to accompany a writing prompt w a research component is very handy

One of those things where I'm never sure if I'm just an idiot or the system doesn't work. Jury's still out

After the EXCRUCIATING PAIN of setting up my DNS on Netlify for my personal account I'd been putting off logging back into my domain service to try tying it to my Bluesky account but I did it and it was relatively easy! I feel fancy now, friends

Screenshot of podcast alert titled “The MonkCast: Jason Torres on Developer Hiring, Community, & Content”

Lookie who is on a pod today- @jasontorres.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥
Torc represent!
@torc.dev @redmonk.com @kateholterhoff.bsky.social
#teamTorc #podcastAddict 😅

I chatted w @jasontorres.bsky.social, Community Evangelist @torc.dev, about developer communities for this episode of @redmonk.com's MonkCast. We dig into the current hiring landscape for devs, the globalization of tech hiring, & social media's impact on career growth. redmonk.com/blog/2025/08...

Been a #ChatGPT user for over 6 months now, so I'm switching it up & paid for #Claude.

So far, so comparable. Didn't realize how much context I had built up in ChatGPT that I needed to move over. I have been slightly less impressed w Claude's writing, but hoping it's a prompting error on my part.

That song's a lot pervier than I remember. Still slaps

YouTube video by Ben Kweller - Topic Wasted & Ready

Added to my list. Wasted & Ready was my jam www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7m2...

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You're telling me Ben Kweller is still making music!?! Brb

When you suddenly get nostalgic about a band and wonder why they didn’t write more music, then see on Spotify they have been coming out w albums consistently for 20 years and you’re the jerk who never thought to look.

Friction and not being touched The journalist Karen Hao – who published an absolutely fantastic book about OpenAI called “Empire of AI” recently – coined (as far as I know) one of the best terms for describing modern “AI” systems: ...

“The Utopia of “AI” is the Dystopia of never being touched by anything” - @tante.cc
tante.cc/2025/07/30/f...

Measuring the impact of AI on software engineering – with Laura Tacho Laura Tacho, CTO of DX, shares findings from 180+ companies on how AI is really impacting dev productivity, what most teams get wrong, and why measuring dev experience first is critical.

“I think roadmaps are on their way out in the age of #Al. I think companies that are going to win with Al are not ones that think about things in roadmap sequential form, but think about it more as experiment portfolios.”- @lauratacho.com w @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

It’s funny that I’ve vibe coded all these crappy @nextjs.org and Astro apps to replace my original CSS + HTML sites at the moment these frameworks are least needed. I blame shadcn 💀

It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.

“Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.” - @jono.id www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/i...

Ooh!! Let me know how it goes. The post makes it seem like this will address a lot of pain points

Introducing OSS Rebuild: Open Source, Rebuilt to Last Posted by Matthew Suozzo, Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST) Today we're excited to announce OSS Rebuild, a new project to strengthen ...

This looks promising from Matthew Suozzo & the Google #OSS folks security.googleblog.com/2025/07/intr...

You’re a lot of things, @swiber.dev, but apathetic isn’t one of them

Spoke with @swyx.io about the evolving role of the AI Engineer for @redmonk.com's MonkCast. We discuss the definition of an AI Engineer, differences between AI Engineers & traditional software devs, vibe coding, frontend observability, & the AI Engineer World's Fair. redmonk.com/blog/2025/07...

Yes!! Hard to get in Atlanta, unfortunately. Had to stock up

Big same 💀

Love where this conversation is going. There are far less haters on this thread than I anticipated.

Please link me to this fabled delicacy

This one goes out to all the haters

Hear @jerdog.dev discuss the current state of #DevRel w me on this episode of @redmonk.com's MonkCast. We talk engaging developers, quantifying DevRel efforts, frontend, community, and MOAR! redmonk.com/blog/2025/07...

One thing that confuses me is whether AI Engineers:

✅ Have adopted AI tools as part of their engineering work
✅ Work at a company with an AI product
✅ Some combination of these

Opinions abound (I cite several), but beyond the hype this role signals real change for practitioners & their orgs.

Once we were developers, software engineers, & data scientists; but no more! Today we’re all AI Engineers, right? Right!?!

What exactly is an AI Engineer? I'm not alone in my confusion, so I made a handy chart & wrote up my observations on this role for @redmonk.com

redmonk.com/kholterhoff/...