







This is a blog post version of the talk I delivered at Software Should Work 2026. Shoutouts to Isaac Van Doren for running such a delightful conference and nailing it first try, and for infecting us all with his charming enthusiasm for Columbia, Missouri.
Don't Take the Black Pill - Andrew Kelley | SSW 2026
Nixon official: real reason for the drug war was to criminalize black people and hippies
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Unpacking the Racism of Digital Blackface in the Information Age

Dr. Omekongo Dibinga
Text Editing Hates You Too
Alexis Beingessner's Text Rendering Hates You, published exactly a month ago today, hits very close to my heart.
Code Switch
Marc Lamont Hill pushes back on Fat Joe defending his N-word use: ‘There’s no honorary degrees in Blackness’
Marc Lamont Hill responds to Fat Joe defending his use of the N-word, arguing that proximity to Black culture doesn’t make someone Black.

The Website Obesity Crisis
This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 29, 2015, at the Web Directions conference in Sydney. [53 minute video].
We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."


When "technically true" becomes "actually misleading"
Worst Take of the Week: Tyler Austin Harper, please download Claude Code

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ChatGPT is bullshit
Ethics and Information Technology - Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of...
Tweet so good I printed it out and put it on my wall. I referred to it in a conference talk today @hypervisible.blacksky.app
I didn't take my ADHD meds today, so I wrote this shitty text about how I think we're gonna take on Amazon and win. mightregret.pckt.blog/the-atmosphere-is-the-amazon-…
The Atmosphere is the Amazon-Killer
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