Harry Keller

@harryfk
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Cooperative entrepreneur and software engineer

Building ethical digital infrastructure and creating a somewhat utopian workplace, at worker-owned design + tech cooperative @VillageOneCoop

Berliner in Bavaria, he/him, vegan, *351ppm, feminist, trekkie, dogfather, Octavia E. Butler superfan, happiest on a hike through the mountains
👨‍💻 Personal Websitehttps://www.harryfk.com
✌️ Village One Cooperativehttps://www.village.one
👾 GameBoy Camera Photoshttp://pixelfed.social/harryfk
📚 UNREAD Book clubhttp://unreadbook.club
Harry KellerJun 18
RiffReporterJun 18
Wer die demokratische Öffentlichkeit nicht Plattformen, Algorithmen und KI-Systemen überlassen will, muss unabhängige Medien stärken.
Die RiffReporter eG bittet um Unterstützung: für #Journalismus, der Menschen Orientierung gibt – bei #Gesundheit, #Frauen, #Mobilität, #Natur, #Klima und digitaler Öffentlichkeit. https://www.startnext.com/riffreporter
RiffReporter bleiben dran

Sechs fehlende Perspektiven. Sechs gute Gründe. Ein großes Ziel: unabhängigen Journalismus sichern, der Menschen Orientierung gibt.

startnext.com
Harry KellerJun 15
kottke.orgJun 11
An amazing visual field guide to the chili peppers of the world. Includes hand-drawn illustrations of 176 peppers, descriptions of the peppers, where they originated, the heat level, and even what hot sauces feature them. https://kottke.org/26/06/a-hand-drawn-visual-guide-to-chili-peppers
A Hand-Drawn Visual Guide to Chili Peppers

For his great visual field guide to the chili peppers of the world, Erik Gauger hand-drew 176 peppers from India, South America, Korea, Thailand, Africa, an

kottke.org
Harry KellerJun 13

RE: https://mastodon.social/@harryfk/116461146567667831

Oof, I finally found it, it was a poem posted on Instagram. There’s also a substack article providing some background: https://daniellecoffyn.substack.com/p/please-give-me-the-gift-of-your-trying

“Please, give me the gift of your trying”

Harry KellerJun 3
Jan BetaJun 1
Lol, remember when we all thought blockchains and monkey pictures were the worst ideas ever? Good times.
Harry KellerJun 3
JA WestenbergJun 2

Being able to pay Google to show up above your competitor when someone searches specifically for your competitor is honestly one of the scummiest little growth-hacker products big tech ever cooked up.

“Did you mean the company you deliberately did not search for?”

No.

No, we did not.

Harry KellerJun 1
World Wide Web ConsortiumJun 1
W3C: Making the web work — for everyone 🌈
Happy #pride
Harry KellerMay 14
Harry 📸 GameBoy CameraMay 12
Looks like a drone shot of Berlin central station, but it’s actually just a photo of a miniature model 🥲 #GameBoyCamera
Harry KellerMay 7
Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅May 7

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

Everyone should read this.

Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.

Harry KellerMay 6
Zack WhittakerMay 6

This cracks me up because kids just think up these things so brilliantly, but also this proves that age verification laws are complete dogshit and don't even work.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/some-kids-are-bypassing-age-verification-checks-with-a-fake-mustache/

Some kids are bypassing age-verification checks with a fake mustache | TechCrunch

A new survey found that kids find it easy to bypass age checks, despite a rise in age-verification laws around the world.

TechCrunch
Harry KellerMay 6
Daisy LeighMay 6

RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@abstractcode/116525091915148748

This has been my experience when using Claude Code too. I feel like the time that it takes to rework its output matches or exceeds the time it would have taken to just write the code. And the issues I have to fix vary from code that will be difficult to maintain, to code that only works for a very narrow ideal case, to code that just plain will not do what it is supposed to do.

And that has really changed my perception of people who claim that it’s a huge productivity booster for them, to be honest. Like I don’t know if they’re using the tool heaps differently and getting better results, or they’re doing the same rework as I’m doing and just not perceiving it as a slowdown, or if they have different and much more permissive quality standards to mine.