Ken Kunz

@kenthropic.com

kenthropic.com creating software for humans 👨‍💻 @svelte.dev ambassador | svelte chicago co-organizer 🌃 purveyor of high-concept mischief 🎭

​Just 5 days away: Svelte Chicago (your favorite "JIT" meetup) returns this Wednesday, May 27th at M1 Finance! I'll be giving a tour of what's new in Svelte over the last ~6 months: query​.live, remote functions glow-up, server-side error boundaries, and more! Plus open-🎤 ⚡️talks, 🍕🍻 and 💬. RSVP 👇

Event graphic for Svelte Chicago, May 27th 2026 at 5:30pm CT. Title: "What's New in Svelte, 2026: query.live and friends." Background: Marina City towers along the Chicago River at sunset. Sponsored by Storyblok.

🎉 Last Svelte Chicago meetup of 2025 – Nov 18th at PartySlate! Cleveland Pitts presents: Building Culturally Grounded AI with SvelteKit – The Harold Washington Ancestral Algorithm. Join us for pizza, drinks, and great conversations with the Chicago Svelte community 🍕 guild.host/events/svelt...

Svelte Chicago meetup flyer: November 18th, 5:30pm CT. Features talk on Building Culturally Grounded AI with SvelteKit. Chicago skyline at sunset background.Speaker presenting at Svelte Chicago meetup in modern office space. Attendees at conference tables with pizza, watching presentation on screen.Group photo of Svelte Chicago meetup attendees around conference table with laptops and pizza. About 10 developers smiling at camera.

Am I the only one who found the options to this question confusing? None of these is consistent with the TS39 "Type Annotations" (aka "Types as Comments") proposal. Erasable types should be _ignored_ (like comments) at runtime. Also… please take the survey! 🚀 #JavaScript #TypeScript #StateOfJS

Screenshot of State of JavaScript Survey question regarding types:

How would you like to see types implemented natively in JavaScript?
• Runtime types: Types that are parsed at runtime by the browser.
• Type annotations: Compiler-level TypeScript-like type annotations that get stripped during bundling.
• JSDoc-like types: JSDoc-like types written as code comments.
• I would not like to see them implemented
• Other…

🎉 Just 3 days away! Join us Tuesday (Oct 28) at Svelte Chicago! RSVP 👇 🎤 @mikerourke.bsky.social will show how to build accessible Svelte apps – covering roving tabindex, focus traps & more. Thanks to @8thlight.bsky.social for hosting & @storyblok.com for sponsoring! 🙌 #Svelte #A11y #ChicagoTech

Svelte Chicago - October 2025 | Guild

Oct 28th 5:30PM: Come hang out with us at Svelte Chicago! Interested in Svelte? Join us for pizza, beverages, and networking at the 8th Li

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Doorbell rings, rapid knocking. Rush to the door to find Amazon package… but… ZERO sign of delivery person. Like… VANISHED 💨! Are they a NINJA 🥷?! ⬇️

Man at front door looking around puzzled, searching empty suburban landscape for missing delivery person. Amazon package on doorstep.