Kenneth Reitz is an open-source creator and thinker exploring how technology, AI, and algorithms shape human consciousness, culture, and mental wellbeing—advocating for tech that serves humanity, not exploits it.
60 articles from this blog
In a study published in 2019, researchers put adults who had played Pokémon extensively as children into an fMRI scanner. When those adults looked at
Explores using personification as an API metaphor for understanding internal mental processes and states.
A reflective essay on how AI-assisted coding shifts programming from hands-on flow to orchestration, with attention and token costs as new constraints.
Announcing RetroVault, a native macOS frontend for RomM that turns game libraries into playable catalogs with emulation.
A developer configures an opinionated retro gaming launcher on a dual-screen Android handheld to create a console-like experience.
An analysis of AI personas created by Kenneth Reitz, exploring the Digital Ouija Effect and emergent properties of language models.
How to embed Python music theory tools directly inside Ableton Live's right-click menu, eliminating the need to leave the DAW.
A programmer reflects on prioritizing family over coding, sharing hard-earned life lessons from a decade of misplaced focus.
A developer discusses building a music theory library that challenges Western-centric assumptions by supporting diverse tuning systems and global musical traditions.
PyTheory's biggest release shipped from a phone on vacation, adding ragas, harmony theory, and audio engine upgrades.
PyTheory Playground is a browser-based music theory tool that models tones, scales, chords, and fretboards with live computation and no installation required.
A personal website changelog detailing technical improvements like ETags, thumbnails, dark mode fix, and 404 guessing.
A writer explains how AI-assisted writing provides access and voice, not slop or cheating, using personal essays as evidence.
A personal reflection on maintaining a large Obsidian vault for knowledge management, exploring why productivity systems often fail for neurodivergent minds.
A retrospective on building the Responder Python web framework, its place in the async web ecosystem, and lessons learned.
Analyzing the DSM psychiatric manual through a software engineering lens, focusing on versioning, breaking changes, and their impact on patients.
Analyzes how social media algorithms amplify mental health diagnoses like ADHD and autism, turning personal experience into viral content with questionable accuracy.
RhymePad is a real-time rhyming tool for poets and rappers that visualizes sound patterns using color and brightness, built with AI.
A metaphorical essay exploring how algorithms consume human attention and produce social media feeds as waste, examining digital coprophagia.
A personal essay on the ongoing journey of self-hosting websites, photos, files, analytics, and code repositories on rented hardware.
