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Hello

Hi, I'm
Kris Walker

I'm a computer programmer, turned software engineering manager at where my team builds the streaming playback technology under the hood in , , and , among other Disney brands.

I'm insanely passionate about the World Wide Web and the developer of an open source framework for rapid web application development called Kixx.

I also curate a web magazine called www.kixx.news where I post collections of interesting blog posts and artifacts about the Web and web development

Resources

Some things I've collected that you might find useful too.

Writing

Here are some highlights of what I've written. Or, check out the full list of essays to get it all.

  • Good takes effort

    I’ve been reflecting on all the swirl around vibe coding and AI code generation and come to a comforting conclusion: Good work takes effort, and there is no shortcut for that.

  • Make Your Own Luck

    Luck plays a role in our successes and failures. But we can make our own luck if we take deliberate action to make ourselves a target for it.

  • How to build a great software engineering team.

    Being a software engineering leader isn't about building great software. It's about building great teams. Great teams build great software.

  • The Vintage Software Engineer

    I tend to downplay most of the new shiny things that younger people get excited about. But maybe that's just a side effect of getting older?

More on my essays page.