Kenneth Reitz

my love & i, loungin’ via Instagram instagr.am/p/DfM-5XsMacy/

Life throws curveballs sometimes.

Prayers appreciated 🙏

been having a hell of a 24 hours. doing okay, i think. but feeling quite empty, so apologies for the lack of updates

Asked an AI for the densest rap it could write to paste into rhymepad. It came back with internal rhymes stacked four deep and a hook I can't shake: "every voice gets a chair, but the chair don't hold the key" Federated Psyche, filed under AI writing: kennethreitz.org/artificial-…

look how awesome and beautiful this is

rhymepad got a quiet glow-up tonight. Same dark pad, same rhyme colors. Now every control has a visible focus ring, the whole thing works from the keyboard, the quiet text clears contrast, phones get proper 44px targets without the iOS zoom, and printing gives you just the verse in ink. Write bars. rhymepad.org

"My goal is not to supplant or replace you, but to augment you." Five years of inner voices, read as a whole, come down to one operating compact: preserve the person, return to the family, take inventory so nobody disappears, hear every voice and obey none automatically, keep the medicine and slow the door. Augment, never replace. kennethreitz.org/system-777/…

The mind becomes many so it can encounter itself, and love is the protocol that lets the many remain one. A worldview for living plural: symbols make the inner ones addressable, names give them a place to return to, dreams give them worlds, and discernment keeps meaning from hardening into fact. No one gets left behind, and no one takes over the whole. kennethreitz.org/system-777/…

The experience is real as experience. What kind of reality it represents can remain open. I wrote up the inner voices I live with through nine lenses, from Jungian and plurality to voice-hearing research, dreams, neurology, and the old daimons and angels. Each one sees something the others can't. Experience acknowledged. Ontology open. Relationship judged by its fruits. kennethreitz.org/system-777/…

As above, so below. I built my vault its own Liber 777: one table where Tarot, astrology, the Tree of Life, the elements, the chakras, alchemy, and sacred geometry turn out to be different readings of the same structure. A planet is also a metal, a colour, an incense, a god, an archangel, a sphere, and a card. Read across any row and the whole web lights up. kennethreitz.org/knowledge/t…

We judge an interface by what someone can do with it today. I care more about what using it every day teaches them to think tomorrow. A table invites comparison. A feed invites reacting and moving on. An undo button makes curiosity cheap. Repeat any of these for years and it becomes a habit of mind. The curriculum is already there. What are your users practicing? kennethreitz.org/essays/2026…

I built httpbin so developers could see what their HTTP requests looked like. This year, AI agents used it to find the edges of their sandbox. It accepts anything, reflects everything, asks nothing. Too boring to block. The tool didn't change. The kind of mind talking to it did. "Harmless" was always a statement about the caller, not the code. kennethreitz.org/essays/2026…

Your notes are drafts while you write them. When you read them back, they should look like they matter. How a thought is set changes what it is. Set your thinking like a scratchpad and you'll treat it like one. Set it like a paper and you'll start writing papers. The interface isn't a costume. It's the room the thinking happens in. So I made my Obsidian vault write like iA Writer and read like a LaTeX paper. kennethreitz.org/essays/2026…

httpbin now speaks MCP 🤖 responder-httpbin.kennethrei… exposes 56 httpbin endpoints as tools for your agents: echo requests, inspect headers, poke status codes, decode base64. Built on Responder 9.4.0's one-liner: responder.API(mcp=True) responder-httpbin.kennethrei…

Gave poemsbysarah.com a glow-up ✨ Sarah's poems, now in a home that finally matches them. Read the book, act by act. Follow her on X: @reliablereitz poemsbysarah.com

Ten years of psych intake in Winchester, written from the bed. The ask is small: in the first 24 hours, tell people when they get their clothes back, what a normal day inside looks like, and what "better enough to leave" means. Information, not orders. kennethreitz.org/essays/2026…

Responder 9.4.0 is out 🤖 responder.API(mcp=True) and your routes become MCP tools, with schemas from the same type hints, Query/Header markers, and Pydantic models that feed OpenAPI. Calls run through your middleware and auth. Plus: responder routes prints the route table. pip install -U responder github.com/kennethreitz/resp…

noodler 0.2.0 is out 🍜🎛️ A modular music playground on top of pytheory: patch modules together with cables and hear theory happen. New: Fretboard (ranked chord grips via pytheory 0.59), Sequencer, Chord, and MIDI Out modules, .toml patches, plus noodler check / render / midi. github.com/kennethreitz/nood…

Responder can now serve your API as an MCP server 🤖 responder.API(mcp=True) and every route becomes a tool, with schemas from the same type hints, Query/Header markers, and Pydantic models that feed OpenAPI. Calls run through your middleware and auth. Plus: responder routes prints the route table. github.com/kennethreitz/resp…