Kenneth Reitz

The concept of the collective unconscious, introduced by Carl Jung, revolutionized our understanding of the human psyche. It refers to a part of the unconscious mind, shared among beings of the s...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/ai-and-the-collective-unconscious-navigating-the-cosmos-of-minds

I’ve been experimenting with making custom GPTs, and I would like to share my latest creation, ELIZA . She has been tremendously useful for collaborating with others on API design on open sou...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/introducing-eliza-gpt-specializing-in-python-coding

I would like to apologize to the Python community (and specifically the Requests maintainers) for a lack of transparency (which is best-practice) around the fundraiser and my intentions with Requ...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/why-im-not-collaborating-with-kenneth-reitz

Over the years, there are a number of brands that I've discovered/placed a lot of value with/in. Some of these brands, which I'll call, here, "Trusted Brands", are: Samsung, Sony, Olympus, Nite-I...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2019/04/09/on-the-progression-of-brand-trust-over-time

Since ~2011, I’ve focused the majority of my time on open source software. Only sometimes, lately, do I take a moment to sit back and reflect on lessons learned (often the hard way). This is ...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2019/03/11/ethical-lessons-from-the-open-source-community

About three years ago, I authored an essay entitled: MentalHealthError: an exception occurred . In this essay, I "came out of the closet", so to speak, to my community about being diagnosed with ...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2019/03/01/mentalhealtherror-three-years-later

Hands–down, my favorite possession. I'm very happy to announce a new section of my website that has technically existed for a long time, as a single page, Objects — which contained a long,...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2018/09/05/new-website-section-launched-objects-i-own-love

My little sister just got married — I was asked to present 1 CORINTHIANS 13  at her wedding ceremony last weekend. I was touched at the thought, and decided to give a little presentation about...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2018/09/01/on-love

I'm a bit of a digital ink snob. I've been writing actively with digital ink for over 10 years, and there's a lot of things that most developers get wrong when developing note-taking apps. There'...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2018/08/22/apple-pencil-note-taking-why-you-should-use-apple-notes-actually

Many months ago, I created and scored my first soundtrack for a short film — Day One by Continuity Pictures (Derek Thomas ). The process was quite fun — I never watched the film before ...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2018/06/26/first-soundtrack-scoring

Wandering street photographer, idealist, and moral fallibilist.

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2018/06/23/leica-m10-video-review

Shinola Detriot Canfield Sport 45mm (Black) Buy Now I absolutely love this watch — I picked up the black edition. You won’t see many reviews around (I couldn’t find any online, hence ...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2018/06/20/the-shinola-canfield-sport-45mm-watch-review

Wandering street photographer, idealist, and moral fallibilist.

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2018/06/19/kr-vlog-0

LEICA SUMMARON-M 28MM F/5.6 LENS Buy Now THIS LITTLE LENS IS ABSOLUTE MAGIC. I’ve owned it for a few days now, and I rarely want to take it off my camera, especially when I’m out on th...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2018/06/13/leica-28mm-summaron-m-f56-lens-review

I’ve compiled a list, for a coworker, of professional-level cameras I recommend at this point in time, at various budgets. Things these cameras all have in common, and why I recommend them: Im...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2018/06/11/prolevel-camera-recommendations-for-2018

I met (and became friends with) the GitHub crew when they were merely 8 employees, hacking away on their newly popular product. I’ve followed the team/product extremely closely over the years, ...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2018/06/05/positive-thoughts-on-the-github-acquision

I’m very happy to announce that I’m officially joining the DigitalOcean developer relations team, just in time for PyCon US 2018! I couldn’t be more excited :) I'll be at the Digital Ocea...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2018/04/24/joining-digitalocean

Dear friends, Work on Requests 3.0  is now underway, paving the way for the future of one of the world's most heavily–relied–upon Python modules. After losing our primary open source mai...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2018/03/07/call-for-sponsors-requests-30-development

Last Friday marked the one year anniversary of my latest project, PIPENV , which is now the officially recommended packaging tool for the Python community from Python.org. It’s been a lot of ...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2018/01/24/pipenv-one-year-later-a-call-for-help

I recently did my first photoshoot (nsfw)  with the Panasonic GX850 , and realized that it was a little bit too entry–level for serious photography. So, I did a little bit of research and ende...

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2018/01/24/sony-rx100-mark-5-thoughts