Hello, I'm
Kris Walker
Software engineering manager
I'm a software engineering manager at Disney where my team builds the streaming playback technology under the hood in Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN.
I also curate a web magazine: www.kixx.news
Writing
These are the self selected highlights from the essays I've written so far. Check out my writing archive to get it all.
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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.
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The Invariants of Great Work
I’ve pulled out all the bits of Paul Grahams’s essay, How to do Great Work, which I think are the characteristics, behaviors, and mental models which need to be held constant to be able to do our best work. In Paul’s words, these are the “invariants of great work”
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Resources
Stuff I've found laying around the web that I find interesting or useful.
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Programming with AI
A sub collection of links to resources I've found helpful in my journey to build software with AI tools.