Kellen Mace

Senior software engineer and engineering manager. Building Ascend on the side -

[Tyler @rezoundous]

Opus 4.8 is insane guys. It one shotted my session usage limit.

[Firefox for Web Developers @FirefoxWebDevs]

@ChromiumDev This was pushed onto the platform despite objections from Mozilla and WebKit, & concerns from MS & the W3C. The given claim that devs are "strongly positive" about this is misleading, based on an opaque survey asking developers about _extension_ APIs.

https://t.co/6jLU3TGSED

[Firefox for Web Developers @FirefoxWebDevs]

Chrome shipped an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API. Here's why: https://t.co/anu26AthCb

[Mom @mom_agency_]

Claude's first day at Dunder Mifflin

[Kellen Mace @KellenMace]

@theo

[Erin Fox @erinfoox]

Been off here for a while….

Had a baby, took some time, now I’m back and actively looking for my next engineering role.

Turns out the job market and newborn sleep have a lot in common: chaotic and humbling.

Anyway, hi again 👋

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️🚨 UPDATE: The TanStack npm attack is now a full campaign.

'Mini' Shai-Hulud has hit:
- OpenSearch
- Mistral AI
- Guardrails AI
-UiPath
- Squawk packages across npm and PyPI

The malware specifically targets AI developer tooling. It hooks into Claude Code (.claude/settings.json) and VS Code (.vscode/tasks.json) to re-execute on every tool event, long after the infected package is gone. npm uninstall does not fix this.

[Kellen Mace @KellenMace]

@tibo_maker SEO
thanks!

[Matthew Berman @MatthewBerman]

Bro is a comedic genius

[Kellen Mace @KellenMace]

@williamsba 😂

[patagucci perf papi @kenwheeler]

what the FUCK this shit absolutely SLAPS

[Kellen Mace @KellenMace]

https://t.co/4gExs5MqB1

[Kellen Mace @KellenMace]

🚀 I just launched Ascend on Product Hunt!

Ascend is an automated SEO engine for WordPress.

It does the keyword research, writes high-quality SEO content, and publishes it directly to your site, so your traffic can grow on autopilot.

Would love your feedback 🙏

🔗 Link below

[Kellen Mace @KellenMace]

A very happy Easter to my friends celebrating today. He is risen! ♥️

[a16z @a16z]

Marc Andreessen: Software isn't precious anymore. In this new world, high quality software is infinitely available.

"We've always lived in a world in which software is this precious thing that you have to think about very carefully."

"It was really hard to generate good software, and there was only a small number of people who could do it."

"Those days are just over."

"If you need new software to do X, Y, or Z, you're just going to wave your hand and get it."

"Things that used to be hard, or even seem like an insurmountable mountain to get through, all of a sudden, I think, become very easy."

@pmarca with @latentspacepod

[Jeff @jeffr0]

Wellp, we used up our last lifeline today. After this, if I don't find stable employment soon, we'll likely lose the house, or I'll need to file for bankruptcy.

So if you have any WordPress work, see any gigs I might be good for, inside or OUTSIDE of WordPress, send em my way

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

‼️Do not npm install or deploy anything right now

Supply chain attack on axios 1.14.1 - even if you don’t use axios it may be a nested dep.

Pin versions or wait until this is resolved

[Kellen Mace @KellenMace]

@williamsba Great, practical demo! Thanks, Brad

[Tibo @tibo_maker]

6.8 billion people have never used AI 😯

not because they don't have access - because nobody has built something simple enough for them to care

every AI startup right now is fighting over the same ~16% of early adopters - developers, tech workers, content creators who already live on the internet

the market feels crowded because everyone is fishing in the same pond

but look at who's in that 84% - small business owners who still track inventory in notebooks, teachers who spend 3 hours a week just formatting lesson plans, local service businesses running on WhatsApp and gut instinct, and billions like them

they're not waiting for AGI - they're waiting for something that saves them 2 hours on Tuesday

the products that will win aren't the ones with the best models or the most features - they're the ones that take a painful, specific task and make it disappear

no prompts, no learning curve, no "AI" branding needed

Paul Graham put it simply: "if you make your app 10% easier to use, you'll get twice as many users."

he said that before AI even existed, but it explains exactly why most AI tools are failing the majority of the world

they're built for people who enjoy figuring things out - the real market doesn't want to figure anything out - they just want the problem gone

the opportunity isn't better AI, it's better distribution into problems that have never been touched

builders who understand that will win the next decade

[Kellen Mace @KellenMace]

@sarahsalviander May God bless you, Sarah. So glad to hear it went so well ❤️