Kenneth Reitz
Creator of Requests, Certifi, Pipenv, Records, Maya & more.
I'm best known for Requests, the Python HTTP library. I built kjvstudy.org, a free digital study Bible. Most of what I write these days lives at the intersection of technology and consciousness — what we owe each other when we build things people think through.
I live openly with schizoaffective disorder. I'm a husband and father. Tech used to be my identity. Now it's craft, not lifestyle.
This site is the whole picture — essays, software, poetry, photography, music, and the AI work that ties it together. Fifteen years of thinking out loud.
Recent Writing (archive)
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A few threads run through everything here. The "for humans" philosophy — that technology should serve human mental models, not the other way around. A growing body of algorithmic critique, tracing how engagement optimization consumes virtue, language, love, democracy, reality, and time. Writing about mental health, consciousness and AI, fifteen years of open source, and programming as contemplative practice.
Thank you for your attention — it's the only currency that actually matters. If anything here resonated, I'm glad. If you're curious about what drives the work, my values are the closest thing to a map I've got.