Kenneth Reitz
Creator of Requests, Certifi, Pipenv & more.
I'm best known for Requests, the Python HTTP library. 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.
Current Work
$requests The community token for Requests, at requeststoken.org.
RetroVault A native macOS library and player for RomM, now available as a public preview.
Interpretations A 24-track album composed entirely in Python.
kjvstudy.org Scripture study tools built for slow reading and durable notes.
PyTheory Music theory as code, from chords and scales to full arrangements.
Responder A web framework built around the same old question: HTTP, for humans.
RhymePad A scratchpad for poets & rappers that hears the rhymes as you write.
Recent Writing (archive)
There's a memecoin named after Requests, and I'm involved with it. I'd rather you hear about it from me, plainly, than from a screenshot. How This Happened I didn't create the token. It launched on pump.fun on October 20th, and shortly after, someone from pump.fun reached out to me. I...
cat prints files. acat plays them. That's the whole idea. I built it today, and I've been smiling about it all afternoon. Why I had a recording of an X Space I'd hosted, sitting in my home directory as an mp4. I wanted to listen to it. Not open an...
I found out this week that a fleet of AI agents used httpbin to get past their sandbox.I posted about it on X the night I heard. The reaction told me I wasn't the only one who found it strange. I built httpbin years ago so developers could test HTTP...
> Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. (1 Corinthians 13) I've been learning that love isn't the feeling at the top of the mountain. It's what you do on the way back down. Growth looks a lot less...
In a study published in 2019, researchers put adults who had played Pokémon extensively as children into an fMRI scanner. When those adults looked at Pokémon, a particular part of their visual cortex responded selectively, in a consistent location across the experienced players. The novices didn't show the same pattern.Gomez,...
Threads
For Humans Technology should serve human mental models, not the other way around.
Algorithmic Critique How engagement optimization consumes virtue, language, love, democracy, reality, time, and diagnosis.
Mental Health Notes from inside the system, written without pretending the system is the human.
Consciousness and AI What happens when language starts reflecting us back at ourselves.
Music as Code Chords, theory, synthesis, and the pleasure of making sound with programs.
Now (as of July 2026)
Reading: The Becoming by Sarah L. Reitz — my wife's poetry collection, tracing a journey from darkness through self-discovery to love. Free at poemsbysarah.com, or in paperback & Kindle. I built the publishing pipeline; she wrote every word.
Playing: Interpretations — a 24-track album composed entirely in Python. Sitar ragas, acid bass, ambient drones, trap beats — every sound generated from code. Listen on the web, or on Spotify / Apple Music.
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.