The Herd Of Kittens

The Herd of Kittens is a small group of computer hobbyists in Eastern Massachusetts that specializes in the construction of Free Software, Chocolate, Defense Systems and Simulators, Barcodes, and Chinese Food.


Pawprints

Projects

Current projects, including the WEBRCS software this site used to be based on, before the 2014 migration to a custom markdown+git+python approach.

Related Sites

A variety of projects carried on by THOK or those who curl up around here...

Paws and Whiskers

Kittens help with their Paws and their Whiskers.

Kitten Toys

Anything not nailed down is a kitten toy! And anything we can pry up, doesn't really count as nailed down...

Contact

Email questions about content to the content author directly or to <tangle@thok.org>

Bloggery

Weblog and web discussion technologies, tools, and content.


Why the name?

This quote, allegedly from The Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985, gives one of the oldest references I've found:

"At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats."

Years later, and in many other professional areas, the sentiment still applies; management of gifted developers is still very much an art. Kittens are more easily distracted...

Spelling Matters

If you're looking for Random Hacks of Kindness that's RHOK.ORG.