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Perspectives on the Future of DevRel - 05/04/26

The simple truth is that I don’t know what the future of DevRel is. I have some ideas, but we’re all on an AI journey together, and sometimes it seems like the tech changes every day. In that world I’m a bit suspicious of anyone who claims to know the future, unless they have a time machine. But I am comfortable talking about trends that I’m seeing in how I personally work read more…

Introducing Ursa Weaver - 04/27/26

I got into tech because I didn’t like school. It wasn’t that I disliked learning or got bad grades. I just never understood the way most schools work. Why should everyone who is the same age have to learn the exact same material at roughly the same rate? read more…

Becoming an AI-Assisted Coding Convert - 11/01/24

My primary objection to AI-assisted development was accuracy or, rather, the lack of accuracy. In one of my first exchanges with a generative AI, I quickly got it to produce an (incorrect) proof for P == NP. I continued to experiment with AI with my tester hat on and let’s just say my early introduction to AI-assisted development did not inspire confidence. read more…

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DevRelCon 2021 - 11/07/21

Hiring Is Not Hazing

Seattle DevOps July 2019 - 07/25/19

How I Learned to Love Serverless

RubyHACK 2018 - 05/03/18

4 Programming Paradigms in 45 Minutes

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