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How XP Made A Better AI Coder - 06/04/26

Early in my career as a professional programmer, I found myself in a subset of the Ruby community that was passionate about Extreme Programming (XP) and Agile. Those XP practices have shaped how I approach software engineering and have made me a successful user of AI in software development as well. read more…

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…

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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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