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Ping Pong Pairing with Antigravity - 06/24/26

Is ‘Loop Engineering’ just programming by another name? Let’s take it for a test drive by building a ping-pong pairing AI agent skill with Antigravity and using it to write Mastermind. read more…

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…

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DevRelCon 2021 - 11/07/21

Hiring Is Not Hazing

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How I Learned to Love Serverless

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