Dev life
Everything that is not code. Reviews, postmortems, burnout, teaching, and learning out loud where people can watch you get it wrong.
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Video / dev-life Understand Retrieval Augmented Generation in Under 8 Minutes
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Video / dev-life The 7-Minute Guide to Understanding Artificial Intelligence
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Short / dev-life I Tried Voice Coding, It Was A Disaster!
A voice-coding attempt gets tangled in repeated "delete word" commands while trying to produce an export, class, and stream.
1:001,036 views0 likes → Article / dev-lifeIntegrating a Notion Database with an Astro Site
My entire life is planned & documented in Notion. How can I pull that content into my Astro site so I don't have to duplicate it in content collections?
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Short / dev-life I Tried NeoVIM
A brief outtake cycles through wrong guesses before landing on a joke about leaving Visual Studio Code.
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Short / dev-life Bongo cat loves my code!
C# 12 primary constructors reduce boilerplate by exposing constructor parameters throughout a type, but introduce important rules around overloads, naming conflicts, and generated properties.
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Short / dev-life What if AI takes developer jobs!?
A brief comedy pitch invites singles to an OnlyFans featuring bald, bearded feet.
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Short / dev-life I’ve Never Built this for a Client
A developer with nearly 20 years of experience confesses that he has never built tic-tac-toe for a client, then detours into microphones, a back scratcher, and Vue.js.
0:33392 views9 likes → Article / dev-lifeMaking a Man: Lessons Learned from My Single Mother
Remembering the integrity and tenacity my mom displayed in her life and the lessons she worked to instill in me.
9 min0 likes → Article / dev-lifeBuilding 404 Pages That Bring Joy
How we transformed the bad experience of landing on a 404 page into an enjoyable experience with a game.
7 min0 likes → Article / dev-lifeBuilding a Discord Bot to Improve Inclusive Language
Building a Discord bot sounds like a fun and I couldn't think of a better first project than trying to make it a safer space for everyone.
12 min0 likes → Article / dev-lifeUsing Polywork to Break My Unconscious Biases
Polywork is an interesting new LinkedIn competitor. After joining, I wanted to ensure that my "bubble" included a diverse set of people. Here's how I did it.
3 min0 likes → Article / dev-lifeBuilding my Ultimate Rustic Developers Desk
I've always wanted to build a desk that fits me. So welcome to my journey to build my ultimate developer desk.
9 min0 likes → Article / dev-lifeLive-Coding to Learn, Share and Encourage
A reflection on one year of coding live on Twitch to learn new technologies, share what I know, and encourage others to grow personally & professionally.
5 min0 likes → Article / dev-lifeUsing Apollo to Query GraphQL from Node.js
It's a common scenario—you built a quick prototype, it worked great, and now management wants it live yesterday. GraphQL can help get it out the door.
7 min0 likes → Article / dev-lifeCurrent Twitch live-coding stream setup
I've started working a lot more at trying to get my setup just right so I could live code some personal projects and hopefully help others learn new technologies.
4 min0 likes → Article / dev-lifeSetting up Raspberry Pi for use in kiosk mode with Chromium
Recently one of our clients approached us to develop an application that would run on a Raspberry Pi to use in kiosk's throughout their facilities. We ended up writing a web app in Angular that they would run via Chromium.
2 min0 likes → Article / dev-lifeGirls Who Code
These days, the topic of women in technology is hot. As a dad of two daughters, I often think about what their futures hold. One thing I know, they belong here as much as any man.
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