Arthur Doler, Jon Graf, Eric Reichwaldt and Amy Norris present on Career Development this month at Nebraska.Code(). nebraskacode.amegala.com #TechCareer #CareerDevelopment #DeveloperBoredom #Consulting #ConsultingMindset #Homelabbing #ManagingFailure #Networking #TechConference #DeveloperCommunity

UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI

You've pizzicatoed your last five.

You’ve dreamed your last theater.

if you vibe code on html day you will have to go back and relive the web3 years

BEAUTIFUL NECKTIE - Your heart is broken, *bratushka*. And it cannot be mended. Believe me, I've tried.

this is what i mean when i say ai is a rhetorical technology. functionally this is a tool for *justifying deportation*, not a tool for assessing age. when someone is pitching an ai product, don't ask them what it's supposed to do. ask yourself what it's supposed to justify

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I've started this thing where whenever anyone starts talking to me about AI being inevitable, or if they even mention "putting the toothpaste back on the tube"... I just launch into the history of radium in consumer products in America. And how it's not fucking there anymore.

Erissa Duvall presents 'POUR One Out for A11y' this July at Nebraska.Code(). nebraskacode.amegala.com #WCAG #Accessibility #Inclusion #TechAccessibility #POURPrincipals #FrontEnd #WomenInTech #A11y #TechInclusion #TechConference #SoftwareDevelopment #ADA

Flying to Stockholm today. Did a card for the crew and they gave me a pair of wings and some snacks (not pictured, snacks).

My aunt Lorraine’s car freshener:

Turbo Pascal's Wager

I'm running my presenter workshop on Zoom next month, on a West Coast / AU / NZ friendly (well, friendlier) schedule. It is AWESOME, and you should TOTALLY JOIN IT and LEARN HOW TO DO KICK-ASS PRESENTATIONS. £50 off tickets with the code BSKY50: www.eventbrite.com/e/1987043570810/?discount=BSKY50

Curiosity makes better developers. 💡 Ask better questions 🗣️ Understand the bigger picture 🎯 Build more focused solutions Business Analysis skills matter. Catch Tiffany Hall at Nebraska.Code(). nebraskacode.amegala.com #BusinessAnalysis #Developers

look. is everything more expensive now? yes. but you have to look on the bright side too. now every time you open a computer, it doesn't work

Mitchel Sellers presents 'Mental Health, Quality, and a Developers Work/Life Balance' this July at Nebraska.Code(). nebraskacode.amegala.com #SoftwareCraftsmanship #TechCareer #MentalHealth #WorkLifeBalance #Software #TechConference #Iowa #Nebraska #Kansas #ProgrammingLife #SelfCare #DevLife

💀⚙️ Resume-driven development? Hype cycles? Overengineering? Arthur Doler’s Nebraska.Code() session explores the psychology of boredom in software development and how novelty can quietly drive complexity & bad technical decisions. 🔗 www.nebraska-code.com #Programming #SoftwareEng #Nebraska

Erissa Duvall presents 'POUR One Out for A11y' this July at Nebraska.Code(). nebraskacode.amegala.com #A11y #POUR #WebAccessibility #WCAG #Frontend #GitHub #AssistiveTech #SoftwareDevelopment #WomenInTech #TechInclusion #Programming #WomenInSTEM #WomenWhoCode #Accessibility

as a user, i would NOT like my needs anticipated. i would like them met in fleeting moments of electrifying, unexpected Knowing, with rare friends who i didn't realize i was made in the image of — strong hands reaching down to meet mine, to lift me skyward

Astute followers will note that while I am currently hobbling around with a broken toe thanks to an enthusiastic Krakow cab driver, it is the left foot that is injured and the right foot that I use for the guitar pedals, so The Show Will Go On regardless... THAT'S ROCK'N'ROLL BABY! See you in CPH!

When the bell's rung for round 1 but I'm ampin' up for round 2

Change isn’t slowing down. The key to navigating it? 👥 People ⚙️ Process 💻 Technology Balance all three to build stronger teams and organizations. Learn more with Sarah Wimberley at Nebraska.Code(). nebraskacode.amegala.com #Leadership #TechConf #ChangeManagement

Christine Seeman presents 'Optimize Your Mindset (Without Overclocking)' at Nebraska.Code() this July. nebraskacode.amegala.com #SoftSkills #TechCareer #CareerProgression #Mindfulness #HabitBuilding #GrowthMindset #DeepWorkStrategies #Nebraska #ProfessionalDevelopment #WomenInTech #TechConference

Quality isn’t just testing. It’s: 🤝 Collaboration 🧠 Shared ownership ⚡ Better delivery 😊 Better customer experiences Build quality into everything. Learn more with Sarah Little at Nebraska.Code(). nebraskacode.amegala.com #SoftwareQuality #Testing

Welp it's official, I'm on the hunt for my next role. I learned a lot in the past 8 months, and I'm ready to get back out there for my next role. If you're looking for someone for devrel/devrel-adjacent roles, I got over a decade of experience in developer relations and ready help your team!

Richard Campbell presents 'The Undersea Infrastructure' this July at Nebraska.Code(). nebraskacode.amegala.com #UnderseaInfrastructure #DataNetworks #ElectricalNetworks #Cloud #PetrochemicalNetworks

@techorama.bsky.social never disappoints!

Ben Dechrai presents 'Ten Key Steps for Enhanced Web App Security' this July at Nebraska.Code(). nebraskacode.amegala.com #WebApps #WebAppSecurity #DataIntegrity #SoftwareCraftsmanship #WebVulnerabilities #WebSecurity #CyberSecurity #TechConference #softwaredevelopment #SiliconPrairie #Heartland

I'm in ATL (Atlanta airport) and just overheard someone describe the tram between terminals as the "underground subway train" and I had to lock every muscle in my jaw not to say something

Arthur Doler presents 'Boredom-Driven Development: The Dark Bargain at the Heart of Software' at Nebraska.Code() this July. nebraskacode.amegala.com #Boredom #TechCareer #TechNovelty #SoftwareDevelopment #Aviture #Nebraska #TechnologyConference #NetworkingOpportunities #DeveloperCommunity

Sarah Wimberley presents 'Three Lessons from a Woman in Enterprise Architecture' at Nebraska.Code() this July. nebraskacode.amegala.com #EnterpriseArchitecture #TechCareer #CareerProgression #Nebraska #WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM #WomenWhoCode #Software #womensupportingwomen

Angular is shedding its old “framework magic.” Now it’s: ✅ Using native browser APIs ✅ Moving away from Zone.js ✅ Aligning with web standards The result? Faster apps + more portable skills. Lara Newsom presents on Angular at Nebraska.Code(). www.nebraska-code.com #Angular #WebDev

I have now joined the world of not having a job. If anyone knows a place for someone whose background ranges from old fashioned machine learning to system architecture, including cloud stuff, with a wide variety of gaming background familiarity, hmu.

Fast code. Tight deadlines. Endless expectations. But what about you? Mental health affects your code, your team, and your life. Learn how to manage the pressure and find balance with Mitchel Sellers at Nebraska.Code(). www.nebraska-code.com #MentalHealth #DevLife

Abbey Perini presents 'Restoring Lost Work in Git: A Forbidden Love Story' at Nebraska.Code() this July. nebraskacode.amegala.com #Git #Fetching #Merging #Rebasing #WomenWhoCode #Nebraska #WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM #software #TechInnovation #HeartlandDev #programminglife #NetworkingEvent #Nebraska

(giant sentence incoming) i think failure to appreciate that slack is necessary for resilience is rooted in the destruction of the distinction between "systems exist to respond to a need" and "systems exist to create value and thus needs must be tailored to system optimization."

Did a warmup for all the slide drawing I have to do today, inspired by the real events that woke me up this morning.

For the first time ever, I did some "studies" of how I wanted to depict and lay out a certain slide in the new talk.

Agile isn’t broken. You’re just not seeing the whole picture. Joshua Angolano explores what each stakeholder actually needs and why that’s where things fall apart. 👉 nebraskacode.amegala.com/%E2%81%A0

A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland.

Lol. 500 hours of purestrain PowerPoint and Gimp content.

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

Grey Lovelace and Whitney Lovelace have a Spotlight Session at Nebraska.Code() this July. Check out 'More Documentation is Not the Answer' here: nebraskacode.amegala.com #SpotlightSession #TechConference #Documentation #Agile #SourceAllies #PracticalAgile #WomenInTech #Midwest #TechDocumentation

Abbey Perini has a Spotlight Session at Nebraska.Code() this July. Check out 'Slots, Slots, Slots, Everybody!' here: nebraskacode.amegala.com #Wrappers #DynamicContent #WebComponents #Vue #Angular #HTML #React #TechConf #WomenInTech #WomenWhoCode #Software #Programming #MidwestTech #HeartlandDev