Refactr.Tech meetups in Atlanta feels like half tech event half Panther meeting.
We talked about AI, organizing, anti-racism, networking and education all at once.
It’s great seeing many of the Refactr.Tech crew after a few years of not being outside.
I have longer feeling to express but want to get back to enjoying the event.
Perhaps its a perception, but since running most of the changes through my factory. I feel more confident in the changes via AI but the pain point is the changes feel significantly slower and that...
Picked up the Breville InFizz Fusion. I'm like a decade late to the game but I am glad I finally made it.
I was trying to figure out what the phrase was so I asked AI: Me to Chat Bot: What is the definition of someone that is realistic about usage but wants retribution for the harms that were done in...
Below is a real conversation: > **Jay Miller** > Anyone have strategies to keep up with the AI everything approach... I find myself having too many AI things that I'm doing at one time and it's...
Voted this morning...
Cobb Co Voter - I have real questions about our SPLOST usage as well as Bona Fide Conservancy that I wish that people would be point AI at instead of of capitalism
BREWWWWWWWWWWW!
I shared my thoughts on open-source, Aiven, and All Things Open on the Aiven Blog
↗ https://aiven.io/blog/all-things-open-2026
When did Daniel Vogelbach become a hitting coach... wasn't he playing earlier this year?!
I made a Café Bombon for the first time... This is the greatest coffee drink ever...
I was talking with someone at a company and they mentioned that they have a devrel team member that has all but automated blog posts. I'll admin that my content at work is much more AI-driven than...
The amazing Rachel Lee Nabors and crew made this cool social media tool! R.L. Nabors is an amazing human so I absolutely trust this!
I'm actively not doing social things outside my microblog so I can't support directly, but maybe y'all can?
So... Go check this out?
The wonderful folks at Refactr.Tech were kind to feature me as their Community Voice this month! It was such a nice little birthday present.
Check out some of the things I've been watching and thinking about lately.
https://templates.aiven.io runs render engine!
It reminds me that I made render engine to generate HTML a website at my job 9 years ago. I've been building little sites with it for years, but this is the first time I made a thing my job "adopted" it with render-engine being the underlying tech building it!
It feels good to know that the code I wrote/contributed with awesome folks it being used by people all over the world and people are using it to make actual business decisions. 🤩
I spoke with with Kristiyan Ivanov of BetterDB, the Valkey and Redis observability tool. Kristiyan is a regular contributor to the Valkey community and the ecosystem of tooling being built around it.