JBaruch 🎩

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Only Brent wants to build this, because Brent loves to build stuff. Bill pays, Sarah wants the effort on the product she sells, and Brent swears it'll be done in two weeks. He'll have a demo by then and likely never finish it.

From my AI DevCon NYC talk.

Brent isn't reviewing every PR anymore. He built a signal system: policy checks, the tests that matter, a curated review of the critical parts. When evidence is missing, he sends agents to dig for it instead of reading code.

From my AI DevCon NYC talk: youtu.be/rGT3sxA7TwM

Looks like great minds think alike.
These are @gAmUssA's and my slides from our recent joint talk.
And these are the avatars @jfokus created for our upcoming joint talk.

See y'all in Stockholm in February for one of our favorite conferences of the year!

My #GitHubUniverse badge now shows how much of my @herdrdev juice I have left this week!

The badge runs MicroPython, and there's an official skill that teaches your coding agent to hack it, so I did. Mine shows what's left on each of my AI coding subscriptions. OpenUsage on my Mac does the counting. If your badge is already sitting in a drawer (or you want to splurge $45 on a vanilla Pimoroni Badgeware Tufty), the code is at github.com/jbaruch/univer…

Universe is probably the most geeky conference I've ever attended. Hacking areas, spaces designed as a diner, a diner's kitchen, a speakeasy, etc., a hackable badge, and the stages as silent discos where the whole audience wears headphones – this is all as nerdy as it gets.

I spent most of the two days at the @tweetsbyport booth, all of us in SDLC shirts set in the AC/DC font. For those about to ship, we salute you! The interest in #SoftwareFactory in general, and in the platform to run them, is through the roof. What a time to be alive!

I had a short talk about the newest @github release: external properties, which let you use all your favorite GitHub automations and enforce rules based on a source of truth elsewhere (e.g., @tweetsbyport!). Video and notes: speaking.jbaru.ch/talks/github-u…

Thanks, @github. I'm bringing the badge next year.