I do not judge a sponsor track by its submission count. At the AI Hackathon at Berkeley, ours received 141 submissions, third-most of any sponsor. The count alone hides most of what happened.
Naomi Carrigan
@naomi.lgbt
Senior software engineer, community manager and developer educator.
Before I run a workshop, I give every resource its own short link: signup, the guide, the docs, each repository, the deck and the Discord invite. Then I can see what people do after the session.
At a developer conference expo in San Jose, I changed our booth screen while the event was running. Here is how I decide what the screen shows. The day before the expo opened, I scoped the venue and confirmed our booth space. That gave me time to plan the screen before the first visitor arrived.
Big news! 📚 We just finished a major documentation overhaul! Our docs went from 180 pages to 103 - smaller, more accurate, and easier to trust. And the best part? Nothing about the tools you use has changed! ✨ #DevCommunity #Documentation
I will be at Deepgram Speak. Will you? Speak is bringing builders, researchers, founders, and teams together to build with voice AI. Hear what’s next in voice, and get hands on. Register here (use a business email to get $500 credit upon attending): deepgram.com/speak?utm_so... See you in SF! 🩷
The format was three hours. Welcome drinks, a short orientation, then open build time where founders worked on their own products while engineers and go-to-market people circulated. I designed it that way for a few reasons.
Most companies treat community as a support queue with better branding. I think that is backwards. A developer community is a feedback loop, and most teams throw the signal away. Thread:
🎉 Big news! We just launched a completely redesigned nhcarrigan.com! One home for everything we do instead of a bunch of scattered sites. Let me show you around! ✨ #WebDevelopment #OpenSource
Big updates from NHCarrigan today! 💜 Our blog moved to a new home, our Discord got a refresh, and we need to share some important security news. Thread incoming~ #OpenSource #DevCommunity
My hobbies include overthinking emails and deleting perfectly good prose.
✨ Big news, friends! We've migrated our forms to our new marketing site for better reliability! Check them out at mktg.nhcarrigan.com 💖 #OpenSource #WebDev
How does one get a razor? Not the kind you shave with, but the kind named after you. Hanlon's Razor, Occam's Razor... How to get Naomi's Razor?
💜 Big things are happening at NHCarrigan! We're unifying our community experience across ALL platforms - same vibes whether you're on Discord, LinkedIn, or anywhere else! Want in? 👀 #TechCommunity #OpenSource
As a general rule of thumb, assume that any file anyone sends you is a virus. Do your due diligence before downloading and running/opening it. "But Naomi, my friends/family/partner would never send me malware." Sure, but your friends/family/partner's *compromised account* could. Be smart about it.
Abdou Bouam@abdoubouam.bsky.social · 2w agoJust a heads up I got a DM on ArtStation, where I was asked to download a .blend file and give a quote. It's a virus, even if it's just a .blend file! **Blender files can run custom python code!**
I have never been more tempted to hack something in my life.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump on his new America dot gov website: "It cannot in theory be hacked into. And when they figure a way to do that, we'll end it, because they always figure a way, right?"
From a technical standpoint, unless you have a zero-day retention policy, a BAA/DPA, or another agreement that precludes your data from being retained and consumed by the model provider... anything you send to an LLM is effectively now public data. Obligatory I am not a lawyer, but she's spot on ⬇️
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 2w agoI am seriously so sick of arguing with people who tell me that it's fine to use AI for their legal matters and it does not waive any confidentiality or privilege because the AI told them so.
I'm a transfem engineer who works in the (voice) AI space - it is absolutely not transphobic to be against LLMs.
the most typical@jazzpomegranate.com · 2w agowe are not doing "it's transphobic to be against llms" nope no thanks
Why are you trans? Wrong answers only. My parents told me I either needed to get a job or go to college. I chose to become a girl.
🌙✨Kira 🏳️⚧️💜✨🌙@kira.goodgirls.online · 2w agowhy are you trans? wrong answers only! i thought life wasn't hard enough, so i had to try the new game+ option.
A little birdie told me that @deepgram.com is the magic behind the voice in this game! You should totally check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/4415130/...
Stellar Cafe on Steam
A first of its kind experimental title, where your voice is the controller. Chat with quirky robots, help solve their problems, and shape the story through real-time conversations in this cozy sci-fi ...
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Check my pulse check my head Check the shadows on the wall Pacing in a circle waiting For the world to fall They say take a deep breath They say go and take a pill But if the world is moving fast Then I'm never standing still
The concept of "passing" is harmful to many people. Trans rights are for all of us.
Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · 2w agogm
If I were not meant to catch all the partners like pokemon why did god make me poly??? Checkmate atheists.
If you bring a beverage to a job interview with me it will make literally no difference because that has no bearing whatsoever on your ability to engineer software.
Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3w agoI’m sorry, but if you bring an iced coffee - or any damn beverage at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.
Oh hey a wave of followers. Hello new friends! I apologise in advance I am an unhinged chaotic gremlin following me is a wild ride but I promise it'll be fun!
