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Senior Developer Advocate at Atlassian | Co-Host of The Programming Podcast | Founder of @commityourcode | Atlassian Forge and Rovo builder!
Dallas, TX
Joined January 2019
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I JUST RECEIVED THE FINAL VERSION OF THE BOOK!🥹
We poured EVERYTHING into this book. Many books focus on AI from the perspective of the highest levels of education but what about the average corporate dev that wants to stay ahead & do well at their jobs?
We wrote this for you!
For those that know me, they will know this is something I don't think I would have ever said.
I just booked a 7 Day cruise for myself and the fam with @MSCCruisesUSA.
I need all the tips! What do I need to know? Boats freak me out, can't even lie, but we are doing it! – at Frisco, TX
Happy 28th Birthday @Google!
28 years ago, y’all took an idea, gave it a name, and built something so useful that the name eventually became a verb.
“Google it.”
That’s a hell of a legacy!
Every fitness app I’ve ever used, I eventually quit. So I’m building the one I wish existed.
I have started losing weight but everything feels like a chore with these apps. The problem is the apps became another job.
- Log the meal.
- Find the food.
- Fix the serving size.
- Enter the workout.
- Do it again tomorrow.
So I’m building around one idea:
I shouldn’t have to track my life. I should just tell the app what happened.
Take a picture of dinner.
Send a screenshot of what I ordered.
Say, “Bench was 185 for 8, 8, 7.”
The software handles the bookkeeping.
Still very early, but this is what it looks like so far:
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There is something special about a room full of software developers who just want to hang out with other software developers.
No big pitch. No forced networking. No pretending everybody has it all figured out.
Just people talking shop, sharing ideas, laughing, debating, teaching, learning, and probably arguing about something unnecessarily specific.
That is what I love about Dallas Software Developers Group!
We get to build a place where people who spend all day thinking about weird technical problems can walk into a room and immediately feel like they found their people.
Sometimes community is not about where it takes you.
Sometimes it is just really good to be around people who get it.
Another great night with the Dallas dev community. ❤️ – at Frisco, TX
There is something special about a room full of software developers who just want to hang out with other software developers.
No big pitch. No forced networking. No pretending everybody has it all figured out.
Just people talking shop, sharing ideas, laughing, debating, teaching, learning, and probably arguing about something unnecessarily specific.
That is what I love about Dallas Software Developers Group!
We get to build a place where people who spend all day thinking about weird technical problems can walk into a room and immediately feel like they found their people.
Sometimes community is not about where it takes you.
Sometimes it is just really good to be around people who get it.
Another great night with the Dallas dev community. ❤️ – at Frisco, TX
I just got access to Jev! Going to be experimenting with it all day and testing it with heavy decision related tasks to see how this goes. Going to document it for the next podcast episode.
The recruiter did not reject you.
They ran out of reasons to keep reading.
You are not competing with better software engineers.
You are competing with better documented ones.
Documentation is a skill and it is learnable!
You have learned harder things.
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Love this insight from @DThompsonDev
Everyone online screams "MERN stack, MERN stack." He researched the industry, saw the entry-level demand, and bet on Java instead. The career move nobody advised him to make. 🎙️ #Java #DevCareers
An AI agent that can only give advice is just a chatbot with a better title.
Forge lets you build custom actions that Rovo agents can execute inside your team's Atlassian workflow.
Read a Jira issue.
Analyze it.
Post the findings.
Update the work.
Nobody needs another AI that tells them what to do. Build one that takes something off their plate. – at Frisco, TX
THIS is where I think Atlassian has a really interesting advantage.
The goal isn’t “use AI.”
The goal is removing the translation tax between what I mean & what gets built
Record the problem in Loom.
Explain it naturally.
Pass that context directly into the development workflow – at Frisco, TX
Atlassian used Transcribe 2.0 in @Loom and found it more accurate at capturing user instructions. Dictate your change requests using Loom, then directly export to Cursor to code it up.
The DSD Cohort is back and still 100% free!!!
A 6-week Software Developer program where you work on a team building a project that is actually worth talking about in an interview, while being guided by 2 professional software developers in the industry.
Engineering with AI!
Cohort leads must be developers with at least 1 year of professional experience in tech to help guide a team. We are completely volunteer ran. We do not monetize any of this.
Cohort Team Members
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Cohort Team Leads
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AI can get you the answer faster, but if you always ask for the answer, six months later you might still know nothing.
Use AI as a teaching tool too. Ask why it chose an approach, what the tradeoffs are, and what you should learn from it.
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Today at 2:30pm EST, @DThompsonDev is live reviewing resumes and profiles w/ @RoxanaCodes. They're here to help you, so bring every version you've got!
RSVP: luma.com/torcdo-vpak
#TechCommunity #Careertips
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A good agent hook can save you from reviewing obvious mistakes.
Run the final output against your own rubric before it reaches you. If it doesn’t meet your standards, send it back to fix itself first.
That makes the human review actually worth your time.
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Join @RoxanaCodes and THE @DThompsonDev , where they are going to b̶a̶r̶b̶e̶c̶u̶e̶ review the resumes and portfolios only on @torcdotdev ! Join us for an insightful session full of valuable information! Register here for the joining link:
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I saw all those photos from CYC. Day 3 back in the gym. It's over with now, I'm back, but I can't lie, the level of sore I am is unreal. Just avoiding ego, keeping it as light as I can so my body adjusts. – at Frisco, TX
The Atlassian Marketplace is essentially a giant list of problems customers were willing to pay somebody else to solve. There will always be opportunity for people who solve expensive problems.
