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I spent ten years teaching college English. Now I teach developers, search engines, and AI systems to understand each other.

Writing about developer experience, AI tooling, and the communities that make tech worth working in.

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Currently Developer Experience Lead, AI Platform at Paper Compute
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November 28, 2021

Dear Senior Devs, Use your privilege

Dear Senior Devs,

November 22, 2021

Hello, Tensor!

So we’ve been using the word tensor, just throwing it around, but now we’re going to learn a little more about it. You don’t have to understand everything. This isn’t an in depth exploration of what tensors are or a...

November 19, 2021

A Note to Devs Looking for Their First Job

It’s hard out there, new devs. I’m sorry. So many of you have been fed the fairy tale of an industry with jobs a plenty, bountiful pay, with a steep and rigorous climb that would be worth it when you...

November 15, 2021

You're Toxic: Using the Toxicity Model with TensorFlow.js

One of the things I’ve really enjoyed about learning TensorFlow.js (TFJS) is how quickly you can get it up and running and how many existing projects you can use as well. As someone learning about models and datasets and things...

November 12, 2021

5 Questions to Ask When You're Interviewing for a Remote Job

It’s been a while since I interviewed for a job, but I’ve had a bunch of conversations about interviewing since then. And some of the biggest challenges I see folks facing have to do with understanding the team and the...

November 6, 2021

TensorFlow.js 101

I’ve been interested in Machine Learning since I was learning to code. I didn’t know how I would get there, but I knew there was potential to solve the problems that I wanted to solve. It looked complicated, but I...

November 6, 2021

What No One Can Prepare You for as a Community Organizer

In early April of 2020, I held my first Virtual Coffee. I had recently lost my job because of COVID, and I felt alone and isolated. I didn’t imagine that I’d still be doing Virtual Coffee today. I didn’t imagine...