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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
Writing about what AI agent sessions actually cost
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April 13, 2020

Another One About Interviews: Breaking Bekah

I got married when I was twenty-one, but I dated a lot before I was married, and I can say that I never have been as heart-broken as I have been during this interview process. To be perfectly honest, the...

April 6, 2020

We Should Be Building Community Now More Than Ever

If I’ve learned anything from going through a trauma, it’s that it takes time to heal, you have to be patient with yourself, and that community matters. And I can’t help but re-experience what I went through before now, but...

March 31, 2020

Job Searching in the Time of Covid-19

Friends, it’s been hard. Everything’s been hard for everyone. We’re struggling to fight despair, to dream of a future, to stay motivated. We’re losing our jobs, our “normal,” our hope. We’re trying our best and somehow that doesn’t seem like...

February 28, 2020

Bootcamp Isn't All Happy Face Emojis

Everyone’s experience in bootcamp is different, but every bootcamp graduate I’ve talked to–whether it’s been a full-time intense bootcamp, remote self-paced, or anything in between–have all admitted that the commitment was incredibly stressful. For most of us, we’re changing careers...

January 24, 2020

Ask Me How I Do it All: A Story of #MomGuilt

It’s okay to ask me how I “do it.” It’s ok for you to ask me how I balance motherhood and work. Not every mom is ok with that, and I get why. But the reality is that many moms,...

January 2, 2020

Developer Toddlerhood: I've Been a Dev for Six Months

I’ve been a dev for six months. Most days, I still think I’m going to get fired. I think I’m not good enough. I think I should know more. But that’s kind of my MO. I always think I’m not...

November 4, 2019

I'm Learning Something New, and I Refuse to Feel Imposter Syndrome

I’m starting a new project today, which is usually followed by spending an unreasonable amount of time thinking that I’m not good enough to be a developer, that I’m going to get fired, that it was fun while it lasted....