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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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May 13, 2022

Reading List: The Early Career Edition

I spent the majority of my career teaching college English. I read so, so much fiction, poetry, plays, and screenplays. And when I moved into tech, I kind of stopped reading for a while. I was dealing with trauma. I...

March 16, 2022

Virtual Coffee: An Update Going into Year 3

We’re going into our third year of Virtual Coffee, and what a whirlwind it’s been! Virtual Coffee wasn’t a pre-planned community, something we spent careers trying to develop. It was a natural connection among people who wanted to be a...

January 28, 2022

So You Want to Get Started in Community?

I’ve seen a lot of tweets recently and been a part of a number of conversations with people in tech who are interested in joining a DevRel team or applying for a community position, but don’t know how to get...

January 26, 2022

Job Announcement: A Dev's Journey into Technical Community Building

I’ve been a developer for two and a half years. And for that entire time I’ve worked as a freelancer and consultant. I’ve loved that work. One of my biggest pieces of advice to new developers has been to find...

January 6, 2022

Gauging Community Health

Over the last almost two years, as Virtual Coffee has formed, evolved, and solidified, I’ve spent time writing down the approach I’ve taken to community and my thoughts on what makes a community. There’s a lot of talk about metrics...

December 22, 2021

2021 Recap

I have this thing where I balance the logical part of me with the creative part of me. I’m never a better creative writer than when I’m at a tech conference. Because I dive so, so deep into the technical....

December 8, 2021

TensorFlow.js 101: Working with Models and TFHub

Models allow us to take data and make predictions, reactions, transformations, etc. There are models that work with images, audio, and other forms of data. We can do things like identify objects in images, create text from audio, and analyze...