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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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November 30, 2021

Moms, you're carrying a lot of plates

I see you moms. You’re carrying a lot of plates. Your children. Your work. Your family. Your life. Everything. You are carrying more plates than anyone should expect to carry. I know it’s hard. I know it feels like you...

November 29, 2021

What the heck does it mean to make an image a tensor?

So we’ve learned about what a tensor is, and we know a little bit about what you can do with them, but why the heck would we want to turn an image into a tensor? Well, if we want to...

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...