Blogtalk discussion data

blogtalk-20260519T163619Z.json

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "title": "Articles about AI",
    "responses": [
      {
        "name": "Ada",
        "response": "First response"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nick",
        "response": "Skills and Hooks"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nevin",
        "response": "Harness Engineering"
      },
      {
        "name": "Sol",
        "response": "Does spec-to-code work? When? How?"
      },
      {
        "name": "David",
        "response": "How I use AI as an experienced developer"
      },
      {
        "name": "Sol",
        "response": "Do you need agent orchestration?"
      },
      {
        "name": "Noah",
        "response": "Different techniques I used for protecting my RAG agent from malicious instructions"
      },
      {
        "name": "Matt",
        "response": "Making AI useful as a first line code reviewer"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nick",
        "response": "How to (and when to) trust the process"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nevin",
        "response": "Tool catalogs via mcp gateway"
      },
      {
        "name": "Sol",
        "response": "Spec-to-code failed me, now I just use pieces of Matt Pococks workflows"
      },
      {
        "name": "Matt",
        "response": "Pair programming with AI"
      },
      {
        "name": "David",
        "response": "Using AI to build small, interstitial tools"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nick",
        "response": "Making agents part of the team"
      },
      {
        "name": "Sol",
        "response": "Tokens - how much do you think about them? What to optimize..."
      },
      {
        "name": "Chris M",
        "response": "Optimizing Figma for AI Tailwind Development"
      },
      {
        "name": "Matt",
        "response": "Managing expectations in a world of (AI) Magic"
      },
      {
        "name": "David",
        "response": "What new abilities does AI unlock?"
      },
      {
        "name": "Sol",
        "response": "Depending on unreliable tools..."
      },
      {
        "name": "Noah",
        "response": "How to balance learning w/ AI when mentoring an intern"
      },
      {
        "name": "Matt",
        "response": "Hacking yourself with AI (before someone else does)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nevin",
        "response": "Custom coding agents with pi.dev"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nick",
        "response": "Coding is fun - dont give it all to AI"
      },
      {
        "name": "Natalie",
        "response": "Exquisite corpse ai coding challenge - not exactly a brainstorm/new idea but me manifesting that I will write it eventually"
      },
      {
        "name": "David",
        "response": "Software practices that still apply in the era of AI"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "title": "Articles NOT about AI",
    "responses": [
      {
        "name": "Nick",
        "response": "What else is there (other than AI)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Noah",
        "response": "Lessons learned from implementing a PayPal checkout"
      },
      {
        "name": "Matt",
        "response": "How much TypeScript is TOO much?"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nevin",
        "response": "Migrating from Terraform to Pulumi for IaC"
      },
      {
        "name": "David",
        "response": "Building Dave's Mystery Project"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nick",
        "response": "Whatever happened to RSC?"
      },
      {
        "name": "Sol",
        "response": "Tales from beyond the Shadow boundary, using tailwind in embedded widgets"
      },
      {
        "name": "Noah",
        "response": "How to Pronounce GIF: A Definitive Answer"
      },
      {
        "name": "David",
        "response": "Customizing a macropad (keyboard) for development work"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nevin",
        "response": "Planning content sites for caching to reduce operating costs"
      },
      {
        "name": "Sol",
        "response": "Is client-side state management a solved problem in 2026?"
      },
      {
        "name": "Matt",
        "response": "The [three?] most important changes to make your code accessible in 202[6]"
      },
      {
        "name": "Sol",
        "response": "Why is node like this? Observations on building reliable software systems."
      },
      {
        "name": "Chris M",
        "response": "Upgrading Django Templates to Components"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nick",
        "response": "local-first"
      },
      {
        "name": "Matt",
        "response": "When can we let 88 character line widths go?"
      },
      {
        "name": "David",
        "response": "Offline/online integrations (NFC tags, QR codes, etc.)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nevin",
        "response": "Containerization strategies to simplify platform operations"
      },
      {
        "name": "Matt",
        "response": "How Tailwind fed my bad habits"
      },
      {
        "name": "Sol",
        "response": "MSAL Auth in End-to-end testing with a local OIDC keycloak server"
      },
      {
        "name": "Natalie",
        "response": "Out loud code reviews, physical whiteboard diagramming,etc - how to learn through putting your ideas into the physical realm"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": 3,
    "title": "Articles you'd like to read",
    "responses": [
      {
        "name": "Matt",
        "response": "What (learnable) skills keep a Software Author relevant in an AI world?"
      },
      {
        "name": "David",
        "response": "Programmatic 3D Printing"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nick",
        "response": "The time for Linux as the default daily driver has come"
      },
      {
        "name": "Matt",
        "response": "Keeping my blood pressure down as an IT Security professional"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nick",
        "response": "PCBs for beginners"
      },
      {
        "name": "David",
        "response": "Techniques for ensuring quality of generated code"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nevin",
        "response": "Building a living documentation system with AI"
      },
      {
        "name": "Noah",
        "response": "Pros and Cons of AI: The Actual Numbers Behind Productivity Growth, Environmental Impact, Etc."
      },
      {
        "name": "Nick",
        "response": "The real cost of (internet) business - environmental effects of SaaS"
      },
      {
        "name": "David",
        "response": "Self-hosting without systems administration"
      },
      {
        "name": "Matt",
        "response": "Best Rapid Prototyping - an (Ongoing) Leaderboard"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nick",
        "response": "Solving the burn out crisis"
      },
      {
        "name": "Chris M",
        "response": "The Figma to Front End Pipeline - Getting to components faster"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nick",
        "response": "Oops, we accidentally deleted all of the data centers - surviving after the digital apocolypse"
      },
      {
        "name": "Matt",
        "response": "Fixing Trust - how to make Open Source safe (again?)"
      },
      {
        "name": "David",
        "response": "Typed Python (especially in a Django context)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Sol",
        "response": "How to balance curiosity with skepticism and avoid burnout in 2026 software development"
      },
      {
        "name": "Noah",
        "response": "After AI, what's the next big innovation?"
      },
      {
        "name": "David",
        "response": "Turning Flask into a full-featured web framework"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nevin",
        "response": "Open source Rust based battery management system hardware + firmware"
      },
      {
        "name": "Matt",
        "response": "Identity \u0026 Trust in a Post-Cryptography World"
      },
      {
        "name": "Sol",
        "response": "Fine-tuning small models for bespoke local workflows"
      },
      {
        "name": "Chris M",
        "response": "5 common scenarios your chatbot needs to handle well"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": 4,
    "title": "Articles you think someone else should write",
    "responses": [
      {
        "name": "Noah",
        "response": "Natalie: Transitioning from Intern to Full Time: Looking Back on my First Year at Viget"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nick",
        "response": "Nevin: Crash Course on Agentic Coding"
      },
      {
        "name": "Matt",
        "response": "Nevin - Quick and clean public prototype hosting"
      },
      {
        "name": "David",
        "response": "Natalie: what I've learned during my first 6 months as a professional developer"
      },
      {
        "name": "Matt",
        "response": "Chris Jones - In Defense of 100% Test Coverage in an AI World (maybe as a point/counterpoint with someone else)"
      },
      {
        "name": "David",
        "response": "MW team: lessons from a large, long-running, full-stack TypeScript app"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nevin",
        "response": "Matt; Journey from tax attorney to software engineer"
      },
      {
        "name": "Sol",
        "response": "Matt: How I give good code reviews"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nick",
        "response": "Matt: Inheritance: What Did I Agree to When Joining Viget (Part 1 of the MW Saga)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Sol",
        "response": "Danny/Natalie - using Claude as a collaborator and teacher, but not a junior developer"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nevin",
        "response": "Agentic DevOps"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nick",
        "response": "Sol: Staying Sharp in the Ever-Changing JS Ecosystem"
      },
      {
        "name": "Matt",
        "response": "Sol - Zen and the art of Agent.md files"
      },
      {
        "name": "Noah",
        "response": "Nick: How to Run a Simple Biweekly Dev Meeting"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nevin",
        "response": "Nick: Lessons from the homelab"
      },
      {
        "name": "Sol",
        "response": "Chris J - something about local llms (how to set it up, your experience)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Matt",
        "response": "David - Justifying that 3D Printer to your significant other"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nick",
        "response": "Chris Jones: Chris Jones: The Life and Time (and Twists and Turns)"
      },
      {
        "name": "David",
        "response": "Nevin: Agentic DevOps"
      },
      {
        "name": "Chris M",
        "response": "Noah: Chatbot prompt validation with Pydantic"
      },
      {
        "name": "David",
        "response": "Everyone: some cool thing I did with AI (group post)"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nick",
        "response": "David/Chris: Manaing a Dev Team in the AI Times"
      }
    ]
  }
]