Last updated: 8 August 2026 at 11:30 am GMT+0
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Community, Code Review & AI Changing Tech
Discussion about community, code review, AI changing the tech
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How I Travel for Work
Almost every time I'm working out of a coffee shop, and sometimes at the airport, someone spots the...
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AI Agents for Devs Who Ship
Nnenna Ndukwe, AI Developer Relations Lead at Qodo, joins Nick Taylor to discuss all things agents for developers shipping software.
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Diving into Canada, Community, and Networking for AI and K8s
Marino Wijay, Solutions Engineer at Isovalent, joins Nick Taylor to discuss community, the Canadian tech scene, eBPF and Kubernetes/AI networking.
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Be a G*dd*mn Cheetah
Unfortunately, if you spend enough time with me I will brainwash you into thinking you can achieve everything you have ever dreamed of. 🪩Rise & Rage, Dreamers!🪩I've seen this trend on social media l...
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Is AI Killing Open Source?
Rizel Scarlett, Principal Developer Advocate at Entire, joins Nick Taylor to discuss why open source needs new infrastructure and why agent session history matters.
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Solid 2.0
Dev Agrawal, a core team member on Solid, joins Nick Taylor to discuss Solid 2.0.
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"It's Not About the Pasta."
On hard pivots, hating JavaScript, and needing your voice back.If you've been quietly performing as a version of yourself that stopped being true a long time ago, exhausted from pretending the fit is ...
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Building Securely with AI
Brian Clark, Staff Developer Advocate at Snyk, joins Nick Taylor to discuss how to build securly with AI.
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Introducing Excaliclaw: A Skill for OpenClaw to Generate Excalidraw Diagrams
This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge I already use the Excalidraw Model Context...
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Agents need a runbook for hill-climbing
Jon Lebensold, Founder at Jetty, joins Nick Taylor for a hands-on conversation about agent evaluations and how to systematically improve agent performance. Jon will dig into what a practical runbook f...
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Imposter-maxxing
Nobody tell them how many times I googled "The Channel"...PSA: This topic has been beat to death. But honestly, there are few things I enjoy more in life than beating a dead horse. Let's turn that ho...
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Stop Shipping Broken Env Config
I first hung out with the Varlock team back in late August 2025, so this is not brand new to me. But...
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Torc Bot 3: Torclation Services
Why build it? So within the Torc community, we have a global user base with a very large contingent in LATAM. For a lot of our events there is a specific Espanol version of the stream and...
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Upcoming trolls, I mean talks.
While I am still actively interviewing and hunting down that ✨ perfect role, ✨ folks don't mind listening to me yap. Thank goodness. 🥰 Because I'm excited to try out a new (lightning) talk at Devops
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Torc Bot 2: The Refactor
Refactoring is important, but also difficult You ever create something with the best intentions of it being to standard and end up just winging it after you get started? Yeah, I did that wi...
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Building a Multifunctional Discord Bot: A Comprehensive Technical Deep Dive
Discord has become the go-to platform for running communities, whether you’re organizing a gaming guild, a dev collective, or a professional network. It has plenty of built-in tools, but sometimes you...
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[Boost]
How Not to Self-Reject Before You Even Try Yodit Weldegeorgise ...
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torc ambassador - year 2
Oh hey, the fine folks at Randstad Digital | Torc let me back into the clerb. :) Proud to represent Torc as an ambassador for yet another year. ❤️ I've made so many friends and have had a variety ...
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problem solving with zapier
I shared my 30 seconds of bloopers a day or two ago (depending on the platform on which you may have seen it) and received such nice responses. I don't know why the new year has turned me into this gr...
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2025 Retrospective
2025 Retrospective 2025 has come and gone and this is the first year I have actually sat down and done somewhat of a review of the year. I feel like the year went so quickly and at the sa...
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One of those "wrapped" posts - 2025
Yes, I paid a buck for the wrap image below. 😆 And it even wrote out a "blog" post (that I didn't ask for)....but was missing a lot of important information. I love using AI as a tool, but I refuse t...
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Windows paths with spaces in Python's `os`
Dealing with spaces in file paths is an issue that I keep running into. So here's a very short blog to save us time and headaches. You can either use r string or double backslashes (\\). ...
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December hustle
Hi friends! Happy holidays! I love this time of year, but it's also an insane whirlwind of dress up days, baking, volunteering, and activities if you work in education or have elementary age kids. 😅 ...
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writing about reading about writing about development in order to write about development
somehow joining a book club led to me wanting to write more and these are my ramblings. hey I didn't say it was going to be good writing ok