A garden of thoughts tended in public.
I'm Brittany, a software engineer, writer, podcaster, and gardener. I write about technical careers, community, and what's growing in my back garden.
The garden beds
~ the orchard ~Everything I've harvested.
posts, talks, comics, newsletters →
~ the seedling tray ~Notes still figuring themselves out.
half-formed thoughts and rough drafts →
~ the community garden ~Tending with other people.
communities, conferences, meetups →
~ the gardener's notebook ~What I'm tending right now.
a dated note, rebuilt each deploy →
Where you'll find me next.
events I've RSVPed to → the whole calendar
A short feed.
the five most recent things → see them all
- Podcast
Summary What does it actually look like to hand 90% of your workday over to an AI agent you built yourself? Sterling Chin, founding DevRel at Inngest and creator of Marvin, an open-source AI chief of staff with nearly 1,000 GitHub stars, has been doing exactly that for months.…
- Podcast
AI is generating more code than ever, but most engineers aren't verifying it. Sonar Staff AI Researcher Joe Tyler shares breakthrough findings from his LLM Leaderboard research on code quality, the hidden "coding personalities" of different models, and why the real bottleneck…
- Podcast
Summary Software engineering career moves don't have to be a lottery. In this episode, Adam Argyle breaks down why the technical interview process is fundamentally broken, how design engineering skills actually transfer across roles, and the tactical job search playbook that…
- Podcast
Brittany shares her journey building Collective Social - a Goodreads-style app for all kinds of media built entirely on the AT Protocol - and how it led her to create OpenSocial, a service that lets any app on the decentralized web share group functionality like book clubs. The…