Building technical community at 2a in a hotel lobby, as one does #CodeMash2026

My preferred workflow, a slide from codemash. Fully local dev env. No internet required. Start dev via one command. My local DB is populated with static data committed to source control. I can reset the DB via a single command. I can easily toggle features. Automatic preview deploys for each branch with unique URL and DB. QA/UAT occurs before PR merge via preview URL. Merge to main auto-deploys to prod. Deploy dark via flags as needed for final approvals / phased release. Do phased deploy or blue/green and monitor prod to limit risk. Prod is the only long-lived environment.

Sometimes I forget how good I've had it in most of my jobs and teams.

@coryhouse sharing about not needing so many environments

#codemash #codemash2026

Back at it again #codemash #codemash2026

The A/V club's really got me out here building stage props at 10:30a 😹 #codemash2026

We’ve worked hard with the Kalahari to create what we hope is a great menu for our conference.

Click on the link for a list of what you will find for each meal at the buffet:
zurl.co/6Farv (What’s on the CodeMash 2026 menu?)

#CodeMash2026 #CodeMash #TechConference2026

I'm super excited to announce I'll be speaking at @codemash.bsky.social on January 13-16, 2026! My talks are "Escaping the Trap of Self-Sabotaging Meetings" and "We Shipped an AI Agent. Users Didn’t Care." (events.codemash.org/2026CodeMash...). I hope to see you there!

#CodeMash #CodeMash2026