Jared the Nerd

The Robots Aren't Coming for the Testers

Published on Tuesday, April 11th 2023, 6 min read

This post originally was posted on Medium. Go check it out! ChatGPT is already replacing jobs and information workers have real reasons to be worried. This week I discuss why I don’t think QA and Testing jobs will be r

What ChatGPT Means for Engineers Today

Published on Tuesday, April 4th 2023, 5 min read

This post originally was posted on Medium. Go check it out! ChatGPT is an amazing new tool that promises to help engineering teams do everything faster. But like using a microwave to make Thanksgiving dinner, faster is

Indy.Code() 2019 Slides

Published on Thursday, May 2nd 2019, 1 min read

Last week, I had a whirlwind trip to Indianapolis for Indy.Code() 2019, followed by a drive back to Columbus to help run Stir Trek. Phew. Indy.Code() was a great event, and I’m glad I finally got to visit. I wish I had b

CodeStock 2019 Slides

Published on Sunday, April 14th 2019, 1 min read

This week I had the pleasure of attending CodeStock in Knoxville for the first time. It was a great experience. If you’ve thought about submitting to speak at CodeStock, or thought about attending, I highly recommend it!

2018 Conferences, So Far

Published on Thursday, April 19th 2018, 1 min read

I just realized that I’ve not put up recent slides for a number of my talks in 2018. Sorry! Sorry I didn't actually bring cocktails Thanks to Momentum Dev Conf for the photo. Uh, So I’m A Manager… Now What?Given at:

Creating Demo APIs Without Code Using Microsoft Flow

Published on Thursday, April 19th 2018, 5 min read

I build a lot of demos. As someone who tries to learn and speak about emerging web standards, I spend a lot of time building random, little, useless apps (sometimes full of silly movie references). The next app I had kic

Dog Food Conf - Uh, So I'm A Manager... Now What?

Published on Thursday, October 5th 2017, 1 min read

Thank you to Dog Food for inviting me to speak, and thank you to everyone who came to my talk on being an effective tech leader: Uh, so I’m A Manager… Now what? Emoji make everything better! Thanks to Christina Aldan f

KCDC - Progressive Web Apps Are The Future

Published on Saturday, August 5th 2017, 1 min read

Big thanks to everyone who attended my Progressive Web Apps Are The Future talk at KCDC. Special thanks to those of you who still attended, even after seeing Where The Web Is Going. I’m glad I didn’t scare you off. Slide

KCDC - Where The Web Is Going

Published on Thursday, August 3rd 2017, 1 min read

Thank you to everyone who attended my talk at KCDC on Where The Web Is Going I hope you got value out of it, and that it kept you awake at 8:30 in the morning! If you’d like to download the slides, they are available rig

Fetch - Modern Async Server Calls

Published on Tuesday, November 8th 2016, 5 min read

Being a web developer right now is exciting and confusing. We keep getting new tools, but they all seem to come with more tools of their own. It’s refreshing when we get a near-total replacement for something that is act

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