Checking in... going great by the way. Milestones from 2025:
- Rejoined of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Commit Your Code conference presenter and attendee (2025)
- Dallas Software Developers meetup presenter and attendee (2025)
- Guest presenter for Franklin University - ITEC 670 (2025)
- Oracle Developer & Technology User Group presenter and attendee (2025)
- JavaMUG meetup attendee (2025)
There is a very human element to writing software and learning the craft. I don't worry about AI taking jobs as much as eroding the connections that keep developers talking to each other.
To combat this in my own dev life I plan to hit meetups more often starting in 2025.