iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️
Staff DevRel Engineer @ Square/Block
I post about Python, APIs, AI/ML, dad jokes, and tech career/interview prep coaching.
- Blogs, Videos, Talks: https://iandouglas736.com
- Free career newsletters: 736.fyi/newsletter
- Why is it that when I hear, "there are no silly questions," that I want to take it as a personal challenge? (why is abbreviation such a long word?)
- What used more tape for you this year? - wrapping presents and gifts or - keeping your Christmas tree box intact for one more year
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- After January, my COBRA payments for health insurance will cost more than my mortgage... Good thing I have two PCs with 128GB of RAM each that I could sell to cover those COBRA payments until like June. #RAMprices #whattheactual
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- Dang, I didn't get accepted into the school for Chicken Hypnotists ... I didn't pass the hen trance exam.
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- I have a lot of fun putting together these Flight School videos. If you could automate anything about your workflow to actually be more productive, what would it be? Come hang out in our Discord community to share what you're making with Goose -- discord.gg/block-openso...
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- Come hang out on our Friday livestream 10amPT/1pmET to see how Goose made an incredible "retro" terminal work tracker for productivity that scores your focus, productivity, and context switching! linktr.ee/blockopensou...
- My son and I were touring around London on another bus when this accident happened. I didn't see it happen but I heard the sickening crunch and saw the messy aftermath. It's weird how casually i've used "in case I get hit by a bus" to talk about the importance of knowledge transfer. Never again.
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- Vibe coding has certainly taken hold but often ends in a ton of refactoring. I came up with the idea of "vibe prompting" a few months back to improve the starting point, saving time and tokens/money. youtube.com/watch?v=IjXm... #ai #vibeprompting #promptengineering
- Great job! Thanks for coming to the event tonight! CC @opensource.block.xyz
- Come hang out TOMORROW with me, Lazar, Shivam, and Michael, plus about 150 friends, for an amazing night of Goose, MCP, networking, food & drinks, and some off-the-chain vibe coding contests! lu.ma/ruit2le5 #TorontoTechWeek
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- My first father's day away from my kids. They're teenagers and don't really want to hang around the parents anyway, but still... #BusinessTrip #DevRelLife See you soon, Toronto!
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- let's give Goose a robot to control, what could possibly go wrong? :) www.youtube.com/shorts/QKg2Q... full tutorial: block.github.io/goose/docs/t... blog post coming soon!! #mcp #mqtt #goose #ai
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- If you could have any conversation with your database to analyze some data, what would that convo look like?
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- Oof. I need a weekend to recover from my weekend. Between finishing up Stage Academy with Vinh Giang late Friday, and editing 20 voiceover videos of leetcode walkthroughs, and then spending all day today taking care of home chores, laundry ... I'm wiped out.
- Check out tomorrow's livestream! @opensource.block.xyz Join Ebony and I as we interview Juan about using Goose and AI to edit videos -- something I've spent HOURS doing in the past. Come learn how to automate this for yourself! Join here in about 24 hours: linktr.ee/blockopensou...
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- I'm REALLY excited to be live streaming again!! This week is a topic near and dear to me -- video editing. It takes SOOO long to edit video clips, so I'm excited to see how Goose can help me out with this!
- Come join the fun and watch two devs do LIVE vibe coding with Goose -- The Great Goose-Off is happening NOW! They’ll have the same task, same time limit, different prompts, different MCP servers, different strategies. Let's see who can guide Goose to the best build! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsA3...
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- Here's the custom 404 page that Goose made for me!
- I've been telling people about 3 YouTube channels that have improved my skills and tactics for being a better storyteller and interviewer: - Vinh Giang, youtube.com/@askvinh - Vanessa Van Edwards, www.youtube.com/results?sear... - Chris Voss, www.youtube.com/@Negotiation...
- Hey friends how do you dispute a cleaning charge from @lyft? Driver is claiming I spilled something that looks like milk, but I carried nothing that would make this mess, and my shoes are spotless. Lyft refuses to reverse the $80 fee.
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- As someone who helps people with interview prep, and as a dad, HOLY CRAP Google with the Pixel ad this weekend. Who's cutting up a Costco-sized bag of onions up in here?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7e6...
- Me: I'm not paying more than $150 for a laptop backpack, that's ridiculous! And do I really need a 15th backpack?? Also Me: I could really use that smaller version of the Riut Backpack for quick travel days. www.riut.co.uk/collections/...
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- If you're looking for a new job in 2025, I have a series of free newsletters to help with prep. They're geared to the tech industry, but the general/behavioral lists are helpful to everyone. 736.fyi/newsletters You can even set your own pace for delivery, with no ads/promos!
- This device doesn't have a tail ...
- Happy New Year! While the year has already started, my advice for 2025: make "10%" your goal, instead of big, lofty ideas. Save 10% more money than last year Lose 10% of your body weight Walk 10% farther on your walks every month Get 10% more sleep at night You get the idea.
- If Batman were Santa, how would he wear his hat?
- My resolution for 2025 is to stop being a "social vegan". That's right, I'm no longer avoiding meets.
- Geez, it's January 1st, and my neighbors already have their Christmas decorations up!
