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administration

• Accounting - Taxes, payroll, and other boring but necessary tasks

advent-of-code

• Advent of Code Mob Programming
• Advent of Code/Cyber

advent-of-cyber

• Mob Hacking Advent of Cyber

agile

• Agile, Patterns, Object-Oriented Design: who cares?
• Essential Prototyping

ai

• Bold Predictions for 2025
• Bold Predictions for 2026
• Editors, IDEs, etc.
• Experiment with Claude Code 2.0
• Experiment with GitHub Copilot Workspace
• Play with GitHub Copilot Agent in VS Code
• Year in Review

architecture

• Consolidating Systems

branding

• Marketing - Building your personal or company brand

cancelled

• Dec 3rd, 2024 Chat Cancelled

career

• - Profit: Increasing income and reducing expenses
• Harvest Time: Reaping the Benefits of Past Investments
• Marketing - Building your personal or company brand
• Career Twists and Turns
• Developer Education
• Joining a Team: Fit In or Stand Out?
• The Tech Market: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

change-management

• Managing Change / Change Management

claude

• Experiment with Claude Code 2.0

code-quality

• Unmasking Code - Identifying and Understanding Code Smells
• Winterizing Your Codebase: Preparing for Stormy Weather
• What's in a name? That which we call a var by any other name would make code smell

coding-challenges

• Advent of Code Mob Programming
• Advent of Code/Cyber

coding-practices

• Unmasking Code - Identifying and Understanding Code Smells
• Winterizing Your Codebase: Preparing for Stormy Weather
• Don’t Pre‑optimize: Why Clarity Beats Premature Performance Tweaks
• Great Habits > Great Programmer
• What's in a name? That which we call a var by any other name would make code smell
• Your Worst Software Development Habit

community

• From Garage to Global: Mapping Edmonton's Tech Journey
• Giving, Generosity, and Kindness
• Open Source: Democratizing Powerful Tech
• Remembering Past Developers
• Third Places

conferences

• Live from BSides (maybe?)
• I Attended ${EVENT_NAME} Because ${YOUR_ANSWER_HERE}
• What Events Are You Looking Forward To?

creativity

• Your Project, Your Choice

ctf

• PicoCTF Gym Pairing
• Ensemble Hacking on PicoCTF
• picoCTF Ensemble

culture

• Does Software Development Change the Way You Think?
• Innovation vs. Structure - When Culture Kills Creativity

curriculum

• How Would You Teach It?

cybersecurity

• Live from BSides (maybe?)
• PicoCTF Gym Pairing
• Privacy, does it matter anymore?
• Advent of Code/Cyber
• Ensemble Hacking on PicoCTF
• Mob Hacking Advent of Cyber
• picoCTF Ensemble

data

• Privacy, does it matter anymore?
• Accessing Data
• Swimming in Metrics

databases

• Accessing Data
• Consolidating Systems
• Database Migration Tools

design-patterns

• Agile, Patterns, Object-Oriented Design: who cares?

devops

• Chaos Engineering: How to Save a Trillion-Dollar Ecosystem
• Database Migration Tools
• Self-hosting: What gives?
• Supply chains

editors

• Editors, IDEs, etc.

education

• Developer Education
• How Would You Teach It?
• Staying up to date - Virtual (October 21st, 2025)

entrepreneurship

• - Profit: Increasing income and reducing expenses

ergonomics

• Staying Healthy

estimation

• How long will it take to implement feature X?

ethics

• Tech Solutions to Global Issues: Always, Sometimes, or Never?

events

• I Attended ${EVENT_NAME} Because ${YOUR_ANSWER_HERE}
• What Events Are You Looking Forward To?

finance

• - Profit: Increasing income and reducing expenses
• Accounting - Taxes, payroll, and other boring but necessary tasks

github-copilot

• Experiment with GitHub Copilot Workspace
• Play with GitHub Copilot Agent in VS Code

goals

• Archiving 2024, Embracing 2025

gratitude

• Giving Thanks: Celebrating Successes and Gratitude
• Thankful for Software

growth

• Harvest Time: Reaping the Benefits of Past Investments

habits

• Do you change your software development routines in the summer?
• Great Habits > Great Programmer
• Your Worst Software Development Habit

hacktoberfest

• Hacktoberfest

hardware

• Edmonton IRL: Swap Meet and Hardware Show - January 28th
• Ideal Development Machine Specs
• Notes for Swap Meet (Jan 28, 2026)
• Office Environments

health

• Staying Healthy

hiring

• The Tech Market: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

history

• From Garage to Global: Mapping Edmonton's Tech Journey
• Remembering Past Developers

holiday

• Giving, Generosity, and Kindness
• Happy Canada Day!

industry

• The Pumpkin Spice Latte of Software Development: Trends and Fads
• Stack Overflow 2025 Developer Survey Results

infrastructure

• Self-hosting: What gives?

innovation

• Innovation vs. Structure - When Culture Kills Creativity

inspiration

• Remembering Past Developers

irl

• Advent of Code/Cyber
• Edmonton IRL: Swap Meet and Hardware Show - January 28th
• IRL Watch Party - October 21st
• In Real-Life Watch Party - November 27th
• In-Real-Life Event (Nov 26th, 2024)
• Notes for Swap Meet (Jan 28, 2026)

job-market

• The Tech Market: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

learning

• Developer Education
• Project Approaches
• Staying up to date - Virtual (October 21st, 2025)

local-tech

• From Garage to Global: Mapping Edmonton's Tech Journey

marketing

• Marketing - Building your personal or company brand

meetup

• Edmonton IRL: Swap Meet and Hardware Show - January 28th
• IRL Watch Party - October 21st
• In Real-Life Watch Party - November 27th
• In-Real-Life Event (Nov 26th, 2024)
• Notes for Swap Meet (Jan 28, 2026)

meetups

• Third Places
• What Events Are You Looking Forward To?

metaphors

• Software as a Garden

methodology

• Agile, Patterns, Object-Oriented Design: who cares?
• Essential Prototyping
• How long will it take to implement feature X?
• Managing Change / Change Management
• Priorities
• Project Approaches
• Swimming in Metrics
• Time-Boxing

metrics

• Swimming in Metrics

mob-programming

• Advent of Code Mob Programming
• Ensemble Hacking on PicoCTF
• Mob Hacking Advent of Cyber
• picoCTF Ensemble

motivation

• Your Project, Your Choice

naming

• What's in a name? That which we call a var by any other name would make code smell

networking

• I Attended ${EVENT_NAME} Because ${YOUR_ANSWER_HERE}
• Third Places

open-discussion

• Happy Canada Day!
• Open Space
• Unconference

open-source

• Hacktoberfest
• Open Source: Democratizing Powerful Tech
• Supply chains

optimization

• Don’t Pre‑optimize: Why Clarity Beats Premature Performance Tweaks

organizations

• Innovation vs. Structure - When Culture Kills Creativity

pair-programming

• PicoCTF Gym Pairing

performance

• Don’t Pre‑optimize: Why Clarity Beats Premature Performance Tweaks

philosophy

• Does Software Development Change the Way You Think?
• Software as a Garden

picoctf

• PicoCTF Gym Pairing
• Ensemble Hacking on PicoCTF
• picoCTF Ensemble

predictions

• Bold Predictions for 2025
• Bold Predictions for 2026

priorities

• Priorities

privacy

• Privacy, does it matter anymore?

productivity

• Do you change your software development routines in the summer?
• Essential Tools You Can't Live Without
• Time-Boxing

project-management

• How long will it take to implement feature X?
• Priorities

prototyping

• Essential Prototyping

quality-assurance

• Testing

reflection

• Giving Thanks: Celebrating Successes and Gratitude
• Harvest Time: Reaping the Benefits of Past Investments
• Archiving 2024, Embracing 2025
• Career Twists and Turns
• Giving, Generosity, and Kindness
• Thankful for Software
• Year in Review

remote-work

• Office Environments

resilience

• Winterizing Your Codebase: Preparing for Stormy Weather
• Chaos Engineering: How to Save a Trillion-Dollar Ecosystem

security

• Accessing Data
• Open Source: Democratizing Powerful Tech

self-hosting

• Self-hosting: What gives?

self-improvement

• Great Habits > Great Programmer
• Your Worst Software Development Habit

side-projects

• Project Approaches
• Your Project, Your Choice

society

• Tech Solutions to Global Issues: Always, Sometimes, or Never?

supply-chain

• Supply chains

surveys

• Stack Overflow 2025 Developer Survey Results

swap-meet

• Edmonton IRL: Swap Meet and Hardware Show - January 28th
• Notes for Swap Meet (Jan 28, 2026)

systems

• Consolidating Systems

tdd

• Testing

teaching

• How Would You Teach It?

teamwork

• Joining a Team: Fit In or Stand Out?

technology

• Tech Solutions to Global Issues: Always, Sometimes, or Never?

testing

• Chaos Engineering: How to Save a Trillion-Dollar Ecosystem
• Testing

thinking

• Does Software Development Change the Way You Think?

time-management

• Time-Boxing

tools

• Database Migration Tools
• Editors, IDEs, etc.
• Essential Tools You Can't Live Without
• Experiment with Claude Code 2.0
• Experiment with GitHub Copilot Workspace
• Ideal Development Machine Specs
• Play with GitHub Copilot Agent in VS Code

trends

• The Pumpkin Spice Latte of Software Development: Trends and Fads
• Bold Predictions for 2025
• Bold Predictions for 2026
• Stack Overflow 2025 Developer Survey Results
• Staying up to date - Virtual (October 21st, 2025)

unconference

• Happy Canada Day!
• Open Space
• Unconference

version-control

• Managing Change / Change Management

watch-party

• IRL Watch Party - October 21st
• In Real-Life Watch Party - November 27th

wellness

• Staying Healthy

work-life-balance

• Do you change your software development routines in the summer?

workplace

• Joining a Team: Fit In or Stand Out?
• Office Environments

workspace

• Ideal Development Machine Specs

year-in-review

• Archiving 2024, Embracing 2025
• Year in Review