Staff engineer @github.com | Speaker & educator | Talking accessibility, refactoring, AI & career growth Podcast: @overcommitted.dev Newsletter: balancedengineer.com Website: brittanyellich.com ATProto Site: opensocial.community #pdx
Social media was supposed to connect us, but most of it has turned into ads, division, and loneliness. I'm betting on ATProto as a way to fix that, and not just for developers. Whether you're a scientist, journalist, or just someone who wants the internet to feel human again, I think ATProto matters for you too.
A look back at conference talks, starting a podcast, finishing a Spartan Beast, and learning that doing things begets doing more things.
A look back at parental leave, switching teams at GitHub, finding crochet, and starting therapy and an SSRI that changed everything.
Notes from reading Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim, and the practices that separate high-performing software organizations from the rest.