This platform/community is making me want to build something. Not sure what. But for the first time in a few years, I'm feeling a little of that tech energy again.
Good to hear! I guess that's what surrounding yourself with actual dev bros does.
Deborah Barnard
@StarfallProjects
✒️ Technical writer ⌨️ Occasional coder 🐱 Human to one loud cat
- West Yorkshire, UK
- deborahwrites.co.uk
- github.com/StarfallProjects
- Joined October 2026
Commit activity
37 commits in the last 30 days
longest streak 7 days
831 / 1,000 XP169 XP to wheel
Fri, Nov 6
I guess I am in my 40s not my 20s. It turns out there is a limit on how much WoW I can play. This information will take some adjusting to.
Wed, Nov 4
Sun, Nov 1
Proton is having a PR mess at the moment, and as part of their response, have published their AI manifesto: https://proton.me/blog/ai-manifesto
It's worth reading in full, but one part that leaped out at me was: "Your job has fundamentally changed. It is no longer to write code,…
ProtonProton’s AI manifesto for software engineering | ProtonHow will Proton navigate the AI transition? Read the internal memo by Proton CTO Bart Butler.
Sat, Oct 31
@neoighodaro long time no see 🤣 Should have expected to find you on a Laravel platform (it's Deborah the editor from Pusher, if the username is confusing)
Fri, Oct 30
Spotify planning to launch AI remix service: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/spotify-targets-2027-launch-ai-remix-service-ft-reports-2026-10-30/
The last year or so, this Bon Jovi song has been my mental background music:…
22 years of being a student off and on, and one thing never changes: utter panic about the required format and referencing system ahead of the first assignment.
Every time I think I'm done with tech, someone gives me an actual tech task (as opposed to a writing task) and I feel engaged again. Probably ought to take the hint. But this feels like an "interesting" time to try and shift towards more building. On the one hand, my basic…
Wed, Oct 28
Bill Bailey narrates a nature documentary style overview of WoW Forever zones: https://youtu.be/VxTWMv5h-JE?si=K2PEUksybU0pj_vP I didn't know my life was missing this until I watched it.
This is 100% my nostalgia era. Today's highlight: chatting with guildmates while waiting for Blizzard's servers to work (WoW Forever name reservation).
Sun, Oct 25
What's the most FUN thing you've done in tech this year?
Not the best/most productive/smartest/most successful. Just the purely most fun.
I think building a Live stream broadcaster in rust with MoQ for transport instead of RTP/HLS etc - Learnt a lot and was fun to do away from usual web stuff
You?
Desktop only, but one of the most fun projects I did vibecoding early days
https://www.desplega.ai/tools/simqa
Literally what inspired agent-swarm.dev xD
Desplega.aiSimQA | Ship or Die: The QA Management SimA 5-minute nostalgic management sim where you're the last line of defense between buggy code and angry users.
Sat, Oct 24
There must be some folks on here hyped for WoW: Forever? What are you rolling first? I have a spreadsheet and a terrible case of indecision. But probably Tauren druid.
Fri, Oct 23
Folks using AI in academic work: how do you avoid accidental plagiarism at the detail level?
Obviously, don't use AI to write! But I'm realising there's a risk even when using AI more like a search engine. For example: I ask AI to explain a complex paragraph in an article I'm…
Thu, Oct 22
Stumbled across a smart documentation approach in an open source repo the other day: issues that are deliberately left open.
The topics are also covered in the README - this isn't a replacement for a docs page/site. And it's probably only going to be viable for small projects.…
GitHubIssues · zoicware/RemoveWindowsAIForce Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - Issues · zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI
Wed, Oct 21
Honestly the strongest signal so far that this platform MIGHT be a good place for me is that I heard chat about this week's cybersecurity mayhem on here before Reddit or any of my tech Slacks.
Tue, Oct 20
If you want likes and bookmarks to be different things, you may want to upvote this issue: https://github.com/nunomaduro/dev-null.sh/issues/868 (currently stars covers both)
GitHubBring Back Bookmarks · Issue #868 · nunomaduro/dev-null.shI like to star comments when I appreciate them or want to show support, but Bookmarks are for things to come back to later. These are different things; I'm not sure why they were removed. Environme...
GitHub names really do follow you for life, huh? I wish I'd thought that through ~15 years ago when I named myself after an in-joke from my WoW guild.
That's @StarfallProjects's root commit.