225 rsvps. our biggest community meetup ever. new @torcdotdev vlog: 36 hours in dallas for @commityourcode what @dthompsondev has built for the dallas community is special. always grateful to be apart.

good seeing @5harath in my inbox. giving @WillowVoiceAI a try over wispr. going to report back.

"tell me about yourself" is not a 3 minute answer. it's 45 seconds. your career high points, tied to your resume summary. then: "anything i didn't answer you'd want to know?" rehearse it into your phone until it's clean. nobody wings this well.

unreal day today. thankful for @allthingsopen for having me fill in today 🙏🙏

python is the quiet riser right now. 73,868 job postings mention it over the 90 days ending oct 17, and its demand share is up 2.6% vs the prior 4 weeks. the strongest move among the big general-purpose skills this month (per skillenai's job postings index, a multi-country sample). it almost never shows up alone: sql, aws, ci/cd, java and kubernetes ride along. so don't just list python on the resume. ship one small tool that does something real. a script that cleans a messy csv or hits an api. tests, a readme with the before/after, repo link, 3-line build note. use claude or chatgpt to write the tests and the readme. nobody's grading who typed it. they're grading that it runs.

ai found me 3 job boards i'd never heard of. most people in the job search don't know where to start.

mexico city, you were a lot thousands of devs walking past the booth so many handshakes i lost count and then a long dinner that turned into "wait, one more story" the room changes when people actually talk to each other gracias cdmx, i'll be back

laid off? don't start with cold outreach. the order i'd work in: 1. scroll my own linkedin connections 2. flag everyone in a hiring seat 3. message them first: what i'm after + why i fit 4. then go net new warm beats cold every single time.

speaking again at @allthingsopen today 2pm ballroom b 10 minutes on why you should use personal text based assistants in your job search

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it's just crazy that i never have to touch my powerpoint slides anymore. gave a keynote in cincinnati this week and didn't build a single slide. told my ai assistant the talk, it made the deck, i fixed it by text. formatting slides is optional now.

chatgpt and claude are the brain. a personal ai assistant is the hands. the brain thinks with you: your story, your resume, your prep. the hands go do it: search, watch, follow up, and ask before anything sends. most job seekers only use the brain. you want both.

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the biggest negotiation mistake isn't asking too high. it's talking after you ask. "i did my homework. the median for this role and skill set is 115k, so i'd like 115k." then silence. let them talk first. the urge to fill the quiet is how people negotiate against themselves.

how should your linkedin read when your career zigzags? ai told me i'm reading my own career wrong.

the boys looking gooooood in some @torcdotdev swag @willjohnsonio @marktechson

heck of a talk today talking about how personal ai assistants can change the game in your job search process thankful for everyone who showed up 🙏🙏