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I Watched All of Atlassian Team 25 So You Don't Have to (Part 2)
Following up on Part 1 (which covered the three keynotes), here are my stream-of-consciousness bullet points for the Super Sessions. Like before, very little has been done to clean them up or format them.
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I Watched All of Atlassian Team 25 So You Don't Have to (Part 1)
I realize I’m a little late to the party with this. I did watch the keynotes live, but didn’t have a chance to go back and watch everything else until this week. Being unemployed is surprisingly time-consuming.
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Not Prepared
Yesterday, the Pittsburgh area was ambushed by a particularily nasty storm storm. Trees swayed, winds howled, roofs were ripped off of buildings, thunder…thundered. And then the power went out. I’ve always liked to think that I’m a resourceful guy. That I’d do fine in a hypothetical zombie apocalypse: cooking over...
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What's Next
Well, it feels like the end of an era. After 5½ incredible years at Aurora, it’s time for the next adventure. I joined when Aurora was just a two-year-old startup, and now they have almost 2000 incredibly talented employees and are on the brink of their Commercial Launch. It may...
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Atlassian’s FedRAMP Certification: What’s the Big Deal?
Atlassian’s announcement in early 2025 that its Government Cloud achieved FedRAMP Moderate certification is a major milestone. The certification means that Jira Software, Confluence, and Jira Service Management can now be used by U.S. federal agencies and contractors in a secure, compliant cloud environment.
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A Mental Health Chatbot for High School Students
I know my last post about AI was a bit of a bummer, but it’s not like I think it’s all bad. I was reading TechCrunch and came across a story about a startup called Sonar Mental Health that’s built an AI chatbot named Sonny to help students with mental...
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You Should Be Using An RSS Reader
Is your internet browsing experience… unpleasant? Ads? Clickbait? Constantly trying to find the quality content amongst all the low-effort garbage? Important stuff getting buried by The Algorithm? Spending hours checking all your different bookmarks? What if I told you there was a tool from the ’90s that could solve (almost)...
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It's Never Too Late
Hey there everyone. Today, I wanted to take a moment to talk about something that’s always been very important to me and something I’ve always struggled with - self improvement. Self-improvement has always mattered to me, maybe too much. I’ve spent years chasing it while wrestling with untreated ADHD, usually...
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Am I the Only One Who Watched Terminator?
AI is getting the nukes now. Cool, cool, cool. Google has quietly deleted a key section from its AI Principles, the pledge against developing AI for weapons or surveillance tech.
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Have Yinz Been Following the DeepSeek News?
So, basically out of nowhere, a relatively unknown Chinese AI company called DeepSeek showed up and shook things up in a way Iwe haven’t seen since ChatGPT first went viral. Something something may you live in interesting times?
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Atlassian’s Big Year: 2024 Highlights and Announcements
Atlassian had quite a year in 2024, with plenty of high-profile announcements, everything from the unveiling of Rovo, a potentially very powerful AI assistant to a big-ticket partnership with Williams Racing, something that seemed to come completely out of left field (at least to someone who doesn’t know anything about...
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Hello World
What an original title for the first post of a tech…ish blog, huh?
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