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Re:Vibe Coding Turns One on Monday February 02, 2026 @01:08PM (#46859128)
Have you been vibbing since before it was called vibe coding?
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023) on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:06PM (#37435444) 

  Location: Maine (moving to Virginia this fall)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Developer Relations, Technical documentation, speaking, author
  Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n8jNT1Ka3L1sHg6BOQtW6WD04iRt_Fcb/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103172026265993941348&rtpof=true&sd=true
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougsillars/
  Email: [email protected]
Developer Relations lead - 20 years experience in Mobile, DevOps, Fintech, ML. Doug is a lifelong learner and educator, having focused his career on improving developer knowledge and experiences. A Google Developer Expert, O’Reilly author, international keynote speaker, and a prolific blogger, he relishes in simplifying the complex.
Re:Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @02:09PM (#34343013)
I love this idea! The automate the easy bits (or the steps that are the biggest pain/time suck) until the whole thing is completed.

A tool like Jupyter Notebooks would be great for this - comments & code can be placed into a single document. I'm working on a project called unSkript (https://unskript.com) that is built on this idea.