iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Y'all saw how awesome The Commit Your Code Conference 2026 was but you weren't there with us! So, Who am I going to see at CYC27?

Image of Amanda Mayfield giving her talk

181

Reposted by Danny Thompson

Robert Groves @robertgroves.com · 07/09/2026

3 conferences, 3 immediate calls for next year's conference each time. This is now a tradition. Could we all let @dthompsondev.bsky.social and the #CYC26 team breathe for a minute! ...okay, that's enough time, bring on #CYC27 🤣

282

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Should we actually do CYC27? We can't commit to it yet because we don't have the funds to lock down a venue yet. So if we do this, we have to get sponsorship to lock a venue down before we can consider dates.

030

Reposted by Danny Thompson

Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 05/09/2026

I had a great time at the @commityourcode.bsky.social conference! Thanks to @dthompsondev.bsky.social for organizing, @jake-haver-of-catz.bsky.social for your support and encouragement, and @cobrawinfrey.dev for creating an amazing CSS-only Doom game (people loved that slide!). #cyc26 #conference

Alvaro Montoro in front of a large monitor with a slide titled "The Cost of Madness" and the content is: DOM explosion, maintainability, randomness, accessibility

Alvaro Montoro in front of a large screen with a slide titled "Games are state machines" and a illustration of a tic-tac-toe board. The content of the slide is Tic-tac-toe, snake and ladders, chess, snake, mario, and pokemon.

Alvaro Montoro in front of a large screen with a slide showing Adam Kuhn's CSS Doom game

261

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You can't do the exact same thing that everyone else is doing and expect that YOUR results would be drastically different.

010

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We are TWO WEEKS AWAY from The Commit Your Code Conference & I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous! Folks have started buying tickets & I'm scrambling to get food logistics taken care of For every $40 ticket, it costs us $200 to feed them. Terrible business decision but an amazing community one!

A ticket sales chart showing the last few weeks that it has picked up dramatically.

121

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

AI made everyone faster at producing things nobody verified.

1134

Reposted by Danny Thompson

Dan Vega @danvega.dev · 17/08/2026

Huge Thank you to @dthompsondev.bsky.social for joining us on Spring Office Hours this week. It was a fun conversation and Danny is what we should aspire to be. Great person and can't wait to catch up with him at Commit Your Code in a couple of weeks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzbx...

youtube.com

Spring Office Hours: S5E20 - The Developer's Guide to AI with Danny Thompson

YouTube video by SpringDeveloper

011

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Most people are trying to build one AI agent that does everything. I’m experimenting with the opposite: small, specialized agents with clear responsibilities, handoffs, and validation. Here I am with 18 agents working together. I am constantly thinking about my agents in a pipeline and handoffs.

Dark-themed interface showing a vertical list of software development backlog items labeled A01 through A17 (including tasks like Abuse Controls, Frontend Observability, and DB Integration) with status indicator dots and export icons. Near the bottom, one entry is highlighted in a dark pill container reading "BACKLOG.md Is our entire backlog right now. I was thinking..." accompanied by a loading spinner icon.

030

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! Commit your Code is 30 days away! The Call For Volunteers is now open for in person in Dallas! We need around 40 volunteers to help but we don't want you to miss the whole experience. Volunteer shifts are 5 hours long. Then we want you to be an attendee! forms.gle/aMSof79f9LfF...

forms.gle

CYC'26 Call for Volunteers

This form is a call for volunteers to assist with the setup and facilitation of the Commit Your Code Conference of 2026. All volunteer submissions must be able to be present in person. This is a gener...

053

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

When people wonder how I feel better about AI writing a lot of code. This is how. When it runs all of these tests and I know things are working the way they should be. This gives me confidence. Pre-AI I used to talk about unit testing a lot. Post-AI I talk about it even more!

A screenshot of claude that says "Ran 2 commands, searched code, read and edited resume...
All 125 tests pass, including the two new regression tests."

2140

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Opus 5 has not been a great experience for me so far. Either I am missing something or they tweaked something that shouldn't have been tweaked. I'm genuinely confused about this. The last 2 days I've been testing it like I do with every model release but this has been rough.

000

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I have fixed more AI generated resumes than I can count. The problem is the amount of money people end up losing just trying to get hired. I have been building Undersold because you have been underselling yourself for years. In interviews, resumes, LinkedIn and more. Time to fix that! ⤵️

150

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

LAST NIGHTS MEETUP WAS A HUGE SUCCESS! Every quarter we try to do one "code together" A night with no speakers, no agenda, just a software developer community BEING a community and last night was amazing! Developers supporting other developers and just geeking out together!

060

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

IF YOU EVER WONDERED WHY I make it mandatory for the projects being built in the cohort solve real problems, this is why right here. HE GOT THE JOB Y'ALL!! "I got this job mainly talking about the project from the cohort the way we used AI for 1 week."

A screenshot of a chat message in a channel called "# celebrate". The message reads:
"OFFER LETTER RECEIVED @here
You are looking at IBM's new Full Stack Software Engineer! Definitely couldn't have done it without the support from our Dallas community; thank you everyone & thank you @DThompsonDev NO DMS PLZ for creating a warm and knowledgeable community!
After my layoff in May 2025 I came out of a startup that went bankrupt, I just had a newborn on the 16th and STRONG imposter syndrome in my self getting into another role as my last mentor was pretty harsh on everything I created.
I jumped into a bootcamp, paying for it with unemployment, also doubled down on freelance gigs taking anything I could. I got recommended DSD meetups from @Kelz who worked with me at the startup. When it came down to networking, I was terrified and in my shell, but she told me to wear an anime item and go in so I did. It helped me with conversation starters and got me out of my shell.

380

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"I officially pushed to prod last week!" All these years later we still have people landing jobs in tech successfully 🥹 If you ever wondered why I still do it, it's these moments. What was the first solution you pushed to prod in a company?

A screenshot of a chat conversation on a dark mode interface. It shows a user named DThompsonDev replying to a message from @Salmon that begins, 'Hi everyone i'm not entirely sure where to put this but I wanted to say thanks to this community, years ago I started'.
DThompsonDev replies at 10:31 AM: 'Let's goooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's what I am talking about! It is a big win just to get all of this and to get buy in from your Manager.'
Below this, Salmon replies at 10:32 AM: 'officially pushed to prod last week as well, so now I have code being used by millions of people! It's a crazy thing to think about!' The message has a fire emoji reaction with the number 6.

030

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

WE ARE LESS THAN 60 DAYS AWAY FROM The Commit Your Code Conference 2026! Who am I going to see at CYC26? 🤔

a collage of photos showcasing different areas of the Commit Your Code Conference of 2025.

151

Reposted by Danny Thompson

GitKraken @gitkraken.com · 01/07/2026

Straight from The Programming Podcast by @dthompsondev.bsky.social & @leonnoel.bsky.social: 84% of devs feel more productive with AI coding tools 43% feel MUCH more productive The kicker: productivity feeling scales directly with how agentic your workflow is. The more agents do, the better it is.

061

Reposted by Danny Thompson

cmgriffing @cmgriffing.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I had so much fun being a guest on the Programming Podcast. We talked about how we are currently using AI (and Me and Jeremy shilled @gitkraken.com a bit). @dthompsondev.bsky.social and @leonnoel.bsky.social are so easy to talk to that this just felt like a normal conversation we would have had.

1114

Reposted by Danny Thompson

RoxyRodBeck @roxyrodbeck.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I can't wait for summer camp!! - I mean #CYC26. If y'all are able to go - DO IT. One of my favorite confs of all time. AND tickets are just $40! Shout out to the @commityourcode.bsky.social organizers for all their efforts and @dthompsondev.bsky.social for his help reworking my talk. 🥰

commit your code '26 flyer with a woman's face on it. september 3-4, dallas, tx, roxy rodriguez-becker

1135

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy Father's Day to all of the fathers out there who are there for their families, who show up even in the hardest moments and earn that title of father.

080

Reposted by Danny Thompson

No Starch Press @nostarchpress.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

the developer's guide to ai can officially be bought in-person, or ordered, from @barnesandnoble.com 🎉 📷 by @dthompsondev.bsky.social

011

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Cursor just got acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion. - IDEs already existed - VS Code was free - JetBrains was around Cursor didn't invent the category. Stop thinking you need to cure cancer with code to succeed. Build YOUR solution It might be exactly what someone else needs.

051

Reposted by Danny Thompson

Zaher 🇸🇾 @zaher.dev · 13/06/2026

Shit, my secret has been revealed 🤦

0111

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Step 1: Buy Domain Step 2: Abandon Project

4170

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

THE BEST PART from Seattle last night at the Atlassian office: watching the room go from leaning back in their chairs to leaning forward, taking notes, when we started showing what Rovo, Teamwork Graph & Forge can do! My heart is full y'all Thank you for making my first trip to the PNW amazing! 🧡

A collage of photos with the top one being a large group photo and the other 3 being speaker photos

030

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Last Night was a HUGE SUCCESS San Francisco! I wish I took more pics! - I showed how I use voice messages in Whatsapp to orchestrate agents in Jira - Reign showed teamwork graph & Agentic building! So many great people showed up to last night's meetup! Now headed to Seattle!

A collage of pictures from last nights meetup

040

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

18 months of work Countless revisions Sleepless nights In just 3 HOURS, "The Developer's Guide To AI" is officially live everywhere! I just wrapped up the book website & I'm so hyped with how it turned out. Check it out and let me know what you think! www.developerguide.ai

developerguide.ai

The Developer's Guide to AI: From Prompts to Agents

Build real AI systems, not toy demos. A hands-on field guide for working developers. From No Starch Press.

3133

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

SPEAKERS FOR THE COMMIT YOUR CODE CONFERENCE! Spent my Sunday working on this. We have 112 speakers this year! Still adding more to the site but I love seeing these amazing people in the same place! 100% of ALL ticket sales donated to charity. The conference FOR the community!

A collage of speaker from the commit your code website speaker page.

A second collage of speakers from the commit your code website speaker page.

131

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

SF and Seattle! I'm hosting meetups in your cities this week! Tuesday and Thursday! A Night Of Enterprise AI! Who do I know in these areas? 🤔

Image shows A Night Of Enterprise AI with Danny Thompson and Reign Nelson

110

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

HE GOT THE JOB Y'ALL!!! He did it 🥹 He has absolutely poured in so much effort to make this happen! Going to meetups, networking, cohorts and more! He absolutely did it y'all! He got the new company laptop so now it's official! Show Jim some love y'all!

Screenshot of a discord message that says
i can say i has a job, as in the wise words of Dthompsondev , i now own company property, hooray

0130

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

We might be on track to have 112 speakers this year for CYC26.👀 CFP is closed and we are going through all the submissions now trying to narrow everything down. As a reminder, Virtual tickets are free. In person is $40 and 100% is donated to charity! food covered!

screenshot of the speaker selection on the homepage of the commit your code website

140

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

You can buy the template, but you have to earn the architecture.

010

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hopefully we will have the full speaker lineup for Commit Your Code Conference 2026 announced this week on the website! I think we have around 30 of the 100 speakers currently on the site! 95 Days away! 🤯

A screenshot of a section of the homepage that shows some images of the conference and that it is 95 Days away

131

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

After 2.5 weeks of traveling I'm finally home 😮‍💨 Exhausted but going to rest up because I'm less than 2 weeks I will be in San Francisco and then Seattle for meetups Atlassian is hosting!!

190

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Right now, there are two extremes with AI: 1. Total AI Slop 2. Refusal to use it/bare minimum use In between is the sweet spot where real value, progress, & success are. The problem? Everyone is so busy jumping to the extremes that they're missing the actual opportunity.

1101

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Fine-tuning isn't the answer. It's the last resort. Try prompts. Then RAG. THEN fine-tune. If you skipped to step 3, you're spending 10x to solve a step 1 problem.

030

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Here's the math nobody runs that will change how you think about this: You are interviewing for a job that is offering $100K per year. Standard annual raise = 3% or in this case, $3,000. You negotiate +$20K at the offer stage of the job interview. ⤵️

120

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

No podcast episode this week folks. I have been traveling nonstop and we haven't had time to record but hopefully we will be back on schedule for next week.

040

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

NEED HELP. Buying my kid this PC today. Specs look good to me but wanting to put this out there in case there are some hardware folks that know something that I don't. Is there anything that folks know that I should be aware of or cautious of?

Screenshot of a product page for a PowerSpec G486 Gaming PC priced at $2,799.99. The image displays a white desktop tower with a glass side panel revealing illuminated RGB internal components. Key specifications listed include an Intel Core i9 14900KF processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card, 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM, and a 2TB NVMe SSD.

310

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Frame AI prompts POSITIVELY. Respond in JSON > Don't respond in plain text. Negative framing forces your AI models to guess what positive actually looks like.

060

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

GitHub compromised 😮‍💨. Feels like every week something is getting hacked.

1120

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

AUSTRALIA! I made it! Meetup on the 18th (tomorrow)! We are going to be showcasing Enterprise AI and shifting how many of you use AI in your workplaces and personal use! You cannot out prompt a bad architecture! Will I see you there Sydney? The meetup will be in the CBD area!

380

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I was just asked this question & now I want to ask you! How much code is being written by software engineers vs AI agents? I ask because I wanted to know if software engineers still write code or not, or do they just review the AI output and decide if the code is okay & push it to the main branch?

220

Reposted by Danny Thompson

5-city workshop tour -> https://createherfest.com/dialed-in @lifelong.dev · 08/05/2026

The book I bought at Commit Your Code came in this week. Shouts to @dthompsondev.bsky.social and everyone involved. Congrats!

141

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It was an amazing week at Atlassian's Team '26! From software developers, Jira admin, product managers, investors, and executives! I learned so much and was able to help educate many people on Forge and Rovo AI! It's 5am now and time to head to the airport y'all!

Image of me sitting with a Dunder mifflin tshirt

040

Reposted by Danny Thompson

vishalicious213.bsky.social @vishalicious213.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Listened to Ep 26 of The Programming Podcast from @leonnoel.bsky.social & @dthompsondev.bsky.social while driving. It's from May 8th of last year. This one was about breaking into tech with a roundtable including @leaht.codes from #100Devs & Pariss Athena, from Black Tech Pipeline. #webdev

2101

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Every Thursday at 10am Central we do a discord wide call in the Commit Your Code Discord. The Software Developer Power Hour! Answering questions that people want to know the answers to! Career growth, code reviews, and more! Come hang out with 13,000 developers! discord.gg/9skeTRryT

discord.gg

Join the Commit Your Code! Discord Server!

Check out the Commit Your Code! community on Discord - hang out with 13016 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

020

Reposted by Danny Thompson

RoxyRodBeck @roxyrodbeck.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Good news. I met a couple guys that know @dthompsondev.bsky.social - because duh. 🤣🤣 And I made a friend who recognized me from Devops days Atlanta! 😅 Time to visit with an old college roommate and then fall into bed. 🥰

081

Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

It is Team week Y'all! Headed to Anaheim for the week! It's Atlassians Flagship Conference, Team '26! Our team has 3 workshops this week and booth duty. Going to fun and interesting meeting everyone in the Atlassian ecosystem! If you are there come say Hi at the Forge booth! #Team26

A selfie of me pointing to my tshirt that says Atlassian

040