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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 04/07/2026

I'm doing free live resume reviews on stream on Sundays again, submit it here: 736.fyi/resumereview Livestream is twitch.tv/iandouglas736 at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern.

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 11/03/2026

Hanging out with the crew at "Durable AI" in SFO, think it's going to be standing room only! Temporal Technologies with Shubham Londhe DigitalOcean with @lizziesiegle.com Geotab with @felipehoffa.bsky.social Cerebras Systems with @danielkim.bsky.social Inkd.in/gsns-9Xi

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 04/03/2026

If you're looking for work, I've relaunched my interview preparation newsletters. They're FREE, no ads, no sponsorships, no promos (other than my own mock interviews), and you can unsubscribe at any time. techinterview.guide/newsletters

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Newsletters — TechInterview.Guide

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 28/01/2026

Why is it that when I hear, "there are no silly questions," that I want to take it as a personal challenge? (why is abbreviation such a long word?)

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 29/12/2025

What used more tape for you this year? - wrapping presents and gifts or - keeping your Christmas tree box intact for one more year

My poor Christmas tree box, Barker holding together with many years of tape

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Trek Glowacki @trek.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I'm not getting takeout, I'm "vibe cooking".

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Dan Moore is at Monktoberfest @mooreds.com · 07/12/2025

Shout it from the mountaintops! When I see a friend beat themselves up over something, I often ask them "what would you say to a friend who was in the same situation as you are?" People are often way harder on themselves than they'd ever counsel a friend to be.

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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 18/12/2025

If all you do is vibe code you're a slopware developer.

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 19/12/2025

After January, my COBRA payments for health insurance will cost more than my mortgage... Good thing I have two PCs with 128GB of RAM each that I could sell to cover those COBRA payments until like June. #RAMprices #whattheactual

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goose @opensource.block.xyz · 17/10/2025

At DevSecCon 2025, @iandouglas736.com will be presenting a virtual talk! Register here: snyk.io/events/devse...

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goose @opensource.block.xyz · 17/10/2025

At API Denver Group's upcoming meetup, @iandouglas736.com will be presenting "Introduction to API: We've RESTed Long Enough, a comparison of REST, Async and gRPC API architectures" Register now: www.meetup.com/denver-apis-...

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 14/10/2025

Dang, I didn't get accepted into the school for Chicken Hypnotists ... I didn't pass the hen trance exam.

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goose @opensource.block.xyz · 10/10/2025

Stop repeating yourself: goose can build tools from your work history! 🔍 Analyze session data 📖 Build recipe automation 📈 Level up productivity ⏰ Save your future self time!

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goose @opensource.block.xyz · 29/09/2025

Aren't you tired of repeating that prompt over and over? Become the Master Chef on your dev team with goose recipes: 🍳 Pick and pair the right LLM per task 🌶️ Sprinkle in retry logic 🥣 Fold in template control flow 👨🏻‍🍳 Whip up parallel subrecipes Link to full video in the thread!

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goose @opensource.block.xyz · 09/09/2025

The future of developer workflows is conversational! Use the @vercel.com MCP with goose to track projects, deployments, and team status! Link in 🧵

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 29/08/2025

I have a lot of fun putting together these Flight School videos. If you could automate anything about your workflow to actually be more productive, what would it be? Come hang out in our Discord community to share what you're making with Goose -- discord.gg/block-openso...

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Nick Taylor @nickyt.online · 25/08/2025

Happening this Wednesday! Come hang with me an @iandouglas736.com from Block as we dig into MCPs, vibe prompting and Goose! 🪿 #mcp #agenticai #vibeprompting nickyt.live#2025-08-27-w...

Al Buffet: MCPs, Vibe Prompting & Goose

Host Nick Taylor
Guest: W. lan Douglas Staff Developer Relations Engineer @ Block

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goose @opensource.block.xyz · 18/08/2025

Join the livestream Wednesday at 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern! @iandouglas736.com is showing Matt how to use goose in "headless" mode with MCP to find routine tasks that take up Matt's time so he can focus on his business operations instead. linktr.ee/blockopensou...

Livestream, 8am Pacific / 11am Eastern, Wednesday August 20 2025.

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goose @opensource.block.xyz · 13/08/2025

MCP-UI is here! & we’ve got its creators, and the Goose engineer who's bringing it to life! Instead of typing prompt after prompt, developers can now build real, interactive UIs— all running inside Goose. Watch the team that built it and the first team to adopt it break it down live.

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 29/07/2025

Come hang out on our Friday livestream 10amPT/1pmET to see how Goose made an incredible "retro" terminal work tracker for productivity that scores your focus, productivity, and context switching! linktr.ee/blockopensou...

Goose built a retro work tracker, Aug 1st 2025 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern

track your work productivity, even score how focused you are or how well you handle context switching

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 21/07/2025

My son and I were touring around London on another bus when this accident happened. I didn't see it happen but I heard the sickening crunch and saw the messy aftermath. It's weird how casually i've used "in case I get hit by a bus" to talk about the importance of knowledge transfer. Never again.

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Angie Jones @angiejones.tech · 14/07/2025

Watch how @iandouglas736.com uses human-defined tests to guide goose to build the actual features. youtu.be/3XKQj-KLEd0

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Flight School - Test-Driven Vibe Coding

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Afzal Najam @afzal.me · 25/06/2025

Lol had some fun with Goose at MCP hack night in Toronto. Everything's fun when the tokens are free 😅 @iandouglas736.com Thanks for hosting this! #TorontoTechWeek

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 03/07/2025

Vibe coding has certainly taken hold but often ends in a ton of refactoring. I came up with the idea of "vibe prompting" a few months back to improve the starting point, saving time and tokens/money. youtube.com/watch?v=IjXm... #ai #vibeprompting #promptengineering

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Flight School - Vibe Prompting is the secret to Perfect-First-Try Vibe Coding

YouTube video by Block Open Source

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goose @opensource.block.xyz · 18/06/2025

Goose is open source, local, and designed to speed up how you build. Join us in Toronto, where @iandouglas736.com will be your guide to getting started. 📍 Toronto, Canada 📅 June 24 at 6pm ET 🔗 lu.ma/ruit2le5

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 15/06/2025

My first father's day away from my kids. They're teenagers and don't really want to hang around the parents anyway, but still... #BusinessTrip #DevRelLife See you soon, Toronto!

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goose @opensource.block.xyz · 11/06/2025

Calling all Canada Geese 🇨🇦 We’re flying into Toronto for Tech Week. Come learn how folks are building with Model Context Protocol and hack alongside Goose, a local-first, open source AI agent. In collaboration with @sentry.io Save your spot: lu.ma/ruit2le5

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Toronto AI Agent HackNight with MCP ft. Codename Goose & Sentry · Luma

MCP is rapidly changing the landscape of what's possible for developer tools while broadly, AI is changing the way we work. Let's explore this together! Join…

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 12/05/2025

My friend bought me a telekinetic abacus for my birthday. It wasn't my favorite present, but it's the thought that counts. #dadjoke #birthday #im51

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 07/05/2025

let's give Goose a robot to control, what could possibly go wrong? :) www.youtube.com/shorts/QKg2Q... full tutorial: block.github.io/goose/docs/t... blog post coming soon!! #mcp #mqtt #goose #ai

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Goose with an mbot2 rover and MQTT MCP

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goose @opensource.block.xyz · 29/04/2025

Ready to see Goose completely change how business users work with data? 🧠📈 In this episode, we’ll show how Goose helps non-technical users go from spreadsheets to building Python-powered apps — without needing to be coding experts. Friday May 2, 2025, 10am PT / 1pm ET: 📺: linktr.ee/blockopensou...

livestream promo image of Ace and Ian, the hosts of the livestream, and their guest, Sam Buechler.

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Pieces for Developers @getpieces.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Vibecoding responsibly? Now that’s a topic we’re here for. At the Pieces AI Productivity Summit, @blackgirlbytes.bsky.social, Tech Lead for Open Source DevRel at Block, is giving a talk on how to vibecode responsibly (with a little help from MCP).

Rizel Scarlett Pieces AI Productivity Summit Graphic

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 15/04/2025

If you could have any conversation with your database to analyze some data, what would that convo look like?

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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

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Phil Nash @philna.sh · 14/04/2025

Hey website, I'll accept your cookies as soon as you accept that I want to read this article, not watch an irrelevant auto-playing video over the top of it.

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 14/04/2025

Oof. I need a weekend to recover from my weekend. Between finishing up Stage Academy with Vinh Giang late Friday, and editing 20 voiceover videos of leetcode walkthroughs, and then spending all day today taking care of home chores, laundry ... I'm wiped out.

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 10/04/2025

Check out tomorrow's livestream! @opensource.block.xyz Join Ebony and I as we interview Juan about using Goose and AI to edit videos -- something I've spent HOURS doing in the past. Come learn how to automate this for yourself! Join here in about 24 hours: linktr.ee/blockopensou...

From tedious to effortless: automating video edits with Goose, join Ebony and Ian as they interview Juan from Block about editing video for things like aspect ratios etc using Block's AI Agent called "Goose"

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goose @opensource.block.xyz · 07/04/2025

The Great Goose Off is back this week! 🪿 Here's a preview of what's coming up~ 🥊 The Great Goose Off: A Vibe Coding Competition with MCPs 📹 From Tedious To Effortless: Automating Video Edits With Goose And more. See you in chat! 💬

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 08/04/2025

I'm REALLY excited to be live streaming again!! This week is a topic near and dear to me -- video editing. It takes SOOO long to edit video clips, so I'm excited to see how Goose can help me out with this!

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 08/04/2025

Come join the fun and watch two devs do LIVE vibe coding with Goose -- The Great Goose-Off is happening NOW! They’ll have the same task, same time limit, different prompts, different MCP servers, different strategies. Let's see who can guide Goose to the best build! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsA3...

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The Great Goose Off: A Vibe Coding Competition with MCPs (Episode 2)

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goose @opensource.block.xyz · 08/04/2025

Vibe coding is fun...until you expose API keys on the client side. Before you vibe code with Goose, do your future self a favor: ✅ .gooseignore your sensitive files ✅ Turn on Smart Approval ✅ Commit early, commit often ✅ Stay curious block.github.io/goose/blog/2...

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How to Vibe Code Responsibly (with Goose)

Vibe coding feels magical until it isn't. Learn how to flow with Goose while protecting your code, your team, and your future self.

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 04/04/2025

Here's the custom 404 page that Goose made for me!

Oops! Looks like you've stumbled into one of Ian's famous "teachable moments"! As a Senior Software Engineer and passionate educator at Turing School, Ian would probably turn this 404 error into a learning opportunity... While Ian is probably busy:

Teaching Python to aspiring developers
Sharing knowledge about software engineering best practices
Mentoring the next generation of tech professionals
Contributing to the tech community in Denver

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 06/03/2025

I've been telling people about 3 YouTube channels that have improved my skills and tactics for being a better storyteller and interviewer: - Vinh Giang, youtube.com/@askvinh - Vanessa Van Edwards, www.youtube.com/results?sear... - Chris Voss, www.youtube.com/@Negotiation...

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 28/02/2025

Hey friends how do you dispute a cleaning charge from @lyft? Driver is claiming I spilled something that looks like milk, but I carried nothing that would make this mess, and my shoes are spotless. Lyft refuses to reverse the $80 fee.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19/02/2025

I wrote about 5 steps on how to respond to denied healthcare Our insurance company rejected the life saving medication our daughter needed for at least the 13th time, so we went public, and guess what happened next? www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-we-fou...

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How We Fought Back Against Denied Healthcare

Our insurance company rejected the life saving medication our daughter needed for at least the 13th time, so we went public, and guess what happened next?

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 11/02/2025

As someone who helps people with interview prep, and as a dad, HOLY CRAP Google with the Pixel ad this weekend. Who's cutting up a Costco-sized bag of onions up in here?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7e6...

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Dream Job | Google Pixel SB Commercial 2025

YouTube video by Made by Google

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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️ @iandouglas736.com · 02/01/2025

Me: I'm not paying more than $150 for a laptop backpack, that's ridiculous! And do I really need a 15th backpack?? Also Me: I could really use that smaller version of the Riut Backpack for quick travel days. www.riut.co.uk/collections/...

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RiutBag R15.5 Everyday Carry Laptop Backpack | Secure, 23.5L Capacity

Discover the RiutBag R15.5, sleek and secure black laptop backpack designed for city commuters. With anti-theft features, durable and waterproof Cordura, and suspended padded compartment for laptops u...

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