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Jennifer Riggins

@jkriggins.bsky.social
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tech journalist • developer productivity pundit • pro writer since 2003 • 8yo mom • ‘inimitable’ ‘force of nature’ ‘a little bit sweary’ ‘bubbly… thoughtful… respectful’ ‘connector of people, but not afraid to throw a pebble in the water’ ‘one I can trust’

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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 27/03/2026
AI: Empower your people, not just your technology. Authored by TNS writer @jkriggins.bsky.social, this free playbook provides the framework to measure AI's true ROI and tackle developer toil. Download your guide, thanks to Red Hat and Intel. ➡️ bit.ly/AI-enterpris...
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Really really proud of this one and I hope you will sign up
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I’m on vacation but just wanted to share my fav video just because youtu.be/zpjklLt1qWk?...
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Hermit Crabs LINE UP To Swap Shells! | Life Story | BBC Earth Kids
YouTube video by BBC Earth Kids
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 12/08/2025
Platform engineering can both enforce the guardrails and enable the innovation of AI adoption across the software development life cycle. By @jkriggins.bsky.social
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Can Platform Engineering Accelerate AI Adoption?
Platform engineering can both enforce the guardrails and enable the innovation of AI adoption across the software development life cycle.
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I keep forgetting to post here. Almost never scroll. As much as I support its lefty peaceful vibes, I’m not saying it’s bad I didn’t replace that other site. (Or did I with Duolingo?)
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 11/08/2025
Platform engineering can both enforce the guardrails and enable the innovation of AI adoption across the software development life cycle. By @jkriggins.bsky.social
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Can Platform Engineering Accelerate AI Adoption?
Platform engineering can both enforce the guardrails and enable the innovation of AI adoption across the software development life cycle.
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
A really important piece for me featuring a lot of insights into the state of AI in the SDLC. leaddev.com/velocity/wri... Writing code was never the bottleneck! - only on @leaddev.com
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Writing code was never the bottleneck!
The AI hype train isn’t slowing down, but are we still focusing on the wrong parts of the software development life cycle?
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 28/07/2025
Top-down pressure to adopt AI does not mean success. An AI strategy hinges on your ability to measure the impact of AI developer tools. By @jkriggins.bsky.social
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How to Measure the ROI of AI Coding Assistants
Top-down pressure to adopt AI does not mean success. An AI strategy hinges on your ability to measure the impact of AI developer tools.
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
It has been an unreasonable amount of time since I’ve had a grilled cheese sandwich.
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 26/07/2025
As platform engineering goes mainstream, enterprises work out how to maintain and optimize for developer customers and business stakeholders. By @jkriggins.bsky.social
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Enterprise Platform Teams Are Stuck in Day 2 Hell
As platform engineering goes mainstream, enterprises work out how to maintain and optimize for developer customers and business stakeholders.
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 19/07/2025
As platform engineering goes mainstream, enterprises work out how to maintain and optimize for developer customers and business stakeholders. By @jkriggins.bsky.social
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Enterprise Platform Teams Are Stuck in Day 2 Hell
As platform engineering goes mainstream, enterprises work out how to maintain and optimize for developer customers and business stakeholders.
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 15/07/2025
By simplifying #Kubernetes’ inherent complexity, platform engineering eases the DevOps workload and, in turn, developers’ cognitive burden. By @jkriggins.bsky.social
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Kubernetes Complexity Realigns Platform Engineering Strategy
By simplifying Kubernetes’ inherent complexity, platform engineering eases the DevOps workload and, in turn, developers’ cognitive burden.
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 15/07/2025
Top-down pressure to adopt AI does not mean success. An AI strategy hinges on your ability to measure the impact of AI developer tools. By @jkriggins.bsky.social
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How to Measure the ROI of AI Coding Assistants
Top-down pressure to adopt AI does not mean success. An AI strategy hinges on your ability to measure the impact of AI developer tools.
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 13/07/2025
By simplifying #Kubernetes’ inherent complexity, platform engineering eases the DevOps workload and, in turn, developers’ cognitive burden. By @jkriggins.bsky.social
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Kubernetes Complexity Realigns Platform Engineering Strategy
By simplifying Kubernetes’ inherent complexity, platform engineering eases the DevOps workload and, in turn, developers’ cognitive burden.
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TBFighters @tbfighters.org · 11/07/2025
USAID prevented nearly 5 million deaths from TB in the last twenty years, according to analysis published in the Lancet. If these cuts remain, they estimate 14 million preventable deaths over the next five years: www.nbcnews.com/heal... Tell your senator to fight these cuts: act.pih.org/global-h...
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USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say
An analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet projects that cuts to the agency will lead to more deaths from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 11/07/2025
By simplifying #Kubernetes’ inherent complexity, platform engineering eases the DevOps workload and, in turn, developers’ cognitive burden. By @jkriggins.bsky.social
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Kubernetes Complexity Realigns Platform Engineering Strategy
By simplifying Kubernetes’ inherent complexity, platform engineering eases the DevOps workload and, in turn, developers’ cognitive burden.
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 11/07/2025
Top-down pressure to adopt AI does not mean success. An AI strategy hinges on your ability to measure the impact of AI developer tools. By @jkriggins.bsky.social
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How to Measure the ROI of AI Coding Assistants
Top-down pressure to adopt AI does not mean success. An AI strategy hinges on your ability to measure the impact of AI developer tools.
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
“Work is one of the last remaining places where we are motivated to learn from people we don’t agree with and find common pursuit with people we are ideologically opposed to. I think that’s meaningful. I think it’s worth doing.” Just read it. Seriously y’all. I continue to be rarely awed by Charity
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
So I thought they just put me back together wrong after my C-section because I can’t like pee it all out til I’ve lied down, but a friend said very recently that our organs move during pregnancy … So I’ve been slandering my incredible surgeons for eight years. But also 🤯 we learn shit in school
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Live video of ICE terrorists rolling in military vehicles to a farm in Camarillo, CA to abduct people www.youtube.com/live/cZ0YStV...
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LIVE: Feds conduct immigration raid at Camarillo farm
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Leapter @leapter.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Lots of noise around “AI productivity.” But speed without trust? That’s not productivity. It’s risk. Great piece by @jkriggins.bsky.social for @thenewstack.io on what matters: ROI, usability, trust. Proud to be included! (Hint: it’s not just about faster code.) 👉 thenewstack.io/how-to-measu...
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How to Measure the ROI of AI Coding Assistants
Top-down pressure to adopt AI does not mean success. An AI strategy hinges on your ability to measure the impact of AI developer tools.
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 08/07/2025
AI isn't just changing code... it's restructuring org charts! @jkriggins.bsky.social dives into the rise of the Chief AI Officer (CAIO) role, revealing why 48% of FTSE 100 companies now have one. Learn how CAIOs balance innovation, risk, and cross-organizational strategy.
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Do You Need a CAIO? The Rise of the Chief AI Officer in 2025
As companies increasingly look to strategically deploy AI across their organizations, do they need one role to rule it all?
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Abbey @abbeythelab.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Labrador lament Dinner is my joy But my portion is too small I remain hungry #AbbeyHaiku
Abbey looking very underfed
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 06/07/2025
As companies increasingly look to strategically deploy AI across their organizations, do they need one role to rule it all? By @jkriggins.bsky.social
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Do You Need a CAIO? The Rise of the Chief AI Officer in 2025
As companies increasingly look to strategically deploy AI across their organizations, do they need one role to rule it all?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2025
Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 02/07/2025
As companies increasingly look to strategically deploy AI across their organizations, do they need one role to rule it all? By @jkriggins.bsky.social
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Do You Need a CAIO? The Rise of the Chief AI Officer in 2025
As companies increasingly look to strategically deploy AI across their organizations, do they need one role to rule it all?
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 02/07/2025
As companies increasingly look to strategically deploy AI across their organizations, do they need one role to rule it all? By @jkriggins.bsky.social
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Do You Need a CAIO? The Rise of the Chief AI Officer in 2025
As companies increasingly look to strategically deploy AI across their organizations, do they need one role to rule it all?
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
You get a #ChiefAIOfficer! You focus on the boring! You solve for cross-functional toil! You get strategic about #AI! You don't do senseless layoffs! Channeling my inner Ms Winfrey to show how pro I am this new NOT-JUST-TECH job role. On @thenewstack.io thenewstack.io/do-you-need-...
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Do You Need a CAIO? The Rise of the Chief AI Officer in 2025
As companies increasingly look to strategically deploy AI across their organizations, do they need one role to rule it all?
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Highlights far: ✓ Saved a bee ✓ Moss, an office dog, charging in sun ✓ Superman also charging in sun
Big fat bumble bee on handSame bee on a flowering bushSkinner stripey dog sitting on office chair in sunThe Shard backlit by sun with Superman, suspended by cranes on top
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif? ”hard mode” (no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings or Marvel)
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a woman in a red dress is standing on one leg in front of a crowd of dancers
Alt: a woman in a red dress is spinning on one leg in front of a crowd of dancers
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
At event. They have a juice mixing apple juice and pineapple. Holy shit that’s brilliance we can take on vacation buffets
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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 24/06/2025
Great panel session at #PlatformCON25 lead by @jkriggins.bsky.social - recommended! She was joined by @grimalkina.bsky.social @lizthegrey.com Lizzie Matusov "We need better measures than happiness and satisfaction, which are richer and connect better to our responsibility" -@grimalkina.bsky.social
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Driving incremental, meaningful, measurable change to developer experience
YouTube video by Platform Engineering
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
My super cheap extra screen wouldn’t connect so I blew into the cable ends like it was a Nintendo cartridge… And that worked I feel extra successful for the day
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Baba Yaga Fèlla @babayagafella.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I think it’s time for bed… Chinese Hailuo 2 Shows What the Cat Olympics Would Look Like. Mom's Friends' Cats
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Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"How did the West fall, granma?" "Well, a bunch of incredibly fragile man-babies with more money than humans should be allowed to have decided to light it all on fire because somehow, somewhere, a minority was being treated like a human being. And pronouns. They hate pronouns."
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 20/06/2025
✨ Author Spotlight: Jennifer Riggins ✨ @jkriggins.bsky.social brings empathy to engineering. From dev productivity to global crises, her writing reflects the people behind the platforms. In 2022, she shared how to support teammates affected by the war in Ukraine.
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How to Support Teammates Living in Ukraine — or Any War Zone
Many tech teams are very reliant on #developers and #engineers based on #Ukraine. Here's some practical advice for helping them survive the current war with Russia.
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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 19/06/2025
Brb framing this on my wall
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 19/06/2025
✨ Author Spotlight: Jennifer Riggins ✨ From developer experience to AI and security, @jkriggins.bsky.social writes with empathy, clarity, and context. In 2020, she tackled how tech responded to Black Lives Matter by rethinking exclusionary language.
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Words Matter: Finally, Tech Looks at Removing Exclusionary Language
This month the tech industry’s lexicon is seeing a small but significant shift: Common technical phrases, most notably “Master/Slave” and
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 18/06/2025
✨ Author Spotlight: Jennifer Riggins ✨ @jkriggins.bsky.social helps bridge the gaps between developers, business leaders, and everyday users. In 2016, she saw everyone trying to scale in light of containers, #Kubernetes, and the cloud.
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Scaling Agile: When to Build a Scrum of Scrums
“Involvement increases empowerment at scale,” — agile coach Georg Fasching. Agile software development arose to identify new ways for problem solving
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 17/06/2025
✨ Author Spotlight: Jennifer Riggins ✨ @jkriggins.bsky.social didn’t take the traditional path into tech — and that’s exactly why her writing resonates at The New Stack. It all started with Jennifer’s first piece for The New Stack on May 25, 2015, all about that agile mindset.
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Agile Management: How to Manage Microservices With Your Team
The term microservice has been around for maybe five years now, referring to independently deployable services that come together to
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 16/06/2025
✨ Author Spotlight: Jennifer Riggins ✨ She’s never written a line of code — and that’s her superpower. With a background in journalism and a career shaped by dev storytelling, @jkriggins.bsky.social helps bridge the gaps between developers, business leaders, and everyday users.
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Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
FYI: The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is trying to get more info on the impact of recent research grant terminations. If your award has been canceled since Jan 20, you can fill out this survey: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The 8yo theorized that fake nails originated with people ripping off nails from dead people. I hope it’s not true but also…
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Best #Buffy line ever? Cordelia Chase: I came over here to tell Buffy to stop this craziness and found you all unconscious... again. How many times have you been knocked out, anyway? I swear, one of these times, you're gonna wake up in a coma.
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Tae kwon do isn’t exactly compatible with shorts and skirts weather… …on the other hand, I sure do love to show off bruises and other booboos so huzzah!
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Eliza Dushku aka Faith has done some Krav Maga. As I watch Season 3, I get to see her and Buffy spar with the two styles. Fun!
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This year’s butterflies have begun to emerge. So far two males and one female. Like this song, always amazing and transformative.
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Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Wow in Spanish, cats only have seven lives!
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