I lead developer advocacy at Global Payments, where I build developer-experience infrastructure at enterprise scale. That work is the payment APIs, SDKs, and documentation engineers actually reach for. I write here about developer platforms, payments, and AI-assisted engineering.
I also run a small web presence practice for local business owners, covering website build, AEO, and ongoing management.
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001 2026.08.26
August 26, 2026
Docs views, GitHub stars, and event attendance are measuring a channel that's shrinking. The dashboard that actually answers whether developers are finding you tracks AI citation rate and agent-mediated activation, and asks whether your community still trusts what it's being told.
002 2026.08.19
August 19, 2026
Neon hit 80% AI-agent-provisioned databases, and Databricks paid about a billion dollars for it. Here's what that acquisition proves about DevRel, the new AI-citation node in the old flywheel, and why agent skills are becoming the new SDK.
003 2026.08.12
August 12, 2026
AI can write a flawless tutorial, but it can't fake a dead end. That's why witnessed practice (watching a competent person work through real uncertainty) is the DevRel format AI can't replicate, and corporate DevRel is barely making any of it.
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