Ian Taylor

Join us Friday, Feb 27, 2026 in Virginia Beach as Ian brings his unique blend of economics, tech, and delightful teaching energy to the DevFest stage. hrdevfest.org #HRDevFest

@aarondfrancis Also great for fun food presentation! Ask it to generate your idea with the fruit and shape, then have fun creating your own :) daughter loved it and I had fun, gonna try peppercorn pupils next time heheh

Fellas if you're not making custom coloring pages with AI, you're leaving alpha on the table.

This was fun, always good to catch up with Aaron.

Excited to be speaking at DevFest today! Folks who came to my "Art of Web Defense" online workshop last week got a sneak peek of the talk I'll give today. @1kevgriff has organized a terrific lineup of speakers so I'm going to do my best to try and deliver. Wish me luck!

Yesterday I tweeted @dhh and asked if we could talk about SQLite. To my surprise and delight, he said yes! It's a fun conversation spanning SQLite, Campfire, the one-person framework, Stoicism, and their new ONCE product! Click on the video to see the full discussion.

We just opened up registrations for our "Art of Web Defense" online workshop this Thursday at 11am ET. We're going to cover practical ways to handle attacks, uncover bots, and harden your web applications. Sign up now as registration is limited. -> crowdcast.io/c/pwsw?utm_cam…

Happy Friday @OpenAIDevs needing Multi AI Agent Systems (MAS) using OpenAI's new GPT-4o Model! A small open-soruce JavaScript 🟨 library called Experts.js that unlocks Assistants as Tools along with easy Thread & Run management. github.com/metaskills/exp…

I finally pressed the button. After months of work, the new version of Recut is out. ✂️ Manual editing (cutting, trimming) 🚄 Cut multiple files at once (side-by-side files) 💾 Save & load projects ⚙️ Simpler settings

@RatioCoffee I’ve loved your Ratio Eight for the past four years! Will you please create Ratio X with this new ultrasonic technique? unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/…

ECO courses at Virginia Peninsula Community College teach students how to use GenAI tools (@MSFTCopilot ) to help them research and apply economics concepts. Please share your tickets with me and I’ll happily distribute. For any fellow teachers, I’ve created a free self-paced course on adding GenAI to your classes: lor.instructure.com/resources/5dd0…

I've emailed at least 50 people connected with the local community college saying, "here are free tickets for students for @hrdevfest," and ZERO registrations from the education front.

🔍 Is this risky? Most devs are great at knowing what parts of their apps are easier or harder to implement but don’t have a great sense of which are more or less of a security risk. ✏️ Embedded document editing is surprisingly risky. A good example is the UEditor JS, which was shipped with multiple Java and .NET CMS projects, had over 6k stars on GitHub, and had a vulnerability that allowed for unrestricted file uploads to the server. 🛡️Web Application Firewalls are great at helping with issues like this via “virtual patching.” There’s no actual underlying code fix for this There’s a clear exploit pattern You add a firewall rule like “Block Path: /Ueditor” You’re “virtually patched”

@mbuckbee @alexis_bernard It’s so fun! I’m constantly asking it how to achieve functionality within the @ docs. Like “how do I make this @rails form submission insert its result into this @ trix rich text input using @ turbo and @ stimulus?” and then together we build it

@alexis_bernard What my friends (like @itsEcon ) are doing is pulling in all the docs for their frameworks, gems, etc into Cursor and then just using Cursor to reference them via chat

Some dev friends and I were talking about how much Cursor and ChatGPT have murdered our StackOverflow usage. It's been a couple months since I had to visit the site. How long since you visited StackOverflow?

#RailsWorld wasn't just a huge success for the attendees, but for the sponsors too. I got the pleasure to checkout @wafrisorg and speak with the team at length BECAUSE they were there while I probably would have ignored a pitch email. (Also, their system looks excellent!)

I just published our #RailsWorld2023 recap. It's a little different from the other writeups I've seen, as it focuses more on the business side of being a developer-focused sponsor/vendor and less on the announcements and talks. wafris.org/blog/railsworl…

Still can't believe the team from @wafrisorg commissioned a custom LEGO build of my beloved Pagani Zonda HH. Without a doubt the coolest conference gift I've ever received! 😍 #RailsWorld

At #RailsWorld @DHH stopped by our booth today. Was cool to talk to him about the security challenges of web apps and how @mbuckbee and I are trying to help stop them with @wafrisorg.

If you’ve been enjoying the ice breaker game at #RailsWorld don’t forget to to stop by the @wafrisorg booth for the full Code for Insanity game. Also each speaker has their own expansion pack so ask them a question, give a kind comment or offer a trade for their card.

@gdb Thanks for the awesome tech @gdb and education @emollick! I'd like to share my open-source self-paced faculty professional development on integrating @OpenAI and @bing into college course design via @Canvas_by_Inst lor.instructure.com/resources/5dd0… This is an exciting adventure!

ChatGPT guide for teachers, including anecdotes from teachers who have been using it in the classroom:

Kevin has been a leader in the .net side for the last decade here in Va Beach. Definitely deserving of this opportunity.

@mbuckbee If ya diff by color maybe entire row so using above: “Is Tor: Yes” would all be white and then “Is VPN: No” and the other would both be grey? I’m sure there’s some design rule for this from Tufte maybe ChatGPT could tell us if we asked to reply as Edward Tufte…

@itsEcon I wonder about adding the "No" as text but also making it gray instead of white to de-emphasize it.

In the two screenshots - which makes more sense for indicating that a particular property wasn't found?