iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️
@iandouglas736.com
Staff DevRel Engineer @ Square/Block
I post about Python, APIs, AI/ML, dad jokes, and tech career/interview prep coaching.
- Blogs, Videos, Talks: https://iandouglas736.com
- Free career newsletters: https://736.fyi/newsletter
I post about Python, APIs, AI/ML, dad jokes, and tech career/interview prep coaching.
- Blogs, Videos, Talks: https://iandouglas736.com
- Free career newsletters: https://736.fyi/newsletter
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iandouglas736 🇨🇦🇺🇸🥑🎙️
@iandouglas736.com
· Oct 29
Aside from my day job, I do mock interviews, resume reviews, and general interview preparation. One free resource I have is a series of newsletters, no paywall, no ads, just coming interview questions and an explanation of why we ask these questions so you can prepare your best answer. Link in bio.
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At DevSecCon 2025, @iandouglas736.com will be presenting a virtual talk! Register here: snyk.io/events/devse...
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
At DevSecCon 2025, @iandouglas736.com will be presenting a virtual talk! Register here: snyk.io/events/devse...
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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-...
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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-...
Dang, I didn't get accepted into the school for Chicken Hypnotists ...
I didn't pass the hen trance exam.
I didn't pass the hen trance exam.
October 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Dang, I didn't get accepted into the school for Chicken Hypnotists ...
I didn't pass the hen trance exam.
I didn't pass the hen trance exam.
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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!
🔍 Analyze session data
📖 Build recipe automation
📈 Level up productivity
⏰ Save your future self time!
October 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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!
🔍 Analyze session data
📖 Build recipe automation
📈 Level up productivity
⏰ Save your future self time!
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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!
🍳 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!
September 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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!
🍳 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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The future of developer workflows is conversational!
Use the @vercel.com MCP with goose to track projects, deployments, and team status!
Link in 🧵
Use the @vercel.com MCP with goose to track projects, deployments, and team status!
Link in 🧵
September 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The future of developer workflows is conversational!
Use the @vercel.com MCP with goose to track projects, deployments, and team status!
Link in 🧵
Use the @vercel.com MCP with goose to track projects, deployments, and team status!
Link in 🧵
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...
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...
We've got another Flight School video for you: using headless Goose to grab news articles and run sentiment analysis in parallel, and build a summary web page, on a schedule! https://youtu.be/gvg7DomaJuA
August 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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...
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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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...
nickyt.live#2025-08-27-w...
August 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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...
nickyt.live#2025-08-27-w...
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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...
linktr.ee/blockopensou...
August 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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...
linktr.ee/blockopensou...
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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.
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.
August 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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.
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.
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...
linktr.ee/blockopensou...
July 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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...
linktr.ee/blockopensou...
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.
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.
City of London Police:
On Saturday 12 July at 12.44pm a cyclist collided with a bus whilst crossing Farringdon Street. The cyclist has suffered life changing injuries.
If you have any information, including dashcam footage, call 020 7601 2115 or email [email protected]
On Saturday 12 July at 12.44pm a cyclist collided with a bus whilst crossing Farringdon Street. The cyclist has suffered life changing injuries.
If you have any information, including dashcam footage, call 020 7601 2115 or email [email protected]
July 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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.
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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Watch how @iandouglas736.com uses human-defined tests to guide goose to build the actual features.
youtu.be/3XKQj-KLEd0
youtu.be/3XKQj-KLEd0
Flight School - Test-Driven Vibe Coding
YouTube video by Block Open Source
youtu.be
July 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Watch how @iandouglas736.com uses human-defined tests to guide goose to build the actual features.
youtu.be/3XKQj-KLEd0
youtu.be/3XKQj-KLEd0
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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
Everything's fun when the tokens are free 😅
@iandouglas736.com Thanks for hosting this!
#TorontoTechWeek
June 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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
Everything's fun when the tokens are free 😅
@iandouglas736.com Thanks for hosting this!
#TorontoTechWeek
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
youtube.com/watch?v=IjXm...
#ai #vibeprompting #promptengineering
Flight School - Vibe Prompting is the secret to Perfect-First-Try Vibe Coding
YouTube video by Block Open Source
youtube.com
July 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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
youtube.com/watch?v=IjXm...
#ai #vibeprompting #promptengineering
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
Everything's fun when the tokens are free 😅
@iandouglas736.com Thanks for hosting this!
#TorontoTechWeek
June 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Come hang out TOMORROW with me, Lazar, Shivam, and Michael, plus about 150 friends, for an amazing night of Goose, MCP, networking, food & drinks, and some off-the-chain vibe coding contests! lu.ma/ruit2le5
#TorontoTechWeek
#TorontoTechWeek
June 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Come hang out TOMORROW with me, Lazar, Shivam, and Michael, plus about 150 friends, for an amazing night of Goose, MCP, networking, food & drinks, and some off-the-chain vibe coding contests! lu.ma/ruit2le5
#TorontoTechWeek
#TorontoTechWeek
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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
Join us in Toronto, where @iandouglas736.com will be your guide to getting started.
📍 Toronto, Canada
📅 June 24 at 6pm ET
🔗 lu.ma/ruit2le5
June 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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
Join us in Toronto, where @iandouglas736.com will be your guide to getting started.
📍 Toronto, Canada
📅 June 24 at 6pm ET
🔗 lu.ma/ruit2le5
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!
See you soon, Toronto!
June 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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!
See you soon, Toronto!
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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
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
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…
lu.ma
June 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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
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
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
www.youtube.com/shorts/QKg2Q...
full tutorial: block.github.io/goose/docs/t...
blog post coming soon!!
#mcp #mqtt #goose #ai
Goose with an mbot2 rover and MQTT MCP
YouTube video by Block Open Source
www.youtube.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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
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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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...
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...
April 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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...
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...
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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).
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).
April 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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).
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).