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Devin Lane

@devinlane.com

830 followers 890 following 440 posts

🧑‍💻 Software engineer / web dev 🎸 Songwriter / producer / guitarist: https://gentlereturn.bandcamp.com/ 🐈 olive 🐈‍⬛ nathan 🌱 Big on plants 🗣️ Language nerd: fluent in Spanish... 🫂 Long covid justice, treatment, research 🌁 Based in SF, CA

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Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 1d

you can check it out at: lightninglessons.com/classes/writ...

Lightning Lessons music school

Lightning Lessons is an online music school and community focused on helping you write songs and express yourself.

lightninglessons.com

Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 1d

This class is for all levels, beginners to advanced. It's best if you know how to play a few chords on your instrument.

We're running it 12-1pm PT on Oct. 30, Nov. 6, Nov. 13, and Nov. 20, but also sending out recordings after each class for you to work through at your own pace.

Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 1d

In this class, you'll learn the fundamentals of music theory that will empower you distill techniques from your favorite artists into concepts that you can use in your own songs.

Think: intervals, diatonic chords, functional notation, cadences, secondary dominants, borrowed chords, and more.

Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 1d

In addition to being a software engineer I've been a musician and guitar teacher for 15+ years.

I'm growing my lessons business into an online music school and we're launching our first offering with one of my fav teachers:

"Write a song using music theory"

lightninglessons.com/classes/writ...

Flyer for online music theory songwriting workshop. Text reads:

Songwriting class, Lightning Lessons
Write a song using music theory
Virtual group workshop on Zoom
Register now at lightninglessons.com

An outline drawing of two teens dancing in a 50s Archie style

Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 1d

"let's get weird" - i'm listening lol...

Devin Lane @devinlane.com · 5d

looks so lovely and has many nice little touches like the link previews

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thetranscendedman @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 8d

Long COVID has me building a decentralized clinical trial platform with ex-Microsoft friends who write code better than I breathe.

What we need now is experience.

Any clinical trialists (or those who know them) willing to spare 30 minutes to help us get it right?

DM/email me!

Devin Lane @devinlane.com · Sep 5

the youtube for my original music hit 100 subscribers, how fun

might be fun to start sharing more demos there www.youtube.com/@gentlereturn

screenshot of youtube channel saying 100 subscribers for gentle return

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Ezra S @ezra.zone · Aug 20

@julialmv.bsky.social of @scripps.edu is hosting a webinar on Aug 26 at 2ET/11PT introducing the upcoming LoCITT trial for Long COVID! I'll be there, and I encourage you to join.

Here's the registration link: scrippsresearch.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

And here's the study site: longcovid.scripps.edu

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Scripps Research Long COVID Treatment Trials. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Introducing the Long COVID Treatment Trial (LoCITT), sponsored by Scripps Research. LoCITT is focused on finding potential treatments for Long COVID.

scrippsresearch.zoom.us

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Aug 17

Covid accelerates vascular aging
An 18-country, 38-center study of ~2,000 participants
—Effect predominantly in women, adding 5 years of aging
—Seen with non-hospitalized and mild-moderate Covid
—Reversible in some at 1-year; vaccination link to protection
apps.crossref.org/pendingpub/p...

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loscharlos @loscharlos.bsky.social · Aug 16

“#LongCovid pts showed significantly more dilated capillaries, microhaemorrhages, abnormal shapes than healthy matched control subjects and of note, lower mean capillary number per linear millimetre.”

Study: rmdopen.bmj.com/content/11/2...

Screenshot of a study title, “Multicentre retrospective detection of nailfold videocapillaroscopy abnormalities in long covid patients”

April 28, 2025

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loscharlos @loscharlos.bsky.social · Aug 15

Incredibly exciting diagnostic tool potential — @immunofever.bsky.social MIT team is doing nailfold capillaroscopies on #LongCovid patients before and after a NASA lean test, and said the results have been incredibly striking compared to controls.

My results were very abnormal !

Devin Lane @devinlane.com · Jul 26

nice i'm checking it out

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Kevin Van Cott @kevinvancott.dev · Jul 26

My react-data-fetching demos have been updated!

I have now built the same app 22 times for my workshop where I teach different data loading patterns in React Router, TanStack Router, Next.js, and even a bit of Astro and Sveltekit too.

And, of course, how to use TanStack Query with all of them.

Devin Lane @devinlane.com · Jul 11

@thesicktimes.bsky.social does fantastic journalism on the long COVID crisis. They're running their summer donation drive and it's being matched 😉

the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/

Devin Lane @devinlane.com · Jul 8

lol

Devin Lane @devinlane.com · Jul 7

github feeds means that i regularly open github to work on a project and instead read recent repos from my friends (cool!) and get super distracted (boo!).

let's add github reels next 😅

Devin Lane @devinlane.com · May 31

mixing an upcoming song of mine "the ruthless logic of use" and enjoyed this clip so I thought I would share it with you

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keith kurson @keith.is · Mar 19

I'm in the final stages with a few companies, and having promising conversations with others.

That said, I'm still open to hearing about any Keith-shaped positions on your team. I'm casting a wide net across industries and genuinely curious about what you're building.

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bryn ☼ @bryn.codes · Mar 11

launch day! my lil personal site got a rebuild, powered by @11ty.dev
i’d be delighted for you to take a look, read some musings, and perhaps even hire me ◡̈

bryn.codes

Bryn Newell | Full Stack Creative Developer

The personal portfolio site of Bryn Newell

Devin Lane @devinlane.com · Feb 25

i loved reading that. really can tell that you understand the people you're building for!

Devin Lane @devinlane.com · Feb 15

awesome!

if requests are allowed: anything from super mario land 2: 6 golden coins. maybe this one youtu.be/k4N9jtYTb_Y?...

Super Mario Land 2 OST - Star Maze

YouTube video by Hanternos

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · Feb 15

It would be a mighty shame if the the White House's new CFPB tip line meant to snitch on regulators were stuffed full of demands to bring back consumer protections & regulate Big Tech... fftf.link/floodthecfpb

On a purplish pink background, curvy white text reads "send the snitch line a valentine!" "dear tipline at CFPB dot gov.... with love, consumers." In the middle, a red chrome heart with an arrow through it appears. A link appears with a cursor icon clicking on it, reading "fftf dot link forward slash flood the CFPB."

Devin Lane @devinlane.com · Feb 14

This is a good spot to jump in and check out the #100devs community where you can up your software skills big time

Leon Noel @leonnoel.bsky.social · Feb 14

Know a little JS and want to learn how to quickly build a backend to power any of your app ideas?

@appwrite-io.bsky.social are sponsoring our #100Devs class in 60mins at (5:30pm ET) on leonnoel.com/twitch

Raffles All Stream! Mac Mini Giveaway!

$50 Free Appwrite Pro Cloud Credits apwr.dev/100devs

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