the quiet dev's kernel — building in public
These three abstracts submit for "The Quiet Dev's Kernel." The CFP committee skims for two things: a hook that earns the second sentence, and a concrete payoff that justifies a slot. Reviewers are pat…
May 18, 2026
Researched May 18, 2026. Verify all deadlines before acting — conference schedules shift. Date: July 28–29, 2026 Location: SoWa Power Station, 550 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02118
May 18, 2026
- Primary: Keeping AI Honest: Hooks-Driven TDD in a Laravel Codebase - Alt 1: Your AI Agent Will Game Your Tests — Here's How to Stop It - Alt 2: Green Checkmarks Don't Lie (But Your AI Ag…
May 18, 2026
The opening 90 seconds has one job: get the room to feel something they recognize before you say a single technical word. The moment sentence — the one about another person's dreams — can only land if…
May 18, 2026
Working subtitle: How I stopped prompting and started building an operating system. A 10-year Laravel developer who burned out shipping other people's dreams built a multi-LLM operating system ker…
May 18, 2026