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Nick Anderegg's Blog

My name is Nick Anderegg, and I’m a developer advocate, technical writer, and software engineer. This website is intended to host blog posts (eventually?), my résumé, and other projects.

Currently, I’m open to both full-time and contract roles. I’ve worked in Developer Relations for most of my career, but I’m open to any other role that also makes use of the breadth of my skills.

Recently, much of my free time has been spent trying to make information about SARS-CoV-2 and other emerging public health issues more accessible to the general public—by writing summaries of scientific findings that are accessible to non-scientists, both on social media and for patient advocacy organizations. I’m extremely interested in any roles that would allow me to focus on this kind of work professionally.

However, I’m open to companies in any industry! I’m most interested in working with companies that are focused on developer tooling, platforms-as-a-service, or healthcare-related technologies.

This site was built from scratch using Hugo as the static site generator, and Tailwind CSS as the style framework. Currently, this site is hosted with GitHub Pages and is deployed using GitHub Actions.

Curriculum Vitae

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I specialize in untangling difficult problems and complicated ideas. Point me at a problem, and I’ll figure out how to figure it out.

  • Experienced developer advocate, technical writer, solutions engineer, and coder with a focus on making complex systems and concepts accessible to more people.
  • Significant experience in the PaaS and developer tooling space.
  • Obsessed with understanding how systems interact, and identifying points of friction and failure between them.
  • Highly proficient in Python, proficient in JavaScript and Ruby, and familiar with a few other languages.
  • Extremely proficient at engineering reliable prompts.
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails (and Rails upgrades).
  • Experience with AWS, GCP, and DigitalOcean.
  • Experience with web dev, including Tailwind CSS. Significant experience with Hugo for static sites.
  • Have worked remotely my entire career (and only seeking remote roles).

My most important criterion for any role is that the work be interesting, either because the company is solving an interesting problem, or because the work itself will require solving many interesting problems! I have many overlapping interests, but the common thread tying them together is that, fundamentally, I view everything as some type of applied information architecture problem.

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Recent Posts

Why a blog and why now?

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Do I have tons of ideas for posts for this blog? Yes! Will I actually write any of them? Maybe!

My main motivation for finally launching a blog is the proliferation of generative AI, and in particular, language language models (LLMs). My academic background is in linguistics and psychology, and I have years of experience working as a researcher in the field of psycholinguistics—with a specific focus on phonology, language acquisition, and how written language is processed by the brain. I have a lot of thoughts about many of the claims currently being made about LLMs, and I need a place to write them down.

Spoiler alert: It’s not likely that any of that commentary is going to be positive. The people promoting these things seem to be doing so with a very poor understanding of how language actually interacts with the other processes in our brains to produce our experience of cognition, and I’m not going to be shy about calling out empirically-unsupported bullshit.

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