Home on Brian P. Hogan

LLMs are trained on work that humans created.

Documentation drives growth, if you enable it.

Some things I learned while using Claude Code to build projects and tools.

I keep seeing the narrative that “marketing is about storytelling.”

My biggest frustration with modern docs is that much of the industry standardized on Markdown.

Networking and referrals land you jobs because AI is screening you out of the application pile.

Summary Technical content expert and educator driving developer education strategy, execution, and growth.

I started writing a new book.

December 18th, 2024 was my last day at Temporal Technologies.

I keep seeing how “LLMs are great teaching tools!

Make bootable macOS installers for various macOS versions and troubleshoot common errors.

This is a list of books on career development, content creation, and education that have shaped my personal philosophy and practices.

Software development doesn’t have to be your career.

Load JavaScript libraries dynamically on your page with appropriate event handling.

I started out the year thinking it would be “business as usual.”

I am a technical content expert, people manager, web developer, author, teacher, book editor, and musician.

This is a list of sites for finding remote work.

I’ve been at Temporal for a full year.

Add command blocks to your site that show a prompt and let your visitors copy the command to the clipboard.

Capture audio from Ableton Live quickly using Loopback.

Open links in Chrome using a specific profile.

You may have heard of learning styles.

Vim’s Terminal mode lets you run a terminal within Vim and capture its output quickly.

Turn a list of URLs into a list of titles with a quick Ruby script that uses threads.

A look back on my time at DigitalOcean as I close the books on nearly six years at this great company.

This February, I did the RPM Challenge, a global event where musicians have the month of Febrary to record and release music.

I performed my own music on DigitalOcean’s live stream as part of the Deploy conference.

A look at the changes that happen when my books are translated into other languages.

So you want to get good at something in a creative field like music, writing, or even coding?

Every February, I participate in the RPM Challenge, a global event where musicians have the month of Febrary to write, record, and release music.

This week Pragprog.com is having their 40% off ebook sale.

In this tutorial you’ll create unlisted pages in a Hugo site.

Today marks my four year anniversary at DigitalOcean, working on the Community tutorials and the Write for DOnations program.

My EPs “Red Zone” and “Hack to the 80s” are available on Spotify, Apple, and Google Music.

In this tutorial you’ll implement a Magic 8 Ball game using HTML, JavaScript, and the Canvas API.

A quick look at how I sped up an Elixir program.

CSS Grid lets you create web page layouts without resorting to external CSS frameworks.

Use Flexbox to build a navigation bar with elements evenly-spaced on large screens, and vertically stacked on small screens, all with minimal HTML and CSS.

My new book “Build Websites with Hugo” is available today in electronic format.

I am an active author and technical editor.

Provide context and improve understanding of complex topics with a repeatable formula for explaining code.

My musical creations, available on SoundCloud and through online stores.

Some words you think might motivate learners have the opposite effect.

Solving the “Who’s In Space” exercise from Exercises for Programmers in Vue.

Open files in different buffers.

I’ve been working on a new tune for a few months, and today I finally had the time to finish it off.

I’ve been working on a new tune.

When I was in college, I spent hundreds of hours using ReBirth, a music-making app that emulated two Roland 303 bassline synths, an 808 drum machine, and a 909 drum machine.

My recent books, available in print, PDF, ePub, and Kindle format.

About seven months ago, I began moving this site from a WordPress setup to a static site using Hugo, which I’m writing a book on right now.