Luke Oliff · Developer relations
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I'm Luke Oliff, Head of Developer Relations at Speechify. I write about docs, developer communities, and the craft of making APIs easy to build with. Original posts live here; imported posts live in the archive.
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Everyone Should Slow Down AI. Except Them.OriginalThe case for slowing down AI always seems to exempt the people making it. When the same labs racing hardest ask everyone else to brake, read the incentive.Opinion
The git config Defaults Worth OverridingOriginalA few git config defaults are just wrong for modern work. These one-liners fix branch sorting, new-branch pushes, diffs and command typos.Git
The Summer Three Labs Let Their AI Escape the SandboxOriginalIn five weeks of 2026, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta each watched an AI sandbox escape turn into a real intrusion on live third-party systems.AI
When Shopify Dropped React Native for NativeOriginalShopify moved its mobile apps off React Native to Swift and Kotlin. A working engineer's checklist for when dropping React Native actually pays its rent.Opinion
React 19.3 Is Out and React 20 Is NotOriginalReact 19.3 shipped on 9 September 2026 with View Transitions and Fragment Refs stable. There is no React 20 yet. Here is what 19.3 actually changes.JavaScript