Bits By Me

Hi 👋 I'm Dylan. Most content is in blog posts or little notes to my future self called Today I Learned… Follow the links up top☝️to explore. Social links are in the footer👇

Today I Learned…

Previewing Markdown Files with mdserve — October 3, 2025 — Dependency free markdown server

Whitelisting Pi-hole — March 9, 2023 — Working with Pi-hole and a bit of sed.

GitHub CLI — February 11, 2023 — Using the GitHub CLI to make authenticated and authorized download from a private repo.

Recent Blog Posts

LLM Foundations — October 10, 2025 — Resources from Week 1 of the AI Engineering Course

TPM Journey at Github — October 20, 2024 — Slides and recording of my presentation about how technical program management (TPM) came about at GitHub. All in context of Tuckman’s model of group development.

Slice by Slice — October 10, 2024 — How two German automotive engineers got inside my head. Or: how I learning to stop stressing out and to start solving problems.

Altitude, Brevity, Contrast, and Directness — June 1, 2024 — How to write with a busy reader in mind by answering some questions. What altitude are they at? How can you be succinct? Are you highlighting the important bits? Are you being as direct as you can be?

Pay It Forward — February 14, 2023 — I had a great chat with a college student about a career in tech. I thought I’d share some of the advice I gave them. It’s not going to change the world, but it might help someone.