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Martin Brennan

I’m a full stack staff software engineer based in Australia, currently working for Discourse. I primarily work with Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript, with a focus on product engineering. When I’m not writing software I write fiction.

📍 Brisbane, Australia

How We Built the Upcoming Changes System for Gradual Product Rollouts in Discourse

How Discourse built a system to roll out product changes without breaking anyone's forum - and why the answer was hiding in the codebase the whole time.

AI Can Code (But It Doesn’t Care About Quality)

Every engineer now has a code-producing machine in their hands, but volume rarely equates to quality. How do individual contributors and tech leads maintain standards when it’s suddenly much easier to create than it is to edit?