Heather Downing
@heatherdown
Software dev & speaker. Developer Advocate @YugabyteDB & Microsoft MVP. #dotNET/APIs/identity/data/AI. Technical, curious and traveling often from KC, Missouri. KCDC crew.
That moment of summer bliss when you walk out in the morning to your garden and nothing is ever wrong with your irrigation.
🎶 The sun will come out, tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow.... will be 101. 🎶
Aircraft are one of mankind's most incredible inventions. I'm always in awe as I travel that humans did this.
Honored to be invited for a feedback dinner with Delta airlines for how we can improve service in Kansas City. What a delightful night.
May you take this weekend to touch grass and remember that you matter in this world.
Earthset. Photo by the crew of Artemis II, courtesy of NASA. April 6th, 2026.
Hello, Earth. Such a small, beautiful speck in the universe. Taken from the Orion capsule in the Artemis 2 mission moments before loss of signal.
We fall to the level of our systems, and cannot rely on LLMs or humans to be perfect. Well called out here by Anthropic's member of technical staff for Claude Code. Won't be the first company to find weaknesses in their processes (looking at you, AWS, Okta, etc.), and it won't be the last.
What a beautiful dawn at the KC airport. Off to MVP Summit! MCI ✈️ SEA
What a fantastic week of work with my coolest ever teammates at @yugabytedb.bsky.social. Even has a moment to stop by Redondo Beach.
First day of SKO had lots of product planning, sunset watching and terrific conversations.
The industry is converging. Bleeding edge tech startups are coming to a head with enterprise. We all want the same things. Great discussion with the CEO of @langchain.bsky.social at Daytona Compute.
Two for the price of one today! Hanging out with the KC PostgreSQL and @devopskc.com community meetup, as a speaker and sponsor. That means I have swag from @yugabytedb.bsky.social 😎
Doing the long drive from KC to Colorado for the Claude Meetup in Denver. Can't wait for this!