Heather Downing

Say less. Every word should matter.

How many of you actually attend office hours? Because we are about to start some and I want to have some idea of the value you find in them.

Me ordering seed garlic online: "Oh, I have room for 1 more variety..." 🧄 Me laying out the garden: "Might have bought too much garlic." 😮 Me surveying property limitations: "Maybe could fit 2 more beds in this yard." 🤔

Without a doubt the Claude browser extension is one of the most delightful tools I use nearly daily. That and Granola + my Meko datapack context have changed what's possible to be done for my workload. Shout out to simple flows that make life tolerable.

Time to build some things LIVE and see about this AI agent-sharing-context thing! Come hang out with me, and I'll show you what Meko by can do. September 22, 2026 @ 9:00 am Pacific Time Register here: info.yugabyte.com/webinar-shar... @yugabytedb.bsky.social

just took me and @heatherdown.ing both being in sunnyvale to hang 🤣 so awesome dropping in at the @yugabytedb.bsky.social meetup!

Meko is officially a Claude connector you can find in the directory! We have added a new landing page for it on our official site as well. Many other connectors coming this week! mekodata.ai/claude/

When will AI be useful for those that have not yet developed taste or know what they are doing to check it? Right now it rewards the knowledgeable.

The excellent @betsyweber.bsky.social wrote a thing about us for the Microsoft MVP blog! techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/mvp-blo... Tagging @heatherdown.ing @eli.holderness.dev @rendle.dev @dylanbeatt.ie @vagifabilov.bsky.social @hanneslowette.net @kevlin.bsky.social - look! We're famous! 🤩

What a joy it was to come on the DevRelShow and talk about what it is like to shepherd a new community of people. Kudos to @fharper.bsky.social for the fantastic questions.

Hey I ran this!

Wrote up a bit about putting our memory product in your app.

Tomorrow!!!

That moment of summer bliss when you walk out in the morning to your garden and nothing is ever wrong with your irrigation.

This is Nymeria. She is demonstrating the rare compact zoomies. Ideal for situations where you don't have much room, but still must zoom. 13/10 (TT: ouruntamedtale)

Join us NOW at 10am PDT to ask our Co-Founder Karthik anything about Meko by @yugabytedb.bsky.social :) YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=puY5... Discord: discord.gg/yugabyte #meko channel

Come hang out next week with us!

🎶 The sun will come out, tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow.... will be 101. 🎶

Are there agent memory benchmarks you trust at this point? So many of them are heavily skewed.

Had fun making this video walkthrough.

Woot! Go team! It was fun demoing to the judges panel for this competition.

Developer advocates don't always bring good news. You bring real feedback. If your product and engineering teams are properly aligned, they will appreciate that. If not, it can feel like you aren't finding the "fans" of your product. If your product is good, people talk about it.

The most epic 'Merica video ever made (no AI or CGI either, with the largest flag ever flown) Happy 250th Independence Day, my fellow Americans! 🇺🇸🦅🧨🗽🎆🎇 youtu.be/PTHoW447564?...

Nature's fireworks

Aircraft are one of mankind's most incredible inventions. I'm always in awe as I travel that humans did this.

Meko (early access) is now self-service and FREE. Create an account and give your AI agents persistent memory and shared context across Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and any MCP client. No credit card or anything. No excuse to not try it out! mekodata.ai

Wonder how we built our agent memory platform Meko by @yugabytedb.bsky.social? Today's YFTT episode features two of the lead engineers on the project. They go through the full process, the pain points, and the eventual architecture we shipped. Join us at 9:30am PDT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0szG...

Made it to Mumbai.

Christmas 2025 was only 6 months ago when Opus came out and exploded the software scene. 6 months from "oh I guess AI is getting good now" to the government saying "you can't all have access to AI" was fast. Anyone on a sabbatical last year and coming back now? What a head spin.

On my way to Mumbai, India for the first time ever. Pretty excited to meet all the awesome tech folks here. If you have been and have food recommendations I'm all ears!

There is NO WAY our engineering and marketing teams could keep up without agentic workflows at this point, the cadence bar has risen so high. It's an absolute necessity at this point. Drinking from the fire hose of everything at once. Thank goodness we have good people steering.

Things that I grew for the first time this year.

YugabyteDB Friday Tech Talk - LIVE TODAY @ 9:30am PDT Query Plan Management: Detecting, Correcting, and Preventing Plan Regressions Watch it live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvIZ... Watch it live on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/events/74662...

Hey I wrote this! What the heck is this AI memory thing we built and how do you use it? Go check it out 😊

It's amazing how much more mentally tired I am working with agents. My prefrontal cortex is sore from constant use. Turns out hand coding was the part that was a familiar pattern and provided a bit of a critical thinking break. The planning of tasks continuously is demanding.

youtube.com/watch?v=DmU9... Embrace the hilarity of this moment.

The native bumblebees are back!

That which gets measured gets gamified. You aren't good at something because you spent the least or the most amount of resources on it. You are good at it because you have descernment of what works best. Imagine if recipes did this. Taste should be the driver of the outcome.

It's the end of May. Real progress towards useful models hit the industry during the winter holidays. It's been 6 months. Feels like 6 years at this point.

Be relentless and resilient. This is the year of both for tech professionals.

Have teams outside of engineering at your company seen a lot of traction using AI agents now? Just mine? They are really excited about what is possible now.

Bye, @colbertlateshow.bsky.social. thanks for all the fish.

Yes! 🙌 After months of figuring out building the right thing, we opened early access for Meko to the first group of devs today. Data persistence and automatic learning for AI agents has been fun to tackle. Let's go @Yugabyte! Want to be next? Request! mekoadata.ai

When we have big storms at night, I walk outside at the beginning of it to watch in awe. Thinking of the native peoples of the plains who looked up in this same spot many years ago, wondering if the gods were angry with them and what it all meant. Against nature, we are nothing. Even with radar.

The best thing I have ever done for my focus is to permanently turn off Slack notifications. I find a natural breaking point from a task and then check it. If there is a true emergency, call me. That's rarely happened. Done wonders for me.

Honored to be invited for a feedback dinner with Delta airlines for how we can improve service in Kansas City. What a delightful night.

we're hiring a Lead Product Designer at Bluesky. we've built the foundation — now we need someone to lead our design team and bring a fresh vision for how this app should look and feel. crazy fun & rare opportunity for the right leader! jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

"The data is too important to trust to a single vendor." Exactly. This article touches on the mission that @yugabytedb.bsky.social is taking on - persisting AI-generated data, memory, and creating a layer that any tools you choose and switch between can work with. open.substack.com/pub/forkable...

Tiny plane is tiny next to the jet bridge. MCI ✈️ MSP ✈️ CLT

Early access requests are open. This has been a wild journey to watch come together!