Development Sessions at Minnebar20
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How To Talk With Your Team About Best Practices (a new way of efficiently discussing and prioritizing the best practices that matter most to your team)
by Xandra Best -
Don't Let AI Eat You Alive: What Every Employee, Leader, and Organization Must Do Before It’s Too Late
by Rod Brown -
Speak the Domain: How DSLs Help Humans — and AI — Model the Real World
by Jake Arntson -
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of LLMs at Creating Broken Systems
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Business Partners and Co-Founders: The Good, the Bad, the Weird
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Catan, Clean Energy, and Code: Can You Prove That Wind Farm Actually Generated Electricity?
by Rob Davis and John Peacock -
Join our quest to throw a ring into a volcano
by Jon Wilson -
Capture the Flag
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git commit -m "I didn't write this"
by Jackson M Tomlinson and Ben Bakken -
From CAD to Injection-Molded Parts in 12 Hours
by Dagmawe Mamo -
We Won a Global Hackathon. Then We Built a Real Company. Here's What Changed.
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Make your first video game with "just enough" AI
by Andy Krueger -
Cybersecurity Warnings 😳
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Where is Maldo? An LLM Adoption Journey for Software Engineers
by Jay D Haase -
The Good Years: Formative Tech Companies in the Twin Cities
by Matt Decuir -
UNLOCKING PRODUCTIVITY: THE POWER OF AI TOOLS IN THE WORKPLACE V4
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Website Improv: You're the Worst Client Ever
by Tom Benbow -
Three Musicians, One Engineer: Building AI Systems for Musicians in Minneapolis
by Vaish Sagar -
Building a Knowledge Graph Your AI Can Actually Use
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What the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now?
by Dan Lew -
50 Ways to Leave Your Company in Ruins
by Ian Young -
Canary in a Gold Mine: De-risk Your Product with Quick & Dirty Experiments
by Jamie Ryan -
End-to-end tests considered harmful (securing credentials for E2E and synthetic testing)
by Katie Kodes -
Don't Rip and Replace: how to avoid the shiny upgrade pitfall in long-term systems
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Shadow AI! Innovation Without Oversight
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Multiplayer Interactive Fiction on the Elixir VM
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Code, cloth, and your hands: How engaging in textile craft makes you a better technologist
by CJ Jensen -
I'm Disabled & You Will Be, Too
by Jenn Czeck -
📡🕸️ Preppers & Comrades Unite: Building a Decentralized Mesh Network for Resilient Communication
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MN Indie Gamedev Microtalks 2026
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What Happens When You Combine Bad Bunny + AI + Mental Health?
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🥳 Landing you First Software Engineering Job 101 (You vs AI)
by Fuad Jeet -
✨ Let’s animate! ✨ An Introduction to Rive.app
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Ai + Fractionals: The Next Chapter of the American Economy Is You
by John Arms -
AI Is Becoming Infrastructure: Why Context Engineering and Platforms Will Define the Next Decade
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DefineTheBox Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
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The Future of GSD - AI Conversational Task Management
by Matt Pacyga -
Livin' the Solo Founder Dream. I'll share learnings from building my second Consumer app. Open to participation!
by larry bieza -
A weather station, plant monitors, buttons, and other smart home fun
by Jachin Rupe -
Real World Speech Interfaces: What Builders Are Seeing
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Boldly You: Showing Up to Your Life’s Purpose
by Alan Fernald -
AI Told You So Again: How I Built a $1B Unfair Advantage ... And So Can You (Meet OpenClaw)
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🔥😌 Calm in the Chaos: Real-World Incident Management (and the Stuff We Don’t Talk About)
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🚀 AI Is Changing What Matters in Software
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Exploring Six Types of Decisions Orgs Make When Working with Test Automation Frameworks That Often Lead to Trouble
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No One Has the Full Picture (Especially in Complex Systems)
by Tom Harren -
Only Amiga Makes It Possible: Discovering the Future in a Computer from 1985
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Skill(.md)s, context engineering, and a way to take the garbage out
by Robert Tomb -
Every Corpus Was a Body Once: Putting the [body] language into LLMs
by Kelly Heitz -
10x'ing Myself and My Team: Leading With Agents, Not Just Using Them
by Andy Ganoe -
Everything in Time: The Ultimate Guide to Android Date and Time Programming
by Andrew Haisting and David Perez -
Build A Bridge with Interactive Art
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AI-Powered CRM for Small Businesses: What Actually Works
by Abdi Mohamed -
Elixir: Creating an AI Agent for our Clash Royale Clan
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Research at the Speed of AI: What Works, What Breaks, and What Still Needs You
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Migration Engineering: Automating Security & Tech Stack Upgrades
by Brad Broulik -
Service to Software: Turn Your "How-To" into a Monetized Micro-App
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The Minnebar Scavenger Hunt: Powered by AI & Tape
by Alice Smiddy -
Mouth to MIDI in 11 Milliseconds: A Live Beatbox Drum Engine I Built on Nights and Weekends
by Sean Hobin -
PolitiClaw: building a local-first political co-pilot with OpenClaw 🦞
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Stop Fighting the LLM: Mental Models for Fast, Frustration-Free App Building
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Shipping Atoms and Bits: What Building Physical Products Taught Me About Better Engineering Decisions
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What tech lessons should we learn from the ICE invasion?