Nic McPhee
Bio
Nic has taught computing at the Morris campus of the University of Minnesota since 1991, helping students develop problem solving, software development, and life-long learning skills that serve them well when they graduate and for decades beyond. Cool alumni are scattered all over the IT scene, from start ups to Fortune 500s.
He generally wishes he could spend more time pair programming with students and less time grading, and has been programming on Twitch since May of 2022. He also keeps finding his photos on Wikipedia and occasionally sings in public. Nic has done college radio since 1981 on three different stations; he and his wife currently do a weekly show together. His wife makes cool sculptures, their (adult) progeny is becoming a librarian, and the cat sheds. All in all, a pretty good life.
@NicMcPhee
Links:
- GitHub
- Twitter: @NicMcPhee
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Participating Sessions
- All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
- AI Told You So Again: How I Built a $1B Unfair Advantage ... And So Can You (Meet OpenClaw)
- 📡🕸️ Preppers & Comrades Unite: Building a Decentralized Mesh Network for Resilient Communication
- MN Indie Gamedev Microtalks 2026
- What the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now?
- Don’t Blame the User—Fix the Design: The UX of Streets and Cities
- Entrepreneur Panel: Maximizing Value from a Mentor
- Don't Let AI Eat You Alive: What Every Employee, Leader, and Organization Must Do Before It’s Too Late
- Understanding Agentic Commerce 🤖🛒
- 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)
- Normalize Your Team: Working Genius IS the Primary Key
- Skill(.md)s, context engineering, and a way to take the garbage out
- You Are a Superhero. Let's Discover Your Superpower So You Can Use It for Greatness
- No One Has the Full Picture (Especially in Complex Systems)
- Building a Knowledge Graph Your AI Can Actually Use
- I Tried to Replace Myself with AI. The AI Was the Easy Part.
- AI in Schools: What Students Are Actually Doing (and What Comes Next)
- Building Elite Teams - Forgotten Lessons from the Ranger Battalion
- Government’s in the Room. Go.
- Catan, Clean Energy, and Code: Can You Prove That Wind Farm Actually Generated Electricity?
- What tech lessons should we learn from the ICE invasion?
- Why is tech sexist? A farming perspective
- Solar and Battery Storage: What the process of getting a microgrid looks like.
- The Work That Holds Teams Together: Stop Blaming the Person. Fix the System.
- The Parts You Didn't See: A Collective Account of Operation Metro Surge
- Session 0: 20 Years of Minnestar (Trivia Edition)