Thu, Apr 16 · 5:30 PM CDT
LIGHTNING TALKS
We are doing something a little different for our April 2026 meetup: Lightning Talks⚡⚡⚡!
Three speakers, 15-20 minutes each — fast-paced, focused, no filler.
SCHEDULE
5:30pm - Arrival/Registration + Food/Drinks + Networking
6:00pm - Lightning Talks
7:15pm - Food/Drinks + Networking
8:00pm - End
FOOD/DRINKS
Food and drinks will be provided! Please contact us if you have any dietary restrictions/food allergies.
DIRECTIONS AND PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Meeting will be held in the offices of SmartDraw Software, 1780 Hughes Landing Blvd #1100 on the 11th floor.
Enter through the main doors of the building and take the elevator to the 11th floor; the door to SmartDraw's suite is in the elevator lobby on the 11th floor.
If you arrive at 1780 Hughes Landing after 6pm, a member of the SmartDraw team will help you enter the building then travel up to the 11th floor.
Parking :
Park in the garage directly opposite. You'll need to take a ticket to enter but there is no fee to leave - parking is free.
Speakers & Talks
Mutant RALPH: Squeezing LLM Code with Adversarial Mutation Testing Peter Hellmuth (Senior Full Stack Developer, Logisolve)
What if your AI coding agent had an adversary? Peter walks through a systems engineering experiment where a Writer agent and an Adversary agent go head-to-head using mutation testing (Stryker.NET). The result: a loop that kills mutants, surfaces ambiguities, and forces LLM-generated code to actually hold up under pressure.
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The Anatomy of a Smart Repo: Repo-Driven Development in 15 Minutes Mark Wardell (Founder, The Middle Way Software)
You've got GitHub Copilot, Claude, or Cursor — and your AI still wanders. Mark breaks down Repo-Driven Development (RDD): a lightweight methodology that turns your Git repository into an intelligent project manager for AI-assisted coding. In 15 minutes you'll see what makes a repo "smart" — structured issues, intentional epics, and pipeline conventions that tell your LLM what to build, in what order, and within what guardrails.
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Distributable C# Coding Conventions Jon Badgett (Senior Software Architect, SmartDraw)
Tired of copy-pasting your team's coding standards between projects? Jon shows how to package C# coding conventions into a reusable NuGet package — consistent rules across codebases, versioned and easy to evolve as .NET moves forward.
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P.S. We're looking for speakers for 2026!
Do you have insights, projects, or expertise you'd like to share with the NHDNUG community? Whether you're an experienced speaker or presenting for the first time, we'd love to feature you in one of our upcoming meetups!
If you're interested in speaking at one of our 2026 meetups (held the 3rd Thursday of each month), email us at hi@petabridge.com to discuss your topic ideas, or complete this form: https://forms.gle/aVzeVpvVhAkdfWLy7
Thank you!
