Top Feature Developers Use in Online Communities: Nearly one in four developers say forums are the most-used feature of their primary developer community website.
(See the report findings here: https://evansdata.com/devrel)
#DeveloperRelations
The AAARRRP #DeveloperRelations #Strategy Framework
A great read for anyone who isn't sure about what value #DevRel really has at an organization.
> What value is DevRel bringing? DevRel is the only team at your company that can speak the engineer’s language, provide regular feedback to the product team, function as a marketing team, and grow the community as the face of your company.
#tech #developerrelations #developeradvocate #communitybuilding #marketing #developermarketing #devmar
As of January, I was effectively laid off from my loved Developer Advocate job.
If anyone needs a Swiss army knife with excellent soft skills that work well in a team. That's me.
I would prefer Softwarearchitecture and DevRel again. Everything where I get to work with people would be nice.
If anyone can point me to something or could make an introduction, I would be deeply grateful!
Location: Remote, hybrid (Würzburg and/or train reachable)
It's 2025, and so the blog is officially launched for Talk to Me About Tech! We're kicking off the year with a popular topic: how to promote a technology meetup.
If you're running any kind of #tech event, conference, or user group, this blogpost is for you.
#PostgreSQL #Postgres #OpenSource #developers #devrel #developerrelations #developeradvocacy
In a Post Developer Relations World: Fix or Fire?
Navigating the evolving landscape of developer relations requires a thoughtful approach. Understand when to fix issues or part ways for growth. #DeveloperRelations #Leadership #devrel
A magia das comunidades de tecnologia está além das conexões que criamos nelas! ✨
Refletindo sobre minha jornada em Developer Relations, percebo que cada conversa, cada evento e cada conteúdo é como uma semente que fortalece os laços entre pessoas desenvolvedoras e empresas.
Um dos maiores aprendizados foi entender que comunidades não são apenas sobre networking, mas sobre apoio mútuo e crescimento coletivo. 💙
E além disso, comunidades de tecnologia refletem nas empresas o que elas mais precisam: reconhecimento da marca, educação sobre como utilizar suas tecnologias e também feedback e insights únicos para um produto.
Vamos trocar experiências nos comentários!
🚀 NEW on We ❤️ Open Source 🚀
From #Fintech to #DevRel, Angie Jones shares how AI & open source empower developers! 🤖 Learn about JWTs, AI-generated content, and her passion for simplifying complex tech.
Watch now: https://buff.ly/3DbgBwU
Talk to Me About Tech is able to help through consulting services and one-time packages to help you connect with your desired technical audience, build a community (world-wide!), devise an effective outreach strategy, improve the internal & external #DeveloperExperience, help you plan an #OpenSource strategy, and much more.
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#devmar #developermarketing #devex #devrel #developerrelations #developeradvocacy #developereducation #startup #techstartup
What is #DevRel, anyway, and what benefits does it bring your company? This is an interesting write-up for reference that discusses the "Developer Funnel" strategy. "This framework helps you understand and engage dev communities effectively." https://buff.ly/3CHfgha
Summarizing the key points from the article: #DeveloperRelations teams can help you with...
- Acquiring developers
- Developer onboarding and engagement
- Advocacy within the community
- Retaining developers
Great read for #DeveloperRelations. Understand how to:
> Accelerate product-market fit with tight product loops
> Get developers to the “aha” moment in your product & product #marketing can help
> Identify the “aha” moment for your early users
> Build an incredible dev experience, from docs, to #code samples, to product onboarding
> Avoid being “everywhere, all the time” as a young company
> Leverage #OpenSource to drive growth and simultaneously build a #community
You probably shouldn't hire a Developer Advocate yet
https://lengrand.fr/you-probably-shouldnt-hire-a-developer-advocate-yet/
#developerrelations #developerexperience #developerexperience
Living in #SanFrancisco? Working in #DeveloperRelations? Here's a new job from Continue:
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/continue/jobs/il3YrJC-developer-relations-engineer
#jobs #developeradvocate #developermarketing #techjobs #itjobs
Don’t miss out—grab a coffee and listen in as we dive into Brian’s journey and what Open Sauced is cooking up next: https://voxgig.com/podcast/brian-douglas-2-founder-ceo-open-sauced
#TechPodcast #OpenSource #DevTools #FiresideWithVoxgig #AI #CodeQuality #devrel #developerrelations
@jessie is one of my favourite people in the world - and she has some additional time in her schedule for #DevOps #DeveloperRelations #OpenSource #Strategy work - so if that's the skillset you need, she's the person you want.
One of my freelance roles at the moment is as Developer Relations lead on the Mastodon project. It is a project and platform I’m really passionate about – I use it every day, it is Open Source and based on an open standard, and I strongly feel that federated platforms like this are the key to enabling everyone to own their own content, networks, and experiences beyond the direct reach of commercial interests.
At this stage in its history, Mastodon would I think count as an established and mature OSS project. It has been around since 2016, there are over 10,000 running instances / servers with the software, and over a million regular active users of the platform (plus, it interoperates with a much wider set of other platforms in the Fediverse, and carries posts and content from them as well). There are a number of large repositories that make up the GitHub organisation. There’s a – in my opinion – healthy and diverse set of third party apps that plug in to the network.
One of the things that some folks would say that the project has not always been great at, is communicating with the broader developer community. My own observation is that this is a large and widely-deployed codebase, and at a certain scale, stability and reliability become paramount, and it can be less straightforward to accept pull requests for new features (over prioritising security reports, for example). It is a small team supporting this project, largely underfunded1 if you look at the need to maintain the code, and to pay at least some of the folks involved to work on things full-time so that they can get by day-to-day, and that the core functionality gets the attention it deserves. When you’re coding, you may not have time to do other things like writing documentation, discussing roadmaps, and answering general questions – that’s partly where I come in, but even then, I still need to get help from the core developers to understand some of the questions…
I started working part-time with the core Mastodon team last year, with the goal to improve the experience for developers building on the platform, and also to bring my experience in working with diverse OSS projects and communities to support the Mastodon core team. As an example, last year I overhauled the existing list of known third party API libraries on the documentation site, and also updated the third party client apps page. Towards the start of this year, we started to make a few choices to improve the cadence and – I hope – quality of our external conversations further: we brought the whole team to meet the community at FOSDEM for the first time, for instance, which was a big step for the project.
Visit us at #FOSDEM, building H, level 1! You can say hi to our team or tell us what you’d like to see in Mastodon next. Mugs, t-shirts, enamel pins, and even free stickers available! #Merchtodon
— Mastodon (@Mastodon) 2024-02-03T08:56:41.576Z
Eugen and I also had the opportunity to meet with a few folks working on related Fediverse projects, as well as some Mastodon contributors and instance owners, during a whirlwind visit to the Bay Area back in May.
In the last 4 months, Renaud (Mastodon’s CTO) and I have been collaborating on an engineering blog series called Trunk & Tidbits. We both strongly believe that explaining what we are working on is an important element in building greater engagement and community around the project. I chose the title for the series as (what I thought was) a clever play on words, but maybe you need to be old enough to remember when source control systems like CVS used “trunk” as in tree trunk as terminology, that we now tend to call “main” in the world of Git! The name is supposed to point to the blog series content being about what we have worked on and merged into the trunk of the code, and some “tidbits” or bits and pieces of other news from around the developer community – plus, of course, our mascot The Mastodon has a trunk of its own… 🦣 😄
Here are links to the April, May, and June posts, if you missed them and want to catch up. We post retrospectively, looking back at progress each month.
One thing to note from these past editions is that I also posted a completely rewritten and overhauled Contributing guide in the past couple of months (mentioned in Trunk & Tidbits); this lives at the organisation-level in our GitHub setup, and is intended as the main starting point if you want to contribute to the code.
Today, we published the July edition of Trunk & Tidbits. tl;dr we’re a bit behind where we had hoped to be towards releasing the next version of Mastodon, v4.3 – but we are really close to getting the beta out, and the “delay”2 is because of some feedback and performance improvements identified in early testing on our own instances, so we’re hoping that when the beta is released, things should be in pretty good shape.
I’m hoping that with more regular communications via the blog; interactions with the community via the Fediverse itself and at events (I’ll once again be at Fediforum in September, for example); one-to-one conversations; and a willingness to engage in more discussions where time and resources allow – we can help folks to feel more informed about what we’re working on. It is still a small core team, and it is a busy time as the Fediverse grows… we need to keep things running, stable, and reliable… and there are always going to be features and changes that we cannot get to, or requests we cannot support at short notice… but I can assure you that it is a team effort, we discuss what’s possible, and that, I believe, we’re moving things forward3.
That’s all a personal perspective on what I’ve found, in working with the Mastodon project and team. Let me know if you have feedback on the Trunk & Tidbits series, as I’d love to keep improving these posts, and learning from the folks that read them.
- I am also pretty happy with the fact that the project has made a conscious decision to not go down a road of accepting capital investment, and remains a not-for-profit funded by donations. YMMV, this is a personal opinion. ↩︎
- Note “delay” against an undated release schedule; the release will ship when it is ready to ship. ↩︎
- A footnoted mea culpa / things I personally wish were better if I had more time on the project / there was more scope for them more quickly! I’d prefer it if there was a machine-parseable API specification, and that more Fediverse formats / standards / protocols might be supported in future, and that the developer documentation was even more complete and nicer and better etc etc.. Hopefully, we’ll get nearer to some of those in the future, as time and resources allow. ↩︎
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Today, I received some fun post from some lovely people in New York City.
Those in the know, may recognise these stickers as the logos of Glitch and Fastly.
I’ve been using Glitch to write and host web apps for quite a few years now – it is super helpful when working in a role like developer relations, needing to rapidly spin up demos, examples, or to demonstrate new features. A couple of years ago, Glitch came together with Fastly, and in the past couple of months their new developer platform vision really started to come together.
If you haven’t been keeping up with what they have been up to, and were not able to be at their recent special developer event in NYC (don’t worry, I couldn’t get there either), there’s a helpful ~6 minute video that summarises the announcements. I’m particularly interested and excited about this because I know and respect the folks involved – Anil Dash, Jenn Schiffer, Hannah Aubry, many others across their teams – and I know that they get and they care about developer experience, Open Source, and the free and open web. I’m talking about the big stuff, the infrastructure, the stuff that needs to invisibly just work in order for the web to run; and also the smaller things, the quirky indie little pieces, the fun and new experiences, helping people to learn to code and to be creative. It’s no exaggeration to say that Fastly’s Fast Forward program is a massive supporter of Open Source, open standards and the Fediverse. All of these things are reasons why I love Glitch & Fastly.
I’ve been running my main profile links page on Glitch in Bio for several years now (it’s a bit like a Linktree/link in bio page, but better than one of those closed platforms). Beyond that, I also host some Fediverse examples such as my own Postmarks instance, and a gallery of examples of Mastodon embeds; and also pages that add resources to my recent talks. With Fastly, I can also run things on my own domains, and make sure that things are cached and perform well.
[ if you’re curious about the sorts of things I’ve been building or working on from a code and web perspective, I’ve also spruced up my GitHub bio, and I have a more general gallery page on GitHub that has links to the source and deployments of different projects – some of which are links to those Glitch apps above ]
Thank you for the stickerage, Glitch friends! And, congratulations on the new Fastly Developer Platform! I’m looking forward to continuing to use your cool technologies 👍🏻
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I’ve been a regular podcaster for, wow, around 15 (!) years now. More or less…[1]
After some occasional guest appearances early in the run of on a show called “Dogear Nation”, back in 2009 I moved up to a regular slot as a co-host, with my friends (and, at that time, IBM colleagues) Michael Martine and Michael Rowe. That show ran for 200 episodes in total, and then after a short break, the same group of folks (more or less) rebooted as Games at Work dot Biz… and we just released episode 473 of that podcast. There’s no special milestone number there apart from the fact that that’s a lot of weeks we’ve been recording, I was just inspired to mention it on my blog since it hasn’t come up for a long time!
We record Games at Work dot Biz together weekly on a Friday, and release on the Monday. Each week, we talk about what’s new in tech, running through stories and links shared in the preceding week by our listeners and also amongst the three of us co-hosts. We originally focused on the intersection of gaming technology and business productivity tools, but have a broad perspective across all things collaborative, social, immersive, and more (plus, LEGO, because, that’s always cool…!).
You can find us on all podcasting apps – here’s a handy jumping off page to your platform of choice, thanks to Episodes.fm which is a really neat way to reach a podcast on your preferred app. We’re currently having a bit of a challenging time getting all three of us together to record at once, but that’s OK – life happens, and there are different dynamics and topics we tend to get into, depending on which of us is reviewing the week’s links!
I also want to give a shout out to Michael and Michael – two dear friends I’m grateful to have made, with connections we’ve maintained, through all these years. They’ve been huge supporters of the things I’ve done, and I appreciate these two humans a lot. I recorded a solo episode of the podcast back in November with a “Thanksgiving” moment, saying the same thing. Thank you, guys!
If you’re interested, I also sometimes pop up in the monthly Techgrumps shows, although that tends to be determined much more by availability – always a fun one, though, so worth checking out if you want to listen to a bunch of folks getting grumpy / cynical about tech! I’ll try to get back to that one sometime soon.
Finally, I’m also always delighted to be invited to be a guest on other shows! Recently, I’ve recorded a couple – only one of them is available right now, and the other one will arrive when it’s ready! This was a panel conversation about Developer Relations in Open Source – you can find that in audio form as well, or a video is available to watch on YouTube if you prefer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oeRxM1X4U4
[1] well, I’m being a little inaccurate here, as there was a whole swathe of time when I wasn’t able to take part in Games at Work dot Biz, so I (re?)-joined the Michaels as a co-host some way into the run! However, I was also occasionally guesting on the Ubuntu UK Podcast back then. It’s complicated!
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