Kent C. Dodds explains why he is reducing his involvement in open source and direct support to focus on family and commitments.
A guide to building a first-year Developer Relations program, comparing the AAARRRP and Orbit models for structuring metrics and goals.
A new live stream show discussing cloud tech and gaming with community guests, focusing on Azure and developer journeys.
Explores the future of tech conferences post-COVID, analyzing their value, online alternatives, and the tension between commercial and community-driven events.
A guide to building a developer community, focusing on sincerity and engagement strategies like Micro, Macro, and Network.
A Developer Advocate shares practical advice on managing time, avoiding burnout, and maintaining well-being while traveling extensively for tech conferences and meetups.
A developer's travel itinerary for tech conferences and meetups focused on Apache Kafka and software architecture for late 2019.
A developer advocate shares concise, opinionated advice for creating effective slide decks for tech conference talks, focusing on visual aids over content.
Tips for writing effective conference talk abstracts, focusing on clarity, relevance, and avoiding common pitfalls.
A Developer Advocate discusses the challenges and ethical considerations of promoting accessibility in software development.
A proposal to replace conference t-shirts with reusable, high-quality shirts featuring Velcro-attachable event logos to reduce waste.
Analysis of the growing competition among major cloud providers (Google, Microsoft, AWS) to hire developer advocates and build developer relations teams.
A developer explains their decision to join Snyk, a security tool company, to lead developer relations, emphasizing the importance of accessible security.
A GitHub engineer shares 12 practical tips for tech companies to write more human, less corporate blog posts about product updates.
A developer announces joining Akamai's developer relations team to focus on web performance research, experiments, and standards.
Five best practices for engaging external communities in open source projects, particularly within government or large organizations.
Strategies for creating effective developer-focused marketing content, including tutorials, timely posts, and expressing strong technical beliefs.
Advice for marketing teams on creating authentic developer content by focusing on knowledge sharing, not product promotion.
Author explains their decision to leave the W3C to focus on personal projects, open source work, writing a book, and standards development.
Web developer Lea Verou announces joining the W3C team to work on developer relations, web education, and standards design.
