Speaking Advice: Matt Pocock
swyx here: I recently hosted the inaugural AI Engineer Europe and Matt Pocock was a standout speaker, crossing 1m views across talks and workshops in <2 weeks. I asked him to write a post on how he sp
DX Tips: The DevTools Magazine
DX Tips is a newsletter focusing on Developer Tools, Developer Relations, and all things Developer Experience curated by swyx. We welcome guest submissions and sponsors!
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DX @ Anthropic: Sowing & Reaping
Thariq Shihipar's (Anthropic, Claude Code) Devrel/Writing Process — building implicit knowledge and then making it explicit.
DevRel like a High Schooler
It was a pleasure to rejoin Jack Bridger for a third time on Scaling Devtools, where I usually try to cram as much devrel metathoughts per minute as I can. Nominally the pod was about how DevRel is So Back, but informally I’ve been sharing a bunch of...
Make videos devs love
How to create extraordinary dev videos by going against the grain
DevRel is -Unbelievably- Back
and we're not sure why
Why you can't just hire creators "who can understand and explain technology in a compelling way"
Devrel twitter has been very excited about one of our own going viral for a simple observation: In many ways, you have to marvel at how this should be framed up in the Hall of Fame as the perfect professional industry tweet: It is short, fortune co...
Stop Hosting Boring Tech Events
Howdy! My name is Sarah and I’ve always loved hosting events. More recently, I’ve begun hosting events as part of my role as a growth engineer at Cerebras. I’m nearing my 1 year mark, and thought I’d share some of my favorite parts of hosting a good ...
The Master Builder is the most valuable type of DevRel right now
Despite this blog not being all that active, everybody still comes inbound to ask me about hiring devrel, and usually I send them my writing on First DevRel Hiring and ask them to think about how they will be Measuring DevRel. This year though a lot ...
How Supabase Made PostgreSQL Cool Again
Intro: Hey Thor! What are the most common/major misconceptions about Supabase? One of the biggest misconceptions is that Supabase is "just a Firebase alternative." While that framing helped early on to convey quickly what Supabase is, it doesn't full...
