This Developing Story

After a few weeks of reviving this newsletter, I've made the decision to rename it.

The original goal for this space was for me to share my insider knowledge about Developer Relations in a space that made more sense than Twitter. I am a person that can sit in a room contemplating the intricacies of the Roman Empire and how it relates to command line interfaces, but that somehow doesn't translate into IRL situations, so here we are in Substack.

Moving forward Teach Me How To Dougie will be renamed to This Developing Story, the name of my first podcast created 10 years ago. The goal of that podcast was to share weekly updates on me learning how to code and moving to San Francisco, which is still available to hear...it's awkward.

I attribute a lot of my success to that podcast when I pivoted to interviewing developers I looked up to by inviting them to chat for 30 mins (sometimes less, never more) about:

1. Who are you?

2. What do you do?

3. How did you get here?

This is the same framework I use for every podcast I am on, and the goal is for me to spend the conversation on the 3rd question learning the Secret Sauce and apply it to my career.

The truth is everything I learned, I learned in the open and through doing content.

GitHub was purchased by Microsoft in 2018 and quickly moved into a space where we were not only a code collaboration tool but now also a DevOps platform with GitHub Actions. At that time, I was severely not fit to be that advocate but quickly caught up by hosting monthly GitHub Action workshops and Twitch livestreams (before they were cool).

I do appreciate the community of folks that chose to subscribe here for this type of Teach Me How To Dougie content, and I am happy to share that I will continue to share that content on my paid feed where I can be a bit more transparent . I started doing short DevRel contracts this year, and now know that some of these thoughts are worth sharing.

So with that, please enjoy This Developing Story, a newsletter based on developing stories as it pertains to software development.

Developer platform Supabase has raised $100 million in Series C funding, reaching a $2 billion valuation. The PostgreSQL-based platform continues to expand its offerings for developers seeking alternatives to traditional backend solutions.

I am a fan and angel investor of Supabase. It is worth noting that the original goal for Supabase was picking up where Firebase left off before their acquisition by Google. It is remarkable how much they've accomplished since 2020. I highly recommend giving them a try for your next development and production postgres needs.

"Vibe coding" is a new programming approach that prioritizes developer happiness and intuition over rigid best practices. The trend embraces personal coding styles and focuses on creating enjoyable development experiences rather than optimizing for performance or scalability.

A thread on Reddit.

Tutorial video showing how to implement a personal AI memory system using Ollama's local processing capabilities for private, customized knowledge management.

I've been vibing with continue.dev as of late. I will spend some time in my next newsletter talking about AI Coding Assistants, but for now enjoy my latest blog post about it.

Until next time,

bdougie