For the last year, I have been working at Taostats, a blockchain explorer for Bittensor ($TAO). Part of my role has been building and supporting a Discord community of both very technical and also very non-technical users. I have learned a lot about running Discord communities, and here are some of my lessons learned. Crypto … Continue reading Lessons learned from running a popular Discord server
If you are like me, you first came across vectors in high school physics. Questions about a driver with a certain velocity traveling north, and another driver with a different velocity headed south. Vectors in physics are things that have a magnitude (the driver’s speed) and a direction (headed east). Alice leaves Point A, driving East … Continue reading What are Vectors, and how they are used in…
For the last year or so, ChatGPT has been in the front of the news, and millions of people have been using it. Startups have been formed that are completely prompt engineering using the ChatGPT API. No, I’m not launching a new GenAI product, but I am really liking some of the code I have created using … Continue reading Using the ChatGPT API in Jupyter Notebooks
One of the biggest unresolved debates for developer relations is the reporting structure for the DevRel team. As I apply for a new position here at the end of 2023, I am reading dozens of job descriptions. Each description describes the reporting hierarchy for the developer relations team, and there is a *lot* of variation. … Continue reading DevRel and the dotted line
In Developer Relations or product marketing, there is a lot of talk of the product funnel, and how we can best guide potential customers through the funnel – from learning about the product to becoming a customer. DevRel acquisition models In this section, I’ll briefly discuss a couple of popular models that describe the process … Continue reading Your DevRel Funnel is a Sieve
It was my first day on the job, and I was discussing ideas and strategy with the CEO. His first question to me was “how do we increase our Github stars?” TL;dr: Stars are a general indicator of Open Source health, but should not be used as a North Star metric. Github Stars Every repository … Continue reading Chasing Stars
Have you ever been asked about a “typical day in DevRel”? I always chuckle and reply that every day is different – but they all have similarities. You may be creating a tutorial, a series of videos, updating the docs, creating a talk, or working with product on updating features… but all of these tasks, … Continue reading Similarities between DevRel and DIY
In a recent post, I wrote about a Jupyter Notebook that I use to automate looking for 404 errors in the docs (and on the website). I have been working to use the same general framework to build additional automations. An easy extension is to look for broken images. Running these every week ensures that … Continue reading Taking the Temperature of your Docs
I am currently the Head of DevRel at unSkript. unSkript is building an open source platform to help SRE and DevOps teams build automations that reduce their daily ‘toil.’ When I think of toil, I think of all the bulls*it manual tasks that we have to do every day – just to keep everything up … Continue reading DevRel Documentation: Building Automation to Make it Better
The web is an international phenomena – and just the fact that it exists is one of the many reasons there are so many people becoming nomadic – you can access everything, everywhere, right? Not so fast The idea of an open web accessible form anywhere is a great and noble idea. In practice – … Continue reading Digital Nomading: Accessing the web from abroad