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they persisted, and pointed me towards **DX Engineer**, which, lets be honest, isn't a widely understood job title at all. But I clicked really well with David Wells and Phil Hawksworth (the other DevRel, [Divya Sasidharan](https://twitter.com/shortdiv) was still yet to join at the time iirc) and it had elements of open source

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Derivatives with VBA, No Code, JavaScript, Negotiation, and DevRel on the KeyCuts podcast keycuts-podcast KeyCuts hashtag-Careers This is a different beat than my usual - it focuses on my Finance

talk on DevRel with Devmode.fm devmode-fm-devrel Devmode.FM hashtag-DevRel Back

style="color:var(--brand-accent);background-color:darkblue">DevRel Death and ZIRP, AI Engineering, Cognition/Devin changelog-devrel-zirp Changelog hashtag-AI Shawn “swyx” Wang is back to talk with

Diaries](https://lspace.swyx.io/), this year to 1) try out Substack in anger and 2) create a focused feed on a topic rather than a person (I also started [DX Tips](https://dx.tips/) for devtools/devrel writing, but have been accordingly distracted). Yesterday my first piece to hit 1st place on HN happened and I figured I would

radiating circles in DevX with Swyx radiating-devx-pod DevXPod hashtag-DX,hashtag-DevRel i joined Pauline and

at their level, by offering office hours, sourcing and proposing speakers, and ghostwriting blogposts for those without the time or experience at doing the public facing parts. This also helps scale DevRel sublinearly as a function of the company's total number of users, which is necessary for the company bottom line. **Infrastructure

a very clear "primary key" on which you know how to route your inbound ideas and thoughts and audience. My investing stuff goes to [devtools-angels](https://github.com/sw-yx/devtools-angels), my devrel stuff goes to [DX Tips](https://dx.tips/), my

chaos. **AI conferences need AI labs** to bring the spice. We had OpenAI and Anthropic participation last year, so this year I needed the rest - Cohere, Mistral, etc. We got those thanks to their devrel and VC contacts. I made glaring omissions with Meta and Huggingface - which I basically have no excuse for but for just being

to Manifest a Meetup manifest-meetups 2024 update: for those who work in devrel/organize less-social-more-technical meetups, I have now written [How to Organize Meetups Good on

Heat, or Why You Should Get Good at Events community-heat hashtag-reflections,hashtag-community,hashtag-devrel When Apple launches a product, it doesn't come right out and say "we're launching our new MacBook next week". **They make you

Public on the Build in Public podcast bip-thoughtlead BuildInPublic hashtag-LearninPublic KP is the Build in Public guy and invited me on his pod to talk about LIP, but we sidetracked to talk about

Show Me The Money panel with Tri Dao and Dylan Patel neurips-2025 NeurIPS hashtag-AI,hashtag-

style="color:var(--brand-accent);background-color:darkblue">Devrel and Dev Community on PodRocket podrocket-1 Podrocket hashtag-Devrel Ben and Brian talk to Shawn Wang, better known as Swyx, about

Community on SourceGraph podcast sourcegraph-pod SourceGraph hashtag-Community Why is building a technical community the most effective moat out there for startups? In this episode, swyx, who runs DevRel at Temporal and co-founded the Svelte Society, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to discuss the stress-induced

DX on Syntax.fm syntax-dx Syntax.fm hashtag-DevRel Syntax.fm is one of the shows I really leaned on

the Chasm with Jack Bridger's Scaling DevTools podcast crossing-chasm-scaling-devtools Scaling Devtools hashtag-Tech,hashtag-Devrel Everyone in tech should understand the technology adoption cycle and know which stage of the adoption cycle you’re at. Shawn Wang,

from Amir Shevat on Measuring & Managing Developer Relations a16z_devrel_amir_shevat hashtag-devrel a16z recently dropped a podcast that every developer relations professional needs to digest: "[a16z

Path to Developer Relations and Thoughts on the Future of DevRel adventcado-qna hashtag-reflections [Alex Lakatos](https://twitter.com/lakatos88) interviewed me for the Devrel Advent calendar he

is a declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces. [addyosmani](https://twitter.com/addyosmani)|181|dev|Eng. Manager at Google working on @GoogleChrome & Web DevRel ? Creator of TodoMVC, @Yeoman, Material Design Lite, Critical ? Team @workboxjs

Developer Relations measuring-devrel hashtag-dx,hashtag-devrel,hashtag-content "Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes

the Chasm with Richard Feldman crossing-chasm-feldman Software Unscripted hashtag-DevRel Richard and Shawn Wang discuss

happy/beginner path**. A lot of developer advocates spend their time only talking about their company's free tier, and doing "Hello World" ad infinitum. This comes out of the standard view of DevRel as a pure top-of-funnel function, leaving users with a sharp learning curve the moment they need to wander off the paved

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([rss](https://www.podcastinit.com/feed/mp3/), [url](https://www.pythonpodcast.com/)) - **Coding Blocks** ([rss](http://feeds.podtrac.com/tBPkjrcL0_m0), [url](https://www.codingblocks.net/)) - **DevRel Radio** ([rss](http://devrelradio.libsyn.com/rss), [url](http://devrelrad.io/)) ### Tech: No Code - **The Visual

of technical marketing and developer relations are well developed enough now that there are [books](https://learn.samjulien.com/getting-started-in-developer-relations) and [conferences](https://www.devrelcon.net/) about it. We get that marketing can be just as important as product. (*Let's leave the topic of "how much devrel and

how closely I feel every bump and divot in the road despite no longer working at the company; Netlify is not only my second largest shareholding, but also where I got my professional start in devrel and devtools because many friends and colleagues welcomed me into their industry for the first time, for which I am forever