developer advocacy

Twitter - Follow Munnawar

enMarch 08, 2023

The Willingness to Try Something Different with Munnawar Hashim, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly

This episode features an interview with Munnawar Hashim, a Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly. Munnawar joined the dev community in 2020 after a successful career as an English language teacher. He is passionate about diversity, comedy, and exploring integrations and plug-ins.

In this episode, Cassidy and Zach sit down with Munnawar to discuss stepping out of your comfort zone, expressing gratitude through emojis, and Sega Mega Drives.

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Episode Timestamps:

(01:49): What Munnawar is working on right now

(02:58): What Munnawar’s day-to-day looks like

(05:37): What tools Munnawar uses

(06:33): How Munnawar got into the industry

(10:22): Rapid Fire Questions

(21:24): Random Segment Generator

(27:31): Cassidy’s Sage Advice

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“As a dev advocate, I wake up and I'm like, ‘I don't know what I'm going to do after I finish brushing my teeth,’ but it's going to be something quite sick. So, usually it's that discovery phase of either finishing off a video, a blog post, or a slide deck. Or reaching out to teams within my company being like, ‘You guys make really cool integrations. Is there any that are coming out next week that I can make stuff about?’” – Munnawar Hashim

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enMarch 01, 2023

Solving Problems By Building Your Own Tools with Eve Porcello, Co-Founder of Moon Highway

This episode features an interview with Eve Porcello, software engineer, instructor, author, and co-founder of Moon Highway. Since starting her company in 2012, Eve has created video content for egghead.io, O'Reilly Media, and LinkedIn Learning. She has taught JavaScript, GraphQL, and React workshops to tech professionals for nearly a decade and is a frequent speaker at conferences.

In this episode, Cassidy and Zach sit down with Eve to discuss building practical tools for yourself, apps for teachers, and the power of the cowboy emoji.

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Episode Timestamps:

(01:33): What Eve is working on right now

(03:41): What Eve’s day-to-day looks like

(05:28): What tools Eve uses

(07:17): How Eve got into the industry

(10:12): Rapid Fire Questions

(21:13): Random Segment Generator

(28:54): Cassidy’s Sage Advice

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“Because a lot of what I do is learning-related, sometimes I can get down a road of just trying to learn too much or taking too many tutorials or not really getting into the weeds with something. So I think building something that is somewhat practical, or maybe even just for a single user app, is nice because you'll run into problems that you don't in a nice little clean edged tutorial. So building something is super important, I feel like, and I try to not break that rule.” – Eve Porcello

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Links:

Twitter - Follow Eve

Eve’s GraphQL Newsletter

Visit Moon Highway

The Stack Overflow Podcast

enFebruary 15, 2023

Maximizing Opportunities Through Networking with Ceora Ford, Developer Advocate at Auth0

This episode features an interview with Ceora Ford, Developer Advocate at Auth0. Ceora began her career in 2020 during the height of the global pandemic. Because of the unusual timing, she focused on learning in public and getting her name out in the industry. Ceora’s career revolves around creating education content that makes the tech industry more accessible to everyone. She’s collaborated with companies like Apollo GraphQL, CodeSandbox, and egghead.io.

In this episode, Cassidy, Zach, and Ceora discuss building relationships, learning how to ask for help, and Ceora’s love of K-pop.

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Episode Timestamps:

(01:53): What Ceora is working on right now

(05:10): What Ceora’s day-to-day looks like

(07:05): What tools Ceora uses

(09:32): How Ceora got into the industry

(17:46): Rapid Fire Questions

(30:11): Random Segment Generator

(40:07): Cassidy’s Sage Advice

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“Every job that I've gotten is because of people who I became friends with through learning in public. It's not just a take relationship, it's give and take. So you do a couple things for them, they do a couple things for you. That's how I've gotten every role thus far. I really think that me investing so much time and building that community was really valuable because it's something that still helps me to this day.” – Ceora Ford

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Links:

Twitter - Follow Ceora

Visit Ceora’s Website

enFebruary 08, 2023

Nader Dabit on UX, Developer Ecosystems, and Giving Back

Today’s guest is Nader Dabit - the Director of Developer relations at Aave. Nader has had a very positive impact on many, many devs in web3, and in this episode, we tried to get behind the scenes on how Nader approaches creating developer content, building developer communities, and both building & maintaining APIs and developer tooling. If you work in dev real or are building a protocol or product that’s meant to be used by developers, I think you’ll get a lot out of this episode.

If you're a dev listening to this, you should out the Superfluid Wave Pool - a continuous hackathon where you can win prizes and build your portfolio of work: https://superfluid.finance/wavepool

3:55 How Nader got into web3

5:39 Following curiosity

9:04 Avoiding distractions

11:50 How Nader approaches learning a new protocol or technology

16:05 How to decide what to learn in the first place

19:03 What problems in the industry is Nader interested in solving?

23:02 Giving back via education

28:22 Preparing for a dev workshop

31:48 Advice for giving talks

34:27 Building developer communities

39:34 Leveraging bounties and contractors within your dev community

47:39 Building SDKs and APIs

50:34 UX improvements that web3 needs

52:52 What does Nader want people to build?

55:35 What’s on the Lens developer roadmap?

Nader on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dabit3
Building Developer Communities Article: https://nader.substack.com/p/building-high-impact-developer-communities
Lens: https://www.lens.xyz/garden
Miguel Piedrafita on Twitter: https://twitter.com/m1guelpf

enJanuary 26, 2023

Deboarding The Bullet Train to Burn Out with Anjana Vakil, Freelance DevRel Consultant

This episode features an interview with Anjana Vakil, Software Engineer, Educator, and Freelance DevRel Consultant. Anjana’s passion for computational linguistics and software development led her to engineering and developer advocate roles at companies such as Mapbox, Observable, and Hasura. She also travels the world to speak about the joy of programming and advocate for a more equitable and ethical tech industry.

In this episode, Cassidy and Zach sit down with Anjana to discuss burnout, developing a healthy relationship with work, and the novelty of flip phones.

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Episode Timestamps:

(00:32): What Anjana is working on right now

(04:44): What Anjana’s day-to-day looks like

(07:42): What tools Anjana uses

(11:37): How Anjana got into the industry

(18:30): Rapid Fire Questions

(34:45): Random Segment Generator

(48:37): Cassidy’s Sage Advice

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“I like many people, I think, during the last few years, especially during the lockdown times, really set myself on a bullet train for burnout town. And so, now trying to figure out a more sustainable way to be working and still protecting that inner core, that little flame of creativity and curiosity that I think is so important to be able to continuously do really good work over the long term. But, it's so easy to neglect in the short term and let just sputter out.” – Anjana Vakil

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Links:

The Recurse Center

Outreachy

Twitter - Follow Anjana

Mastodon - Follow Charlyn

enJanuary 18, 2023

How To Not Be a Tech Hoarder with Charlyn Gonda, Senior Software Engineer at Pave

This episode features an interview with Charlyn Gonda, Senior Software Engineer at Pave. Charlyn’s impressive career journey saw her take on roles at Google and Uber as both a developer advocate and engineer. She believes that technology is made better when people collaborate in open platforms and diverse communities.

In this episode, Cassidy, Zach, and Charlyn discuss hoarding technology, being kind, and creating WiFi message cubes.

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Episode Timestamps:

(02:14): What Charlyn is working on right now

(08:13): What Charlyn’s day-to-day looks like

(12:25): What tools Charlyn uses

(16:30): How Charlyn got into the industry

(19:53): Rapid Fire Questions

(31:37): Random Segment Generator

(38:26): Cassidy’s Sage Advice

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“I get this question of like, ‘I want to make things but I don't know how to start.’ And, ‘What do you pick up first?’ And, ‘Should I buy a 3D printer?’ And my answer is always, ‘It depends on what you want to make.’ Because, if you start from the tool, while the novelty effect is active, you're going to have so much fun with the new tool. But then if you didn't have a thing that you wanted to build with it, then the novelty effect will wear off and then you're left with this fancy tool that you don't know what to do with.” – Charlyn Gonda

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Links:

Visit Charlyn’s website

Twitter - Follow Charlyn

Instagram - Follow Charlyn

How To Make a WiFi Message Cube

enJanuary 11, 2023

Holiday Special: Favorite Show Moments with Cassidy & Zach

Dust off your ugly sweaters because we’re getting into the holiday spirit on this episode of The Dev Morning Show (At Night)! Cassidy and Zach are looking back at their favorite moments from the show; discussing the best guest advice, answers that stuck with them, and their plans for the holiday season.

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Episode Timestamps:

(01:32): Cassidy and Zach discuss the holiday season

(06:02): The hosts dive into their career backgrounds

(18:14): Favorite guest moments

(27:16): Dev Opposites moments

(40:46): Favorite advice from guests

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“People go for the big titles of being a manager of some kind because they think that's what they have to do. And that can really affect your team and affect your team's performance, that can affect so many different things. If you as a manager don't actually want to be a manager, or if you end up having a manager that just wants the title and power and the growth on their resume, rather than actually wanting to be in that kind of role.” – Cassidy Williams

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enDecember 21, 2022

Patrick Collins - Developer Advocacy, New Tooling, & Chainlink

Today’s guest is Patrick Collins. You may know Patrick from his YouTube channel or his work at Chainlink, where he serves as a Lead Developer Advocate.

Patrick is one of the industry’s best educators and devrel pros. His latest 32 hour, full stack web3 development course was viewed over 1.3M times, and lives on as one of the best resources for people who want to go from zero to hero as a web3 dev. In this episode, we talk through how Patrick thinks about developer education, developer tooling, and building communities. We also touched on what he’s most excited about in the space & the Chainlink pipeline.

00:00 Intro

4:10 How did Patrick get into crypto?

5:57 Chainlink & the importance of oracles

7:57 First crypto projects

9:07 Does Patrick still hate Javascript?

10:33 Early challenges of building smart contracts

11:50 How Patrick approaches videos/tutorial content

18:17 Maintaining docs & videos as the tech progresses

21:12 How does Patrick stay on top of endless developer questions?

27:02 Bad advice or bad patterns Patrick sees in devrel

32:53 The smart contract language debate

35:42 How Patrick approaches smart contract security

38:07 What tooling does Patrick wishes someone would build?

40:42 What is Patrick excited about?

Patrick on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/patrickcollins
Patrick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/patrickalphac
Chainlink: https://chain.link/

enDecember 15, 2022

The Value in Saying “No” with Chloe Shih, Product Manager at Discord

This episode features an interview with Chloe Shih, Product Manager and Communities Engagement Lead at Discord. Chloe specializes in building products for the creator industry like moderation tools, community engagement features, and safety mechanisms tackling harassment and bullying. She has previously worked for large tech companies like Google, Facebook, and TikTok.

In this episode, Cassidy, Zach, and Chloe discuss the power in saying “no,” not taking things too seriously, and following the dreams of your inner child.

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Episode Timestamps:

(03:45): What Chloe’s day-to-day looks like

(06:28): What tools Chloe uses

(08:26): How Chloe got into the industry

(13:27): Rapid Fire Questions

(21:06): Random Segment Generator

(29:22): Cassidy’s Sage Advice

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“I think something that I learned that I'm really proud of, that I'm still learning, is saying ‘no’ to others isn't just letting someone else down, but it's saying ‘yes’ to me and that's something I need to keep reminding myself of. [...] You don't want to break this image of you that you can do it all, and the fact is, you can't, which is fine. But you need to know what you're losing when you say ‘yes’ to them.” – Chloe Shih

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Links:

YouTube - Follow Chloe

Instagram - Follow Chloe

TikTok - Follow Chloe

Twitter - Follow Chloe

enDecember 07, 2022

What Music Can Teach Us About Code with Salma Alam-Naylor, Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify

This episode features an interview with Salma Alam-Naylor, Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify. Originally beginning her career as a music teacher, Salma transitioned to technology in 2014, working as a front end developer and tech lead. She also writes code live on Twitch to bring inclusive and accessible technology to people around the world.

In this episode, Cassidy and Zach sit down with Salma to discuss how music and code influence each other, streaming, and saving engineering for last.

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Episode Timestamps:

(01:58): What Salma is working on

(07:33): What Salma’s day-to-day looks like

(11:13): What tools Salma uses

(14:42): How Salma got into the industry

(21:18): Rapid Fire Questions

(34:43): Random Segment Generator

(43:56): Cassidy’s Sage Advice

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“I approach writing code like I approached my composition, especially with functional programming. It's about motifs and repeatable things. You have an overarching journey that you want to take. A beginning, a middle, and an end, basically, even on a function level or an architecture level. It’s exactly the same thing. It's not even about maths, I think it's just about logic and problem solving and creativity.” – Salma Alam-Naylor

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Links:

Twitch - Follow Salma

Twitter - Follow Salma

enNovember 30, 2022

The Right Tools for Developer Flow State with Dalia Abo Sheasha, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft

This episode features an interview with Dalia Abo Sheasha, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft. Dalia has spent a decade of her career developing application servers and developer tools in the Java ecosystem and has contributed to open source projects like Open Liberty and EclipseLink (JPA). Dalia’s passions lie in teaching, mentoring, and making technology more accessible to developers around the world.

In this episode, Cassidy and Zach sit down with Dalia to discuss ‘it depends’ questions, developer tools, and writing digestible code.

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Episode Timestamps:

(03:36): What Dalia’s day-to-day looks like

(04:37): What tools Dalia uses

(07:12): What got Dalia into the industry

(11:55): Zach and Cassidy share how they got into the industry

(14:37): Rapid Fire Questions

(21:21): Random Segment Generator

(26:53): Cassidy’s Sage Advice

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“Keeping a developer in that flow state where they're writing code most of the time is the most important job of any tool. Whatever tool gets a developer to that point in time where they're just writing code, writing code, writing code, and not worrying about switching context at all, I think that's the best tool you could use.” – Dalia Abo Sheasha

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Links:

Twitter - Follow Dalia

Intro to Docker

Twitter - Follow Christina

enNovember 16, 2022

Learning to Ask For Help with Christina Zhu, Software Engineer at Square

Grab an Uncrustable and settle in for the newest episode of The Dev Morning Show (At Night)! This episode features an interview with Christina Zhu, Software Engineer at Square. Christina is a conference speaker, tech enthusiast, and she founded her university’s hackathon, HackDavis.

In this episode, Cassidy and Zach sit down with Christina to discuss the importance of asking for help, Myspace, and Pokémon.

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Episode Timestamps:

(06:41): What Christina’s day-to-day looks like

(07:58): What editors and terminals Christina uses

(09:16): What got Christina into the industry

(14:59): Rapid Fire Questions

(24:49): Random Segment Generator

(35:10): Cassidy’s Sage Advice

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“I think the most important thing that I've actually learned over the years is just learning how to ask for help after a certain point. If you have the resource of having really smart people around you, the fastest way to learn is actually by reaching out and asking for their advice.” – Christina Zhu

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enNovember 09, 2022

Parting With Your Inner Perfectionist with Brian Rinaldi, Developer Experience Engineer at LaunchDarkly

This episode features an interview with Brian Rinaldi, Developer Experience Engineer at LaunchDarkly. With over 20 years of developer experience under his belt, Brian has worked with front-end and back-end technologies focusing on the web. He also serves as the editor for the JAMstacked and Mobile Dev Weekly newsletters, co-author of The Jamstack Book, and is on the board of directors for Orlando Developers.

In this episode, Cassidy, Zach, and Brian dive into perfectionism, delivery of code versus quality of code, and learning how to adapt.

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Episode Timestamps:

(02:06): What Brian is working on at LaunchDarkly

(04:28): What Brian’s day-to-day looks like

(08:57): Rapid Fire Questions

(20:45): Random Segment Generator

(37:28): Cassidy’s Sage Advice

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“I loved to learn and I was so into learning new stuff and new frameworks. There was always a slightly more perfect way to do something. [...] I was overly focused on the quality of my code and under focused on delivering the code.” – Brian Rinaldi

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Links:

Twitter - Follow Brian

cfe.dev

LaunchDarkly

Instagram - Follow Taylor

enNovember 02, 2022

Investing in Your Team and Community with Taylor Poindexter, Software Engineering Manager at Spotify

Grab a whiskey and tuck in for the latest episode of The Dev Morning Show (At Night)! This episode features an interview with Taylor Poindexter, Software Engineering Manager at Spotify.

In this episode, Cassidy and Zach sit down with Taylor to discuss Black Code Collective, being an empathetic manager, and Taylor’s favorite whiskey.

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Episode Timestamps:

(03:19): What Taylor’s day-to-day looks like

(06:40): What got Taylor into the industry

(10:53): Rapid Fire Questions

(18:50): Random Segment Generator

(25:44): Cassidy’s Sage Advice

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“I got into management because I knew what it was like to have a bad manager and I knew the impacts that that can have on you. I feel like I'm a pretty good people person and I'm very empathetic, and so I wanted to give that to other people.” – Taylor Poindexter

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Links:

Twitter - Follow Taylor

Black Code Collective

Meta Open Source Channels

enOctober 26, 2022

The Mixed Reality of a Dev Advocate with Cami Williams, Engineering Manager for Platform Advocacy at Meta

It’s a family affair episode of The Dev Morning Show (At Night)! This episode features an interview with Cami Williams, Cassidy’s sister and Zach’s friend since high school! Cami is an Engineering Manager for Platform Advocacy at Meta, where she supports the Metaverse ecosystem.

In this episode, Cassidy, Zach, and Cami take a trip down memory lane, and dive into mixed reality experiences and breaking YouTube in France.

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Episode Timestamps:

(01:09): Cami’s role at Meta

(05:56): What Cami’s day-to-day looks like

(17:53): Rapid Fire Questions

(25:31): Random Segment Generator

(34:05): Cassidy’s Sage Advice

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“Test-driven development has saved me so much time and my sanity throughout the years. I started doing it because I would be the person who would write the whole feature and then write the tests and then everything would break. But, starting with writing the tests and then going off of that to build your feature, for me, it works every time and it just makes life so much easier.” – Cami Williams

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Links:

Twitter - Follow Cami

LinkedIn - Connect with Cami

enOctober 19, 2022

Why Quality Code is Overrated with Sara Vieira, Founding Engineer at axo

This episode features an interview with Sara Vieira, Founding Engineer at axo. At the time of this recording, Sara was working at Remote as a Senior Frontend Developer. As a developer with nearly a decade of experience, Sara has formed a few controversial opinions over the years.

In this episode, Cassidy, Zach, and Sara discuss QueerJS (a meetup series for queer folks), why good code is overrated, and if TypeScript is really necessary.

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Episode Timestamps:

(02:26): Sara’s inspiration for founding QueerJS

(05:51): What Sara’s day-to-day looks like

(13:01): Rapid Fire Questions

(22:26): Random Segment Generator

(31:14): Cassidy’s Sage Advice

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“I think good code is overrated. And this is a very controversial thing to say, but I don't think code is art. I think code has a purpose and the purpose is to build something. And even if your code is not the nicest, as long as it works, it doesn't matter. In the end, your user doesn't care if your code looks nice.” – Sara Vieira

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Links:

QueerJS

Twitter - Follow Sara