DevRel
9 posts
I Can't Memorize Lines, So I Built a Teleprompter That Listens
FollowSpot is a voice-following browser teleprompter that runs Whisper locally. Why I built it, plus benchmarks of five Whisper models on an M5 Max.
What I Learned When I Could Finally Prove My Work Mattered
For most of my last job I couldn't say whether my work mattered. What I learned getting the data that finally answered it - and what it did to my influence.
What I Learned Running DevRel in 2026
Lessons from running DevRel in 2026: why data gets you buy-in, why LLMs are a third distribution surface, and what I actually do in the first 90 days.
My Personal Claude Code Skills Repo Accidentally Became Internal Tooling
I built a few Claude Code skills for myself because I was tired of copy-pasting the same prompts. Then my coworkers started asking questions. Here is what happened when a personal productivity tool became team infrastructure.
How I Reversed a Traffic Death Spiral (And the Weekly Ritual That's Doing It)
Our traffic was declining. Impressions down, clicks down. I'm a Developer Advocate who somehow also owns our web presence - and diagnosing it revealed two completely different problems that needed two different fixes. Real numbers, the weekly audit workflow, and what's actually working in 2026.
Developer Advocacy in 2023
Adapting to Techpocalypse - Remember when we thought 2020 was a wild ride? Fast forward to 2023, and here we are, in the midst of a tech market downturn and a tsunami of tech layoffs. Developer...
DevRel as Dev Zero
As a developer advocate, I often ponder DevRel’s role in catching bugs and tricky issues before they escalate. I’m sharing my thoughts in this blog post. DevRel as Dev Zero DevRel can serve as the...
Treat Content Development for Your Open Source Project Like Your Open Source Project
‘Hello nerds! Let’s talk about how you should treat content development for your open source project like your open-source project. I know, it sounds meta, but bear with me. As a developer advocate, I’ve...’
I Ran My First Hackathon, and So Can You!
I Ran My First Hackathon, and So Can You! Here are the lessons I learned from planning, organizing, and executing my first hackathon. The hackathon I ran was the Stupid Shit and Terrible Ideas...