Presenting at conferences is a lot of work, but it kind of pales in comparison to organizing conferences. For years, conference organisers thanked me for making their lives easier by having all my presenter information in one place, a “presenter cheatsheet”. Today I spend some time to convert this to a markdown document on GitHub, […]

JavaScript used to be easy. Misunderstood, but easy. All you had to do was take a text editor and add some code to an HTML document in a SCRIPT element to enhance it. After a few years of confusion, we standardised the DOM. JavaScript became more predictable. AJAX was the next hype and it wasn’t […]

This is part of a series of posts about the life as a DevRel person and how not all is unicorns and roses. You can read the introduction and the other parts of the series here. So, today, let’s talk about giving presentations. Artistic impression by Anke Mehlert (@larryandanke) what it looks like when I […]

This is part of a series of posts about the life as a DevRel person and how not all is unicorns and roses. You can read the introduction and the other parts of the series here. So, today, let’s talk about conferences and attending them as a DevRel person. As an attendee conferences are amazing. […]

I spent this morning at a photoshoot. A photographer dragged me all over Berlin Mitte to take photos of me holding my phone and pretending to communicate. The reason is an essay about “Jobs of the Future” for a German finance magazine. Me, I am a “Developer Relations Person/Developer Evangelist/Developer Advocate” and this is baffling […]