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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

697: What is DevRel with Salma Alam-Naylor

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Salma Alam-Naylor all about her role in DevRel, what’s involved in working in DevRel, avoiding burnout, which platforms to focus on, and so much more. Show Notes 00:31 Welcome 01:07 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:52 New jobs and onboarding 03:34 What is Devrel? 11:34 How much of devrel is using your own product? Dogfooding the service? 14:49 What are things devrel people do? 20:32 Devrel burnout issues 24:53 Once you put a number on something, you’re measuring that number 29:31 Is there any way to know if devrel is working? 33:47 How could someone get into devrel? 37:37 What platforms should you focus on? 44:12 What’s something devrel gets wrong? 47:50 What do you think about speaking at conferences? 51:58 What do you use to stay up on with tech? 53:59 Sick picks Sick Picks Wikipedia on Hell.com Web Archive of Hell.com Fffffound https://twitter.com/webdesignmuseum Shameless Plugs Follow Salma on Twitch Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

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0:00.0

I sure hope you're hungry.

0:02.0

Who I'm starving?

0:04.0

Wash those hands, pull up a chair and secure that feed bag.

0:08.0

Because it's time to listen to Scott Tolinsky and West Boss attempt to use human language to converse with and picked the brains of other developers.

0:16.8

I thought there was going to be food.

0:18.8

So buckle up and grab that old shit handle because this ride is going to get wild.

0:25.0

This is the Syntax Supper Club.

0:30.0

Welcome to Syntex.

0:34.7

On this Friday supper club, we're going to be talking all things Devrell with Salma

0:41.4

Alumnayler and we're going to be just diving into what the heck

0:46.2

Devrell is as a career what makes for effective Devrell what type of things are like

0:51.6

you know give you the Devrell ick in that regard so we're going to be going through all sorts of really interesting topics in regards to developer relations with me as always is West Boss, Wes, how's it going? Hey, pretty good, excited to talk to

1:06.5

Salma today. Yeah, and before we introduce Salma, one really neat thing about

1:12.0

Salma is that she also works for Century which is the perfect place to track and log

1:18.0

all of your errors and exceptions and it could be really cool if you know you have some bugs in your code to load up

1:25.2

sentry and log that stuff so you can solve it for later so head on over to sentry

1:29.0

I owe use the coupon code tasty treat all lowercase one word and you get two

1:32.4

months for free.

1:34.0

All right with that long intro out of the way, Salma, welcome to the show.

1:37.6

How's it going?

1:38.6

Hi, very well, thank you.

1:40.9

Yeah, it's great segue with the whole century thing. I've been a century now for eight, nine weeks,

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