A practitioner's newsletter on developer relations, covering strategy, how to measure and tell the value story of DevRel work, and industry trends such as startups hiring their first advocates. The excerpts offer concrete frameworks, like a passive-to-active and low-to-high value metrics matrix, plus candid personal reflections on career and the field.
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A developer relations professional's personal blog newsletter covering hands-on experiences with AI coding tools, agent orchestration and self-hosted infrastructure. Readers get first-person accounts of workflow changes, practical troubleshooting stories and opinions on AI-assisted development.
Brandon Minnick, a .NET and DevRel consultant, publishes practical guidance on hiring developer advocates versus engaging consultants, with cost breakdowns, and tutorial series on Microsoft.Extensions.AI and .NET MAUI code. Readers get concrete compensation figures and step-by-step C# examples for building LLM features.
Jenna Pederson writes a series of letters to her past self about how AI and cheaper software creation change engineering work, covering technical debt, abstraction, and whether teams should build something at all. The newsletter offers reflective, experience-based perspective on developer relations and software craft.
Developer advocate Laura Langdon writes personal essays on ergonomic keyboard setups, critiques of neurodiversity framing, and ideas for learning tech through rotations. Readers get a mix of hands-on tooling notes and thoughtful argument about how people learn and think about tech careers.
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