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

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• Follow Salma on Twitch

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