It was my first day on the job, and I was discussing ideas and strategy with the CEO. His first question to me was "how do we increase our Github stars?" TL;dr: Stars are a general indicator of Open Source health, but should not be used as a North Star metric. Github Stars My repo … Continue reading Chasing Stars
Author: dougsillars
Doug is a lifelong learner and educator, having focused his career on improving developer knowledge and experiences. A Google Developer Expert, O’Reilly author, international keynote speaker, and a prolific blogger, he relishes in simplifying the complex.
Have you ever been asked about a "typical day in DevRel"? I always chuckle and reply that every day is different - but they all have similarities. You may be creating a tutorial, a series of videos, updating the docs, creating a talk, or working with product on updating features... but all of these tasks, … Continue reading Similarities between DevRel and DIY
In a recent post, I wrote about a Jupyter Notebook that I use to automate looking for 404 errors in the docs (and on the website). I have been working to use the same general framework to build additional automations. An easy extension is to look for broken images. Running these every week ensures that … Continue reading Taking the Temperature of your Docs
I am currently the Head of DevRel at unSkript. unSkript is building an open source platform to help SRE and DevOps teams build automations that reduce their daily 'toil.' When I think of toil, I think of all the bulls*it manual tasks that we have to do every day - just to keep everything up … Continue reading DevRel Documentation: Building Automation to Make it Better
The web is an international phenomena - and just the fact that it exists is one of the many reasons there are so many people becoming nomadic - you can access everything, everywhere, right? Not so fast The idea of an open web accessible form anywhere is a great and noble idea. In practice - … Continue reading Digital Nomading: Accessing the web from abroad
SpeakOfTheDevrel.Cloud: Doug Sillars 