I’ve done the rounds through a number of SaaS companies – Twilio, Okta, ngrok, and now Pangea – where we were selling to developers and the same first question comes up every time: How do we get developers started with our product? Throughout the years, I’ve explored lots of answers to this question: Some of […]
I recently had a call with a former colleague who asked a simple question: How do we build a developer community for my company? A few years ago, that answer would have been simple: Swarm the field with developer evangelists, sponsor open source projects, sponsor events, write blog posts & guides, measure all of it, […]
After college, I resolved to read one book a month. It can be fiction, non-fiction, technical, business-oriented, or whatever as the goal was to always be absorbing and digesting new ideas and information, even just for fun. For 2023, I had a more specific goal of 30 books with 6 being non-fiction. Unfortunately due to job changes […]
This blog post is part of the APIFutures coordinated by Matthew Reinbold where he recruited some of the best and brightest for their perspectives on APIs in 2024. Hit the end of this article for links to a few other participants and the full list. For the last year, I’ve enjoyed using ChatGPT and its […]
As discussed in a previous article, finding Books to Love & Hate can be as easy as switching authors, from Jim Butcher to Jeff Carlson, or skimming through anthologies. More than just leisure reading, however, books can also be great for developing skills — including software development. In the fast-paced world of software development, staying […]
After college, I resolved to read one book a month. It can be fiction, non-fiction, technical, business-oriented, or whatever as the goal was to always be absorbing and digesting new ideas and information, even just for fun. For 2022, I had a more specific goal of 30 books with 12 being non-fiction. Unfortunately due to some personal […]
When we first picture our new product, it’s wonderful, looks beautiful, and works perfectly every time. We imagine how people will use it and how successful we’ll be. We dream of how quickly and smoothly everything is going to go. In short, it’s fantastic. Then we sit down to figure out how to create our […]
In software development, a “Design Smell” is a signal that something isn’t quite right. Think of it like your car sounding a little bit different or your Spidey Sense tingling. In the best of times, you can immediately point at the problem and know how to fix it. But the rest of the time, it […]
Every startup goes through the debate of “How should we do developer pricing?” The conversation normally goes something like this: Person A: We need to come up a package that developers will buy! Person B: Okay, what if we took the free version and added A, B, and C? Person C: But developers don’t buy […]
After college, I resolved to read one book a month. It can be fiction, non-fiction, technical, business-oriented, or whatever as the goal was to always be absorbing and digesting new ideas and information, even just for fun. With the Kindle app and travel, that was always easy. In 2021, I had a series of major life changes […]