Summarizing a text conversation with a friend who is an engineering leader after he read my preprint, because we agreed this might be a fun reflection for others!
My friend: "I was really struck by the conclusion paragraph where you say devex initiatives can surface structural diagnostics almost by accident. I was almost thinking it's inevitable that they will...it really made me think about the hard position we put teams in that might be doing this..."
I've written about some of the learnings I've experienced in my role in Developer Experience during 2023 - there's nothing controversial, however I felt it was helpful to summarise and focus on what I've gained in knowledge so far, along with what I'm going to focus on in 2024 and beyond: https://jamiehurst.co.uk/2023-12-29_a-year-in-developer-experience#devex#blog
I care about team dynamics & good communication, but also about good engineering practices. I understand tech debt is a given, but I'm not ok with unjustified & careless bad practices.
Specifically running away from bad communication and bad "engineering" practices.
Just realizing that I never ended up posting this here, and I know it's Saturday but here we go anyway:
I'm actually looking for work!👀
I'm looking for #devrel (with a specialization in #devex, web standards and OS communities) or #fullstack eng roles (primarily #javascript but I dabble in half a dozen other languages, from Rust to Go to embedded C/C++ & happy to learn), have quite a bit of experience/interest in #webassembly, #cloudnative and can hold my own in #devops (e.g. the #RustFest infra used for the EuroRust live stream was hosted by us).
I am based in Tallinn, and looking exclusively for fully #remote (ideally seasoned async/flexible remote teams and I am happy to help building a great culture as well using my previous experience at Mozilla & other companies in the past 7 years).
Also open for part-time and/or contracting with the right people/product.
If you know someone would appreciate an intro, say hello @ https://flak.is
Who here uses CodeScene? What's the experience after using it for, say, half a year? Does it help developers gain insights in technical debt? Does it help people reteam to address dependencies or knowledge bottlenecks? #codescene#devex#dev#sca
Working on a “developer experience” project. If you’re a software dev, what do you like or dislike about the “DevEx” at your company? How’s onboarding? Knowledge sharing? Do you have an internal developer portal/platform? #DeveloperExperience#DevEx#DX#SoftwareEngineering
▶️ 27: It's Time for Core Fields with Scott Kingsley Clark
We talk with @skc about Pods vs ACF (in a friendly non-competitive way), the Core Fields API project, and the JavaScriptification of the #WordPress admin.
Ergo, GitHub is uniquely positioned to impact #disabled#DevEx on #GAAD and every day.
Please read my convo with Ed Summers to be impressed with GitHub's unified, strategic and organized effort for #accessibility, to learn about key cross-platform and Copilot updates, and to watch and simply be inspired by life and work of Paul Chiou. #GAAD2023