Over the past month, I set out to share a new tip GitHub Action tip every day of February. My job at GitHub exists to create other advocates from the GitHub community. I do this by educating folks and providing opportunities.
28 Days of GitHub Action Tips - DEV Community
For the whole month of February, I will be shipping daily. A new tip every day this month right here....
My approach to developer relations.
The inclination in developer relations is to build a platform where you can showcase yourself as an expert. The majority of developer relations have done this through non-stop conference speaking, which I love, but have not enjoyed the traveling part.
In 2020, I found myself in a bit of a renaissance. I created multiple streams (Twitch) and platforms to showcase my work; This all came from the lack of travel.
I wrote a tip for GitHub Actions each day because I now have a consistent schedule and available bandwidth to commit to things. Every morning I woke with an idea for a tip; these usually came from previously created actions. The framework I used was to write the blog post and then record the video. The video must be constrained to 2 mins, mainly because Twitter will not auto-play videos over 2 mins. The time constraint prevented me from rambling or adding unnecessary context; this also helped me timebox the entire production process to under 60-90mins.
From this experience, I have tripled my DEV following and 4x my views there. I have not been this consistent with content since my first year as a junior developer.
What’s next?
I plan on doing similar series on other things. My goal is to do a shorter series this month on Codespaces. I also like the model and might do something on a topic I am interested in learning in the future. I would love to source tips from the community as well, I am not sure how this would look but it would great to grow this platform with space for others to share.
More on those thoughts in the coming weeks.
If you are interested in learning more about my developer relations knowledge, please hit reply or find me in Discord.
Podcast recordings
Here are more of my thoughts on recently published podcasts.
- Ep. #72, Documentation Deep Dive with Megan Sullivan of Gatsby
- Ep. #73, Serverless Made Easy with Brian LeRoux of Begin
- TDS 78 I Am Done With Doing Developer Relations
YouTube
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