Implementing Modern Documentation Search for Developer Portals
When developers or users land on a technical portal, their primary goal is to find precise answers quickly. A poorly implemented search bar leads to…
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164 disposable computers, one judging afternoon, and a question nobody had time to ask
Does it build? I have run hackathon judging the careful way. By that I mean: rubrics written before submissions open, 3 judges assigned to each proj…
Self-Improving Docs, Part 1: Automatically Turning Documentation Gaps Into Pull Requests
This blog is Part 1 of my series, Self-Improving Docs : Turning Gaps Into Pull Requests, on how I run documentation as a self-updating system. In Pa…
How to Lead DevRel in the AI Era: Stop Playing It Safe
I’m awake typing this at 5 AM on a Sunday morning, plagued by two issues: the modern operating model for Developer Relations is broken, and I cannot…
The developer and AI newsletters you can sponsor, with their real subscriber counts
Newsletter sponsorship is the one channel where a devtool marketer can see the audience number before writing the email. Substack prints each public…
We Built a DevRel Knowledge Base
Developer Relations & Advocacy is often described as the work of helping developers understand and use a product. That description is correct, b…
Humbled by the Basics: Week 1 with Python
One would think beginner Python is just printing "Hello, World!", copy-pasting a few lines of syntax, and vibing.Until you sit down to actually do t…
Why Your IDP Fails at Adoption (and How to Fix It)
Backstage's user base has quadrupled to roughly 2,200 companies. Adoption still plateaus at around 10% of developers per company. Something other th…
The Part of AI Coding Agents I Didn't Expect to Care About: Latency
I spent the last few months pretty much living in Claude Code. It became a regular part of how I worked: give it a task, let it work through the cod…
Hey Everyone! I’m Sanidhya from MLH
MLH AI Roadshow Bengaluru Hey Everyone! I am Sanidhya Goel, a new MLH Hackathon Community Manager (HCM) for Asia Pacific, and I couldn’t be more exc…
My Fourth Year as a Developer Advocate: Finding My Place in DevRel
From Teaching to Tech: Year Four (Aug 2025 to Aug 2026) It’s hard to believe that I’ve now wrapped up four years as a Developer Advocate at Esri! Ev…
I’m Looking for the Right Problem, Not the Right Job Title — Could It Be You?
This is a slightly unusual post. After almost 20 years of writing software , creating and leading an open-source project, writing multiple books, sp…
Getting involved in developer communities
In my previous posts, I talked about what a developer community is, why it's important and how to build a developer community . Now let's look at wh…
How to build a developer community
I described in my last post what makes and defines a developer community . If you are a developer wanting to run a developer community, or you work…
The Kitchen Doesn't Care About Your Excuses
There is a moment in every high-stakes environment when something goes completely, objectively wrong, and the only viable response is to keep workin…
'Governance is a developer experience problem': a Docker Captain reframes AI-agent trust
You handed the agent your CI credentials. You handed it your registry token. Then you asked why nobody in security will sign off on shipping its out…
What Developer Experience Actually Means
Originally published on robatdasorvi.com The onboarding doc said three steps. By step two, I had a broken Homebrew dependency, two conflicting Node…
I Built a Language Tutor That Listens and Scores Your Pronunciation
Language learning apps work fine on a screen, but the hardest part is the thing screens avoid: actually speaking out loud and getting immediate feed…
Beyond the Resume: Why Every Tech Professional Needs a Portfolio
Why Every Tech Professional Should Have a Portfolio Today, I want to talk about something that can make a huge difference in your career: your portf…
I Built a Voice AI Agent for Pre-Visit Insurance Clearance
Pre-visit insurance clearance is one of those workflows that sounds simple until you see how many phone calls it creates. A patient calls before an…
Your Docs Are Doing Your Marketing Now (Whether You Like It Or Not)
TL;DR - Nobody has one AI visibility number. You have six (one per model), and they disagree — a cloud infra company we audited scored 33% on ChatGP…
I Built a One-Curl Audio Translator with Telnyx AI Inference
Localizing a podcast, translating a recorded meeting, or dubbing a lecture used to require three different services stitched together. The Telnyx AI…
I Built an AI Subscription Cancel-Save Agent That Does Not Manipulate You
Cancel-save flows are easy to over-engineer into manipulative dark patterns, and easy to under-engineer into "your subscription has been cancelled,…
I Reviewed 10 AI Startup Documentation Sites. Here Are the 7 Mistakes I Kept Seeing.
Documentation is often the first product a developer experiences. Before they see your architecture, your engineering culture, or your code quality,…
GitHub Copilot Is Rewriting How You Think About Database Design — And Not in a Good Way
You're staring at a Rails schema with 47 tables. The foreign key relationships are a bowl of spaghetti — timestamps everywhere, no documentation, an…
Building RAG-Powered AI Agents with AgentCore: What the Hands-On Tutorials Don't Tell You
Your vector database is returning results. Your retrieval pipeline is clean. But when you connect AgentCore to your production knowledge base, the a…
The Architect Mode Trap: Why Delegating AI Thinking to Save Money Will Cost You More in the Long Run
You're staring at a blank terminal. The feature is due Friday. Your cursor is blinking, and you've been meaning to write this module for three hours…
The Firestore JOIN Trap: What Google's New Pipelines API Costs You That Nobody's Talking About
Your Firebase function is throwing a Maximum batch size exceeded error for the third time this week. You've got two collections — orders and custome…
DevRel in the Age of AI Is A Search for Meaning
When I was in college, I read an essay called "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" by a German literary critic named Walter Benja…
I Built a Web Chatbot with a Telnyx AI Assistant
Most AI assistant demos jump straight to voice. Voice is great, but a web chat is often the cleanest place to start. You can prove the core idea qui…