When we talk about open source repositories, there can be a lot of moving pieces, especially for maintainers. We’re juggling new issues, duplicate issues, discussions, pull requests, and many of us are volunteers. Although there will always be new challenges,...
It’s Preptember!!!! What does that even mean? Story time. Last year was the first year I had ever heard about Preptember. We, at Virtual Coffee were just starting to get ready to our first Hacktoberfest together, and somewhere along the...
When I was a kid, I used to do Richard Simmons’ Sweatin’ to the Oldies–the VHS dance workout–with my mom. And I loved the choreography for “It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.” Well, that was the...
In the last post, I talked about how I ended up interviewing for two positions without looking for a job. And what might seem like a process that should be fairly consistent since both were DevRel positions, there were still...
Part I: Interview Them First
My notes from the last two weeks of Twitter spaces I hosted. These are not all my ideas, and I might not agree with them all. But, I wanted to share what we talked about.
Last week, we wrapped up our second season of the Virtual Coffee (VC) Podcast with our Code and Community episode. As VC’s been growing over the last year, I’ve been working on the Virtual Coffee model for communities, and Dan...