With React Bricks, you can enjoy the ease of use of a drag-and-drop, no-code editor with the flexibility of a custom-built solution. Bygone are the days when building an utterly customizable site with code was inconvenient and required expansive developer effort....
Erin Mikail Staples is a developer experience engineer, stand-up comedian and dog mom living in Brooklyn, NYC🗽 by way of Reno, NV 🤠.
In her 9-5, she works as a ✨ a Developer Experience Engineer✨ at LaunchDarkly. Her work includes contributions to technical demos and content, faciliating relationships with developer communities, among other fun shenanigans. After hours, Erin hosts the DevRel(ish) podcast, and performs and produces comedy in NYC.
Erin's various shenanigans have taken her to speaking at events like PyData Berlin, and PyCon, garnered Jeff Staple's attention, appeared in The New York Times, broadcasted across the sound waves on the Practical AI podcast, or in USA Today's Storytellers Project, exist in the archive of the Museum of Alternate History and her mom's dogs's Instagram account.
Here's how I get scrappy and use tools like WhatsApp and strategic co-conspiring to maximize the impact of the conferences I'm attending....
The best tool for the job is the one that maximizes the impact of the job that I am doing. Now that’s not to say I won’t be using community tools. I do, and I will. I even pay for many of them for work and play. I will no longer be looking at them with rose-colored glasses on anymore....
Community-driven spaces are crafted and cultivated with time, energy, intention, and effort. If you’re in or around the community space, acknowledge this....
I’m comfortable with the concept of business goals and initiatives. However, I don’t have to be comfortable with the double standard set in front of us and empty promises of a flourishing community. I want realism....
If community teams are among the first to go — what does this mean for the once-exploding market of community tools? It used to take up headline after headline: splashy VC funds were announced supporting this growing sector, and companies worked to edge their way into a company’s budget....