The Parachute Problem. Why Global DevRel Needs Local Voices.
One talk can inspire. Lasting trust needs follow-through. Why global DevRel needs local organizers, local speakers, and something that keeps working after you leave.
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Things Change. Own Your Weights.
From a member list to a website to an AI model, the lesson is the same: keep the ability to leave. Why open weights matter for control, portability, and access.
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Everyone Has a Private Tutor Now. Most People Use It Wrong.
AI can be a private tutor or an answer vending machine. How to use it to do the thinking yourself, and why learning together in person still matters.
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Volunteers Don't Quit. They Fade.
Volunteer burnout rarely comes with a goodbye. How to spot the quiet signs, make stepping back normal, and build a community that gives back more than it takes.
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DevRel Without Metrics Fails. Every Time.
DevRel needs honest metrics, clearly labeled proxies, and documented stories to protect the trust and community work no dashboard can capture.
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What World Are They Getting?
The real AI question isn't whether it takes our jobs. It's what world we leave our children: whether we build, show up, and keep doing hard things.
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Not Everyone Learns the Same. Five Tips for an Inclusive Meetup.
Not everyone learns the same way, so why do we design meetups as if they do? Five things that build a room where different people can take part.
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DevRel Has One Product. It's Not Content.
Developer relations has exactly one product, and it isn't content. It's trust, it leads to adoption, and the content era of DevRel just ended.
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Staying Human Is a Decision
I build AI agents for a living and still cook badly on purpose. One question decides what I automate: is the output the point, or is the doing the point?
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Trust Is Built on Stage. It's Protected in Spreadsheets.
Nobody signs up for community building because of invoice checks and codes of conduct. But after nine years of running a global community, I've learned that this boring work is what everything else stands on, and that skipping it is how communities quietly rot.
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Think Big. Start Small. Grow Fast. How to Organize Your First Meetup.
Almost everyone who wants to start a meetup waits too long, because they think it needs to be big to count. It doesn't. Here is everything I wish someone had told me before that first evening in 2017.
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Speakers Aren't Found. They're Made.
Great speakers do not appear fully formed. Communities create them by asking personally, offering small and friendly stages, sharing material, and making the next step clear.
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You Can't Be Everywhere. They Already Are.
After nine years of building the Global AI Community, from a single meetup in the Netherlands to more than 190 chapters and 210,000 members across 70+ countries, here is what I keep landing on: you don't scale by being everywhere developers are, you scale by bringing them in and turning audience into owners.
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Online meetups with OBS and Skype
In this article we go through the basics of setting up an online meetup with OBS and Skype.
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10 tips on how to create a friendly community MeetUp
Over the past years I had the privilege to run many MeetUps for different tech usergroups. In this article I want to share my experience on how I try to make my meetups welcoming and friendly for everyone. Many of the points are lessons learned others are tips and tricks I picked up during other MeetUps or during discussions.
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There is a new Meetup in town
The first Thursday of every month is Azure Thursday! A new meetup is kicking-off in 2018.
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