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Decoding Polkadot

Breaking down the core concepts of Polkadot for developers

Unlocking GitHub Codespaces for Workshops

Teaching code to people of all skill levels has never been easier thanks to Codespaces

The Importance of Blockchain Knowledge for Devs

Unlocking the Power of Blockchain: A Look into Polkadot's Potential for Developers

Get Verified on Bluesky Social With Your GoDaddy Domain

A step-by-step guide to verifying your GoDaddy domain with Bluesky Social

ChatGPT for Gmail: The Chrome Extension to Fine-Tune Your Emails

Transform Your Gmail Drafts with Style: An Open Source Chrome Extension Powered by ChatGPT

Use GitHub Actions to Make Your GitHub Profile Dynamic

Automatically Update Your Profile with Fresh Content and Showcase Your Latest Work

A ChatGPT GitHub Action for Reviewing Text for Potentially Discriminatory Language

Discover the ChatGPT GitHub Action Language Check, an AI-powered tool that helps you eliminate discriminatory language in your writing and foster a more inclusive world.

StackExchange Tutorial Themes: Using ChatGPT to Discover Relevant Topics

A personal exploration into using AI to analyze community questions and generate valuable learning resources for developer relations

Accelerating Substrate Blockchain Testing with GitHub Codespaces

Accelerate your Substrate blockchain development with GitHub Codespaces, a cloud-based development environment that lets you create and test your code in the cloud

From High-Level to Systems Programming: A Practical Guide to Rust, Part 2

In this series, we will be looking at Rust, a language that has been ranked as the most loved language seven years in a row by the Stack Overflow annual survey.

From High-Level to Systems Programming: A Practical Guide to Rust, Part 1

In this series, we will be looking at Rust, a language that has been ranked as the most loved language seven years in a row by the Stack Overflow annual survey.

Measuring DevRel Success - Thinking Outside the Funnel

Companies whose primary audience is developers will usually seek to build a developer relations team early on because they have heard they need one to be successful. Yet, they often go into the endeavor without a clear understanding of what that team is meant to do besides "going to events" and "speaking to developers".

Build your own synthetic user testing

A resilient testing suite for your application includes unit tests, integration tests, acceptance tests, and more. All those tests go a long way in ensuring the reliability of your application and providing confidence when you deploy code changes. But there’s another kind of testing that’s important to add to your suite if you haven’t already - simulating the behavior of your users.

Navigating NerdGraph with the New Relic Postman API collection

Today we’re going to explore how to use Postman to navigate the New Relic GraphQL API, NerdGraph, and use it to explore your telemetry data, update your account, and a lot more. Postman provides a lot of support for building with APIs and with the recently released New Relic public API collection, you can leverage that support to supercharge your usage of our GraphQL API.

Debugging Phoenix web applications with New Relic and CodeStream

While Elixir and Phoenix are blazing fast, you still have to watch out for performance issues in your production applications. You can use New Relic One to identify issues in your Phoenix application’s performance.

My Mac Dev Tools

You have a new Mac and you are so excited to get going on creating awesome applications on it. First, though, you need to install some dev tools. What do you put on your brand new machine?

Lessons learned from maintaining a fork

Committing to maintain a fork of an active project has distinct challenges I have learned. In brief, they center on two themes...

Monitor Rails 7 applications with New Relic One

As you build increasingly complex applications with the latest release of Rails, it’s important to monitor your application stack for performance and quickly troubleshoot any issues before they're on fire. You can use New Relic One to monitor your application’s performance and diagnose issues.

Are You a Second Career Dev? Your Pivot Skills Are Your Superpowers

I am here to tell you that as a second career developer you have something that can be an incredible boost to your work. Counter-intuitively, this boost is often seen as a detraction.

Thriving as a Remote-First Team

Over the years I have observed several habits of remote-first teams that enable productivity, happiness and success. What I describe here is what has worked for me, and what I have seen work best in the places I've been.