Tag: community
Powerful communities from simple sites on the Atmosphere
ATProtocol allows you to build powerful communities with in-built reach, while massively simplifying your website code.
Selling More Than The Drama
A new Commodore device hit pre-orders this week after weeks of rumors. But retro is nothing if not its irrational haters.
Steps towards an ecology of the Internet
Paper exploring biological ecosystem models as inspiration for Internet architecture evolution towards trillion-node scale at Aarhus 2025.
Don't Work For Projects That Don't Have Open Governance
I'm going to weigh in on the Redis thing.
Regrets of a Technical Communicator
I like to joke that I got into developer relations because I was the rare programmer that could carry on a conversation for more than five minutes. Like all good jokes, its mostly true -- I think one of the foundational abilities of the role is a strong ability to translate highly specific and nuanced technical concepts into something that's broadly consumable by other technologists or a general audience. I've noticed a worrying trend over the past couple of years about technical communication, however. In short, the gap between what people need to understand and what's being communicated to them has never been larger.
Lessons Learned from Learning OpenTelemetry
I'm knee-deep in production for Learning OpenTelemetry, releasing in just over a month. This is my second book, so I figured it was a good time to sit down and write up a couple of things I learned while writing this one, if only so when the writing bug gets me again in a year or so I can look back at this post and ask myself if it was really worth it.
Selling The Vision
OpenTelemetry can be a difficult project to describe to people, because the gap between what it is today and what it will be tomorrow is very large. It's easy to stare at it from a distance, squint your eyes, and wonder what the hell we're doing over here. The further away you are from the core contributors, maintainers, and weird little observability guys at the center of it all, the harder it is for things to come into focus. There's a few reasons for that, one of which is that I truly think that it isn't a completely shared vision (and that's ok, for reasons I'll get into) -- but the biggest is that the vision really is just that. A vision, one that is going to take years to realize. That vision is what should excite people, but because we're not great at selling it or even describing it, it winds up turning people away.
Virtual Events Are Dead, Long Live Virtual Events
By any scientific metric, the risk of COVID-19 infection is greater than it's ever been, while mitigation efforts have regressed to a shrugging emoji. Being offered an alcohol wipe by a smiling, unmasked flight attendant before spending hours breathing other people’s air in a narrow metal tube is panglossian, to say the least.
Deserted Island DevOps Postmortem
In my experience, it’s the ideas that you don’t expect to work that really take off. When I registered a domain name a month ago for Deserted Island DevOps, I can say pretty confidently that I didn’t expect it to turn into an event with over 8500 viewers. Now that we’re on the other side of it, I figured I should write the story about how it came to be, how I produced it, and talk about some things that went well and some things we could have done better.
We're Running Out of Widgets
What do Barnes & Noble, Radio Shack, and Blockbuster have in common? Simple: Their flawed business models relied on selling physical objects in stores.
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(Kleiner Nachtrag zu der "OAuth ist tot" Kolumne in der SCREENGUIDE Ausgabe 15 um zu zeigen, warum gerade das W3C auch für Community Formate durchaus nützlich sein kann) Vor ein paar Wochen kam eine E-Mail mit der Bitte, an einer Umfrage zu den W3C Community and Business Groups teilzunehmen und das hat mich daran erinnert,...
Sixgroups-Livecommunity WordPress-Plugin
Wie schon im Lifestream erwähnt, habe ich mir (um das Template nicht ändern zu müssen) ein simples six groups - Livecommunity WordPress-Plugin gebaut und vielleicht findet ja auch noch jemand anders Verwendung dafür... :) Funktionsweise: Plugin runterladen Plugin bei WordPress.org runterladen In den wp-content/plugins-Ordner kopieren Aktivieren Livecommunity-Code im "Settings"-Bereich eingeben ...fertsch :) Wenn irgendwas nicht...