Taylor Barnett-Torabi
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go touch grass. she/her. 🏳️🌈 figuring out what’s next. formerly @planetscale @transposit @stoplightio @keen_io . more on taylor_atx @hachyderm .io. my opinions.
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It’s a tough job market out there, y’all. I’m seeing things I’ve never had issues with before, so if you are struggling, just know you aren’t alone. ❤️
In the last month, I’ve had two solid verbal job offers disappear for technical product manager roles. I have a small ask:
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something that some gen x and older millennials miss about this is that gen z 20 something year olds actually believe they shouldn’t have to work themselves to death to get a paycheck and good work experience. most have totally opted out of this way of thinking.
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today is Yoda’s second birthday 🎉 and last year I threw her a party (aka adults drinking at a beer garden with their dogs). since that’s not happening, can you send her dog videos instead? she’s more social than I am and misses dog friends. 🐶
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I'm giving two conference talks in the next three months and my GitHub contribution graph is the greenest it has been in years.
#WITBragDay
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tell me you are a male tech speaker without telling me you are a male tech speaker
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hot take: devrel as an industry has over indexed on content creation.
spicy take: it is because of metrics.
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If you are a CEO and actively use Twitter but follow less than 15% women, I don't have a lot of faith in your diversity initiatives.
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I'm currently processing being laid off from on my last day of vacation in the Denver airport after a great five days in the mountains.
I am still figuring out what I want to do after 2.5 years at
@planetscale
(and 8 years of startup DevRel), but at this point... (1/2)
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My GitHub Guys Bot is alive and running on
@glitch
! But first I need sleep, I'll share the app and code tomorrow.
@ProbotTheRobot
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Hot take: If you aren't seeing
#WITBragDay
on your timeline, you aren't following enough women. Check your %:
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this is honestly the greatest thing I have ever hate read in my life: *chef's kiss*
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we did a thing this week in Big Bend National Park. 🥂✨💖
thanks to Map + Compass Photography for being a great guide and photographer.
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This year's report confirms something I've been privately and not so privately talking about for the last year: Companies with new DevRel programs are hiring super unexperienced folks. I have hypothesis for why, but I am worried they are setting up new DevRel folks to fail.
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I'm super excited to read this book. the graphics, the topic, it all screams me right now.
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I’m starting my second day at
@planetscaledata
today. 🎉 I’m really excited about what the team is building and can’t wait to build out DevRel! ✨
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Monthly reminder: Diversity is being asked to sit at the table while inclusivity is being asked your opinion at the table you are sitting at
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pretty awesome that
@resistbot
is using FB Live to show them hand delivering letters from constituents
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when I get on a stage, it is a known thing that a portion of the audience will take what I say next at less value than the dude before me. sharing my background is important. (and we wonder why I don’t really want to keep speaking as much as I used to…)
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just signed my full name like 20+ times so I guess it is official, we’re homeowners in Austin! 🏡
back at my desk trying to deal with this wild adrenaline spike I’ve got going. 😅
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Two weeks ago, I said I would share more about what I wanted to do next. Well, I'm ready now!
I'm looking for a role where I can use my decade of developer-facing experience to help build technical products (and relationships) that developers will ❤️.
👉
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Friday was my last day at Stoplight. It’s been really great to see the team and product grow over the last two years while shaping the future of the community. I’ve learned a ton and am excited for my next adventure after some time off! Stay tuned. ✨
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✨Some personal news I haven't shared publicly✨
Today marks the end of my first full week of working on the
@stoplightio
team building community, advocating for users, & talking about docs. It's been a fun two weeks. I ❤️ really digging into OpenAPI, API tools, & much more!
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I'm happy to announce I joined
@transposit
as a Senior Developer Advocate this week and had an exciting first week in San Francisco! Already made my first docs PR and wrote a couple of sample apps! I'll be working full time remote again from Austin. ✨💖
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a regular reminder that DevRel is small and we talk amongst ourselves. if you are going to do not great things in that department, many of us will know.
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I'm looking for my next opportunity! ✨ Developer Advocacy w/ focus on Developer Experience, Remote/ATX. Recent work:
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@LtGovTX
What about witnesses that repeatedly call other people who they just don't agree with "perverts” and “pedophiles" after repeatedly being asked not to by members of the committee?
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reminder that if you ever read a blog post or doc from PlanetScale from the last 2+ years before today, there is a 90% chance it was either written or heavily reviewed by my sugar filled brain
I guess I finally get to rest for a bit 😕
I forgot to get a launch donut 🚀🍩 for the past three launches the last four weeks (yes, my brain is very tired)
I made up for it with a cherry filled homemade-style pop-tart today
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@alicegoldfuss
I think we started seeing this too when more non-men joined DevRel too. “it’s not ~*really technical*~.”
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A thread for anyone who thinks engineers and developers are the most important people needs to internalize:
Yesterday I met someone at a tech conference. They introduced themself and when I asked what they did, she replied: "I'm not technical".
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for anyone who's ever been accused of being the thought or word police: "There's no goddamn thought police. There would be so many white dudes arrested." -
@harikondabolu
#xoxofest
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as a UT alum, this is some bullshit. I have *never* seen the football field used for something like this before and for good reason. why was this okay'd?
Biden's vaccine mandate is unconstitutional. Period.
Texans shouldn't be forced to choose between their livelihood & a vaccine.
I'm confident the Lone Star State will win any legal showdown my Executive Order may bring.
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hot take: any conference that is planning that is holding out hope for in-person this fall will have an *extremely* hard time to make a good event. it's hard enough to make a good virtual conference, add in uncertainty for speakers, attendees, and format and life is very hard.
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I'm sort of self conscious about posting wedding pics here, but.... they are gorgeous, y'all
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stages of conference talk proposal writing:
1. I love this idea
2. omg I have no idea how to put sentences together
3. that sounds kinda good
4. that actually sounds horrible
5. is this actually valuable to anyone
6. suddenly gain a sense of calm & construct something decent
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I love this so much.
empathy session story: getting the core k8s engineers on fresh laptops to install k8s and 45 min later they couldn't do it. but they were telling people this stuff was so great.
I feel like I am a customer empathy engineer.
@kelseyhightower
#DevRelCon
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everyone has been missing that Beto has been putting in the work the last few years when he wasn't even an elected official. so yeah, it might have been performative but it sure as hell wasn't disingenuous.
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where do I find this $825 rent and $20 internet?
The budget breakdown of a 25-year-old who makes $100,000 a year and is excellent with money. via
@CNBCMakeIt
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can we talk about how scary it feels to mail a large check from one 401k account to another yourself? (only put it off for a whole month)
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Today marks two years at
@PlanetScale
. 🎉 I celebrated it by breaking a production app in front of 500+ to show off the platform. I’ve done just a few things in the last 24 months:
• Helped release 12 major features & many other smaller product improvements (I lost count) (1/2)
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Some big news 🎉: Next week will be my last at Transposit. I’m really going to miss this group of thoughtful, egoless, and generally awesome humans. I’m taking off a little over a month to do a bunch of very Taylor things (🚗⛰🧗♀️🏊♀️🥾📚✍️🐶) before I start my new role in July!
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I’m really excited that the
@planetscaledata
DevRel team grows by 3x today! Welcome
@jamesqquick
and
@camiinthisthang
! 🚀✨
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Today's grammar lesson is on "y'all." I've definitely said "y'all've" and "y'all'll."
#yallthebook
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can we just agree that it is weird that someone goes by "uncle" to a whole professional community? ...or is it just me?
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I will probably explore a wide range of roles in developer relations, product, and developer marketing.
I'll share more later, but if you want to reach out with anything, I will get back to you soon. (2/2)
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this month marks *seven years* of full-time DevRel for me. I feel like I want to do like a lesson per year post or something in a new format.
I thought I’d be gone by now because DevRel has a way of chewing you up and spitting you out, but I’m still here!
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when I graduated college I only took about a 2 week break before I started working full time - I don't think I realized how badly I needed this 5 week break until I finally took it, didn't do a ton, learned some new stuff, climbed, relaxed, pretty simple
tl;dr take breaks y'all
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I have a talk about writing better docs for beginners (and everyone) that I would love to give somewhere. I gave it once before for a small audience (not recorded). Any suggestions of more language/framework specific conferences that might be interested?
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in my head I'm like, "yeah, this thing is pretty simple."
then I start explaining it to someone...
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y’all, put examples requests in your API references. just do it. I don’t care if you have an interactive playground if there are no examples.
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it’s 47F in my house right now and I haven’t left my sleeping bad covered in blankets and honestly I’m barely holding it together. (I really needed to get that off my chest.)
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I hope it wasn’t an developer who wrote this pricing structure because wuuuut, so they not understand what an API request is?
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me last week: 3 months is plenty of time to plan an elopement
me tonight: 4 months is not enough time to plan an elopement
it’s really the dress, y’all. it’s the biggest pain and my alternative ideas aren’t panning out. also, surprise! I’m getting married this spring!
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she was scared of a few things, but she did a pretty good job on her first walk
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"I've been deeply concerned about inclusion and diversity" says conference organizer who booked Uncle Bob to speak 🙄
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can someone make a cute “assume I’m technical” pin that I can put on lanyards?
working a conference booth is always a fun exercise in proving that you are technical to the people you are talking with - I’m actually pro-roles/titles on badges for this reason
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@KirkPWatson
@judahistweeting
if the mayor is going to regularly tweet out statements, we need the whole thing in alt text or links to the text because this is totally inaccessible to anyone who uses a screen reader
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when you touch a doc, leave it in a better place than you found it. unused images still in the folder? delete them! inconsistent styling? fix it!
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in good news, yesterday I became a corgi mom, taking Yoda (current name pick) home in June
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yesterday's tattoo went so great! annie alonzi at triple crown is a rad artist. even better than I imagined it. 💖🌵✨
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the hero of 24 hour voting in Harris County, Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria, testifying on
#SB7
that 56% of the votes casted during the late hours “were Black, Hispanic, or Asian” and similar stats for drive thru voting
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it’s really hard being in Texas today. I wasn't sure how I'd feel on the day, but I'm going to have to just log off for a bit. highly support anyone else who needs the same.
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sir, this is what brisket is supposed to look like
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anytime I see someone use a double contraction with y'all, my heart warms 💖
shout out to "y'all're"
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strong three people in a DevRel trench coat vibes
stop expecting DevRel roles to do 4+ jobs!
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a lot of us will be not okay in Texas for a while. we may start having power, water, and food again, but it won't erase what we went through the last week. what we need to know is, it is okay to be not okay.
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@Dixie3Flatline
always relevant:
mentioned i live in texas and now some people are informing me that texas is bad actually so i will continue tapping this sign forever
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With all of the DevRel hiring going on today: I *highly* advise that anyone new to DevRel should not do solo DevRel. It very rarely goes well and often leaves the person burnt out and jaded. And on the hiring side, it does not speak well of the company strategy.
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a year ago we made this 11 year relationship a little more official in one of my favorite places in Texas 💖🌄
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Why hackathons are still important even though I am jaded: I worked with a team of freshmen women making their first web app tonight.
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I think a tiny part of me just wants to be a web technologies historian. because how did we get here and what can this teach us for the future is something I care a lot about.
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working a conference booth is always a fun exercise in proving that you are technical to the people you are talking with - I’m actually pro-roles/titles on badges for this reason
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not that it matters for much but wholeheartedly fuck off
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ever read a book and just nod your head the whole time?
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John Kerry says Barbara Jordan and Ann Richards have paved the way Beto O'Rourke
#badasswomen
#TribFest18
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happy
#BiVisibilityDay
day! ✌️ which I don’t think I’ve ever acknowledged on here before like this so… that’s a thing?
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day 13: finally negative! time to go out in public again! I feel alive again.
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If you ever find yourself working with users, especially in a tech support, remember that not all users are "guys" and should not all be referred to as "he" or "him." Opt for gender-neutral terms like "user" or "they." It's not an easy habit to break, but very important. 💖
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@seldo
I heavily worked on this in college over ten years ago and got numbers higher than the CS' programs own demographics. so much of it is the vibes, the problems being solved, and the schedule.
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GPT won’t write good docs for you. It won’t actually use the product w/ empathy, talk to users or engineers working on the product, or make improvements along the way. Writing good docs isn’t only about the prose. You are missing out on so much more if you approach it like that.
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@bryanl
some college students aged students asked me how to be a more ideal remote candidate, and I told them, "be someone people want to work with." pretty sure that wasn't really what they were expecting.
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I should go buy a lotto ticket because it rained on me today
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who wants to eat Detroit style pizza with me in Detroit next week at Kubecon? 😄
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No.
I don't even care if there's a followup to the last point right after this, just no.
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I'm pretty excited about my new monitor arm. I'm basically creating my dream desk setup.
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I guess it worked since we are getting married next month
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This is a monthly reminder that every company *should* have a mental health policy
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Often I hear, oh that's just one or two users reporting it.
"Chances are, for every one user experience problem, bug, or feature request you hear about, there are ten other people thinking the same thing who simply haven't spoken up." -
@mary_grace
#DevRel
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@editingemily
when leaving my job last month one of my marketing team members told me something that I swear I will hold onto to forever. she told me I was such a great person to work with because I "didn't talk down to people" in marketing. the bar is so low, folks!
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every single home improvement task takes like 2-3x the time you think it should and at this rate I'll be ready for a house warming party in 2023
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