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Coffee With Developers • May 23, 2024

Coffee with developers - Brian Morrison

Brian Morrison

Brian Morrison proves a public war chest is your ultimate career insurance. Discover how his live streams and tutorials secured a new DevRel role in just 24 hours.

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From systems engineering to self-taught developer

How an early interest in fiddling with technology led to a career in software engineering.

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Taking the leap into desktop and mobile applications

Transitioning from breaking and fixing family computers to writing desktop applications.

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Learning Java to build early Android applications

Teaching oneself Java with books and documentation to build apps for early smartphones.

#4 about 3 min

Moving from the .NET ecosystem to JavaScript and Go

Moving away from a fragmented ecosystem towards JavaScript and Go for cloud workloads.

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Overcoming toxic developer communities through teaching

Choosing to create welcoming educational content as an alternative to unhelpful forum threads.

#6 about 3 min

Leveraging content creation for career resilience

How consistently building a public portfolio of content and relationships led to a rapid rehire after a layoff.

#7 about 3 min

Investing time to help fellow developers succeed

Why developers should share seemingly common knowledge to help newcomers overcome learning hurdles.

#8 about 4 min

Championing the indie hacker community at Clerk

Supporting front-end developers while working for a company that actively sponsors community members in need.

Matching moments

5:01 min

Origins and personal definitions of developer communities

Angie Jones Angie Jones +3 · WWC 2024

15:36 min

Overcoming introversion through public speaking in developer relations

Chris Heilmann +2 · LIVE

3:11 min

Leveraging the tech Twitter community for career growth

Nacho Iacovino · WWC 2021

6:07 min

Discussing self-taught developer paths and technical community events

Chris Heilmann +2 · LIVE

1:07 min

Transitioning into developer relations to blend coding and community

Nacho Iacovino · WWC 2021

3:23 min

Leveraging developer communities to accelerate learning and debugging

Lucia Cerchie · LIVE

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