Space Summary
The Twitter Space Open Tech Space hosted by FrancescoCiull4. In the Open Tech Space Twitter discussion, tech enthusiasts delved into topics like community building, Rust programming, Docker deployments, web development trends, and public speaking tips. Led by a DevRel @dailydotdev and Docker Captain, the space provided insights on building large engaged communities, continuous learning in software development, and collaboration with developer relations experts. Emphasizing the importance of community engagement and continuous learning, the space catered to software developers looking to enhance their skills and navigate the evolving tech landscape.
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Questions
Q: How does community engagement benefit tech professionals?
A: Community engagement fosters learning, networking, and career growth opportunities.
Q: Why is Rust gaining popularity in software development?
A: Rust offers memory safety, performance, and concurrency features, attracting developers for system programming.
Q: What advantages does Docker bring to application deployment?
A: Docker simplifies packaging, distribution, and deployment processes, enhancing software consistency and scalability.
Q: What are crucial skills for modern web developers to possess?
A: Web developers need proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and an understanding of responsive design and web standards.
Q: How can one become a Docker Captain?
A: To become a Docker Captain, individuals need to demonstrate expertise in Docker, contribute to the community, and showcase leadership qualities.
Q: Why is public speaking important for tech enthusiasts?
A: Public speaking boosts visibility, builds credibility, and enhances career prospects in the tech industry.
Q: What strategies help in community building within the tech space?
A: Effective community building involves creating valuable content, fostering interactions, and actively engaging with members.
Q: How can tech professionals stay updated with evolving technologies?
A: Continuous learning through online resources, workshops, and networking events helps tech professionals stay abreast of emerging trends.
Q: What value does collaboration with developer relations experts bring?
A: Collaborating with DevRel experts enhances community outreach, developer experiences, and product feedback loops.
Q: What are the challenges of public speaking in the tech industry?
A: Challenges include stage fright, technical glitches, and the need for clear, concise communication of complex technical concepts.
Highlights
Time: 00:15:42
Community Building in Tech Discussing strategies for fostering a thriving tech community.
Time: 00:25:18
Rust Programming Insights Exploring the unique features and benefits of Rust in software development.
Time: 00:35:56
Docker Deployments Simplified Learning about Docker's role in streamlining application deployment processes.
Time: 00:45:29
Web Development Trends Insights into the latest trends shaping the field of web development.
Time: 00:55:10
Expert Tips for Public Speaking Tips and tricks for tech professionals to enhance their public speaking skills.
Time: 01:05:46
Building Large Engaged Communities Exploring strategies for building and nurturing a million-strong tech community.
Time: 01:15:22
Continuous Learning in Software Development Importance of ongoing skill development and learning within the tech industry.
Time: 01:25:51
DevRel Collaboration Insights Understanding the benefits of collaborating with developer relations experts.
Time: 01:35:19
Public Speaking Challenges Exploring the common challenges tech enthusiasts face in public speaking engagements.
Key Takeaways
- Emphasizing the importance of community building and engagement for tech professionals.
- Insights into Rust programming language and its significance in modern software development.
- Understanding the role of Docker in simplifying the deployment of applications.
- Exploring the nuances of Web Development and its evolving trends.
- Learning from a Docker Captain about best practices in containerization.
- Gaining tips on public speaking for tech enthusiasts.
- Strategies for building and nurturing a large, engaged community in the tech space.
- Importance of continuous learning and skill improvement within the software development field.
- Exploring the benefits of collaborating with developer relations experts.
- Insights on the challenges and rewards of being a public speaker in the tech industry.
Behind the Mic
Introduction to the Space Format
The format here is that the first people that will request to speak. We will host this space with me. So don't waste this opportunity. If you came up first, I see some people here, one person already requested and so. And then we'll decide the topic together. You can ask me questions. We can decide on a hot topic of the week of the month. So I would like to invite on stage. Harsh. Harsh. You have been the first speaker. Please introduce yourself and welcome.
Technical Setup and Introduction
Just try to unmute yourself. There is a bottom left button. Or maybe we have some technical issues that can also be the case. Let's see. Harsh. Yes, I can hear you. Okay, so hello everyone. My name is Harsh and I am a third year undergrad student from India. And you know, I'm a go developer. So I've been, you know, writing code and go for around I think one year and I've been contributing to some of the open source projects and I'm not preparing for GSOC for the next year and yeah, that's it.
Conversation About DevOps
Nice, great. I also see that you have DevOps in your bio. So of course we can talk about DevOps for hours. This usually space is 1 hour long. So maybe I would like to ask you what's your experience in DevOps, which are maybe some tools that you like or how do you get involved in it? Yes. So in DevOps I'm actually learning Kubernetes now. In the past I've used Docker as well, CI CD as well. I've used Pulumi for infrastructure as code and yeah, I mean I'm preparing for, you know, Kubernetes certifications like CKA and you know, most probably Cc CAD also.
Certification and Learning Path
So actually one of my mentor told me that you should prepare for these certifications. So yeah, I'm learning Kubernetes now, so. Yeah. Yeah that's great to hear. We also use Kubernetes. I am a docker captain. So I will love with Docker and Kubernetes. We use Docker, Kubernetes and Pulumi at the dev tool. And yes, I mean I think that it's a great opportunity, especially if you are young to get some certificates because they force you to learn the things. And I think it's a great choice, especially if you have time, if you have the opportunity. So yes, that's best of luck with that.
Exploring Programming Languages
I don't know when you have this exam but that's probably an interesting part. And especially I think in combination with a powerful programming language but probably, you know, that also Docker has been written in go. So I think that's a powerful combination like DevOps plus go or rust or like go or any other let's say programming language that can be used to create tools. Do you agree to. Yes, yes. Nice. I see Kurpali with a different prophet picture here. So if you want to hop in and say hi, feel free to do that. And I see also Arindam just joined, so for now we're talking about basically the DevOps experience.
Discussion on Go Programming Language
And also I would like to ask you, what do you like the most about the go programming language? I think the simplicity of go makes, you know, makes it attractive. And also the concurrency part, I mean it's really very easy to, you know, just start a go routine and you know, have a highly concurrent system. So yeah, I'm just, you know, using go and I'm trying to build some sort of scalable systems and it works pretty well. I have done some testings and benchmarking and yeah, it really performs well. I've also used it on, you know, last year actually my college gave me a project, actually there was an organization and I have to make a, you know, sort of chat application for them and I have, the back end was completely, you know, in go and the front end was in flutter, so yeah, but that application, they still, they are using and it performs really well.
Audience Interaction and Feedback
I mean, so yeah, I mean it is a fantastic plan. Yeah. Thank you. So thank you so much for sharing your point of view about go. I would like maybe to ask other people here in the audience to introduce themselves and harsh can please unmute your microphone. We can go with Rajesh first. I hope I pronounced that well. Hi everyone, how are you? So I'm Rajesh, I've been working in front end for almost ten plus years and so I recently, like recently I was participating in a hackathon, so that was to build a chatbot and my, I just wanted to ask like, because this is an open forum, I would like to ask everyone.
Hackathon Insights and Questions
So I, the tech stack which I chose was the, was to work with the lang chain and lang flow lang graph. So that's the framework which I chose. And then I was using GPT 3.5 for as an LLM and was using advanced rag, so a rag system which has hallucination. And so I'm more interested, like I'm, even though I'm a front end guy, but I am more interested in JavaScript World and recently just got a. Just got into AI and stuff related to that. Yeah, yeah. So what's, so what's the question? Yeah, I mean, is it.
Valuable Feedback on Chatbot Frameworks
The question is. So I have built this. This chatbot is build this. So I. This is all self built. I mean, I read few docs and then took help from Chartgpt and then I started building this stuff. I'm not sure whether this is the. Whether this, whether this is a production. I mean, like, there are so many chatbots out there, I wanted to know whether this is the framework, like, whether they will choose lang chain or langflow to add the conditional edges, or like, how people are actually creating chatbots. That's the question. Like, if I'm going in correct path or not.
Response to Chatbot Development Questions
Yes, in my case, I don't have enough knowledge. Can you please mute yourself? Yeah, so, yes, so in my case, I don't. I know, and I've used some of them, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to give you like a comparison on the two things. I don't know if other speakers, they have some this experience, but. But I don't know if this project is public. You can even pin it on the top of the space and maybe you will get some replies.
Open Invitation for Participation
Okay. Okay, I see Mahesh Rana. So he's currently a listener. It's bio says he's an AI full stack developer. So yeah, maybe if we can. I mean, this is an open space, so if, Manish, if you want to hop on, or if anyone in this space wants to participate, feel free to do that. This is the goal of this space, so it's focused on like, any topic we want. So we can even touch different topics during the same space.
Creating a Safe Space for Discussions
The idea is to have like, a safe space where we can discuss about whatever we want. So this is how I like it to be for now, really. I can remove the DevOps part now. And so. Perfect. Thank you. Let's see if someone can show up and ensure your. And share some insights about your questions. In the meanwhile, I would like to invite on stage one of my dear old friends, which is Krupali.
Reconnecting with Friends
Krupali, how are you? How have you been so far in the recent months? Hey, friend, I hope you're doing great. It's been a while. I've been on spaces. It's been eight months, I think so, yeah. It's good to be back. It's good to be in your space. I miss that. I've been good. How are you? Okay, sorry. I can.
Technical Issues and Adjustments
Oh, sorry, but I had some technical issues. What? Called me like in the meanwhile. And. Yes, so welcome. So it has been eight months and then I missed the last part. The core party. Yeah, it's been eight months. I missed being in your space. It's like, it's going good. Now I have job and I just finished three consecutive meetings and now I cannot feel anything.
Reflections on Work-Life Balance
I just want to sleep, but that's not possible. Like, yes, I can feel as an introvert, but can I say something unpopular? I think it's better to have three consecutive meetings that like one meeting every 3 hours. That will absolutely destroy my day. So if it has to be meetings, it's better to have them consecutive. So I go in meeting mode, I take an express at the end of the three meetings and I'm done.
Looking Forward to Future Conversations
So I want to turn this into a positive thing. Crovali. I think I'll get used to it as I keep moving forward. But it's just been like two months that I started working full time, so it's not very fun right now. Got it, got it. Thank you. And I'm happy to have you back here in the spaces. As you can see, I still do when I'm at home and not on a plane or not on vacation.
Regular Engagement in Tech Spaces
Usually on Wednesday, 01:00 p.m. I do a space. Sometimes we have a specific topic, sometimes we have specific guests. Recently I found very, let's say, funny to make it more open tech space. So just to engage with different people, or maybe if people they have, they follow me or they have the notifications, they can open early and be part of the speakers panels.
Encouraging Diverse Participation
I think it's great to give opportunity also on the not always the same people. So to give their opinion. I think this is very important, especially on a platform like Twitter, which is very polarized and always the same account. So I would like this to be a bit different and to have to give the opportunity also to anyone to participate has this space and also, yes, to get in some old friends like I did with you, Kruppali.
Expressing Gratitude and Inviting Topics
So glad that you are fine and you are doing stuff and thank you. Thank you. So, yes, and now maybe we can keep talking about any topic have. If anyone else would like to hop in, they can. Yesterday I made a live stream on Twitch, and I'm recently starting to do like one one mentoring sessions. One is with Bob today.
Shifting Focus for Better Engagement
So this is something that I've never done so far, but I want to see how it goes so giving more, like, let's say, quality time to people instead of just, you know, saying yes to everyone. So I want to be more focused. I think this will be the focus on these last four months of the year for me. So being more focused, maybe do less, but more intentional.
Concluding Remarks
So we start with this. This today, I'm also.
Celebrating Milestones on YouTube
I need ten more subscribers for 250K on YouTube. So I'm refreshing the YouTube channel because I want to celebrate today or tomorrow. And apart from that, I would like to invite on stage a person I met personally in June.
Checking In
Arindam, how are you? How's it going? Hey, Fran. Yeah, I'm good. How are you? I feel great. I've been working a lot in the recent three days, but that's okay because this is what I deserve for being on vacation for a whole week. So it's fine. It's okay.
Concert and Preparations
I also went to a concert yesterday, so I. I came back a bit late. But apart from that, great stuff, we are preparing radish. Okay. We are preparing something cool for September for the Ledev. And I'll keep telling all my friends, if you don't know what the Lidav is, if what schools are, go now or regret it in September. We have ten days left, but we are about to do a big lunch.
Ledev and Early Tickets
So PCs has been a really big brain in doing this earlier. I see that you're also trending. So you will thank me at the end of September for warning you, like, a bit earlier. You know, when there is a party and you have time to get the first early tickets. That's great. So this is what I like to do with my friends.
Valuable Perspective as a Developer Advocate
And, you know, I don't say this, like, every day, every week. Like, if I say this is it as a reason. So we are preparing some stuff over there. So are you happy that you have been trending on the. On the daily dev squads are in them? Absolutely. Just, you know, that's why I say daily dev magic everywhere.
Traffic and Stats
Like, just to, you know, give you a stat about this, like, for my own blog. Like, almost like 75% of the views that I got are from, you know, referred from Del. So that's a post that I'm gonna make soon. So I just going through my stats on dev two and I saw that. Okay. The numbers are, like, crazy.
Daily Dev Insights
Like, all of my blogs are, you know, I guess most of them get views from Daily Dev. So. Yeah, it's magical. Yeah, I know. It's so good that it's hard to believe that all of this is free. Like, you know, as developers, we're always very skeptical. We can't believe this is true. It's too good to be true, right?
Honest Feedback on Platforms
Yeah, absolutely. Nice. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. I'm sorry for sometimes I share this plug, but this is, I work here and you know what? Like, I would like to say this, I'm completely honest here, 100%. Like I work here as a developer advocate, but especially recently I becoming, I became also a power user of the Lydev because I have like two schools that I'm currently using, but not because I'm a developer advocate there.
User Perspective Matters
And this is great because if you end up using your own product, you can give your perspective. I'm sure that maybe you are in them, you use pieces for your own personal flow. But this is a superpower as a developer advocate because it gives you the perspective of the user, not as an employee or working there, but it's so useful.
Crushing It on Hash Node
I have now a whole experience on how the squad works, what you can do there, what you can't do there. So this is a great plus and it's happened, I can say, in the recent few months. So of course at the beginning I created a couple of handouts, a couple of squads, but this has been very useful. So I'm really happy I've seen you really crushing it, especially on hash node.
Sharing Success Stories
I don't know which platform, but I saw big stats there are in them. I think you made a long article which got like so many views. I can't remember what exactly was about Google Analytics, I can't remember but what. It was around event scheduler on Node Js.
Shout Outs to Platforms
So it got like pretty good numbers there. Nice. Perfect, perfect. I also would like to give a shout out to pisis. I am a huge fan of the platform. I'm currently using it for some minor things because I'm always very busy and doing lots of stuff.
Utilizing Code Snippets
One feature that I'm really loving is the code snippets. For example, I don't know if you see that I make daily tips about rust. Usually they go out a very early morning. All of them have been stored on pieces, so I use them and probably in the future I might even create something out of it.
Future Projects in Mind
So I needed a place to store all these tips and all these tips has been stored on pieces. I'm looking forward because probably soon, or at some point I might create something else out of all these snippets that are now our own pieces. So this is a sneak preview of what I'm currently doing and I think it's fine.
Content Creation Insights
So I think it's fine if you use a platform only for some, with some features and maybe you create something else. I always like to, don't force it too much, but for now I really like it. I also created an article on my onboarding on pieces.
Sharing Onboarding Experiences
So I made it like an old article of my experience of onboarding of pieces that also went kind of well, I think some thousands of views. And this was basically just me. Instead of just doing the onboarding, I just put an article and then I put like step by step.
Mindset of a Content Creator
And this really shows the mindset of content creator that now probably have. So like everything I do, I know that this can be turned into content, literally, and this is great, I would say.
Engaging with the Community
Okay, nice we have more people. Thank you so much, Marino, for sending love. I see that you are changing your profile picture and you look very nice. Let's see, let me invite David. Nice.
Welcome to the Space
Usually these spaces are about 1 hour long, but yes, and usually, as I said, we don't have a specific topic, to be honest. It's also to know what my friends are doing, if they are doing something cool, if there is something cool coming up soon. So yes, we still have a space.
Meeting New Faces
Usually now, for example, I see three, two, three people requesting to speak. Usually at the beginning we have less people. Welcome, David, or David, I don't know how to pronounce your name and welcome. And how are you?
Introducing David
I'm all right, yeah. My name is David. The other one is Wampamba. That's my traditional name. Yeah, I'm from Africa in a place in the eastern part of Africa in a small country called Uganda.
About Uganda
Many people say this is the best country on the planet, naturally. So if you ever want tour to see wildlife, you can come around. But first I want to thank you, Francesco and your friends for organizing the open tech space.
Sharing Background
I think this is the first time I'm in it and I heard it's about many topics. So yeah. Well, about me, I am a soft taught software developer, but I've not actively worked with like a big tech company or something.
Community Efforts
But I've always worked with local companies and my own startup. So there's this startup which I founded five years ago. It helps local people in the community learn tech and we give them job placement assistance.
Seeking Mentorship
So I would to run this is not very easy to need is a community effort. So I'm majorly looking for people who can offer mentorship, you know, to the people of my community, you know, people, young people, want to learn quite a lot of technologies like.
Desired Skills for Community Growth
Like you've mentioned Docker, go kubernetes next react and everything. And they also want ideas about building their portfolios and cv's. They like to be helped to prepare for interviews because. Because English is not our first language.
Challenges Faced
And also we have is. How do we call it? I can call it a poor digital infrastructure. So many people find it really hard to build their careers. So if you have anything you can support in, please reach me in the DM and we arrange how we can work together.
Acknowledgment and Follow-Up
Yeah. Thank you very much. Thank you, David. And for. For sharing this with us. Is there any. So did you ask anything? Are you looking for answer or.
Clarifying Intentions
It was just. You're sharing your point of view. Sorry, I missed some seconds at the end. Yeah. What I was just. I was just sharing about myself and also pushing out the message that we are looking for people who can be helpful to.
A Call for Volunteer Help
To build our community. You know, people can offer mentorship and all that. Yeah. But on a volunteer basis. Yeah. Oh, yes. Okay, now I got it.
Reality of Finding Mentors
And yes, I think that finding like good free mentors is almost impossible because usually people are even very babies or maybe they are beginners. But for example, if you want to do to organizing an event and invite me, I'll be happy to join once.
Encouraging Specific Requests
For example, I think that the secret is just to ask people, especially if you want. If you need something specific. For example, it can be about Docker, it can be about developer relations or elastic. And I would be glad to help.
Broader Awareness of Uganda
To be honest, I don't think that Uganda is so small that you don't have to mention. I think almost everyone knows that country I went to. I love wildlife. I've been hiking.
Nature Escapes
It was in alps last week. And it's fine. I mean, I live in a city, but I always crave for going into wildlife. Maybe one day I can even come and visit it.
Offering Support
So just. Just ask if you want some people to support the communities and just be very specific and I think you can find someone.
Invitation to Uganda
Thank you very much, Francesca. You are very welcome whenever you want to come to Uganda. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much.
Closing Thoughts
We'll see, we'll see. It's on my to do list. For sure. For sure.
Opening Remarks and Community Engagement
Nice. Thank you. Thank you so much. I see Utba just joined with a super shiny profile picture. I really love it. I think I'm getting used very quickly to that. And then. Yes. So we. Let's see. No, there were two people who were requesting to speak, but they're not here anymore. Yes. So as I said in September, I think we will do a big lunch on the Ddev, especially about squads, especially for the rails here. We will create, we'll create some events so random, get ready with that and we'll see. So especially if you have something to ask or maybe if you want to share what you're currently working on especially of course in the tech space, maybe you are creating some content, maybe you found something interesting. You can just hope and share this with us. Nice.
Collaboration and Networking Initiatives
I would like to know to ask maybe Arundhati, since we are both developer advocates, like how are things going there if you have something planning or maybe because maybe I would like to plan maybe some activities, some collaborations now that you also are on the leader. But I think we have all the excuses to do some collaborations. So I want to know more and I ask indirectly to Arindam. Yeah, so we are working on a student program basically targeting university students to, you know, how they can leverage AI in their like integrate in their workflow and how they can be productive, you know, while being in, you know, college or universities, you know, using because it's like it's a part of our life right now so it's high time to use them. So that's what I'm currently working, you know, creating the slides for, you know, presentation and you know, collaborating with different communities around India and that's the thing.
Project Updates and Individual Experiences
And another interesting part I am working on is like I am trying to make a integration with PCs and Vercel AI SDK. So that's un challenging project, I would say I took in so with stuck in some errors fixing those bugs. So yeah, that's been my week for now. Yes, and it's still Wednesday so we still have time. I don't know if this is a good or a bad thing, but yes, for sure this has been, this will be a tough week for me. I was so glad. I'm doing a lot of stuff. I'm also organizing, for example all the upcoming events under there. I'm literally contacting everyone. Thank you so much. Marino also helped me out in reaching a specific person. So yes, we're organizing the upcoming spaces, the upcoming events on YouTube.
Future Planning and Content Creation
To be honest, I would like to organize all the events by the end of October, including the December ones because I don't want to end up being close to Christmas and still looking for speakers. I really want to avoid that. And yes, so that's it. Maybe something else I would like to talk about maybe for five minutes. This has been my recent experience. Two experiences in writing stuff. One is that I'm writing a rust book that will be out in 2025 with as a publisher and I mean, I wanted to do this because I wanted to write stuff, create content about a programming language I really like. A side effect that I really loved is that this basically unblocked my content creators superpowers because by being forced in writing stuff now I have ten ideas, 20 ideas to create videos.
Publications and Financial Success
I created now a paid product on Gumroad. I have so many good ideas now, I still need to find the time to execute them. But for example, this is already going very well, I think in two weekends I created the first paid product. It got 160 sales, which almost $2,000, which is nice for being the first product. I saw so many stories of people publishing their first paid product and earning almost zero. So I find this, compared to that, absolutely successful. And this is a really great experience for me because I think that many creators, they experience this content creator block. So probably like start writing stuff. It doesn't have to be a whole book, but writing long stuff, a lot of stuff in a consistent way.
Accountability and Creative Workflow
For me, being forced because I have editor, of course, first in quotes, it makes me really accountable. And this is a great thing, I think. So once you are inspired and you have many ideas, then the problem is just to find the time to execute them. But now I have so many good ideas, probably some of them are also crap. Welcome, Marino. How are you? That's a very shiny profile picture. Hey, Francesco. Hey, everyone else, how are you all doing? Thank you so much for the kind compliment. Yeah, I was in Sunnyvale and I was like, you know, I was, had my makeup and my hair done and everything because I was doing some recordings at a studio and I was like, you know what, I look good.
Personal Experience and Professional Updates
I should take a picture. So I did, and it turned out pretty damn well. So you know what, now it's my profile picture on Twitter and LinkedIn. Anyways, things are going well. I'm kind of putting my head down for a little bit because deep in some projects, I'm working with a very, very large customer. And what's interesting is, one hand, when you work with a very large customer, it's great because you actually get to see all the inner workings of the organization. You get to see what drives them. You get to see the different teams using different technologies, and then you have to sit there and stitch it all together. And one hand, that's great.
Adapting to Large Organizations
But on the other hand, a large organization also presents this organization. Sometimes not everyone is at the same pace, at the same level, and so you have to manage those expectations. You also have to level set with different levels of understanding of a certain technology space. For example, some folks might understand Docker really well because they use it all the time, and then another team has no clue what Docker is. And so you have to find a way to bridge that gap in a very low friction sense. But then there's also other elements too. Like I'm doing a whole bunch of validation, I'm building designs.
Diverse Project Components
This is such a big project that it's not all on me. Like, I'm just doing one slice of this larger thing, and my portion, surprisingly, ends up being service mesh. I have other teammates that are working on other portions of this project. I have another teammate that's focusing in on the usage of cloud based API gateways. Then I have another teammate that's focused in on using this thing called the developer portal. If any of you aren't familiar with a developer portal, it's a way to catalog and basically view all of your different APIs. There's so many different, like, technologies out there that offer this kind of approach.
Collaboration in Technology
Backstage might be the most notable one out there, but it allows you to build your APIs, model them, view them, distribute them, share them, whatever you want. So it's like all of these different slices of a project, but you also have to find a way to bring them together. So that's been taking a lot of my time up. And then I've also got an API summit presentation that I'm working on right now. I'm presenting at our internal conference, and I don't know how I got stuck with the longest session, but I'm the only one with a 50 minutes session for this entire conference. Everyone else has 25 minutes sessions, and I've got to do a virtual recording on Friday.
Challenges in Presentation Preparation
I have nothing worked out. I have nothing figured out. My slides are not even done, so it's go time for me. Anyways, how's everyone else doing? Thank you so much, Marino. I see that for not being a developer advocate anymore, you are kind of active on these spaces, and I love that. But yes. Good. Best of luck with your big client. I don't know if you can see the name, probably not for now, but maybe at some point I would like to know more about this. I think this really gives the opportunity to share some stories, maybe in retrospective, maybe, I don't know.
Bringing Real-World Experiences to Beginners
We worked with that and maybe because some people, many people here are beginners. So they really need to have at least a taste of what does it mean to work with big companies, to work with real world applications and these a bit more than just discussing which is the best JavaScript framework or something like these of these discussions because it's going to really open up to what does it mean to like work with real world applications. I think some people, they, maybe they are young or maybe they have not that experience. They have an idea what does it mean? So thank you. Thank you so much, Mario.
Personal Progress and Reflections
I'm doing well, doing great. I went for. I took like 1 kg in the mountains because I went hiking. But I hate so much that basically that increased my weight. So now I'm back to here exercising as usual. You know what's the best news? I will be here at home for four more weeks. Like in four weeks I have no trips planned and I love that. Now the next trip is in Belgrade in Serbia for the Lydev on the 23rd of September. Today is the 21 August. So it's a dream for me. Like I can stay here for more than for 30 days here at home and I can just work, create content, focus on all the other stuff.
Enjoying Work and Home Balance
So now I remember in Covid we wanted to travel more. I'm at a point I said, huh, I can stay at home for four weeks. That's amazing. And then I was a couple of conferences in October and then I should be done with traveling by the end of October. And I love that. And usually I have this pattern or like I, I travel a lot, usually from March to October, but in November and December I try to avoid traveling so I can focus on, you know, working, closing all the things that I haven't done during the year. And yeah, everything looks great.
Closing Thoughts and Future Events
And yeah, thank you. Nice. Perfect. So nice. I don't know if we have any other speakers coming up, otherwise we can also start to close it up. I don't know if in the future I'll do more spaces with a topic. To be honest, I'm a fan of these open text spaces because you never know. But it's a great opportunity for people to maybe just talk about, especially when they are what they are currently working on. This also gives the opportunity to me to find ideas for collaborations. For example, I'm sure that we'll do something with our in demand business team. That's it.
Open Discussion and Final Remarks
Nice. Anyone else? Let's see. Okay, nice. Arindam, anything else that you want to discuss or are you done yeah. So a fun thing to, you know, share here. Not, you know, much public yet, but me and one of my friends are, you know, starting a small agency of technical writers, basically because it was hard for me to, you know, write all the articles that I was, you know, getting. So I just, you know, thought of, okay, let's make a team and will work as a, you know, agency. So just, you know, it's a pretty beginning and we are not public yet.
Agency Formation and Future Goals
It just, you know, making the websites and doing those basic stuff. But yeah, we do have a few clients, so just, you know, working behind the scenes and. Yeah, that's a closed announcement here. Don't make it. Yeah, so that was my part. Nice. Thank you. And this is why joining these spaces, you can have some sneak peek and sub news in advance. So some exclusive announcements. I think that's a great idea. Like when you have too much work or maybe there is some work that you can't do alone.
Team Collaboration and Outsourcing
Teaming up, creating something with your friends or some people who, you know, that they are the right person is the best. Think you can do. For example, for my videos, I've been editing them for a while, but for example, now I've been on vacation for two weeks and I didn't want the videos to stop going out. So simple solution in ports. I just outsourced the editing. I published a video two weeks ago last week and also this was Tuesday, so I got basically no downtime in terms of video creation.
Content Creation Success
Yes, of course it cost me some money. But first of all, when I outsource them, usually they have a slightly better retention because the editor, they do their thing, they add more cool parts in the beginning and this is great, it's absolutely fine and we will see in the future, but it's absolutely fine to do something, you know, to expand your opportunities like you are doing now with your friend. And it's great. Good luck with your friend and your technical writing company. I don't know if you have, if you already have a name or not, but yes.
Developer Perspectives
Nice. Thank you. And I think it's also great also from a developer perspective, some behind the scenes, how you did it, what have you done, the clients and so on. So developers usually are even more interested into the behind the scenes and to know how things work. I see Varsha here and we have something coming up. So Varsha, if you want to come on stage and to make maybe a preview announcement, you can now, otherwise, no worries. And yes, that's it. This was the space for today. I'm really enjoying. Also yesterday I went live again after ten days. It was great. For example, on twitch. I'm really enjoying doing this lately because I just go live and I just basically talk about what I've done today. Simple stuff. Hi, Varsha. How are you? I'm doing good. How are you all? How are you, Francisco? How is it? I'm doing well. Always doing spaces as you can see, or as you can hear. So lovely.
Announcement by Varsha
Okay, so should I go with the announcement? Yeah, introduce yourself so people here in the audience, they can know you and then. Yes, why not? Why not? And then we'll make a. We'll make an official one. But go on, please. Okay, so I'm a third year undergrad engineering student in Bangalore. So last summer I contributed to Mathisar. It's an open source organization. This summer I interned at Barclays. Apart from that, I've started this series of spaces called tech Talks with Varsha. Wherever I invite speakers in the tech industry. So my first speaker was Harkirud, and my next speaker is gonna be a very special person. He's the host of the space. Yes. So we'll be having Francisco on the space on Friday, 730 indian standard Time. Yes. So that's about the announcement. So I think, I guess it's unofficial. We'll still have an official one going out on Twitter.
Community Engagement
Yeah. Yes. I also saw the post, like, trying, like, try to guess the new speaker. I also saw someone cheating in the comments because it was a person who basically made this happen, so they knew the answer already. But that was funny, of course. And yes, so, yes, looking forward for that space. And I think having, like, a serious of tech spaces is a great opportunity. I invite you because like, four years ago, three years ago, there were not like this kind of spaces yet. I think it's a great way to focus, especially for an extended amount or period of time on something. You can have good guests, you can have specific topics. And I think it's a great opportunity. And I think the best thing of doing this podcast space is that you also get some knowledge, you also get maybe some ideas for the upcoming things. So best of luck with that. I'm honored. I'll be glad to participate. And of course, make me at least one question about rust.
Highlights of Rust Programming
Okay. Definitely, definitely. I mean, if I think of the word rust, your name pops up in my mind. Yes. This means that I've been obsessed enough in the past two years. I would say so, yes. I'm currently really focused on this language so I can share some insights. Usually I try to be as neutral as possible because maybe I can be a big fan, but I like to also share an experience based on other programming languages, other things. So, yes, I will say so. Let's see. Let's keep the cool stuff for your space. And thank you so much for coming. Nice. Thank you. I think that's enough for today. We kept this nice and clean, usually by those spaces every Wednesday, 01:00 p.m. cc. They're called first come, first served spaces. So if you come at 01:00 p.m. csthe on point, you can be part of the speakers and share your experience. And that's it for now.
Final Thoughts and Connections
Sometimes I will also do something with some guests, but for now, I like it to be very open and to talk about different topics as we did. And yes, that's it. Let me invite Marina again with some technical issues, but less than usual. So, yes, thank you. If any of the speakers would like to say something before we wrap up, just raise your hand or unmute your microphone. I would like to go with Marino first because he requested to speak, and then we can close it up. Yes, Marino, welcome back. Yes, I had some connectivity issues with my app. I'm not sure what was going on. I don't know what we're finalizing, but I will just say, you know, the one thing that I realized in the last, I'd probably say two months, I got back into just some core development stuff as well through some of the projects that I'm working on. And it's phenomenal to realize that my brain doesn't think like, oh, my gosh, I have to go learn the basics all over again.
Embracing Developer Mindset
My brain is like, how do I get this thing to work? And that's an artifact of me being a developer from like 20 plus years ago. Wherever, fundamentally, the concepts of programming stay the same. And if you can logically think it in your mind and write it out with pseudocode, there's probably a way to write it with any one of your favorite languages. And so I'm at this point where I'm not here learning languages. I'm here to try and solve a problem. And if I'm using Python, well, I kind of know the structure of Python, but if I'm trying to program something, I don't want to sit there and try and build it out again. I'll feed it to some sort of LLM and say, hey, this is what I wanted to do. This is how I've logically thought that this should work. What do you think should be that python code or syntax? It'll give me a suggestion, and then it's up to me to really decide whether or not it's useful, it's outputting the information, or it's a starting point.
Streamlining Development
And I didn't realize that I had this superpower where I'm kind of over analytical about certain things when it comes to development. So I'm kind of at this point where maybe I should start getting back into streaming and streaming just by myself and streaming me, developing things that I can actually share, that I'm allowed to share, because I also have to consider the fact that working with this big client, I'm under a strict non disclosure agreement. So I can't, like, share everything, but I can share certain things that give you ideas on how you can solve your own problems. So, let me work this through my mind. I've been doing some cool stuff with some of the API tools that I've been using. And it's just mind blowing to me, like how much I know and then how much I just have to unlock in my own brain. And I say this because every one of you has that same superpower.
Unblocking Creative Flow
It's just a matter of being unblocked and unlocked. And then once you are, you're limitless at that point. Have any of you watched that movie limitless by chance? I mean, NZT is. Is a drug in that movie, but in reality, our N z T is the. Is the motivation that we get from Francesco or Varsha or Arendem and see what they do. And then we turn that back into energy for our own, like, motivations to be able to go out and do our own stuff. So that's where I'm at, and I'm sharing this because it's just, like, mind blowing to me. And this realization only came to me, like, over the last few days. Yeah. Thank you so much, Marina. I would like to share just two quick things. The first is that I think going live is always a good option. Of course, it depends on the kind of expectations.
The Importance of Format
And usually they start very small. But what is really important is a format like, people would expect what they are currently having by joining your. That specific, like, for example, on twitch. Now, I have this format when it's just me with laughing music and just talking. And that's a format that's different from what I do on YouTube, which basically I record a technical tutorial online. So there are two different things. And it's absolutely fine if someone wants to join just the Saturday ones or just the twitch ones. But I would like to give people a strong format of what they would expect. So maybe you can work on this. I think this is underrated. So just give people something that they might like. Some people will like it, some people will not. But you want to create a format that at least a group of people will like.
Self-Reflection and Strengths
And about the other stuff. Yes. About the like. Yes. I saw the movie limitless. And for example, for me, my strength and weakness is obsession. Because if I channel this in the wrong way, I've been doing this in the past, I can play video games for a whole month with barely eating and sleeping. But if I turn this into something useful for the community, then I basically can become a monster machine. But now it took me 40 years to figure this out. But maybe being obsessed with something can also be a superpower and not just a weakness, but this can also be a weakness. So it just depends. It's a double edged superpower. So that's, for example, it's me. But now I know myself probably way better than what I knew about myself 20 years ago.
Embracing Growth and Understanding
And now I'm using my skills to just shine and try to do the best as I can. And it's very important to understand which are your strengths and your weaknesses because I'm sure that we all have some of them. And that's it. Thank you, Maureen. Okay, I think that we are close to the end. Thank you so much everyone for joining. This has been a very nice and quick space. If we can call quick a space of 1 hour, maybe some spaces are at least three 4 hours. We call it a quick space. Quick 1 hour space. Thank you so much for joining. I think red spaces are a great format, great way to communicate quickly and effectively with all people in the community.
Looking Ahead and Community Engagement
Best of luck to everyone. I'll keep refreshing my YouTube channel because I'm getting very close to think there are eight people left. So this will be my activity in the next 30 minutes and then I will hopefully make announcement. I don't know, or maybe later. Thank you so much for joining and yes, take care and see you. I don't know if I'll make a live stream later, but I can promise.
