DevRel Scribbles
  • What are Scribbles?
  • Index
  • Developer Advocacy
  • Developer Advocates
  • Life as a developer advocate
  • Modernising Red Hat’s enterprise developer program
  • Engaging 9-year-old software developers
  • Making 22-year-olds love 26-year-old software
  • Dogfooding developer products: gathering insights from internal hackathons
  • How far does your ethical responsibility stretch for the tech your devs create?
  • Outside the lecture theatre
  • How do you design programs for diversity?
  • Build the Platform Your Developers Actually Want
  • Measuring dev rel programs far beyond marketing activities
  • Developer Evangelism
    • Developer Evangelists
    • How to rock a technical keynote
    • The Art of Slide Design
    • The Art of Talk Design
    • The Art of Story Design
    • Dev events beyond 2021
  • Developer Experience
    • The Power of Content
    • Building a Developer Community in an Enterprise World
    • How to lose a dev in three ways
    • Developer relations, why is it needed?
    • The hierarchy of developer needs
    • GitHub is your documentation landing page
    • Docs as engineering
    • Commit messages vs. release notes
    • A11y pal(ly)- crafting universally good docs
    • Inspiring and empowering users to become great writers, and why that’s important
    • Solving internal technical documentation at Spotify
  • Community Management
    • Building community flywheels
    • DevRel = Community Management?
    • Creating high-quality communities
    • How to grow a healthy Open-Source community?
    • Managing communities at scale
    • Using community to drive growth
    • Useful community success metrics
    • Communities aren't funnels
    • How to mobilise your community during a pandemic
  • Managing a DevRel Team
    • Developer Relations + Product
    • Distributed developer relations
    • Understanding company goals
    • DevRel Qualified Leads (DQL)
    • Path to success for DevRel
    • How to move up in your organization
    • Four pillars of DevRel
    • Building your DevRel dream team
    • Managing the burnout burn-down
    • I messed up and I’m going to get fired
    • How to report on community relationships without being creepy about it
    • How to scale a developer relations team
  • Misc
    • Is developer relations right for you?
    • Tooling your way to a great DevRel Team
    • Planning your DevRel career
    • Success metrics as narratives
    • Get executive buy-in or else
    • Introduction to the AAARRRP devrel strategy framework
    • Strategy for developer outreach
    • Connecting dev rel and product
    • Performance DevRel
    • Ultimate cheat codes for healthier travel
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  1. Misc

Ultimate cheat codes for healthier travel

Travel has been a significant part of the life of many dev rel practitioners. In this talk from DevRelCon London 2019, Alyss Noland shares her advice on how to stay healthy and happy while travelling.

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Summary:

  • Make sure you are finding a suitable flight that fits in your schedule.

  • For more organised packing -- use packing cubes.

  • Sleep is important.

    • Use time shifter apps to track time and schedule in a more efficient way.

  • Planes

    • Have a neck pillow.

    • Have a scarf.

    • Earplugs

    • Do whatever it takes in order to sleep. You know how you sleep best.

  • Hydration

    • Make sure you keep hydrated.

    • Planes are very dehydrating.

    • Carry an extra bottle of water.

Scribbles:

Airline Troubles:

  • What happens when you have a cancelled and delayed flight?

    • Within the EU, if you land here if you get delayed here, you end up getting the compensation of some kind.

    • In the U.S

      • Regulations aren’t as good.

Packing:

  • Using packing cubes.

    • Can take them out of my bag and set them out.

    • Easy way to keep track of what’s dirty, what’s clean. and you can even get some that are more specific for dress wear.

Sleep

  • Makes us feel functional.

  • We’re in events a lot where we may be expected to drink.

  • There may be a lot of coffee.

  • Sleep deprivation is literally torture.

    • It is not allowed under the Geneva Convention.

  • Doctor if for some reason you need additional assistance.

  • Time shifter apps

    • When you should get some sun.

    • When you should wear sunglasses.

    • When you should avoid sunlight.

    • When you should avoid caffeine.

  • Planes.

    • Have a neck pillow.

    • Have a scarf.

    • Earplugs

    • Do whatever it takes in order to sleep. You know how you sleep best.

Hydration

  • Most planes have humidity levels of around 20%.

  • Staying hydrated on planes.

    • Bring a water bottle and refill it.

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