[Weekend Drop] Why Invest in Developer Community? GitHub OCTO Speaker Series

<ul> <li>Video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN9FphNMJbY">https://octo.github.com/speakerseries/swyx</a> </li> <li>Blog Post: <a href="https://codingcareer.circle.so/c/dx-blog/technical-community-builder-is-the-hottest-new-job-in-tech">https://codingcareer.circle.so/c/dx-blog/technical-community-builder-is-the-hottest-new-job-in-tech</a> </li> <li>Slide dec: <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WGCfellGTboDwtM_D9uMwsHtD0qCFeBv6AYNUSxlDLg/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WGCfellGTboDwtM_D9uMwsHtD0qCFeBv6AYNUSxlDLg/edit?usp=sharing</a> </li> <li>My talk at Heroku's conference where I met Idan: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_w1YWCHXFg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_w1YWCHXFg</a> </li> </ul><p><br><strong>Timestamps</strong></p><ul> <li>00:01:17 Intro presentation on Why Dev Community</li> <li>00:16:15 Discussion between Idan, Brian, and Swyx</li> </ul><p><br><strong>Transcript</strong></p><p><strong>swyx: </strong>[00:00:00] Hey everyone! On weekends, we do long form audio from one of my conversations with people. </p><p>[00:00:06] And a few months ago, I published an article on why technical community building is the hardest new job in tech. And it got a lot of traction. In fact, some of the other weekend drops on this podcast are related to that. Podcasts, but I was invited by the GitHub office of the CTO to talk about it. </p><p>[00:00:25] These are two people that I knew from prior engagements before. Idan Gazit. I actually  met at the Heroku conference. When I spoke aboutNetlify CLI and Netlify Dev. And then Brian Douglas, BDougie , it was the dev advocate at Netlify before any of us were dev because another fi. So he kind of pioneered and originated the role, which I stepped into. </p><p>[00:00:46] And both of them are just very well. The tunes to dev community. So I thought we had a really good conversation. About it. So the first part of this talk basically is me presenting a few slides on the, my thoughts on dev community. And then it