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What I worked on with Mastodon in 2023.

Back in May, Eugen announced that I’d joined the team at Mastodon gGmbH, to look after Developer Relations. I was helping out in different ways, and getting to know the community across different Fediverse projects, since the start of the year; it was great to be able to spend a small portion of my freelance time working on something that I personally believe in, that I’m excited about, and where…

The real paradigm shift in software engineering is moving from passive LLMs to Agentic AI, systems that don't just generate text, but autonomously plan, orchestrate external tools, and self-correct when encountering errors.

We just published a foundational breakdown of the three pillars of autonomous systems. If you're building next-gen workflows, you need to understand this architecture.

👉 Dive into the full analysis on our Mirror blog:

Fractional DevRel leader and indie founder. I help devtool and API companies turn great products into thriving developer ecosystems, and I build tools that make that easier.

What I’m building right now

DevRel Bridge I partner with B2B SaaS teams on developer relations strategy, onboarding, documentation, SDKs, and community programs that drive activation and usage. If you want developer-first GTM, DX audits, or content that converts, start here: https://devrelbridge.com

LinkIntel A privacy-first LinkedIn analytics dashboard for company pages. Upload your exports to uncover content performance trends, best time to post, audience growth, and competitor benchmarking. No account access required. See it here: https://www.getlinkintel.com/

I had some fun post from my friends at Glitch today! #100DaysToOffload

I realised that I've been making podcasts for over 15 years; here are some of the places you can find me. #100DaysToOffload

I’ve been a regular podcaster for, wow, around 15 (!) years now. More or less…[1] After some occasional guest appearances early in the run of on a show called “Dogear Nation”, back in 2009 I moved up to a regular slot as a co-host, with my friends (and, at that time, IBM colleagues) Michael Martine and Michael Rowe. That show ran for 200 episodes in total, and then after a short break, the same…

AI, exoskeleton innovations, ghost jobs, remarkably efficient solar power. The future’s so bright, we have to wear Ray Ban Meta shades.

Photo by Iggy Love on Unsplash Published 8 July 2024 Michael M and Michael R get together to talk through this week’s stories while Andy is away.  In this episode, Michael and Michael dive deep into a variety of AI themes, including regulation, getting OpenAI to reveal instruction sets, mocap before turning to ghost jobs, new exoskeletons and Meta’s Ray Bans. Michael and Michael share Andy’s…

We’ve recently had several pieces published on other websites, so I thought we should link them together. Here is a short piece on Ubuntu security on OCI here. Another here (DZone) on the use of Solace for multi-cloud messaging. We’re expecting another article to appear here in the New Year as well. Plus, the book is moving along at a very nice pace – we’ve got a separate post for that. On…

Last week, I had the pleasure of talking to the Dublin #DevRel Meetup, organised by my friends at Voxgig – all about Developer Relations in the era of “Community Everywhere”. I covered a range of the current and emerging social platforms where we can connect with our communities, and later in the session I talked more specifically about what’s new in Mastodon 4.2. What is “Community Everywhere”?…