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It brings me great joy and satisfaction to work on tools and then start seeing them in more and more developer toolboxes! High fives to the Jet Brains team for this addition and making developers' ...

Answering the same question three times in a week can only one thing...

Building blocky blocks to visualise OpenAPI

Design-first APIs with Open API

I talk about my job in my work with STEMAmbassadors, I always try to say why I find my career fulfilling and why I think it’s a great fit for me, hoping others will see something they can relate to

Computers are NOT just for boys!

#OPENAPI

#DevRel people are the best community contributors I know.

It says something about my state of mind that my todo list is currently split into sections labelled "Soon" and "Later". Because a while ago I was using a system where the sections were called "Inf...

"Write your release notes like you are explaining them to a friend. Preferably one with a degree in history or anthropology, not in computer science."

Redocly brings enhanced OpenAPI experience to JetBrains IDEs

DevRel people are the best community contributors!

API Tool....thoughts?

The video of my talk from the excellent #WTFisSRE conference a couple of weeks ago is now available. Check out "API Experience is Developer Experience" https://lrnja.net/3Wl3OxH #DevX

Today's #StateOfOpenSubset session from @AmandaBrockUK was a bit controversial but also inspiring :) We need to pay attention to open source and its growth, to plan for its future. Do your bit: spe...

I have been thinking about my PHP family today. Look who came home in my handbag this evening! Thanks to @juliadoesthat for being my surprise PHPpost person and excellent dinner date tonight :)

Demo repo uses blockly to visualise structure of OpenAPI

Today's talk is "OpenAPI for Documentarians" at #APItheDocs in Amsterdam. I show the OpenAPI document structure as a block representation, and give tips on tools that can help writers to wrangle AP...

This was recorded a while ago, but I had a great time chatting with Holly Cummins and generally solving the problems of the (cloud) world! #GotoCPH Moving to the cloud helps teams be more agile and...

Tips for better documentation with OpenAPI

OpenAPI for documentarians

Measuring Open Source Community Health with the CHAOSS Project

#AppDevCon ...

QCON LONDON

Lots of great advice from Steph Egan at this morning on how to enable developers to be even more awesome. This advice to make something visible and measured when you want to change it is very wise ...

Really enjoying seeing talks that cover similar smelling problems from other domains. The Schema/Data/API Governance/Discovery problems (delete from both columns as appropriate) all benefit from si...

Telling my new colleagues that I quite often break things and hearing everyone I have ever worked with in the past laughing and yelling "understatement" in my mind. We all have our own superpowers,...

The most important part of documentation is knowing what you are writing, and for whom. Tech writing best practices post and the content structure tips are very good https://lrnja.net/3ztIT0L #Link...

TIL about command line tool comm - given two files containing sorted lines, it shows which entries are only in the first file, or the second file, or both. I was comparing a list of config options ...

WTFisSRE Resources.

Accessibility is part of the Developer Experience.

WTF is SRE? Conference.

Join us in Amsterdam

API Governance without tears...

End Point Conference

Raising the Next Generation of DevRel

#LinkTuesday

I'm excited to be back in the API, Open Source and DevTools spaces!

As it should be!

International Women's Day.

Solving the problems of the cloud world...

"I've gotten more support here from an inanimate language model than I ever did from a senior engineering "mentor" during my career."

Starting my year off on a big high..

The only thing more strange than living through a major layoffs / re-org experience is... resigning a few hours before it happens.

Repeatable Apache Kafka topic setup with Terrafrom

#LeadDevWrapped

Generating a nice-looking PDF with Pandoc.

The Thing About Using ChatGPT for API Design

New Year, Big High!

Some great advice here on how to think about the types of content getting published, and how those different types serve our users

Write documentation like you develop code

Engineering Documentation

Spent my evening at a virtual online @OpenRightsGroupevent about the UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.

Our team had a blast at #Current22! The event broadened the scope of the former #KafkaSummit to include many data streaming technologies. Read on for our personal highlights, and learn what's new i...

This post from @jkriggins is long form and packed with solid advice for building better everything: Accessibility Is Part of the Developer Experience "actions that support accessibility typically e...

Some wise under-engineering advice coming next at #GOTOcph from @JessicaCregg. Investing the effort to get the requirements nailed down so that we can engineer only what we actually need

I'm delighted to have joined the board at OpenUK! OpenUK is the UK Organisation for the business of Open Technology being open source software, open hardware and open data “The 3 Opens”. OpenUK’s p...

Next up at #GOTOcph is @codepo8 ....and the room is packed! His slides are in fact a website, which makes total sense for an Edge advocate speaking about developer tools https://codepo8.github.io/m...

VS Code for Setup for Tech Writers Here's the plugins on my list https://lornajane.net/posts/2022/vscode-setup-for-technical-writers… in case you're interested!

Neglecting Open Source Developers Puts the Internet at Risk Reflecting on the log4j problems from last year, as a representation of what we should expect from open source projects, and from ourselv...

Internal DevRel: Colleague Enablement I work in Developer Relations for a very technical company (Aiven), and I usually describe my job as half explaining my employer's technology to developers, an...

Hoss Talks Foss #54 A fun opportunity to hang out and talk open source, databases, and really anything else that came to mind with Matt Yonkovit of Percona. I am such a fan of this series, and felt...

Attended "Be a Brilliant People Developer" training course. I'm new to management but I'm trying to get it as right as I can, and learning as I go!