Stop writing SEO-first! These are the 4 types of DevRel content (plus their Leading Themes)
Discover how to classify DevRel content to understand what works for your team. Learn about 4 content types, their goals, and leading themes.
Salma Alam-Naylor
United Kingdom
Salma writes code for your entertainment. She specialises in streaming live coding, and loves helping people get into tech. After a career as a music teacher and comedian, Salma transitioned to technology in 2014, working as a front end developer and tech lead for startups, agencies and global e-commerce. Active in the developer community, Salma is a GitHub Star, Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, winner of the Jamstack Conf Community Creator Award 2021, and a partnered Twitch streamer where she builds weird websites, roasts your code, and chats about the tech industry every week. She'll also try to make you laugh with tech jokes.
Community Contributions
Your live coding stream does not need a bigger audience
There's a growing and gamified pressure from live streaming platforms like Twitch and YouTube to increase your viewer count and "get more engagement". But, with particular types of content like live coding, this often only benefits the platform itself 💸. I believe you don't actually need a large audience for a live coding stream, and smaller audiences are more preferable and beneficial to you as a streamer.
Defining paths to business value in Developer Relations
This post is not about measuring success in DevRel, but about making an impact in a way only DevRel can do, and should be doing.
How I show Bluesky likes on my blog posts
Learn how to use the Bluesky API to show likes and Bluesky user avatars on your blog posts when you share them on Bluesky.
Contribution to Open Source project
I added Bluesky link support to Wes Bos' awesome-uses project.
State of Front End 2024
I had the privilege of providing my thoughts on the accessibility section, and the honour of working on this report alongside many legends in tech.
Entertainment as Code @ Web Unleashed
Imagine if we could blur the lines between a streamer being live and offline on Twitch. What if we could create a world where people could interact with a live stream, not just when it’s live but when it’s offline as well? What if we could create a game that people could play on a stream, and what if that game didn’t stop when the stream ends?
Taking inspiration from music, education, and the thrill of live performance, Entertainment As Code redefines Twitch live coding streams. It showcases how you can create a live coding show on Twitch that is fun, entertaining, and a little bit addictive, not just through the code you write on the stream, but through the code you write for the stream.
Entertainment as Code: Finale
Imagine if we could blur the lines between a streamer being live and offline on Twitch. And what if the game didn’t stop when the stream ends?
