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Open Sauced, launched a new insights platform last week that aims to make it easier to start or contribute to open source projects — with an emphasis on inclusion. https://thenewstack.io/after-gith...

Readme Driven Development | Chance Strickland | The Secret Sauce Chance is passionate about design, user experience and accessibility. His focus is deep in the front-end; his primary tools are Java...

Contributing to Open Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q8l5eDJyoQ&feature=youtu.be

Supper Club × Open Sauced With bdougie In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with bdougie about his work on Open Sauced, thoughts on getting into open source development, and hi...

Doing What Others Don't Want to Do | Michael Chan | The Secret Sauce Michael Chan loves the web. He's a self-taught dev and DX Engineer at Chromatic. Join us as Michael speaks about his journey in ...

The Burden of an Open Source Maintainer | Jordan Harband | The Secret Sauce Jordan Harband is a pillar in the open source community. He has gradually come to create several open source projects all...

Open Source Influencers | Theo Browne | The Secret Sauce Mostly known for his content based around Typescript, React, and React Native, Theo Browne is now the CEO of Ping Labs and has made a name f...

Next.js Bet on the Web and Won | Lee Robinson of Vercel | The Secret Sauce Sat down to chat with Lee Robinson, VP of Developer Experience at Vercel. He shared his journey with React / Nextjs and ho...

Avi Press shares his journey on how answering the question, “who is using your package,” landed him on a path to building Scarf Gateway. https://youtu.be/Yt_IgHZD4v4

Katherine Oelsner, shares her journey that ultimately landed her a job at GitHub. Spoiler Alert: It was open source related. Tune in to hear The Secret Sauce! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUjwbd...

Supabase, the Open Source Firebase Alternative | Paul Copplestone of Supabase | The Secret Sauce Supabase, the open source Firebase alternative, is a platform which makes it incredibly easy to buil...

ShopTalk Show 521: GitHub Actions with Rizèl Scarlett and Brian Douglas Rizèl Scarlett & Brian Douglas chat with us about GitHub Actions and help us understand how to use Actions on your next proje...

DevRel for Open-Source Businesses Explained GitHub’s Brian Douglas and Vercel’s Lee Robinson on open-source community management, getting on GitHub Trending, and leveraging key nodes of your commun...

Getting Hired From Open Source | Matt Schrage of Fig | The Secret Sauce Fig, founded in Harvard, was born in 2020 as a way to make the terminal more productive for developers. I had a chat Matt Sch...

Grow Community Through Open Source | Fred K. Schott | The Secret Sauce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjujjSU_cOA Astro started 2021 as one of the most popular project for first time contributors ...

Contribute to Any GitHub Repository - Issues With Brian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_mGp5VKh-Q Join my live coding stream every Wednesdays and Fridays on Twitch Twitch 🎬 https://twitch.tv/bdou...

Making Money on Open Source | Feross Aboukhadijeh | The Secret Sauce Open source is always better with contributors, but most projects are clueless on how to sustain themselves financially. Listen ...

Over the past decades, many organizations have made strides to adopt DevOps in a bid to deliver better software faster. Automation is a key enabler for achieving success in DevOps — and one of the ...

As a developer, I don’t always prioritize security when I’m building new code. It’s not that I don’t care about security. At this point, no one needs a primer on why security matters. But actually ...

4 ways we use GitHub Actions to build GitHub From planning and tracking our work on GitHub Issues to using GitHub Discussions to gather your feedback and running our developer environments in Codes...

The First Two Dev Tools Installed On My M1 Mac I turned my blog post from a few weeks back into a video. I have been experimenting using blog posts as scripts for videos and like how it is scaling ...

Leveraging Supabase Data and Authentication - Issues with Brian I walk through the new project leverages Supabase to populate the data in hot.opensauced.pizza. https://youtu.be/1qee-r_sXEk

Find Your Next Open Source Contribution Contributing to open source is a great way to build your career and network, but how do you find a good issue to work on? I sat down with Jason to share how ...

The First Two Dev Tools Installed On My M1 Mac I was overdue for an upgrade at my day job and recently received a 16 inch M1 Macbook Pro. If you work at Tech Company as a developer, you get provide...

Open Source projects looking for contributors - Issues With Brian I am on a mission to create a place where folks can find open source projects looking for open source contributors. https://www.you...

Until recently, you had to copy and paste YAML files from one repository to another if you wanted to use them in more than one place. Reusable workflows, which officially launched in 2021 and offer...

Last week's Open Source Friday featured Ryan McHenry from Sharing Excess project. Sharing Access, a non-profit based in West Philly, and working on converting the surplus (5 million pounds) food th...

Had a great chat with Michael Chan to his developing story. https://twitter.com/bdougieYO/status/1488965451375808513

The startup I used to work at recently announced their series D funding round completed. That announcement mentions a 2 billion valuation (That's a lot). Not many folks get the opportunity to work ...

In episode 94 of JAMstack Radio, Brian Douglas speaks with Colin Chartier of Webapp.io. Together they explore some of the tools and practices that developers can use to elevate collaborative review...

Hosted a Twitter Spaced with Francesco to learn his trajectory into DevRel. Definitely worth a listen to how he went from University Educator and coach to Developer Advocate. https://twitter.com/bd...

Launched a nifty new project during the holiday break. A project to find your next open source contribution. Voting is coming very soon as well. https://hot.opensauced.pizza

Partnered with Red Hat to do a companion podcast with the ReadME podcast. Listen to both for the full experience. https://twitter.com/github/status/1468953776664973315?s=20

GitHub Copilot is now available on neovim. I walked through the setup and teach it how to exit VIM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YVAeAeP46w&t

Salma Alam-Naylor has had a unique path into developer relations. Learn about how she engages developers with content while calling on her previous experiences as a comedian and musician. https://g...

Check out some advanced automation and CI/CD capabilities you can use today with GitHub Actions on any GitHub account. https://github.blog/2021-11-18-7-advanced-workflow-automation-features-with-gi...

My team has been experimenting with YouTube shorts for the past few months. What I like about it is that it is a sandbox environment to test video content ideas. We have a bigger plan for this cont...

Tips on how to get started using GitHub Actions and resources to learn more about making it work for you. https://github.blog/2021-11-04-10-github-actions-resources-basics-ci-cd/

As Director of Developer Advocacy, GitHub is at the forefront of a lot of the developer engagement efforts - from understanding the pain points of those that use GitHub, to advocating for new initi...

From automating workflows to ordering pizza to building cloud pipelines, GitHub Actions can do a lot. Introduced in 2018, GitHub Actions offers powerful workflow automation and CI/CD functionality ...

Kedasha Kerr went from social worker to software engineer and was candid in sharing her mistakes along the way. In addition to that, she now creates developer content with the goal of opening the d...

GitHub Actions for Open Source Maintainers - GitHub Universe 2021 https://youtu.be/SFOn5JyKhPY

Anthony Sottile’s first foray into programming came in high school when he programmed the quadratic formula on his early-version TI-83 calculator. Learn how we went from there to maintainer of 70+ ...

GitHub is more than just source control. In this live session Cecil Phillip to share some things you might not know about GitHub. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFaao4g48Bs

Interviewed James from the TinaCMS project to learn how you can retain the benefits of a Git workflow for your content and empower all teammates to update your website through a user-friendly inter...

Learn how Theo pivoted from a career in code to eventually leaving the grind to start his own thing. https://www.thisdevelopingstory.com/episodes/tds-85-pro-skater-to-programmer

Sat down with the PodRocketPod team at LogRocket, to talk about developer content, Open Sauced, creating a personal brand, and pizza. https://podrocket.logrocket.com/bdougie

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMRQEcH8q/ This was fun to make and free a ton of engagement because of the comment at the end.

Katherine Peterson recently accepted a role as an engineer at GitHub. Join me in learning how she built one side project that got 7+ plus interviews at various companies and why she chose GitHub. h...

https://www.thisdevelopingstory.com/episodes/shaundai-person

Making these little snippets from my stream to chat through some open issues and pull requests. Always looking for more contributions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDLZER2EFvQ

We started to leverage YouTube shorts as a new way to engage with the community. If you asked me if would be making TikTok style videos for work, I think I would have laughed and then did the Rick ...

GitHub has powerful APIs, and with GitHub Actions, we can do just about anything on GitHub through code. I sat down with Gregor Martynus to learn how to embed GitHub Apps into Actions. https://www....

Made my first Blockchain tutorial series. Check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJjj2b2dEMI

2020 was a great year for DevRel at GitHub. https://www.programmableweb.com/news/how-brian-douglas-team-10-developer-advocates-supports-github-s-65-million-developers/analysis/2021/05/11

Changing the hardware development game at Adafruit In 2005, Limor Fried was procrastinating on her thesis at MIT when she built her own MP3 player. After posting about it online, people asked if Li...

GitHub Copilot is available today as a new Visual Studio Code extension. It works wherever Visual Studio Code works — on your machine or in the cloud on GitHub Codespaces. And it’s fast enough to u...

Fixed a bug and wrote docs while doing it. https://github.com/open-sauced/open-sauced/pull/1034

Brian Douglas is a Staff Developer Advocate at GitHub. He talks to Scott about his journey (and YOUR journey) into Open Source and community! Anyone can do it! https://hanselminutes.simplecast.com/...

In episode 80 of JAMstack Radio, Brian speaks with Alex Trost of Prismic. They discuss the growing prevalence of headless CMSes, tips for building out developer experience teams, expressing appreci...

Script updates across multiple GitHub repositories with Octoherd In this video I walk through, What is Octoherd? And how to leverage it to automate my workflow. https://youtu.be/tlVL7B_NUn8

Developer Workflow Automation with GitHub Actions (CI/CD) The goal of DevOps has stayed the same, but our tools, infrastructure, and operating models have changed. To support modern software delive...

Azure + GitHub Actions DevOps goals have stayed the same over the year, but our tools, infrastructure, and operating models have changed. This talk will cover how existing projects are using GitHub...

Open Source Hospitality Today open source is ubiquitous and comprises nearly 80–90 percent of the code in a “typical” application. Based on GitHub’s 2019 Octoverse, the average project is built on ...

How one idea grew into a popular JavaScript ecosystem Evan You came to the U.S. from China when he was 18, and ended up at Parsons for a Master’s of Fine Arts in design and coding. He landed his dr...

Today we’re introducing The ReadME Podcast, a GitHub podcast that takes a peek behind the curtain of some of the most impactful open source projects, and the developers who make them happen. Join m...

How GitHub pivoted its entire DevRel strategy. https://www.programmableweb.com/news/how-brian-douglas-team-10-developer-advocates-supports-github-s-56-million-developers/analysis/2021/05/11

Can you believe this off the dome? https://twitter.com/bdougieyo/status/1392556133777174532?s=21

Building Credibility With Developer Focused Content - This Developing Story Curious how you can grow your credibility with developer content? I sit down with +Colby Fayock and chat about how you ca...