The Developer Advocate ToolKit: Software Tools You Need To Move Fast

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Trello Landing Page
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Trello

Infinitely flexible. Incredibly easy to use. Great mobile apps. It's free. Trello keeps track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details.
Pricing:
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $12.5 / Monthly (Per user - Business Class)
Trello: Developer Advocacy involves a lot of context switching. Trello helps me keep track of what I do in each context (videos, articles, writing sample code, etc.).

#Project Management #Task Management #Productivity 231 social mentions
Supabase Landing Page
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Supabase

An open source Firebase alternative
Pricing:
- Open Source
Supabase: Offers me a backend as a service plug-and-play platform. Auth, DB, and storage are all in the same place. As a frontend developer, I plug easily into Supabase.

#Developer Tools #Realtime Backend / API #Backend As A Service 428 social mentions
Speaker Deck Landing Page

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Speaker Deck

Speaker Deck is the best way to share presentations online.

SpeakerDeck: I like SpeakerDeck to share slides because it has a lightweight interface and provides nice embeds to use on your website.

#Slideshow #Presentations #Digital Publishing 1 social mentions
Slides Landing Page
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Slides

Slides is a place for creating, presenting and sharing presentations. The Slides editor is available right in your browser. Unlike traditional presentation software, like PowerPoint, there's no need to download anything.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Slides.com / Google Slides: These two are great for making and presenting slides. I use them interchangeably.

#Design Tools #Entertainment #Meme Generator 16 social mentions
Platform.sh Landing Page
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Platform.sh

Continuous deployment cloud hosting
Pricing:
- Open Source
Platform.sh: It's great for deploying and hosting all of my talks and tutorial app demos. Everything is in one place.

#Cloud Hosting #Web Hosting #Wordpress Hosting 35 social mentions
Cloudflare Pages Landing Page

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Cloudflare Pages

Deploy blazing fast static sites and serverless functions.

Cloudflare Pages: Great for shipping & hosting fast, secure JAMstack sites. Super awesome for frontend developers.

#Developer Tools #Static Site Generators #Cloud Computing 129 social mentions
OBS Studio Landing Page
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OBS Studio

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
OBS Studio: For talks and live streaming, I use OBS Studio, which gives me the flexibility and advanced features for screen recording.

#Video Recording #Screen Recording #Live Streaming 1061 social mentions
Obsidian.md Landing Page

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Obsidian.md

A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

Obsidian: It's great for writing. It's very distraction-free. I just write, no fancy buttons to grab my attention. I have ADHD, so obsidian does it for me!

#Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base #Markdown Editor 1453 social mentions
Notion Landing Page
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Notion

All-in-one workspace. One tool for your whole team. Write, plan, and get organized.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Notion: I organize most of my thought processes here. Think of Notion as a think pad. I get to keep and track my priority list. Video courses, articles, conference talks, demos. Etc.

#Productivity #Work Collaboration #Note Taking 438 social mentions
Netlify Landing Page

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Netlify

Build, deploy and host your static site or app with a drag and drop interface and automatic delpoys from GitHub or Bitbucket

Netlify: It's great for deploying and hosting SPAs, PWAs, serverless functions and JAMstack sites. All my demos and apps are deployed on Netlify.

#Cloud Computing #CDN #Content Distribution 104 social mentions
GitHub Landing Page
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GitHub

Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.
Pricing:
- Open Source
GitHub: Version control and code host for my demos. It's also great because of the automation benefits I get with the straightforward Netlify deployment.

#Code Collaboration #Git #Version Control 2037 social mentions
Figma Landing Page

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Figma

Team-based interface design, Figma lets you collaborate on designs in real time.

Figma: As a developer advocate, I use this for prototypes and slides. I know designers use this a lot, but I use this a lot for slides and demos at conferences. Each artboard is a slide. Once you enter the "present mode", you are good to go!

#Design Tools #Prototyping #Design Collaboration 101 social mentions
CleanShot X Landing Page

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CleanShot X

Capture your Mac’s screen like a PRO ⚡️

Cleanshot: Screenshot with wings. Great for screenshots and recording screens.

#Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots #Image Annotation 74 social mentions
Carbon Landing Page
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Carbon

Create and share beautiful images of your source code.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Carbon.now.sh: Create and share beautiful images of code snippets.

#Developer Tools #Web App #Productivity 167 social mentions
Buffer Landing Page
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Buffer

Buffer makes it super easy to share any page you're reading. Keep your Buffer topped up and we automagically share them for you through the day.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Buffer: Great for scheduling content to post on different social media platforms.

#Social Media Tools #Social Media Marketing #Twitter Tools 56 social mentions
AWS Mobile Services Landing Page

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AWS Mobile Services

Storage, Analytics, Push Notif. & SMS Delivery SDKs

AWS Amplify: Provides auth tools, great for creating and deploying serverless functions. With AWS Amplify, you can deploy static web apps faster as well. Great support for frontend frameworks and mobile.

#Developer Tools #Realtime Backend / API #App Development 77 social mentions