Developer Education – Don’t Underestimate Your Own Expertise with Megan Sullivan

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Twitter Ads

I think that Twitter has been huge for me, even in the last year or two. I feel like I wasn't really…I was like a lurker on Twitter for a while. But I feel like I've just recently started doing more engaging with actual people and asking questions and posting resources that I find that I think are cool. And so as you build a following that way, like if you're putting out content of just like, hey, here's the thing that I learned, even if you're not an expert at it just saying, "I learned this thing," and maybe it will help someone else.

#Marketing #Ad Networks #Marketing Platform 1 social mentions

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Obsidian.md

Megan: There you go. But that's huge. And I feel like as somebody who's learning stuff, it helps to have those people where it's like, oh, I don't know...like right now, I'm learning about Obsidian. I've heard people talking about it forever, not forever but recently. And so I just tweeted something like, "Hey, I want to learn this thing. What resources do you have, internet people?" And people showed up and were like, "Oh, look at this thread." I've got a bunch of really cool resources now.

#Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base #Markdown Editor 1453 social mentions

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Next.js

Megan: I think that you can just kind of do it. The beautiful thing about the internet is that Dev.to exists. You can roll your own WordPress blog or even something with Gatsby or Next. You can roll your own website relatively easily. And so you can just write stuff and then put it out there.

#Developer Tools #Web Frameworks #JavaScript Framework 919 social mentions

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GraphQL

Megan: Yeah. Well, and especially something like Apollo, where they've got a bunch of different…They've got a bunch of different packages depending on whether you're working on the server-side or whether you're working on the front end. So I think that they do a really good job of showing the connection between those boundaries and explaining why. Why do we care about GraphQL? Why do we care about how the system is set up?

#Developer Tools #Web Frameworks #JavaScript Framework 223 social mentions

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DEV.to

Megan: I think that you can just kind of do it. The beautiful thing about the internet is that Dev.to exists. You can roll your own WordPress blog or even something with Gatsby or Next. You can roll your own website relatively easily. And so you can just write stuff and then put it out there.

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 384 social mentions

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CodePen

They have some that are like multiple choice, but they also have some that are like CodePens where it'll be like, do this little exercise and then run it. And it'll check your code snippet against a set of tests and tell you what things you got wrong. I feel like I'm getting sidetracked because I love it so much. It's so cool.

#Text Editors #Programming #Code Collaboration 484 social mentions

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Code.org

And so, after college, I went into education. I did an AmeriCorps program for a year where I was working with third graders, and kindergarteners, and first graders, which was a lot of fun. And then, after that, I worked at a couple of CS education non-profits doing curriculum writing. So I was on the education team at Code.org for a little while as an intern.

#Online Learning #Kids Education #Online Education 385 social mentions