The sharpest ideas, honest moments, and quotable insights pulled straight from our conversations across OpenChannels FM.
The True Value and Challenge of the DevRel Role
“A DevRel person will shine as long as the company lets them shine, right? So if you give a dev rel a very short leash and you say like, oh, you are here under sales or under marketing or under engineering, and it’s like, you will never see the universe outside of this, like very fixed boundaries, it’s gonna backfire and basically you’re not allowing that position to flourish accordingly. And it’s a very beautiful role, right? It’s a very beautiful role. And if given the right liberty, it can do wonders. Happily for me, I’m the current company where I’m in, I’m actually doing this. So I have the right leash, the right amount of leash and the liberty and also the creativity. So I can totally express what I want and provide the feedback, come back and discuss further things. It’s a very misunderstood position and definitely different person. Shouldn’t be, shouldn’t be limited and also shouldn’t be like, yeah, should definitely have, like, how can I say it should be like a walking person that goes through all the departments say, hey, I learned about this, I learned about that.”
— Diana Todea, Episode 755
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The Web is Just So Vast and Broad in Terms of API
“There are a lot of other technologies that we can explore inside the browser and if we want this to be mediated by the browser and kind of looking at it like, obviously register protocol handler was one of the things I was looking at at one point, but there is the, like, there’s a lot of other things that we can do and, you know, there’s a world where the — again, I’m waffling like crazy at the moment now. But like maybe getting back to the original thing I was going to say was like, the double key cache is critical. Right. Like, we need that whole thing because we just don’t want to leak stuff. Um, but there are other solutions that might be possible for us to kind of actually work out how to actually have two instances communicate and talk to each other delegated with the user in control. And I just want one of those bits of. Just like the web is just so vast and broad in terms of APIs and technology that, you know, the solution might just be sitting in front of our face and we’ve just never considered it before.”
— Paul Kinlan on Episode 754
Rethinking Digital Freedom: Balancing Openness, Cost, and Usability
“And thinking about how the context around that freedom has changed as the world around us has evolved. And I think freedom is a benefit, but you always have to weigh up costs and benefits. Like if something is freer, but 50 times more expensive or slower or harder to use, then like freedom isn’t enough on its own, right? Like freedom could be a differentiator if everything else is equal because, or like near equal, because then that’s like a personal preference thing. Like, oh, I prefer to use this, right? I’ll take a bit of a hit for it.”
— David Lockie , Episode 720
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