Introduction

The second day of the Hashnode boot camp was focused on building community, creating a better developer experience, and good insights on personal brand and career path inspiration.

Sessions

Trunk-based management and other principles to build a developer community - flo merian

Flo Merian opened the BootCamp on community building and management strategies. What I learned is to specify the needs of the community you are building or managing and nurture it in the sense of having an engagement and sustainable community. Imagine and ask you this question, "More channels or few channels?". This hypothesis by Flo explained to us the importance of having a few channels that can help members interact, engage, and contribute without confusion.

How to use Rix as a developer? - Ayodele Samuel Adebayo

If you don't know Rix, no worries, Ayodele Samuel Adebayo amazed us with this AI pair programming, web search, and even direct blog/topic search on hashnode tool. I'll give it a try. So Rix is basically like the "GitHub Copilot", it is free and available for everyone on the Hashnode Website, create your blog account and you have it, or install the browser extension, and you are good to go.

Fireside chat - Transition from Physics to tech - ericxtang

This inspiring session on a career path, Eric Tang was in Physics at University and transited into tech, and he is Co-founder of Livepeer Studio. So, Livepeer is a decentralized video streaming and transcoding platform that allows anyone to launch their live video or on-demand video services at a reasonable cost. Well, all this stuff is not our usual Web2, but Web3, and what is it, Eric introduced it to us. Let me just remind you of the bold words.

• Web3: It refers to the vision of a decentralized and distributed internet, where users have more control and ownership over their data, identity, and interactions

• Decentralized: It means there is no single point of failure or control in a system; decentralized systems (Nostr, PeerTube) are more resilient, secure, and transparent than centralized ones (Meta, Google) because they do not rely on a single entity or server to function.

Building a Personal Brand - Camila Ramos

Positioning your brand is the initial rule of building a brand. So, what is positioning and branding?

For me, positioning is all about targeting your audience and having a seat to sell yourself to them, this means finding a niche and establishing. Understand the audience you are targeting, and their needs and see what the competitors are doing to design your service to stand out from the crowd. And remember, learn to say no to a certain audience, because you can't be all things at the same time to all people. Build your brand to be unique, this means sacrifices; but, like Camila said every 'no' is a deeper 'yes' to the best audience that matters. Always be authentic and consistent, very important "Consistency is key".

Designing better developer experiences - Brandon Strittmatter

Outerbase's CEO and co-founder Brandon closed the day with how can we design a better Developer experience (DevEx). With Brandon's session, offering a better DevEx helps elevate your product and reach more audiences. It's resumed in the developer life cycle

So, for me, as I'm eagerly willing to become Developer Relations, this fits what I should do in my day-to-day job. To provide a better DevEx:

• Use modern design standards and best practices to create intuitive, consistent, and user-friendly interfaces and documentation.

• Create, deploy, and improve solutions or features to resolve developers' problems, and needs.

• Provide the latest update, and documentation to activate developers' curiosity

• Facilitate the use of the company product to developers, by creating good get-started documents, coding samples etc.

• Have a Developer Relations Team

Outro

I hope the speakers line up, topics and the awesome knowledge they are sharing with us motivate you to join us next time. Hopefully to see your comments and thank you for reading me.

Are you super excited to join some important sessions going on the hashnode BootCamp, do not hesitate and register on Hashnode BootCamp if yet, or join us for day 3 on 4th October 2023 -> Hashnode Bootcamp Day 3. It was me Geoffrey, thanks again and you can follow me on X (Twitter).