What happened last week - issue #20
This week: CI/CD, a lot of DevRel, migrating to PHP 8 and much more
What happened last week
Time for the first issue in the year 2023. I hope you spent your Christmas and New Year a bit better than me - we had a minor flu pandemic in-house.
Still, I’m happy about the time off. It gave me a chance to reset a bit and charge my batteries. Looking forward to the rest of the year, and I hope it will be full of exciting challenges and as stress-free as possible.
Interesting links
How to Measure the Value of Developer Relations — Kim Maida
Kim described how to measure the value of Developer Relations. I really like the approach. I agree it’s not a silver bullet and requires some tweaking based on your business. But it’s a great foundation that can help you, especially when your DevRel team grows.
DevRel as a Service — Shawn Wang
This is a fascinating article about scaling Developer Relations in your company. Shawn Wang points out some common problems we can encounter. I really enjoyed the Elements of DevRel Infrastructure section.
Creating custom actions in Buddy — Maciek Palmowski
My favorite CI/CD tool, Buddy, has released a new feature called Custom Actions. This article explains how to create those actions using my little CLI tool.
How to migrate your code from PHP 7.4 to 8.1 — Paul Gilzow
As you probably know - PHP 7.4 has reached end-of-life. It’s sad, but it’s time to move on and migrate to PHP 8. In this article, Paul shows some cool tricks to help us do this quickly and painlessly.
Craft CMS Developer Benchmark Results 2022 — Matt Ellis
Matt from Honcho Agency published the results of the Craft CMS Developer Benchmark. There are quite a few interesting pieces of information inside. I’m surprised that so many users have been using Craft for that long.
Is it worth migrating from Revue to Substack? — Maciek Palmowski
If you are still using Revue and looking for an alternative, I suggest Substack. I’m writing the 20th issue right now, and it’s still a pleasure.
And how was your week? Did you learn something interesting? Don’t hesitate to press the reply button or share your thoughts in the comment section.
Cheers,
Maciek