I'm Cassidy, I teach coding and create fun videos on the internet. AMA 👇

@val_pinkman If your customers are developers, you need to care about their experience. Just like how user experience specialists are important for products to work well, developer experience specialists are important if you want developers to work well with your APIs/SDKs/platforms!

@cassidoo thanks for answer ;)

@mehdi_benadel That depends 😉

@cannikin Hey! My day-to-day varies a lot. Sometimes it's a lot of coding, sometimes it's a lot of meetings, sometimes it's a day of writing, sometimes it's a day of speaking, and sometimes it's a combo of all of the above! It's definitely a "jack of all trades" kind of role. On documentation, our team does weekly rotations where one of us works with our documentation team to both help improve the docs website, as well as help refine wording and code samples. As for the product, we have regular meetings with both engineering and product management teams about our learnings, and advise on decisions. We're regularly "developer 0" for new features as well, where if we find a bug or something weird in something that hasn't been released publicly yet, we talk it out with them so that we can have something very vetted once it goes public.

@jamifyjs Hey! Gosh, I always am, but pretty much everything right now is very much works-in-progress. I want to get on the micro-SaaS train and try releasing some small ones, but most things are half-written... so hopefully I'll have a better answer for you later 😅

@cassidoo sounds good! Looks like there is something cooking ;-) Psst...

@daniel_uhl I'd say to start working in public! Share your learnings, even if they feel embarrassing, and give back as much as you can. That pays dividends!

@lee_hee_jae I have a whole guide on this! cass.run/gig As for specifically a job abroad, I admit I don't have a lot of experience in this area, so I don't know if I'll be very helpful for you. I've heard good things about https://www.remote.io/ though!

@cassidoo wow cass.run/gig looks really good. I've heard that site, I should check it out. Thanks

@anthkris This can really vary from person to person. I tend to pick a project that interests me (and that kind of scares me, because I don't fully know how I'll implement it), and try to work on it after work. I've found though that often when the work day is busy, I don't have much energy to work afterwards on my projects, so I'll often switch to working a little bit before the workday starts. It really depends on you!

@fernandocomet Hmm, I admit I don't have a post on hand! That being said, I recommend watching other teachers to see which styles you might want to adopt. That really, really helped me develop my own teaching style.

@timsitorus1 ayyyy friend! 1) ...I admit I didn't dress up 😶 I wanted to but was very indoors watching TV instead hahaha. 2) I have, oh man. I actually turned down CodePen at first before actually working for them. I realized my mistake very quickly and went back asking them to take me back a few months later! There have been other companies too where I genuinely really like the people, but the fit just hasn't been right at the time. I've definitely tried to keep in touch with those places though, in case something ever changes.

@vivian_vosu I haven't but I would LOVE to. Truly a dream that I just haven't made time for yet!