Working on a “developer experience” project. If you’re a software dev, what do you like or dislike about the “DevEx” at your company? How’s onboarding? Knowledge sharing? Do you have an internal developer portal/platform? #DeveloperExperience #DevEx #DX #SoftwareEngineering

I've noticed more software seems to be doing this, and I love it. The user may be wrong, the user perhaps should have RTFM'd, but our job as developers is to make their lives easy and the software enjoyable to use, not fight with.

#devex

#DevEx is gaining a lot of traction during last years. This article is a great intro with the main points.

«Developer experience focuses on the lived experience of developers and the points of friction they encounter in their everyday work. In addition to improving productivity, DevEx drives business performance through increased efficiency, product quality, and employee retention.»

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595878

What Does This #DevEx Engineer Do? https://rmoff.net/2023/05/23/what-does-this-devex-engineer-do/

#DevRel

The #DeveloperExperience on #DuckDB is :chefkiss:

#DevEx #DevRel #noxp

I like this article by Kyeongsun Park about writing more useful error messages https://medium.com/@gngsn/writing-optimized-error-message-learning-googles-way-8f6a5e1b8705

#error #software #development #DevEx #devrel

#ChatGPT is seriously impressive.

I could have had a go at writing this answer about #DevRel and #DevEx but it'd have taken a lot more than the 5-10 seconds it took the bot to churn it out.

What is #DevEx / #DeveloperExperience? *This* is 👇

Why make your devs look up the syntax for a command, when instead you can provide it in the context for them when they're likely to need it?

"How was connecting to this source?"

I mean…it would have been better if your survey didn't hide the button that I need to click on to actually create the damned thing … #UX #DevEx