This article originally appeared on 9 May 2020 on my personal blog — https://markan.me/right-to-remote For all its tragedy, the Covid crisis has created some interesting opportunities. One of them is a large scale trial of remote working. We have proven that it works, and it can be done. …

This story was originally published on Dev.to. A few days ago I took part in a lunch & learn session at work, where we discussed the paper Serverless Computing — One step forward, two steps back. …

So you’re a developer evangelist. What is it that you do in a typical day? Every time I get asked this question I freak out a little, impostor syndrome kicks in, and my brain goes into overdrive. I really want to give a good answer to this question - same…

On 27 January I received confirmation of my settled status as an EU 🇪🇺 citizen living in the UK 🇬🇧. Until 29 March 2019 that means pretty much nothing, but after that date, when the UK is set to leave the EU, it’s supposed to prove I’ve lived here long…

I’ve been thinking over the past few months that everything we do as developer relations practitioners is about enabling developers. Our activities may differ, and so might departments and organisations, and of course our job titles, yet we all have this one thing in common. Of course, developer enablement is…

Back in November 2017 I moved from full time software engineering work and started working as a developer evangelist. …

At the beginning of the year we ran a survey on the State of Kotlin, asking developers for their thoughts, opinions, and experiences, about the language, its ecosystem and how they learnt it. We’ve had a phenomenal response from over 2.5K Kotliners from all over the world (super impressive, given…

I’ve been going to conferences, and submitting talks to them for over 4 years now. Over this period I’ve tried a few different approaches for submitting the proposals to several conferences and tracking my success (and failures). …

One of my first bigger pieces of work I’ve started as an evangelist has been surveying the Kotlin developer ecosystem. This post explains why I’ve decided on it, how I’m doing it, where I hope this leads, and how Star Wars gets into everything it touches. Inspired by the State…