Over many months of abandonment, a thick layer of dust has settled all over this digital space. Despite an occasional tingling of my fingers I never took the proper time to reunite with my keyboard to encapture my everyday within words, until today. What changed and made me attempt to bring this page back to life? Kinda everything, read on.

Every time someone is kind enough to ask what I currently do, there is no smiling or nodding anymore. Usually they drop their jaw in confusion and stand with their mouth open with an “aaahhh”, ask to repeat the job name again, or, my favourite, throw a very uncomfortable “that’s so interesting”! without any follow up question. If that would be you as well, read on - this post should give you more clarity on who a DevRel is.

I've been busy. If you know me at least a little you may know that I take quick decisions and have a tendency to flip my life upside down. Last time it happened 5 years ago when I decided to leave my country and start a new coding career from scratch. This time I didn't move places, but fell into the rabbit hole of web3 (you know, blockchain, crypto and that kind of stuff), started a new job and quit after 10 days, created an online course from scratch and also decided to leave software engineering behind me. In fact, so much has happened over the last two months that for the sake of my own sanity I decided to write (some of) it down.

Please don’t. At least not in the literal sense of self teaching - independently, without a community and support. It will save you time, limitless frustration and avoid learning bad habits and patterns. Read more if you want to know why community is so important in the learning process, at least in my own humble opinion.

How a couple of days in bed reminded me yet again to slow down and be grateful. At this point, I’m still in bed. Let’s hope the reminder will stay with me beyond that though.

If you are familiar with the coding world at least a little bit you probably agree with me that I couldn't come up with a more cliché title for the first post. But that's entire point of it as this page is meant to be just a regular, down to earth space without trying to be extraordinary.