KJayMiller-Blog

I'm wondering if I'm reaching my DevRel limit.

In July I ran a fundraising campaign for Black Python Devs with a deliberately small ask: $7, from 7 different people, every day, for 31 days.

So one of the things that I'm really interested in is the idea of having a daily record that I keep for myself.

[Render Engine] is now testing against 3.15.

it is a personal problem but I struggle with writing things down that I don't find to be important to remember.

I use AI (I apologize if you saw this as a raw AI post that was a mistake that AI created).

Before I say this: I'm writing it because I care about the people of these communities and of the Open Source Software (OSS) world more than I do their projects.

I've been avoiding writing this because it feels incredibly personal to be talking about.

On Conduit, we recently talked about networking.

It's the end of another year in BPD and I wanted to check in with those that follow and support our work.

5 years of Jaysies In 2020, I made up an award that I give to folks.

T'was the week before Christmas (Don't worry the rest of the blog post won't rhyme).

Finishing Carol Willing's keynote from PyBeach.

A few weeks ago, I spent my days with the wonderful attendees of PGConf NYC 2025.

I do my best to go watch the Atlanta Braves on every #LosBravosNight and have done so three out of the last four years.

On September 9th, I spoke (virtually) at the San Francisco Bay Area PostgreSQL User Group.

Because I looked online for a list of project ideas and couldn't find one.

While working on my plant-tracker, I wanted to learn more about what was available in my grow sensors...

Working with beginning contributors (and their AI tools), I notice they are eager to do the task and not eager to question should the task even be done.

I've been working on making my content more accessible by people and large language models alike.

NOTE My title was recently changed AGAIN to Staff Product Advocate which only strengthens the argument that these titles don't matter.

I was surprised how easy it was to include pgvectorscale to your instance.

I finally fixed a very annoying issue with frontmatter-check.

I started wanting to ingest more and more content for AI (because I do like using it to learn things from and about myself).

I finished reading Ashley's Post on What is DevRel (2025 Edition).

Earlier today, the 100th Episode of Conduit came out.

I spent the last week in Chicago ~watching the Cubs play~ participating in a week of PostgreSQL.

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I didn't want to write a break up letter with X.com (formerly Twitter).

So my team is hiring a Developer Advocate and I want to share with you what I think we need for the role.

Unfortunately we had several things get in the way this quarter so we did a mini systems-check in our post show.

So happy to see Akamai posting roles on Black Tech Pipeline.

I recently made the decision to become better versed in PostgreSQL.

I'm spoiled...

Two of my colleagues convinced me to make the switch from Creality1 to Bambu Lab.

WARNING making excuses for myself I want to write this because I feel I need to write this.

IMPORTANT Missing Data Added It appears that in trying to search for data in the resolutions page.

Wow 2024 was super busy.

Last week I received an email that I had hoped to one day receive.

A conversation with a Django Software Foundation (DSF) member led to the question: "How long do you need to be in the community to benefit from it?"

So at work I'm on this amazing project and one of the things that I'm learning in the process is the idea of validation and pre-validation.

I'm on a new team at work temporarily and I this was something that I was so excited about.

All the videos for DjangoCon US 2024 Perspectives are now live.

I have a feeling that I won't be able to attend as many Python events on behalf of my employer next year so I am throwing out there a list of talks that I'm planning on submitting.

Another Layoff!

Someone in the BPD Open Source Program mentioned that they were "tired" of doing things like documentation and test updates.

I'm a big fan of giving people easy tasks to entice them into contributing.

Any maintainers in the past post issues that they don’t like purely to see if someone has a good reason that it should implemented?

We've all been there.

My keynote for PyCon US around Black Python Devs is now available on Youtube!