#opensource
Making Our Open Source Communities More Like Starfish
Ideas for fostering more resilient open source software communities gleaned from one of the world's most humble animals
Ben Greenberg6 min reado
Articles by @orbit
Browse the latest writing surfaced through DevArt.
Ben Greenberg6 min read
#ruby#tutorial
How to Add DEV Comments to Your Orbit Workspace With Ruby
A step by step guide to bringing DEV blog post comments into your Orbit workspace with the DEV and Orbit APIs and Ruby
Ben Greenberg8 min read
#ruby#rails#storybook#viewcomponent
Building a Component Library in Rails With Storybook
In recent years, the Rails ecosystem improved by leaps and bounds and is catching up with the evoluti...
Nicolas Goutay13 min read
#career#motivation
My Surprising Journey To Working At Orbit
My unusual path to working as a developer advocate at Orbit
Ben Greenberg3 min read
#ruby#rails#tutorial
How to Add Docs Feedback to Your Orbit Workspace With Ruby On Rails
A step by step guide to bringing user feedback on your docs into your Orbit workspace with the Orbit API and Ruby on Rails
Ben Greenberg6 min read
#devrel#rails#career
From Cybercafe to Rocketship: My First Month at Orbit
My journey at Orbit started with this funny tweet by Josh. Josh Dzi...
Ulrich Sossou5 min read
#rails#oauth#devise
Declaring multiple sets of scopes for the same provider with Devise and OmniAuth in Rails
Photo by Stephen Phillips - Hostreviews.co.uk on Unsplash If you’re familiar with the Rails ecosyste...
Nicolas Goutay3 min read
#devrel#podcast
Developer Love #1: Unintentional Gatekeeping with Brian Douglas of GitHub
Patrick and Brian discuss gatekeeping in open source (and what to do about it), tips for delivering great talks, and more.
Patrick Woods1 min read
#11ty#eleventy#sanity#jamstack
How to: add Twitter and Instagram Embeds on an Eleventy website using Sanity
Cover image credits: Photo by Luismi Sánchez on Unsplash At Orbit, we recently rebuilt our website f...
Nicolas Goutay7 min read
#devrel#community
Slack vs Discord vs Discourse: The best tool for your community
An in-depth comparison of 3 top community platforms across dozens of factors.
Patrick Woods9 min read
#rails#webperf
The rocky road to implementing link prefetching in Rails
Cover image credits: Photo by Melanie Dretvic on Unsplash Web performance matters for many reasons:...
Nicolas Goutay8 min read
#devrel#community
The Observatory #3: Hot takes and cool tools for building community remotely
As community leaders grapple with the fallout from cancelled events worldwide, tons of folks have...
Patrick Woods3 min read
#devrel#community
The Observatory #2: What's in it forum me?
In this issue, we shout-out DevRel leaders on the move, hear from Orbit CTO about Orbit and Funnel on...
Patrick Woods2 min read
#devrel#community
The Observatory #1: High Gravity
The Observatory is Orbit’s newsletter about building high gravity developer communities.
Josh Dzielak 🔆3 min read
#devrel#meta
How to use DEV for DEVeloper relations
Expand the reach of your developer relations team by joining the DEV community
Josh Dzielak 🔆5 min read
#jamstack#webdev#react#javascript
MDX, authors and richer JAMstack content
MDX makes JSX components usable in markdown. This allows developers to create rich, interactive components—think forms, polls, charts, layouts and more—which authors can embed elegantly inside of their content.
Josh Dzielak 🔆2 min read
#ruby#devtips
4 lesser known ways to use Ruby’s Enumerable module
Learn about endless ranges, lazy iteration, range stepping, and my personal favorite each_cons
Josh Dzielak 🔆4 min read
#writing#leadership
5 Writing Books Every Technical Leader Should Read
A collection of books to improve your written communication.
Patrick Woods4 min read
#career#devrel#april1
World Celebrates International Developer Relations Day
Take part in a global effort to recognize people who finish their slides during the previous talk.
Josh Dzielak 🔆3 min read
#showdev#github#top7#ruby
How to use the new github.dev personal website generator
A step-by-step guide to deploying a website that shows off your GitHub bio, contributions, popular repos and interests
Josh Dzielak 🔆4 min read
#showdev#opensource#discuss
Help build a list of awesome .dev sites
A growing list of awesome .dev sites
Patrick Woods1 min read