Gotta give to get back (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

We’re on the main stage at THAT Conference with Danny Thompson. He has an amazing story and journey into tech. Thanks to our friends at Cloudflare for helping us get to THAT Conference earlier this year to enable this conversation.

Special thanks to Nick Nisi and Clark Sell for coming in clutch and getting us the audio to ship this show!

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Featuring:

• Danny Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. Changelog at THAT Conference (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:01:12)

https://sentry.io/

3. It's Danny Thompson (00:03:34)

4. Frying chicken in gas stations (00:04:41)

5. I didn't know I could get a job (00:05:48)

6. Meeting IRL changed everything (00:06:17)

7. Getting connected and building communities (00:07:28)

8. Reviving groups (00:08:51)

9. What tweaks did you make? (00:10:32)

10. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:12:56)

https://fly.io/

11. What structure do you use? (00:15:26)

12. Similarities across communities (00:18:11)

13. Dallas Software Developers (00:20:29)

14. Consistency is everything (00:22:17)

15. What's the community size? (00:23:23)

16. You give. What do you get back? (00:24:47)

17. Sponsor: AssemblyAI (00:28:23)

https://www.assemblyai.com/?utm_source=changelog&utm_medium=podcast

18. The first spark (00:29:52)

19. What's next? (00:36:15)

20. Social media for devs (00:37:41)

21. Closing thoughts and stuff (00:43:52)