

Community Pulse
Mary Thengvall
Community Pulse is the spot for Developer Relations and Community professionals who are looking for information on building technical communities. Community Builders and DevRel veterans Jason Hand, Mary Thengvall, PJ Hagerty, and Wesley Faulkner interview experts in the field of Developer Relations and Community Leadership on a broad range of topics related to building community.
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Dec 20, 2018 • 39min
2018 Wrap-Up (Ep 31)
Checkouts
PJ
FireFox has redeemed itself recently. With better performance it may go back to being my default browser over the security-flawed and processor-heavy Chrome.
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Mary
The ONE Thing by Gary Keller & Jay Papasan
Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average, and Do Work That Matters by Jon Acuff
Becoming by Michelle Obama – she narrates the audiobook version
Jason
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain by David Gerard
Headspace App
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Nov 30, 2018 • 48min
Twitter: Friend or Foe (Ep 30)
Checkouts
Jason
Screencast & video tutorial softwares:
ScreenFlow 8
Terminalizer
Emily
Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
Pod Save America
Emily’s famous biscuit recipe
Harper
Proxmox - powerful open-source server solutions
mobile shell (mosh) shortcut - listen to the episode for instructions!
N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth series
PJ
Beastie Boys Book
Renderforest - intro videos
Sponsored by IBM Developer: IBM Sponsorship: Are you building cloud applications with Java, AI, Machine Learning, Serverless and Containers? IBM Developer provides a large number of Code Patterns, sample applications, articles, tutorials and videos to help you build faster. All code is available on GitHub. You can incorporate any code into existing applications or use it to start a new application. Simply go to developer.ibm.com to access IBM Developer resources and start building. Find us on Twitter at @IBMDeveloper
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Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.Special Guests: Emily Freeman and Harper Reed.

Nov 16, 2018 • 37min
After Pulse: Codes of Conduct
Mary and PJ join Jason to sync up on the recent episode that he hosted about Codes of Conduct. We cover a lot of ground: from the purpose that Codes of Conduct serve, to the fact that we agree to these standards in day-to-day life without realizing it, to the recent news stories about CoCs.
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Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.

Oct 23, 2018 • 45min
Codes of Conduct (Ep 29)
Checkouts
Tessa
Event - APICity.io
Justin
Event - Abstractions.io
Voting/Polling location
Carina
Book - “How Can It Be Gluten Free Cookbook”
Jason
Codes of Conduct 101 FAQ
Geek Feminism Code of Conduct
GitHub Project CoC
Goals of a Code of Conduct (From Microsoft’s Cloud Developer Advocacy team)
To specify a baseline standard of behavior so that people with different social values and communication styles can communicate effectively, productively, and respectfully
To provide a mechanism for resolving conflicts when they arise.
To make our team welcoming to people from different backgrounds. Diversity is critical; for us to be successful, many different perspectives and backgrounds are necessary._
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Special thanks to our sponsor, IBM. Are you building cloud applications with Java, AI, Machine Learning, Serverless and Containers? IBM Developer provides a large number of Code Patterns, sample applications, articles, tutorials and videos to help you build faster. All code is available on GitHub. You can incorporate any code into existing applications or use it to start a new application. Simply go to developer.ibm.com to access IBM Developer resources and start building.
Enjoy the podcast?
Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.Special Guests: Justin Reese and Tessa Mero.

Oct 5, 2018 • 37min
Relationships IRL (Ep 28)
Checkouts:
Mary
Notion
Jason
Let him know what your checkouts are or Twitter
Insta360 One
PJ
PJ is committing to have an album out by the end of the year. Stay tuned (pun fully intended)!
Jolt Cola has returned to stores! “All the sugar and twice the caffeine.”
Special thanks to our sponsor, IBM. Are you building cloud applications with Java, AI, Machine Learning, Serverless and Containers? IBM Developer provides a large number of Code Patterns, sample applications, articles, tutorials and videos to help you build faster. All code is available on GitHub. You can incorporate any code into existing applications or use it to start a new application. Simply go to developer.ibm.com to access IBM Developer resources and start building.
Enjoy the podcast?
Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.

Aug 24, 2018 • 16min
After Pulse: Content is Key
Mary, Jason, and PJ get together after the episode to talk content, Mary's upcoming book, and some of the hurdles they've seen to getting content out there.
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Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.

Aug 21, 2018 • 40min
Content is Key! - technical writing for the unprepared (Ep 27)
Checkouts:
Lorna
Nexmo.com
The Paper Menagerie
Mary
World of Dance - Season 2
Amazon Smile
Daniele Procida - Documentation Remix
Jason
You Are A Badass: How To Stop Doubting Your Greatness & Start Living An Awesome Life
Unfuckology : A Field Guide To Living With Guts And Confidence
Hit Refresh - The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future For Everyone
PJ
Admissions Conf
CodeDaze vol 2
CodePilot.ai
Enjoy the podcast?
Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.Special Guest: Lorna Jane Mitchell.

Aug 3, 2018 • 39min
Funemployment & Downtime (Ep 26)
Checkouts:
PJ
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Coheed And Cambria - Unearthly Creatures album
Jason
The Art of Happiness
Enjoy the podcast?
Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.

Jun 30, 2018 • 18min
After Pulse: Team Dynamics
PJ, Jason, and Mary sync up after the podcast recording with J. Paul Reed and Greg Bulmash (Episode 25: Team Dynamics) to recap the episode and share a few more thoughts.
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Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.

Jun 14, 2018 • 46min
Team Dynamics - your team, other teams, and the company 'team' (Ep 25)
Checkouts:
Mary
Nesting with Grace
Setting priorities with the Yearning Hierarchy
Mary’s blogpost about setting priorities
PJ
CodeDaze.me - Sept 14-15, Buffalo, NY. A conference dedicated to code, design, development, and everything tech!
The Get Up Kids - Kicker
Jason
DieCutStickers.com
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking - Susan Cain
Greg
Coderdojo
CascadiaJS 2018
Paul
REdeploy - CFP closes June 15; conference is Aug 16-17 in San Francisco; Early Bird tickets are available now! We’ll be talking more about team dynamics & how to make a team (and individuals) resilient.
Nailed It - Netflix show
Enjoy the podcast?
Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.Special Guests: Greg Bulmash and J. Paul Reed.


