
Community Pulse
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.
Latest episodes

Sep 18, 2019 • 38min
Open Source Community Management (Ep 40)
Note
Apologies for the sub-par audio levels on this episode. Mary, PJ, and Rain recorded together while onsite at Abstractions Conference and the microphone situation wasn’t ideal!
Checkouts:
PJ
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil
DevOps Days Buffalo is coming up. Learn more.
Rain Leander
A beautiful reminder about inclusivity around mental health and diversity as well as ageism.
Black Mirror - on Netflix
Mary Thengvall
Euphoria - on HBO. TW: drug & alcohol use, suicide, gender fluidity
Sherrie Rohde
Mellow.Doodles Mental health & self-care Instagram account
The Art Therapy Sourcebook by Cathy Malchiodi
Jason Hand
MeetEdgar.com - Social Media service
Azure Functions & SignalR
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Sep 18, 2019 • 19min
After Pulse: Moving Day
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Aug 8, 2019 • 36min
Moving Day: how to change jobs with grace (Ep 39)
What happens when you change jobs and have to move from one community to another?
When it’s time to look for a new job… do you stick with the same community? Or do you seek out a change of some type?
Are there companies or brands that you can’t see yourself ever working for?
Listen in as Jason and PJ chat with guests Alyss Noland and Joel Lord on these topics and more.
Checkouts:
PJ
PSA from your buddy “peej”: Help, attend, host and speak at your local tech meetups!
DevOps Days Buffalo is coming up. Learn more.
PJ’s album of the day twitter feed - @PJAlbumoftheDay
Joel Lord
Check out this sweet Open Source Personal CRM
Calculate your carbon footprint and learn ways to offset it.
Alyss Noland
Currently listening to The Knowledge Project from Shane Parrish and reading Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss and Tal Rahz
Jason
Rediscovering my record collection and updates to Discogs
Datafactory on Azure
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Aug 1, 2019 • 25min
After Pulse: Conference Season
Links:
Event Scorecard
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Jul 25, 2019 • 48min
Conference Season - Is it a thing? (Ep 38)
"Conference Season" used to be a definitive time of year -- the time when things were chaotic and everything revolved around travel, talks, sponsorships, and schedules. But these days it seems like the whole year is chock-full of conferences, big and small. So how can we help build an event strategy that's sustainable, not only for our team, but for our budgets? Amanda Gonser, Manager of Community Events and Content at PagerDuty, and Matt Auerbach, Event Director at Twitch and Co-founder of Confir, join Mary, PJ, and Jason to talk about all of these topics and more.
Links
Measuring Event Success: Entering the Matrix by Amanda Gonser
Confir - The conference sponsorship tool that allows you to find the best conferences for your company, created by Matt Auerbach.
Community Pulse Episode 33 - Lessons Learned from Organizing Tech Events
What Ever Happened to the Meetup? - blogpost from PJ Hagerty
The plural of Prospectus is either Prospectuses or Prospectus.
Checkouts
Amanda
PagerDuty Summit is open for registration - San Francisco, Sept 23-25
Listen to the poetry book, Deaf Republic, on the BBC.
Matt
Twilio Signal - San Francisco, CA, Aug 6-7, 2019
DevCom - Cologne, Aug 18-19, 2019
FrontEnd Connect – if anyone’s familiar with the conference, let Matt know!
Science & Technology section on Twitch – specifically CSharpFritz
PJ
DevOps Days Buffalo - Buffalo, NY, Sept 26-27, 2019
From Crimetown podcast - The Ballad of Billy Balls - hosted by Io Tillet Wright
Wu Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men
Mary
Abstractions - Pittsburgh, Aug 21-23, 2019. Use discount code ChQ1Rs7bdZCwfJg for 10% off.
CMX Summit - Redwood City (Bay Area), Sept 5-6, 2019. This link gets you 10% off.
Jason
Artists Works
Car Hacks: Automatic + IFTTT + RescueTime
Little Snitch - information on how to change your Comcast plan
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Jul 5, 2019 • 55min
What's In A Name? - the various titles within developer relations (Ep 37)
Banana Bread Recipes
Bear:
Preheat oven to 350.
Sift dry ingredients together (honestly, dump in a bowl and fluff with a fork): – 1.5c flour – 1c sugar – 1 tsp baking soda – 1/2 tsp salt
Mash 3 overripe bananas in a bowl.
Beat in 1 egg.
Add 1 tbsp melted butter OR canola oil.
Mix wet ingredients into dry until just combined.
Add 1c “stuff” - chocolate chips and walnuts in my case - just combine.
Bake in a loaf pan 1h15m.
Jeremy: Dry: 2c flour 1/2c sugar 1/2t baking soda 1/2t salt 2t baking powder
Wet: 1c mashed ripe bananas 1 egg 1/4c butter 1t orange zest 1/3c orange juice
Streusel: 2T butter 2T sugar 1/4c flour 1t orange zest
Preheat oven to 400F.
Combine the dry ingredients thoroughly, then the wet ingredients (separately), then add the wet ingredients to the dry.
Put into a loaf pan (or muffin pans).
Combine streusel and then liberally sprinkle on top of the mixture in the pan(s).
Bake for 40-45 minutes.
Checkouts
PJ
The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z Muller
Hunt-a-Killer
Mary
Relevant Experience Podcast
Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh
Zelda: Breath of the Wild video game
Jason
Devopsroadtrip.com
Overcomplicated by Samuel Arbesman
Bear
No Hard Feelings by Molly Duffy and Liz Fosslien
Jeremy
BetterPractices.dev by Postman
Radical Candor by Kim Scott
The Indispensible Community by Richard Millington
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Jul 5, 2019 • 18min
After Pulse: What's In A Name?
Links
Brene Brown’s Netflix special
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Jun 28, 2019 • 18min
After Pulse: Video Content 101
Tweet from Angie Jones
Brene Brown “The Call to Courage” trailer
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Jun 10, 2019 • 49min
Video Content 101 (Ep 36)
Checkouts
Mary
Moleskine Pro
Scoot Over and Make Some Room: Creating a Space Where Everyone Belongs by Heather Avis (releases in June 2019)
Dan
Peter McKinnon’s YouTube channel
Cody Wanner’s YouTube channel
Gary Vaynerchuk’s YouTube channel
Jason
Harvest Hosts
Hipcamp
iOverlander
The Dyrt
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May 14, 2019 • 18min
After Pulse: Under the Influencers
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