Nick is joined by Josh Goldberg & Dimitri Mitropoulos to discuss SquiggleConf, a new conference focused on web dev tooling. We explore the motivations behind creating a conference dedicated to developer tools, the challenges of organizing both conferences and local meetups, and strategies for building engaged tech communities.
We also discuss the importance of developer tooling, the pandemic’s impact on tech events, and share insights on encouraging new speakers and creating inclusive environments & more!
Featuring
Sponsors
Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes.
Wix – Wix Sudio is for devs who build websites, sell apps, go headless, or manage clients. Integrate, extend and write custom scripts in a VS code-based IDE. Leverage zero set up dev, test and production environments. Ship faster with an AI code assistant. And work with Wix headless API’s on any tech stack.
Jam.dev – One click bug reports developers love — Never explain another bug report again. Jam auto-captures all the info engineers need to debug and repro.
Notes & Links
Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | It's party time, y'all | 00:39 |
| 2 | 00:39 | Sponsor: Fly.io | 03:06 |
| 3 | 03:45 | A hoy hoy! | 01:03 |
| 4 | 04:48 | Getting to know Dimitri 👀 | 01:24 |
| 5 | 06:12 | Getting to know Josh 👀 | 01:17 |
| 6 | 07:29 | Why dev tools | 06:42 |
| 7 | 14:11 | The conference scene | 04:26 |
| 8 | 18:37 | Teaching is 10xing | 02:40 |
| 9 | 21:17 | Sponsor: Wix | 00:53 |
| 10 | 22:10 | The stress of it all | 07:20 |
| 11 | 29:30 | MC Nicky Nick | 02:30 |
| 12 | 32:00 | The perfect name | 02:00 |
| 13 | 34:01 | A killer lineup | 05:11 |
| 14 | 39:12 | Sponsor: Jam.dev | 02:12 |
| 15 | 41:24 | A brief brag | 00:53 |
| 16 | 42:17 | Meetups! | 07:26 |
| 17 | 49:43 | A horror story | 05:51 |
| 18 | 55:34 | On senior devs | 02:17 |
| 19 | 57:51 | On finding speakers | 09:52 |
| 20 | 1:07:43 | Join us at SquiggleConf! | 02:31 |
| 21 | 1:10:14 | Closing time | 00:35 |
| 22 | 1:10:49 | Next up on the pod | 01:15 |
