Ali Spittel

Posted on May 24, 2019 • Edited on Oct 28, 2019

Follow Friday: What DEV member would you recommend following?

#discuss #community

Let's share some Friday follow ❤️!

Top comments (48)

I'd recommend following a group we (by which I mean myself mostly) have dubbed the #DevDaemons for their overall strong content on this site. Plus the name just sounds cool 😛

There are likely people who will be added to this group later. Regardless, follow them!

Ashlee (she/her) • May 25 '19

Thank you! :D

Jacque Schrag • May 26 '19

Thank you so much! I'm on board with #DevDaemons haha

Ali Spittel • May 24 '19

One of my favorite recent follows is @kathyra_ -- I've learned so much from her, plus she's hilarious.

Kat Maddox • May 24 '19

Aww thanks Ali!! ❤️

Conlin Durbin • May 24 '19

Definitely second this one!

Helen Anderson • May 25 '19

In no particular order ...

@adnanrahic - for writing some in-depth posts on AWS Lambda and Serverless that have clarified how to use these tools in real life.

@andrewbrown - for all things AWS including a really great YouTube channel.

@venikunche - for creating a platform for people who are underrepresented in tech to discover opportunities.

@vintharas - for posts on what it's like to publish a technical book, and some epic gifs over on Twitter.

@lkopacz for making accessibility accessible.

@molly_struve - for encouraging beginners and posts on all things SRE.

@daveskull81 - for sharing the journey from self-taught programmer to Dev Advocate.

@smh30 - for sharing the journey of studying towards a Masters in Information Technology after 30.

@alanhylands - for posts on Data Science, Business Intelligence and an excellent series of interviews with data professionals around the world.

@ronsoak - for posts on life as a data analyst and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

@jamesmh - for sharing posts on career ownership and how to level up as a developer.

@swyx - for posts on Machine Learning and Networking.

@katiekodes - for posts on JSON, XML and data wrangling in both English and French ... impressive.

@amrutaranade - for posts and videos on being a tech writer and making it easy to explain tech topics.

dAVE Inden • May 25 '19

This is an awesome lists of folks and I'm honored to be included. Thank you! :)

Alex Antra • May 25 '19

Shucks :)

Katie • May 27 '19

Merci beaucoup, la fabuleuse @helenanders26 !!

Jaime González García • May 25 '19

Thank you!! 🙌😀

Adnan Rahić • May 25 '19

Thanks for the mention Helen. I love your content too!😄👌

Ben Halpern • May 24 '19

@ananyaneogi obviously crushed it with her last post which is sitting at #2 all time, but look at her backlog. She's an awesome frontend writer and great community member.

Ananya Neogi • May 24 '19

Thank you so much, Ben!
This wonderful community motivates me to write more. 😄

Ben Halpern • May 24 '19

Yay!

Laurie • May 24 '19

So this is a weird thing to say, but I actually follow fewer people so they don't take over my feed and I can find new people! That being said, @karaluton has really great stuff :)

Ken Bellows • May 24 '19

I like to use the "Latest" feature on the homepage for this purpose! There's always something great to be found

It's really crazy to me how rare it is to find uninteresting or garbage content on Dev; on Hacker News or Reddit or basically any other site with an any-user-can-post-stuff model, sorting by most-recently-submitted is a danger zone, or at least a great way to spend hours pushing through sludge to find anything worthwhile, but on Dev I use it all the time to find new authors. Maybe this is just because Dev is relatively young and has only really blown up pretty recently, but I like to think it has more to do with the community here