DevRel, DevEx and Video All The Things with Jake Ward

02/02/24 • 78 min

A first for Tech: Off-topic, our resident internet denizen Mike Elsmore gets to interview Jake Ward (https://x.com/Jacobmward), the CEO of Data Protocol (https://dataprotocol.com/).

Mike learned how Jake came up with the idea for Data Protocol, how he started it, and what it does. They also chatted about Developer Experience and learning and Developer Relations in general.

A first for Tech: Off-topic, our resident internet denizen Mike Elsmore gets to interview Jake Ward (https://x.com/Jacobmward), the CEO of Data Protocol (https://dataprotocol.com/).

Mike learned how Jake came up with the idea for Data Protocol, how he started it, and what it does. They also chatted about Developer Experience and learning and Developer Relations in general.

Previous Episode

Multitenancy, nerdom, and down with capitalism (even though it's how we earn money) with Ollie Read (@ollieread)

Hello 2024, it's Tech: Off-topic here! Mike (⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ukmadlz⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://mastodon.social/@ukmadlz⁠) has brought in Ollie Read (⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ollieread https://phpc.social/@ollieread) to talk tech and what's happened recently. However, that barely happens and the tangents are strong. We end up talking about:

Multitenancy in software (you can ask Ollie about that all you want)
RGB & Camera stuff (thanks to tech difficulties)
Gundam, Warhammer, and hobbyist "plastic crack"
Corporations and patent fights https://news.sky.com/story/apple-watch-to-lose-feature-after-us-court-reinstates-sales-ban-over-patent-dispute-13050692
Super rich (plenty of tech money) spending lots of money to build a city... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/17/tech-billionaire-new-city-plan-california-forever-san-francisco
Pothole robots https://news.sky.com/story/hertfordshire-worlds-first-pothole-preventing-robot-to-hit-roads-in-test-rollout-13045036

This episode has plenty of side quest adventures so enjoy the chaos