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Email overwhelm is real for developers. Chris manages 14 separate email inboxes while Jess struggles with categorization in Superhuman. They share practical email management strategies, from Chris's ruthless unsubscribe philosophy to voice-to-text workflows and split inbox configurations. Learn how to stop email from taking over your life.Submit questions and feedback at ⁠Convos.dev⁠.

Jess and Chris dive deep into work-life balance strategies for busy developers who take on multiple projects. They share their personal productivity systems, time management techniques, and how they handle the constant juggle between work commitments and personal life. From daily shutdowns to "Chris's Planning Day," discover practical approaches that actually work.Links: - OmniFocus: Chris's task management system- Lo.cafe: Ambient desktop overlay app - Base44: AI app builder - Therabody JetBoots: Leg compression recovery - Shakti Mat: Acupressure matSubmit questions and feedback at ⁠Convos.dev⁠.

Chris and Jess dive into the controversial AI startup Cluely and its provocative "cheat on everything" marketing strategy. They explore the company's viral tactics, including hiring content creators, buying ghost accounts, and using rage bait to drive engagement. Topics covered: AI marketing ethics, viral growth strategies, product-market fit, transparency in AI assistance, sustainable business models.Submit questions and feedback at ⁠Convos.dev⁠.

Practical tips for ramping into a large codebase, including patience, tiny starter tasks, and onboarding buddies. The value of thorough internal docs, contribution guides, and logging friction for future devs. Ways to use AI and voice tools to speed documentation and derive docs from commits. A look at AI observability, cost metrics, and UI components for chat apps.

In this episode of Convos.dev, Jess and Chris dive into how AI is changing the way developers learn to code — the pros, the pitfalls, and everything in between.We chat about curiosity, prompt engineering, and turning coding rules into workflows.Plus, we share new tools we’ve been testing (Yaak, Bright Data) and a couple fun show-and-tells outside of coding.🛠️ Tools- Yaak- Bright DataSubmit questions and feedback at ⁠Convos.dev⁠.

In this episode, hosts Jess (DevRel Engineer at Warp) and Chris (DevRel Engineer at Resend) dive deep into the world of Developer Relations, sharing insights from their experiences at relatively small startups.Submit questions and feedback at ⁠Convos.dev⁠.

Dive into the fascinating world of AI and its impact on development! Jess and Chris explore whether studying computer science is still worthwhile in an AI-driven era. They discuss natural language programming and the shift toward developers becoming code reviewers, raising new skill priorities. The conversation touches on optimizing tool choices and the emergence of 'magic' tools that simplify coding. With a generally optimistic outlook on AI's societal impact, they also share personal projects, keeping the discussion light and engaging!

Dev Convos is a podcast by Jess Wang and Chris Pennington about web development, productivity, design, and anything else we want to talk about.Submit questions and feedback at ⁠Convos.dev⁠.