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Big announcement for job seekers in the Devtool marketing space 👋 We’ve launched the Hackmamba Devtool Jobs portal! We regularly hear from technical writers, DevRel, and growth professionals who struggle to find devtools roles without checking multiple places. Jobs are scattered across communities, LinkedIn, and company career pages, making the search slow and inconsistent. To solve this, we built a dedicated portal that brings relevant devtool roles into one place. Listings are curated from communities, LinkedIn Jobs, and our own network, so you can quickly see what’s open and decide what’s worth exploring. We refresh the listings every Friday. Bookmark it to stay updated on the latest Devtool Jobs 💜
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Quick reminder: our Off The Docs session is happening in 15 hours! It’s not every day we get @tomjohnson from @Google joining us to talk API documentation. Join Hackmamba Creators' Community to be updated with our events. Link below.
Our third Off the Docs session is happening this Saturday, and we saved the best for a special moment. @tomjohnson is joining the Hackmamba Creators community for a live conversation on API documentation. Tom is a Senior Technical Writer at @Google and the author of idratherbewriting.com, home to the most widely used free course on API documentation available today. If you have spent any time learning how to document APIs, you have almost certainly come across his work. The session is called Beyond the Spec. An honest conversation on how to learn, practice, and grow as an API documentation writer in 2026. The kind of conversation that does not happen often enough. Date: Saturday, June 13, 2026 Time: 8:00 p.m. PDT / 8:30 a.m. IST (Sun) / 4:00 a.m. WAT (Sun) / 5:00 a.m. CET (Sun) Platform: Google Meet Free to attend, open to all Hackmamba Creators members. The session link and the community link are in the comments.
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Join our Hackmamba Creators' Discord Community! hackmamba.io/community/ To join, you must fill out the short form on the right side of the page. Enter your name and other details needed. You can scroll down a bit and see why you should join our other creators you can check our past community events! 🙌
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Paying for three months of discovery workshops and architecture diagrams feels responsible. The catch is that you are paying for a plan while looking at documents, with no way to tell whether the vision holds up until the software finally arrives in month four, by which point changing direction is slow and expensive. This article by @asaolu_elijah lays out why that traditional model and the AI-only one both leave teams exposed, then walks through the hybrid alternative: a verified V1 Alpha built in days, structured as independent components with tests and documentation, ready to hand off or keep iterating on. The core move is shifting validation from month three to day three, so you confirm an idea is viable before committing real money to it. Full article in the comments.
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Spring Boot interviews go deeper than most candidates expect. Knowing what Spring Boot Application does is clichéd now. What interviewers actually want to know is what happens under the hood when the application starts, like how auto-configuration works, why singleton beans don't guarantee thread safety, and when you'd reach for Flyway over Hibernate's ddl-auto for managing schema changes in production. @roadmapsh puts together 60 questions and answers covering all of that, organized from beginner to advanced. The full guide is in the comments.
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Top 60 Spring Boot Interview Questions and Answers roadmap.sh/questions/spring-…

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Stop wasting months building the perfect API or SDK just to watch your product sit in total developer silence. In this episode of Everything Outside Code, developer relations leader and author @stmcallister shares his exact framework for cutting through the noise, engaging technical audiences, and building unstoppable developer communities from scratch. As the co-author of Developer Relations Activity Patterns, Scott breaks down how engineering teams can master Developer Relations (DevRel) without burning out their talent or losing their budgets to empty vanity metrics. We dive deep into his personal journey from a decade in software engineering to pioneering developer advocacy, the crucial shift from chasing viral clicks to fostering high-quality community engagement, and how to effectively prove the bottom-line value of technical education to skeptical stakeholders and CFOs. If you are a DevRel manager, CMO, or technical founder who has struggled to get your product into the hands of developers and turn them into lifelong champions, this developer relations masterclass is for you. EOC link below.
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Our third Off the Docs session is happening this Saturday, and we saved the best for a special moment. @tomjohnson is joining the Hackmamba Creators community for a live conversation on API documentation. Tom is a Senior Technical Writer at @Google and the author of idratherbewriting.com, home to the most widely used free course on API documentation available today. If you have spent any time learning how to document APIs, you have almost certainly come across his work. The session is called Beyond the Spec. An honest conversation on how to learn, practice, and grow as an API documentation writer in 2026. The kind of conversation that does not happen often enough. Date: Saturday, June 13, 2026 Time: 8:00 p.m. PDT / 8:30 a.m. IST (Sun) / 4:00 a.m. WAT (Sun) / 5:00 a.m. CET (Sun) Platform: Google Meet Free to attend, open to all Hackmamba Creators members. The session link and the community link are in the comments.
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Join us here on Sat! meet.google.com/zjd-vpqb-wji

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Join our Hackmamba Creators' Discord Community! hackmamba.io/community/ To join, you must fill out the short form on the right side of the page. Enter your name and other details needed. You can scroll down a bit and see why you should join our other creators you can check our past community events! 🙌
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One of the pieces of advice we give our clients is to turn high-performing technical articles into technical videos. A strong technical article has already done a lot of the heavy lifting. It has validated demand, attracted the right audience, and proven that developers care about the topic. But, not every article should become a video. We usually look for three things before making that recommendation. First, the topic involves setup, configuration, or implementation steps that are easier to follow when shown. Second, the topic involves technical decisions and tradeoffs that benefit from explanation alongside the implementation. Third, the outcome is something developers can reproduce on their own after following along. Topics that meet those criteria tend to perform exceptionally well in video because developers can see the process, understand the reasoning, and apply it themselves. This has become even more relevant as YouTube continues to grow as a demand capture channel. Ahrefs recently found that YouTube is now the most-cited domain in Google AI Overviews, and we're starting to see the same trend across some of our client accounts. If a topic has already proven that developers care about it, it is worth asking whether video can help it reach more of them.
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Three Kubernetes interview questions worth being able to answer cold. 1. What happens when a pod exceeds its memory limit, and why is the answer different from CPU. 2. Why does every request in Kubernetes go through the API server, and what happens if it goes down. 3. How do you actually debug a pod stuck in CrashLoopBackOff, step by step. @roadmapsh has a guide with 47 more like these, grouped from beginner to advanced. Interesting right? Head to the comments to get a head start on your next interview.
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If someone asked you to describe developer relations in one word, what would you say? @stmcallister, a decade-long developer relations practitioner and co-author of Developer Relations Activity Patterns, has a single-word answer: teaching. Not community. Not marketing. Not advocacy. Teaching. In tomorrow's episode of Everything Outside Code, @iChuloo sits down with Scott to talk about how to build DevRel programs that actually move product, what most companies get wrong when they hire for the role, and how to take a technical product that nobody knows about and build a community of champions around it. Dropping tomorrow on YouTube. Link in the comments.
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In 'Everything Outside Code' Podcast, we talk to a founder, marketing expert or content creator about sales, marketing, operations, growth, and all the other hard parts technical folks suck at. Follow us on YT: youtube.com/@hackmamba
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There is a specific moment in the life of a Playwright suite when auth starts to get a bit complicated. It usually happens somewhere between 50 and 100 tests. Here’s how: - The shared test user starts causing race conditions in parallel runs. - A token expires mid-pipeline and takes down half the suite. - A storageState file gets committed to the repo. - The login UI changes and takes out the helper that every test depends on. The guide by @currents_dev covers how to build authentication testing that holds up past that point. From the credential anti-patterns teams hit first, through OAuth mocking, magic links, TOTP-based MFA, multi-tenant SSO, and the observability setup that makes auth failures debuggable. Full guide is in the comments.
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The table below is one of the easiest ways to think about where AI fits in a QA workflow. AI handles the execution-heavy work, like running tests, clustering failures, and identifying flaky patterns and a human reviews what comes back. But decisions about release-critical focus areas, what counts as a real bug versus an environment issue, and whether an AI-suggested fix actually makes sense stay entirely with the human. Final quality and release decisions always do. This @currents_dev article covers the eight best practices that make this division of responsibility work in real teams. Article link below.
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