Sam Julien
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Work: Director of DevRel at Writer (enterprise AI platform).
Writing 👉 samjulien.com
Newsletter 👉 deveopermicroskills.com
Book 👉 http://www.gettingstartedindevrel.com
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Sam Julien
@samjulien.com
· Nov 4
Sam Julien: Director of DevRel and Your Biggest Fan
Sam Julien is a Developer Relations director, writer, and teacher. He loves helping people level up their developer advocacy or web development job using Node, Angular, Gatsby, and React.
samjulien.com
Hi, new friends and old! 👋
I’m Sam. I live in Vancouver, WA and work as Director of #DevRel for Writer, an enterprise AI platform.
I love:
✍️ Writing
👾 Tabletop and video games
🏔️ Outdoorsy stuff
🎶 Making music
🎈 Being a dad
My writing lives at samjulien.com.
Nice to meet you!
I’m Sam. I live in Vancouver, WA and work as Director of #DevRel for Writer, an enterprise AI platform.
I love:
✍️ Writing
👾 Tabletop and video games
🏔️ Outdoorsy stuff
🎶 Making music
🎈 Being a dad
My writing lives at samjulien.com.
Nice to meet you!
I can’t believe this is how I discover Andrea Gibson but I’m also eternally grateful
July 17, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I can’t believe this is how I discover Andrea Gibson but I’m also eternally grateful
I’m almost done with my first play through of Fire Emblem Awakening. What an amazing game and feels like it has a ton of replayability.
Three Houses and Engage were both some of my favorite games ever, so this was my next step in the series.
What should I play after Awakening?
#JRPG #FireEmblem
Three Houses and Engage were both some of my favorite games ever, so this was my next step in the series.
What should I play after Awakening?
#JRPG #FireEmblem
a video game called fire emblem awakening
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June 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I’m almost done with my first play through of Fire Emblem Awakening. What an amazing game and feels like it has a ton of replayability.
Three Houses and Engage were both some of my favorite games ever, so this was my next step in the series.
What should I play after Awakening?
#JRPG #FireEmblem
Three Houses and Engage were both some of my favorite games ever, so this was my next step in the series.
What should I play after Awakening?
#JRPG #FireEmblem
Happy Father’s Day to my fellow dads! Becoming a dad is the best thing that’s ever happened to me, hope it is true for you as well!
a purple background with the words happy father 's day and a heart
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June 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Happy Father’s Day to my fellow dads! Becoming a dad is the best thing that’s ever happened to me, hope it is true for you as well!
I am obsessed with this song “Wednesday Baby” by Midnight Sister. Her voice scratches something in my brain.
June 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I am obsessed with this song “Wednesday Baby” by Midnight Sister. Her voice scratches something in my brain.
Oh man, so excited for this as a lifelong #JRPG fan: “A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games” from @bitmapbooks.com.
Look how beautiful it is! 😍
Look how beautiful it is! 😍
June 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Oh man, so excited for this as a lifelong #JRPG fan: “A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games” from @bitmapbooks.com.
Look how beautiful it is! 😍
Look how beautiful it is! 😍
Me: We need to save money
Also me:
Also me:
May 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Me: We need to save money
Also me:
Also me:
Dude these Chrono Trigger boss fights are so much harder than I remember. How did teenage me do this?!
May 31, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Dude these Chrono Trigger boss fights are so much harder than I remember. How did teenage me do this?!
Law of parenting 122: no matter what or how much you bring on a trip, your child will ask you for the thing you did not bring.
May 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Law of parenting 122: no matter what or how much you bring on a trip, your child will ask you for the thing you did not bring.
Why do they make it their entire personality??
May 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Why do they make it their entire personality??
I’ve been playing Chrono Trigger on the Steam Deck, first time since the 90s. Man it holds up! Such an amazing game.
a video game shows a group of people standing around a brick walkway
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May 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I’ve been playing Chrono Trigger on the Steam Deck, first time since the 90s. Man it holds up! Such an amazing game.
If you’re at @writethedocs.bsky.social in PDX, come find us for some Writer hats, socks, and stickers! Who better to give these away to than a bunch of writers??
May 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
If you’re at @writethedocs.bsky.social in PDX, come find us for some Writer hats, socks, and stickers! Who better to give these away to than a bunch of writers??
“Science confers power on anyone who takes the trouble to learn it.” - Carl Sagan
a man wearing a brown jacket and a red turtleneck is making a funny face
ALT: a man wearing a brown jacket and a red turtleneck is making a funny face
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April 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“Science confers power on anyone who takes the trouble to learn it.” - Carl Sagan
The difficult thing about parenting a toddler is that they’re acting totally as expected and should at that age, it’s just that all of society and a functioning household does not work that way lol
April 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
The difficult thing about parenting a toddler is that they’re acting totally as expected and should at that age, it’s just that all of society and a functioning household does not work that way lol
All this talk of Ken Griffey Jr. taking photos at the Master’s made me remember one of my all time favorite SNES games: Ken Griffey Jr.’s Winning Run.
I was *obsessed* with this game as a kid. Anyone else?
I was *obsessed* with this game as a kid. Anyone else?
April 16, 2025 at 2:39 AM
All this talk of Ken Griffey Jr. taking photos at the Master’s made me remember one of my all time favorite SNES games: Ken Griffey Jr.’s Winning Run.
I was *obsessed* with this game as a kid. Anyone else?
I was *obsessed* with this game as a kid. Anyone else?
Finally upgraded my Kindle for my birthday after 10 long years! The size difference is wild.
What are some of your favorite books over the last couple of years?
What are some of your favorite books over the last couple of years?
April 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Finally upgraded my Kindle for my birthday after 10 long years! The size difference is wild.
What are some of your favorite books over the last couple of years?
What are some of your favorite books over the last couple of years?
Giving Undertale a shot, I’ve heard lots of great things about it. I’m about 3 hours in and really digging the retro and Earthbound vibes.
Have you played it?
Have you played it?
a pixel art of sans , frisk and papyrus
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April 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Giving Undertale a shot, I’ve heard lots of great things about it. I’m about 3 hours in and really digging the retro and Earthbound vibes.
Have you played it?
Have you played it?
I’ve been enrolled at night school at Dishes University lately, meaning I go through Coursera and EdX courses on math, comp sci, and ML while cleaning the kitchen every night. Gotta find the time you can when you’re working and parenting 🤷♂️
April 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I’ve been enrolled at night school at Dishes University lately, meaning I go through Coursera and EdX courses on math, comp sci, and ML while cleaning the kitchen every night. Gotta find the time you can when you’re working and parenting 🤷♂️
Can’t even fathom how many hours of insider trading and anti-corruption trainings I’ve gone through my whole career, being told that even accepting a gift >$50 is bribery, and now we have a sitting president openly manipulating the market.
April 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Can’t even fathom how many hours of insider trading and anti-corruption trainings I’ve gone through my whole career, being told that even accepting a gift >$50 is bribery, and now we have a sitting president openly manipulating the market.
Predicting that CS degrees are going to be in higher demand and more valuable in the coming years due to AI.
There is way more to engineering than just writing code, and it will be increasingly difficult to prove competency as models get better at coding.
What do you think?
There is way more to engineering than just writing code, and it will be increasingly difficult to prove competency as models get better at coding.
What do you think?
April 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Predicting that CS degrees are going to be in higher demand and more valuable in the coming years due to AI.
There is way more to engineering than just writing code, and it will be increasingly difficult to prove competency as models get better at coding.
What do you think?
There is way more to engineering than just writing code, and it will be increasingly difficult to prove competency as models get better at coding.
What do you think?
One of my coworkers shared his transition and new name today and the response was so wholesome and positive. A really nice light in a dark time.
April 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
One of my coworkers shared his transition and new name today and the response was so wholesome and positive. A really nice light in a dark time.
How it feels seeing all the Ghibli memes
March 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
How it feels seeing all the Ghibli memes
Finally added "now" and "uses" pages to my site. I've always thought these were cool after learning about them from Derek Sivers and @wesbos.com.
Great way to keep folks up to date about what's going on in your life & what tools you're using.
Do you have either?
Now: www.samjulien.com/now/
Great way to keep folks up to date about what's going on in your life & what tools you're using.
Do you have either?
Now: www.samjulien.com/now/
Sam Julien: Director of DevRel and Your Biggest Fan
Sam Julien is a Developer Relations director, writer, and teacher. He loves helping people level up their developer advocacy, AI engineering, or web development job using Python and JavaScript.
www.samjulien.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Finally added "now" and "uses" pages to my site. I've always thought these were cool after learning about them from Derek Sivers and @wesbos.com.
Great way to keep folks up to date about what's going on in your life & what tools you're using.
Do you have either?
Now: www.samjulien.com/now/
Great way to keep folks up to date about what's going on in your life & what tools you're using.
Do you have either?
Now: www.samjulien.com/now/
Beat God of War (2018) last night. What a great game. I was so surprised by the depth of storytelling and character development. Lots of fun! It’s too bad Ragnarok doesn’t work on Steam Deck.
a man with a beard says have you nothing to say in a video game
Alt: Kratos says have you nothing to say
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March 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Beat God of War (2018) last night. What a great game. I was so surprised by the depth of storytelling and character development. Lots of fun! It’s too bad Ragnarok doesn’t work on Steam Deck.
TIL about `git rerere`, which stands for “reuse recorded resolution” and allows you to ask Git to remember how you’ve resolved a hunk conflict so that the next time it sees the same conflict, Git can resolve it for you automatically. 🤯
March 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
TIL about `git rerere`, which stands for “reuse recorded resolution” and allows you to ask Git to remember how you’ve resolved a hunk conflict so that the next time it sees the same conflict, Git can resolve it for you automatically. 🤯
Unbelievable how kids just become walking talking sources of joy in your life
March 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Unbelievable how kids just become walking talking sources of joy in your life