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Alex Kretzschmar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
808 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

So we're putting together a plan to build out a team to support me on the backend.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

Cause up until today it's been just me.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

So I've been editing, scripting, filming, like doing everything.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

So we're putting together a plan and there'll be some job postings goes up in the new year.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

So keep an eye on the tailscale careers site, little pluggy plug.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

If you want to work on my team, come do some video editing, come do some dev rel stuff.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

Well, because I genuinely think that good content

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

The people, you know, there's a bunch of tropes on YouTube and the people that rely on the like comment, subscribe, smash that like button, all those kinds of tropes that exist on YouTube.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

If the content is good enough, you don't need to say any of that stuff.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

They don't watch, you know, they're not watching the tail scale channel.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

I'm just watching me and what I'm doing.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

And it's a really, like you look at Linus and how he's had to grow his channel, uh,

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

sort of beyond the cult of just Linus.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

And obviously he's way down the road from where I am, but it's really interesting.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

He'll just make random cameos in videos that are hosted ostensibly by someone else on his team.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

And then he'll just helicopter in for five minutes and say a couple of pieces to camera and then go away again.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Friends)

And you know that he hasn't done anything like post-production or scripting or really been involved in the video at all, but they're really struggling to