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.
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 mat
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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
In this episode of Convos.dev, Chris and Jess discuss strategies for onboarding onto a new large codebase, emphasizing the importance of patience and thorough understanding before making changes. They share practical tips such as utilizing internal documentation and writing down friction points to help future developers. The conversation also explores the role of AI in documentation and the emerging economy around AI observability tools, highlighting the potential benefits of using AI to automate maintenance tasks.
Join the conversation and drop your thoughts in the comments — we’d love to hear your take!
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 (Yak, Bright Data) and a couple fun show-and-tells outside of coding.
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.
Jess (Warp dev advocate) & Chris (DX engineer) discuss AI's impact on development: Will AI steal jobs? They explore natural language programming, AI tools like Cursor/Windsurf, developer roles shifting to "reviewers," & staying optimistic about tech's future.
Dev Convos is a podcast by Jess Wang and Chris Pennington about web development, productivity, design, and anything else we want to talk about.Learn more at convos.dev.
