[neogodless]

For those unfamiliar with the term, it's in the article about two-thirds of the way down.

> Commonly it’s just known as a ‘developer relations’ role (so ‘DevRel’ for short)

No, it's not a typo for Dev Reels, which would be an interesting alternative to open source repositories, but I guess you'd have to get good at video editing first!

[Alex3917]

I misread it as Dev Reels first also, and was imagining developers using drones to make hype videos of them on their laptops to submit to companies along with their resumes.

[zwischenzug]

Thanks, I put a link in to help people on the first mention.

In my bubble DevRels are more of a thing than most people's.

I have never heard of 'Dev Reels' either!

[neogodless]

Ah thank you! It's a made up term to play off Demo Reel which actors use to condense their best work into a quick video full of highlights.

[ColeyG]

I skimmed the article but didn't find it at a glance. Isn't it blog 101 to ensure your readers now this stuff?

[neogodless]

I try to find a balanced view. For sure, it's a pet peeve to see initialisms and abbreviations without explanation but at the same time, I'm probably just not the target audience if I don't recognize the term. Why am I even clicking the headline? But curiosity rules, so I do click such headlines, and if I don't see a quick explanation of a new term, I'll research it.