Luke Oliff · Developer relations
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I'm Luke Oliff, Head of Developer Relations at Speechify. I write about docs, developer communities, and the craft of making APIs easy to build with. Original posts live here; imported posts live in the archive.
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Does llms.txt Work? What a Year of Server Logs SaysOriginalDoes llms.txt work? Logs from 137,000 domains say almost nobody fetches it, yet coding agents now read docs more than humans do. What that means for DevRel.Developer Relations
TIL: Node --env-file Loads .env Without the dotenv PackageOriginalSince Node 20.6 the node --env-file flag reads a .env file into process.env before your code starts. No dotenv install and no require line in the entry file.TIL
DevRel This Week, 28 September: Hacktoberfest Drops the Pull RequestOriginalDevRel this week, 28 September: Meta and Cloudflare pay prize money, DevDay is tomorrow, Hacktoberfest drops pull requests, Microsoft cuts developer accounts.Developer Relations
Eleven v4 Turbo Gets Voice Agents to Full DuplexOriginalElevenLabs shipped Eleven v4 Turbo today: 150ms to first speech, streaming both ways, a turn-taking model around it. The full duplex setup I wrote about in August.Voice AI
The Frontier AI Standards Agency Has a Shortlist and No Rules YetOriginalThe Frontier AI Standards Agency got a name and a CEO shortlist this week, two more agent break-ins surfaced months late, and Zuckerberg said no to slowing down.AI