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[Luke Oliff.](/)

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Luke Oliff · Developer relations

# Developer relations, written down.

I'm Luke Oliff, an engineer and developer relations leader. 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.

Search covers posts, the CV, and the uses page: [search the site](/blog/search).

Writing

## Recent posts.

The latest original posts. Post links live at the root, so they stay short and they stay put.

- [TIL: TypeScript satisfies Checks Your Object and Keeps Its Keys](/til-typescript-satisfies) (Nov 2026 · Original · TIL): The TypeScript satisfies operator checks an object against a type but keeps its real key names, so a typo in a key becomes a compile error.
- [DevRel This Week, 2 November: Agents Start 40% of Pull Requests](/devrel-this-week-2-november-2026) (Nov 2026 · Original · Developer Relations): DevRel this week, 2 November: agents start 40% of GitHub pull requests, curl makes smaller bug reports public and OpenAI DevDay Exchange reaches London.
- [Living and Working With ADHD: What It's Like for Me](/living-and-working-with-adhd) (Nov 2026 · Original · Career): What working with ADHD is like for me: the focus, the speed and the calm in a crisis, what it costs me, and how I work around it to do well.
- [What I Expect From a Workplace](/what-i-expect-from-a-workplace) (Oct 2026 · Original · Career): What I expect from a workplace: the same respect for everyone, words that matter, decisions that stay made, and leaders who can lead as well as ship.
- [TIL: The git log Pickaxe Finds the Commit That Deleted a Line](/til-git-log-pickaxe) (Oct 2026 · Original · TIL): The git log pickaxe, git log -S, lists only the commits that added or removed a piece of text. Use it to find when a line of code went missing.

[Browse all posts](/blog) →

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```sh
curl "https://lukeocodes.dev/search.json?q=developer+relations"
```

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