243: People Who Build Things with Jay Miller

This week’s guest is Jay Miller, a podcaster, developer, and, as of recently, a developer advocate for Elastic. We chat about what a developer advocate does, adventures in productivity, and the joy of building things that help people who build things build things.

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• kjaymiller.com
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• github.com/kjaymiller
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• Bookworm
• By The Book
• Bunch
• Bunch for Alfred
• Treating ADHD With Video Games
• ProgrammableWeb
• Stream Deck
• Elapsed Time Keyboard Maestro Macros
• exist.io
• Slogger

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Transcript

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[00:00:00] Brett_1: [00:00:00] My guest this week is Jay Miller, a podcaster, developer, and as of recently, a developer advocate for a Elastic. How’s it going, Jay?

[00:00:08] Jay_1: [00:00:08] I’m excited to be here. This is, this is several years of dreams come true. Finally.

[00:00:13]Brett_1: [00:00:13] It’s really nice to hear that. I have been on your show before, and I would say that if you feel like reverting to interviewer mode and ask me questions, it’s totally cool because that’s what makes my job way easier.

[00:00:28]Jay_1: [00:00:28] I would just say, just stop me and be like, Hey, no, this is my show. Where are you doing?

[00:00:32] Brett_1: [00:00:32] You are now a developer advocate for elastic first. Tell me what is Elastic? What do they do?

[00:00:39]Jay_1: [00:00:39] So elastic is the search company. I’m not going to say a search company. We are the search company. That’s right. Google shots fired. Let’s do this. But the way that I explain it to people, when I’m doing the advocacy thing, is that. Elastic