Hello from the DevRel theme

Sunday, Jun 1, 2025 | 1 minute read

Alex Rivera

Hello from the DevRel theme

This is a fictional sample post shipped with hugo-theme-devrel. Copy the folder layout, not the biography: Alex Rivera does not exist.

Use page bundles under content/posts/YYYY-MM-DD-slug/ with an index.md file and optional assets (cover.svg, diagrams, screenshots) next to it.

content/posts/2025-06-01-hello-devrel/
├── index.md
└── cover.svg

Front matter follows the same conventions as a real DevRel blog: tags, categories, optional series. A cover.* file in the bundle is picked up automatically — you only set cover: when the filename is not cover.*.

The live production site that inspired this theme is david.pilato.fr. This example site stays small on purpose so you can delete the fiction and start writing.

Previous page Surviving CFP season without burning out

How this About page is built

The About layout lists socials from data/socials.toml, then each Markdown file in content/about/ except index.md, sorted by filename. That is why the files are named 10-me.md, 20-details.md, 30-speaking.md.

Add a file, pick a title in front matter, write Markdown. No extra template work.

Speaking

Alex (still fictional) talks about search, observability, and community. Recurring abstracts live under /talks/templates/. The map at /talks/map/ is built from conference.latitude and conference.longitude on each talk — there is no separate geo database.

If you present in more than one language, set talk-lang on the talk and add a versions entry on the template. The theme renders tabs so you can paste the right abstract into a CFP.

Who am I?

Alex Rivera is a fictional Developer Advocate used only in this example site. The biography, conferences, and co-speaker are invented so you can copy the content shape without copying a real person.

In a real site this section is the first 10-*.md file on the About page: short, first person or third, with the links that do not belong in the nav.

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