
daverupert.com
October 11, 2026
3 min read
48/100
Summary
A handful of people I follow and know about have announced their recent departure. Not from a job (although plenty of that going around), but from social media, AI usage, or in more extreme cases the Internet entirely. In Goodbye, Forever, Probably, Salma announced her retirement from the internet. She makes a sound case for leaving DevRel, a demanding job with mushy metrics that struggles to find...