This past May, I was absolutely thrilled to have the opportunity to travel to South Africa for the first time to speak at DevConf! DevConf is a conference that I’ve...
Oh my gosh! In-person conferences! They’re starting to happen again! (With some stipulations, of course.) I was able to ease back in a bit because the first tech event I...
This is my first individual conference wrap-up post in a while, but after Rubyconf 2020, I felt compelled to write about it. I’ve attended quite a few virtual conferences since...
There are a few reasons why it may not be quite accurate to call axe-core-gems the gem of the week. Well, first, because this is the first “gem of the...
For folks like me who often have a pretty full schedule of tech conferences, the lack of them on the calendar right now is a particularly weird-feeling aspect of the...
Do you remember Notpron? I certainly do, although I distinctly remember it being called notpr0n—which I suspect is more a remnant of online culture in the late 2000s when it was originally...
A few weeks ago, I attended CodeMash 2020 and it was as big and exciting as ever! I got to see all my friends, I built my own IoT badge,...
Hi friends! I haven’t posted a new article on this blog in a while, but not because I haven’t been active lately, so I wanted to share some of the...
Often, making a change to an application can look pretty straightforward from the outside. Without understanding the underlying structure of the application, it can be hard to realize how much...
Attending MongoDB World in Chicago last week was a series of firsts for me. It was the first time I was specifically sought out and invited to attend a conference...