When it’s time to start speaking at conferences
Wherever you are at in your career, you might ask yourself “should I speak at conferences?” If you listen to PyCon’s call for proposals (known as a CFP), you’ll see “You. Your friends. Your friends’...
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Absurdly simple proxying in Rails
Tuesday last week, I was asked if I’d step up to take Comcast’s spot in some lightning talks for Philly Tech Week’s Dev Day, and talk about a technical challenge I solved [nb: this was solved of course...
View ArticleZero to Testing in JavaScript: the slides!
I just gave my talk at QCon, which is turning out to be a very impressive conference! Excited to see what the other tracks have to offer. Here’re the slides: Zero to Testing in JavaScript from pamselle...
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Lessons from Forward2 + talk slides
Yesterday, I spoke at Forward2 aka ForwardJS, a JavaScript conference in San Francisco. Most of the attendees were local, again affirming my fondness for speaking at regional confs. The organizers made...
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2 step (guaranteed!) method to building a public profile as a developer
How many times have you heard “Networking is the best way to find a job,” or “It’s all about who you know.” I contend that it helps a hell of a lot if people know you, or feel like they do, and my...
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Recurse Center Week 10
Last week (the first double digit week!) was shorter because of my trip to speak at NorfolkJS, but I’ve enjoyed looking into the silent dance party app idea, detours into programming for fun, and...
View ArticleOnly made possible because of Devs Like You
Last week, I had the honor of keynoting LibertyJS, the regional Philadelphia JavaScript conference that I helped found 4 years ago. During my keynote, I gave a talk on serverless compute (and why you...
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Global Diversity CFP Day Recap (Philly edition)
This past Saturday, Sarah Gray and I organized the Philly edition of the first Global Diversity CFP Day. Sharing some post-event thoughts. #gdcfpday is underway in #Philly! pic.twitter.com/yblxBAS7l8 —...
View Article(Slides) Serverless and CatOps: Balancing trade-offs in operations and...
Yesterday, I gave a talk at Monitorama PDX paralleling “CatOps” (cat operations) and serverless devops (or appops, if you prefer). I might write this out a bit longer eventually, but for now, sharing...
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Notes from the May #p5hangout
On Saturday, May 9th, I attended some of the p5 [processing] Community Hangout. The final schedule for the day is here. One of the MCs, Russel Hay, was kind enough to invite me to share on my music...
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