Swiftly Create a Mobile App
It all started when Crystal Martin, the diversity director of the Strangeloop conference, said something about getting more accessibly talks and workshops at Strangeloop. I wanted to do a conference Read More …
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2016 Annual Review
It’s review time again! You can read my Asynchrony review from last year here. This year, I was again in the advocacy program, which meant that I had an advocate Read More …
Grace Hopper 2016
(I may have forgotten to post this immediately after the conference, oops!) What a week! I am so emotionally exhausted from this trip, so I’m slowly starting to process everything Read More …
What I Learned From My Last Team
I started on a new team this past week — I’m super excited because it’s a 12-week project in Swift. My last two teams were Ruby on Rails teams, and Read More …
Pre-talk annoyances and how that’s strengthening my talk
I’m doing a talk on battling unconscious bias for an internal work conference. I’m super stoked about it. I’ve been unknowingly compiling resources on this for a long time. I’ve Read More …
Three years in tech
I’m almost at three years in the tech industry! I moved to St. Louis at the beginning of February in 2012. I started my first programming job shortly thereafter in Read More …
2015 Asynchrony Performance Review
This year, I was in the advocacy program at Asynchrony again. The advocacy program is different from the traditional review process in that you solicit feedback from your coworkers on Read More …
The CTO of the United States
I’ve been struggling to write a comprehensive post of the Grace Hopper conference (GHC) that I went to in October. It was an action-packed three days followed by a day Read More …
The Dark Side of Conferences
It’s not easy for you to walk up to a group of people and introduce yourself. The fear behind that is that the people will reject you for who you Read More …
Meeting people at conferences
I’m normally a very extroverted person, but meeting people at conferences is awkward and difficult. Sometimes, I feel overwhelmed at the idea of people not liking me. Other times, I Read More …