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 …

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 …