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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 …
Category: Conferences
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 …
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 …
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 …
Strangeloop 2015
This year, I was fortunate to get a ticket to the Strangeloop conference in St. Louis, Missouri. This was my second time going. My first time was 2013, and I Read More …
Google I/O
I was super lucky to get a ticket to Google I/O through the Women Techmakers group at Google. Natalie Villalobos and the Women Techmakers team did a phenomenal job of Read More …
A talk, a ticket, and unexpected trust
A talk I gave a talk on my post From babies to software development: A quest to afford all the cupcakes. It was so nerve wracking to talk about something Read More …
WWDC recap
Monday: Got in line a little after 3:30AM for the keynote with my friend James. There were a couple hundred people in line in front of us. After awkwardly sleeping Read More …