Wow. It’s been quite the month! Life I have been catsitting not once, not twice, but three times in the past month. It’s kind of great because I miss being around cats a lot since my cat is no longer with me. Otis (in the picture above) and Ophelia are my friend Sunshine’s cats, and […]
tl;dr: Jump to the end to see specific trends I saw from the thousands of tweets. Or read on for the full background and statistics. The Hashtag It started as a simple enough conversation. On Wednesday morning, I was talking to Nate Taylor about some thoughts and feelings I had related to conferences, including […]
I feel like mental health is an incredibly important topic to discuss, especially in tech. And most of this post will revolve around my experiences in the past year. In 2015, I gave my first conference talk. And I gave it many times. It was a wild and zany ride as I was accepted to […]
People have asked me a lot on how I can keep up with Twitter. And sometimes they’ve seen this screen and told me “Whoa! What is that mess?” That, my friends, is how I organize Twitter so it makes logical sense to me, and is how I manage to keep up with so many conversations […]
Life I reported last post that I was sick and lost my voice. And the sucky thing is that it’s a self-perpetuating cycle. Stuff in your throat/lungs makes you cough, which hurts your voice, which seems to further the lung/throat mess, making you cough more… etc. With a bit of medicine and tons of fluids, […]
Life I got to go on about the only trip I’m scheduled to go on this year. It was a trip to Detroit for Self.Conference, which was my favorite conference from last year. I love that it’s very tech-focused, but nearly every talk also includes a decent amount of empathy, and so did the hallway […]
“Last Week” should probably be “Last Month” at this point or “Last Couple of Months”, but I’m working on this anyway. Life One of the best things this year has probably been finding a friend that I talk daily with and hang out 2-4 times a week. Though between when I started this post and […]
When I was asked if I would write a blog post about productivity, I thought “Sure! It can’t be that hard.” But the only thing that just kept coming to mind over the past few days was “I just feel soooo unproductive lately!” My list of things I needed to do at home was piling […]
Life Life’s been a mess. I’ve decided to skip two week’s of “Last Week” posts because, well, I just plain forgot to do them. And navigating through browser histories is a mess. I’m working on moving to a new apartment, as well as getting over food poisoning, as well as trying to find time to […]
Life I was supposed to teach a Girl Develop It class but it got cancelled. The National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) has a regional MO/KS chapter, and we held our annual awards for aspirations in computing ceremony. I helped with some of the planning for it. We got to give out 30 […]