Last Month
Decembers tend to be my worst month of the year because a particular series of events happen and a certain set of memories come back each year. However, some...
Activism
- Uncategorized 30
- Last Week 13
- Conferences 9
- Job Hunting 6
- Mental Health 6
- School 5
- Accomplishments 4
- Life Updates 4
- Public Speaking 4
- Women in Computing 4
- Writings 3
- Hackathons 2
- Software 2
- Tutorials 2
- Activism 1
- Career 1
- Motherhood 1
- Projects 1
- Website 1
Uncategorized
Year in Review: Part 2 – 2017 Goals
In Part 1 of my Year in Review post, I wrote about what happened in the past year in my life, both good things that happened as well as some things that coul...
Year in Review: Part 1 – 2016 Retrospective
2016 has been a weird year for many people I know and many I don’t. My Twitter timeline is guaranteed at least a few “this year sucks” posts every time I loo...
2015 Accomplishments
I wrote this around Christmas in 2015, but never published it in blog form. I’m publishing it now for me to be able to look back on. The stats listed were co...
Why Self Care Is Hard for Me
This was originally posted on Medium.
My Adventures of My First Year of Conference Speaking
This post was originally written on Medium.
My Friend Waldo
This is a post I originally wrote on Medium.
A Tale of Two Men
One of the men held me back. One of them gave me an opportunity to shine.
Why I Decided to Do the Scariest Thing I’ve Ever Done
I felt if I didn’t come out soon, the world would do it for me. So I came out by Medium post. But I didn’t expect my story to go viral.
Life, Gender, and the Pursuit of Happiness
This is a post I wrote originally on Medium.
Programming a Robot Arm
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
Busyness and MINK WIC
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
Women in Technology Events of the Past Week
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Why I Deleted My Facebook Account
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End of Spring Semester and My First Day of My Internship
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A Month of Updates
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Using Twilio for a Text-Based Voting System
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
Why I Take Paper Notes
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
School, Snow Days, and My Sanity
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
My First Week of the New Semester
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
Experiences As a C++ Lab Instructor
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
More Fluffy Clouds Than I Know What to Do With
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Semester’s Over!
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A Binary Girls Thanksgiving
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
What I Learned at Compute Midwest (Part 2)
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
What I Learned at Compute Midwest (Part 1)
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
How to Install Eclipse (for C++) in Windows
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
My weekend at Grace Hopper
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Binary Girls at Grace Hopper!
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About me
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Last Week
Last (Few) Months
Geez, SO much has happened since my last “Last [Week/Month]” type post in January. I definitely can’t cover it all, but I’ll try to hit the highlights.
Last Month
Decembers tend to be my worst month of the year because a particular series of events happen and a certain set of memories come back each year. However, some...
Last Month (or Three)
A super gloomy Austin during Hurricane Harvey
Last Month
Otis (the cat) and I hanging out
Last Week
My friend Abbey and I at the women-only Wonder Woman screening at the Alamo Drafthouse in Kansas City. They had this backdrop with props, so we posed.
Last Week
I took this picture from the plane on my way home from Detroit. I’ve seen the Gateway Arch from the ground, and been inside, but not seen it from the a...
Last Month(ish)
“Last Week” should probably be “Last Month” at this point or “Last Couple of Months”, but I’m working on this an...
Last Week
Life
Last Week
Otis, my friend Sunshine’s cat, hangs out on my lap.
Last Week
My stuffed dinosaur Harold. I discovered him after digging through some things and took this picture to show a friend.
Last Week
Salacia, the new computer I built in the past week
Last Week
This was a picture I took from work one night. I thought it just looked pretty!
Last Week
I went to a New Years Eve party meetup that was in an art studio, featuring great art, a professional photographer and backdrop, games, drinks and food, and ...
Conferences
Recap: Self.Conference 2018
Back in mid-August, I got the opportunity to speak at Self.Conference for my third year in a row. While a few things had changed this year, it still remains ...
Last (Few) Months
Geez, SO much has happened since my last “Last [Week/Month]” type post in January. I definitely can’t cover it all, but I’ll try to hit the highlights.
Last Month
Otis (the cat) and I hanging out
What I Learned from (Co-)Starting #SpeakerConfessions
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.
Why I Stopped Submitting Talks to Conferences This Year
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 pa...
What I Learned at Compute Midwest (Part 2)
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
What I Learned at Compute Midwest (Part 1)
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
My weekend at Grace Hopper
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
Binary Girls at Grace Hopper!
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
Job Hunting
Learning to Share Accomplishments: Part 2 - Sharing My Accomplishments
This is the second part of a two-part post. For part 2 of this post, I want to actually talk about those accomplishments. I think it’s helpful for me to get ...
Learning to Share Accomplishments: Part 1 - How to Share Accomplishments
In my last post, I talked about my last round of job hunting. More specifically, I mention one of the pieces of feedback was on how I come off as a bit more ...
Reflections on the Latest Round of Job Hunting
Back in February, my employer let my whole team go after getting rid of the project we had been working on. It threw me back into the world of job hunting. W...
Last (Few) Months
Geez, SO much has happened since my last “Last [Week/Month]” type post in January. I definitely can’t cover it all, but I’ll try to hit the highlights.
A Post About My New Job (and the Ones I Didn’t Get)
This post is a part of a series on job hunting and job interviewing.
The Three Questions I’m Asking at Every Interview
This post is a part of a series on job hunting and job interviewing.
Mental Health
Where I’ve Been
I’ve been quiet lately. At least online. And kind of in-person too. Here’s some updates.
I’ve Hit Community Burnout
At the last half of 2020, I started live streaming on Twitch. One of the popular things is for Twitch streamers to have their own Discord servers. […] But th...
Last (Few) Months
Geez, SO much has happened since my last “Last [Week/Month]” type post in January. I definitely can’t cover it all, but I’ll try to hit the highlights.
Last Month
Otis (the cat) and I hanging out
Why I Stopped Submitting Talks to Conferences This Year
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 pa...
Productivity and Mental Health
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 o...
School
Using Twilio for a Text-Based Voting System
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
Why I Take Paper Notes
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
My First Week of the New Semester
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
Experiences As a C++ Lab Instructor
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
Semester’s Over!
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
Accomplishments
2022 Year in Review
Ah, it’s the end of 2022. I’m sitting on my couch at home with my two cats as the window is open because it’s a nice 60F outside. Because who knows what the ...
Reflections on the Past Year
Another year has passed. Another long year. Even though the pandemic is still messing with everyone’s lives (including mine, and why I’m putting this out fin...
Learning to Share Accomplishments: Part 2 - Sharing My Accomplishments
This is the second part of a two-part post. For part 2 of this post, I want to actually talk about those accomplishments. I think it’s helpful for me to get ...
Learning to Share Accomplishments: Part 1 - How to Share Accomplishments
In my last post, I talked about my last round of job hunting. More specifically, I mention one of the pieces of feedback was on how I come off as a bit more ...
Life Updates
Where I’ve Been
I’ve been quiet lately. At least online. And kind of in-person too. Here’s some updates.
Year in Review: Looking Back at 2020 and Looking Forward at 2021
I’ve tried to do a year-end retrospective for the past several years. Sometimes I pull it off (2015, 2018) and sometimes I don’t (2016, 2019). I started to w...
Year in Review: Part 2 – 2019 Goals
In Part 1 of my Year in Review post, I wrote about what happened in the past year (or two) in my life, both good things that happened as well as some things ...
Year in Review: Part 1 – 2018 Retrospective (with some bits from 2017 too)
I started trying to write a year in review/retrospective every year since 2015. I think it’s good to reflect on accomplishments and the good things that have...
Public Speaking
Last (Few) Months
Geez, SO much has happened since my last “Last [Week/Month]” type post in January. I definitely can’t cover it all, but I’ll try to hit the highlights.
Last Month
Otis (the cat) and I hanging out
What I Learned from (Co-)Starting #SpeakerConfessions
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.
Why I Stopped Submitting Talks to Conferences This Year
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 pa...
Women in Computing
Nevertheless, Sarah Coded
Happy International Women’s Day! This is my annual ‘Nevertheless, She Coded’ post!
Nevertheless, Sarah Withee Coded (2018 Edition)
Happy International Women’s Day! This is my annual ‘Nevertheless, She Coded’ post!
Nevertheless, Sarah Withee Coded (2017 Edition)
Happy International Women’s Day! This is my annual ‘Nevertheless, She Coded’ post!
Busyness and MINK WIC
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
Writings
Where I’ve Been
I’ve been quiet lately. At least online. And kind of in-person too. Here’s some updates.
A Story About Growing Up in Kansas City
I grew up in Kansas City. It’s probably most famous for being that weird city in BOTH Kansas & Missouri. There’s another interesting trait about it. The ...
I Would Love to Be a Mother Someday But…
I was a part of the “cast” of the Listen To Your Mother 2017 - Kansas City show with about a dozen others. We all read essays about our mothers, about mother...
Hackathons
Hacking away…
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
What I Learned at Compute Midwest (Part 2)
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
Software
How to Install Eclipse (for C++) in Windows
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
Tutorials
How to Install Eclipse (for C++) in Windows
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
Activism
A Story About Growing Up in Kansas City
I grew up in Kansas City. It’s probably most famous for being that weird city in BOTH Kansas & Missouri. There’s another interesting trait about it. The ...
Career
The Most Important Things I’ve Learned About Software Management from My Developer Career So Far
I started my first programming-related job in 2005. Since then, I’ve had 13 managers across 10 teams (not including any contract work). It’s a lot. I’ve defi...
Motherhood
I Would Love to Be a Mother Someday But…
I was a part of the “cast” of the Listen To Your Mother 2017 - Kansas City show with about a dozen others. We all read essays about our mothers, about mother...
Projects
Using Twilio for a Text-Based Voting System
This post was originally from the blog site Binary Girls that my friends Abbey, Sarah, and I started. I’m saving it here for archival reasons.
Website
Behind the Scenes of My New Website
I did it! It took about two years to finally get myself to sit down and do it, but I converted two Wordpress sites on three domains into one static site! I d...