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I spent ten years teaching college English. Now I teach developers, search engines, and AI systems to understand each other.

Writing about developer experience, AI tooling, and the communities that make tech worth working in.

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Currently Developer Experience Lead, AI Platform at Paper Compute
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November 21, 2020

Let Them Write Tests: An Argument for Cypress

When I was learning to code, testing was covered a little bit, but I didn’t grasp the full awesomeness of what we test and why we test it. But I have been lucky enough–yes, I said lucky–to learn more about...

November 8, 2020

I'll say it again: Kindness Matters

The world can be a really messy and hard and sad place sometimes. And we’re all carrying our own stories. Some of us wear them on our sleeves. Some of us let them slip out from time to time. Some...

November 2, 2020

Hacktoberfest 2020: The Best One Yet

Last year, I didn’t complete Hacktoberfest. And I felt pretty bad about that.I spent hours looking through issues, hoping to find one that was tagged as a “good first issue” that was actually a good first issue and not a...

October 26, 2020

New Devs: Make Pairing a Priority

One of the questions I’ve been asked most frequently is also one that I asked most frequently when I first started: “when will I start to feel comfortable, like I’m good enough to be a developer?” One of the most...

October 2, 2020

The Thing About Trauma Is...

The thing about trauma is, it doesn’t stick to your timeline. The thing about trauma is, when you think you’re done with it, it creeps back in. The thing about trauma is, you find yourself in constant fight or flight...

September 22, 2020

Building Community is just as Important as Building Products

Move fast and break things. You hear that a lot in tech. And I’m here to call bullshit. Because you don’t build relationships fast and break them. You don’t create trust by breaking things. You don’t depend on things that...

August 3, 2020

ADHD, the Quarantine, and Me

A couple of months ago, I was diagnosed with ADHD. One of the things I’ve learned after being diagnosed is that there is so much I don’t know and I’m learning everyday. Yesterday, someone shared this tweet in our Virtual...