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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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May 18, 2018

An Introvert Coder's Guide to Networking through Social Media

I’m an awkward INTJ. If you don’t know what that means, I love this description from 16 Personalities: INTJs are brilliant and confident in bodies of knowledge they have taken the time to understand, but unfortunately the social contract is...

May 9, 2018

I'm a Mother Coder

This is for all my moms out there learning to code. Happy Mothers Day! “How do you do it? How do you momlife and codelife at the same time? How do you not lose your mind?” Here’s the thing, you...

May 2, 2018

I'm Leaving Academia Because I did a Bootcamp

I’ve adjuncted in a university English Department for the last ten years, and it took learning to code to realize that adjuncting was a dead-end job. In January, I took an accelerated bootcamp prep online for a couple of weeks....

April 26, 2018

To Template or Not to Template

This post is going to reveal how inexperienced I am. About six weeks ago, I decided I was going to build a blog with Jekyll and host it with Github pages. I have no idea why. I’m sure I must’ve...

April 23, 2018

How Coding has been Therapeutic for my PTSD

I’m at a red light, but my mind’s not there. It’s back in the hospital, remembering the doctor saying “that’s strange.” I’m in the grocery store, but my mind’s not there. It’s in the doctor’s office, hearing the doctor say...

April 20, 2018

How the Humanities Can Save Technology

Obviously, the tech industry isn’t dead or even dying. In fact, it’s flourishing. So why would we need to save it? Well, no one can deny that there is a toxic culture going on in the tech industry, and that...

April 17, 2018

Don't Forget the Lipstick: A couple best practices for new coders

I have a very disorganized 148 page google doc of notes I’ve taken from all the online resources I’ve used for HTML, CSS, JS, and ethereum. They don’t look pretty. In fact, they’re messier than my living room. One day...