Category: conferences

22 April 2022

Weird Travel Essentials

Now that the world is a bit more open, I am getting my wings back and trying to figure out how to pack to go places again. I’ve taken a few trips over the last few months and realized I have a few things I always have to take to make myself comfortable in a…
24 May 2020

May 2020 Lead Dev AMA

In case you missed it, here is everything I said in my Lead Dev AMA the other day I had a few questions that would be great to get your thoughts on. You mentioned that ‘Some hands support’ can work well at big and small organisations. Are there any specific use cases where you’ve seen…
12 January 2020

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power

“The erotic is the nurturer or nursemaid of our deepest knowledge.” – Audre Lorde
14 October 2019

Rewrite The Docs at ATO 2019

If you’re here because you saw my talk at All Things Open 2019, thank you!! If you are here just because, thank you too! 🙂 The original blogpost that my talk was based on is here and below are links to some of the organizations I mentioned. The ones that accept donations are indicated with…
24 May 2018

Making Them Pay: Tales from the Immutable Stack

This is pretty much the entire text from the talk I delivered at Paymentsfn 2018 on May 24, 2018 in Durham, North Carolina. In his story The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, Edgar Allan Poe wrote “Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises…
7 May 2018

Rewrite the Docs

Thanks to everyone who watched my talk at Write the Docs Portland 2018. The blogpost that it is based on is here and below are some links to the organizations I mentioned. The ones that accept donations are indicated with a $ sign: The Collective for Liberation Ecology and Technology The National Council for Incarcerated…
29 September 2017

Gratitude: September 2017

A few things I was grateful for this month: 1) Sydette Harry’s AffectConf Talk Finally! A talk at a tech conference by a black woman about *us* and how *we* survive and what *we* need. 2) Orphan Black I realized I was a season behind so I raced through season 4 and am just rounding…
26 August 2017

Reportback from the 2017 ISE Annual Gathering

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of going up to beautiful Vermont to take part in the annual gathering of the Institute for Social Ecology. As I’ve mentioned before, I have been delving into the work of activist-scholar Murray Bookchin, and the Institute for Social Ecology is an institution that he helped to…
17 March 2017

“Making Developers on Support Work For Everyone” at The Lead Developer New York 2017
9 February 2017

My SupConf NYC Experience – Part II

You can read Part I of my SupConf NYC experience here …………. So after months of preparation and practice, SupConf arrived! The day before the conference, we had a speakers and organizers dinner at the venue so we could familiarize ourselves with the space and also get to know each other. Aside from getting to…