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In March I added a text-to-speech player to this site so anyone could listen to my writings instead of reading them.

I read a piece this week that gave language to something I had been circling for a while.

I recently wrote about rebuilding my personal website from scratch — new framework, new design, bilingual content, accessibility-first architecture.

After rebuilding my personal site, translating it into two languages, adding accessibility features, and shipping a text-to-speech player, I realized I had no way of knowing if any of it still worked.

I recently wrote a five-part series about rebuilding my personal website — migrating from Jekyll to Hugo, redesigning the layout, translating everything into Spanish, optimizing for mobile, and shipping it all.

In 1999, David Bowie sat across from Jeremy Paxman on BBC Newsnight and told him the internet was going to change everything.

For twenty years, the question was: how do I rank on Google?

Accessibility is not a feature you bolt on at the end.

This is the fifth and final entry in a series of writings about the updates I am making to my personal website.

This is the fourth in a series of five writings about the updates I am making to my personal website.

This is the third in a series of five writings about the updates I am making to my personal website.

This is the second in a series of five writings about the updates I am making to my personal website.

This is the first in a series of five writings about the updates I am making to my personal website — from migrating the framework, to redesigning the layout, to translating the entire site into Spanish, and more.

It was early summer 2011 and the dog needed a walk.

I recently watched the film mid90s .

Image source: @SwiftOnSecurity The practice of delivering online products and services is ever evolving.

In March 2015, I went to New York City to co-work with my new colleagues at the then-budding 18F NYC location (also referred to as “the beige”).

While I am not a prolific writer on this site of mine, it’s been quite a while since I’ve written something.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. — Jane Addams As mentioned at the end of my last writing , I spent my time off speaking with several colleagues and employ…

In my writing titled “pressing pause ”, I talked about taking some time off for myself.

In my journey into teaching, I learned many things about the craft and its role in education, primarily in the programming realm.

Mary Cassatt, Breakfast In Bed, 1897, oil on canvas This week, my daughter starts her first week of Kindergarten.

Last week I had the honor of helping graduate the very first cohort of students from The Iron Yard in Durham, NC.

This past March I had the privilege to be a mentor for Pearl Hacks , a hackathon for college and high-school aged women at UNC-CH.

The original post is listed on the O’Reilly Radar blog: http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/04/simplifying-django.html Despite Django’s popularity and maturity, some developers believe that it is an outdated web framework made primarily for “content-heavy” appl…

It has been a year since Django core contributor Malcolm Tredinnick suddenly passed away.

This past weekend I had the unique opportunity to speak at a first time conference PyTennessee 2014 in Nashville, TN.

For the past four weeks, I have been helping to lead a rebranding effort for Coursefork .

I am my own worst critic.

Earlier this month, I had the honor of being invited to attend the 2013 Mozilla Summit in Brussels, Belgium.

As some of you may already know , last week I had the honor and privilege to help organize the 2013 Teen Tech Camp in Durham, North Carolina.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Local Teens Learn Computer Programming Using Raspberry Pi Microcomputers Durham, NC – Refresh the Triangle is proud to announce Teen Tech Camp 2013, a one-day event to teach computer programming to area youth.

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Over the past few months, my colleague Caleb and I had been developing a game using pygame .

Setting up local development environment is par for the course when programming.

Yesterday, I wrote a post about the awesome time I had at PyCon 2013 .

Here I am again, sitting in an airport waiting to board my flight away from PyCon.

Many folks have been asking the following question: how to get more women involved in various programming communities?

I find that most projects are created out of need.