I’m was recently at a conference I really enjoy, but had an interesting interaction that folks might be interested in hearing the story of that’s generalizable to any event, so here we go! In front of the information table there was this tape reading “DON’T ASK DUMB QUESTIONS” and then below it, “RTFM.” Some friends […]
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Serverless zine #0
0I recently made a zine about serverless compute — the idea started with telling a story that explains the “how” of serverless compute to answer the question: How does your code run in a serverless environment? I started writing out a story, since I use words to express myself a bit more than shapes. And […]
(Slides) Serverless and CatOps: Balancing trade-offs in operations and instrumentation
0Yesterday, I gave a talk at Monitorama PDX paralleling “CatOps” (cat operations) and serverless devops (or appops, if you prefer). I might write this out a bit longer eventually, but for now, sharing the slides!
Never Graduate Week 2018
0Last week I worked from Recurse Center’s annual Never Graduate Week, or as I explain to my friends “alumni week for programming camp.” While I was working the whole time, I did get to go to a few events, and focus on some interesting things. Projects Like I said, I was working, so my projects […]
How your ask “to chat” about CTO roles really sounds
0I’m writing this out in hopes that it helps a wayward founder, or a technologist to forward this post to the founder who asked you about “working with them on an idea” or “is looking to hire a CTO and would love to get your advice.” (heyo, future me who will be linking to this) […]
Global Diversity CFP Day Recap (Philly edition)
0This past Saturday, Sarah Gray and I organized the Philly edition of the first Global Diversity CFP Day. Sharing some post-event thoughts. #gdcfpday is underway in #Philly! pic.twitter.com/yblxBAS7l8 — Pam Selle (@pamasaur) February 3, 2018 Why do it? It’s not something I oft say publicly, but I don’t frequently do “diversity work” anymore. For years, […]
2017 in review (bullets)
2Welcome to the 2017 “bullets” post (previous years). This year was … really kind of hard. For a lot of people. I honestly didn’t touch my bullets.txt file until the fall, neglecting to recognize my accomplishments as I did them. In addition, I noticed that because I haven’t been journaling, when I did add to […]
Only made possible because of Devs Like You
1Last week, I had the honor of keynoting LibertyJS, the regional Philadelphia JavaScript conference that I helped found 4 years ago. During my keynote, I gave a talk on serverless compute (and why you should care) but then included a microtalk at the end about tech community organizing. Credit given where due, I took the […]
Playing with ASTs in Python
0Earlier this week, we had company hack day, to take a short break from the hustle of the roadmap (and there’s lots!!) to work on something else, and my team worked on a CLI tool. We used click to build some cool stuff, and one of the features I built wraps a Python lambda handler […]
Strange Loop 2017 in Review – Day 2
0Continuing my writing about this year’s edition of Strange Loop, I’ll go on to Saturday (Day 2 of the conference). Day 2 Lean Coffee I didn’t cover Lean Coffee much in day one’s post, so I’ll cover it a wee bit more here. If you ever go to Strange Loop, or have an opportunity to […]