I’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) […]
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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 […]
Strange Loop 2017 in Review – Day 1
0It’s a few days since Strange Loop 2017 wrapped up, wonderful as always thanks to the tireless efforts of the herd of organizers (Alex, Bridget, Crystal, Nick, Mario and Ryan!!), volunteers, and thank you sponsors for your 💰. Strange Loop is one of my favorite technical conferences ever (and I’ve been to quite a few). […]
Learning about math patterns (voronoi especially!)
0On Wednesday I took a staycation* day off of work to hang out with my partner, relax, and also check out an exhibit at the Franklin Institute on mathematical patterns in nature since I won tickets through a Yelp giveaway. I would recommend it, if you’re a member already and are only spending an extra $5 […]
On podcasts
2A couple items of podcast news! One: Turing-Incomplete is out of podfade*! * podfade – when a podcast stops publishing episodes, and sort of fades out of existence for either a break or permanently. A couple changes: For Turing-Incomplete, we’re now going to record by season (season 1 ran for two years and had 92 […]
Thoughts from Google I/O 2017 Days 2 & 3
0Because of how writing worked out, I’m grouping days 2 & 3 of Google I/O 2017 in this post. If you’re curious about day 1, it’s over here. Day 2 On day 2, I tired out quickly, probably from a combination of a lot of travel, the heat, and starting the day attempting to learn […]