I describe myself as incurably curious. I love listening to people talking about something they’re passionate about– whether it directly relates to my professional career or not and whether it is a topic that I consider myself expert at or complete newbie. It is nice to get new related and unrelated skills, as well as solidify existing understanding.
Here are all the things I do to stay current & boost my skills:
- Attend Conferences
- Attend Meetups
- Read Books
- Training Sessions/Bootcamps
- Watch/Listen to Video/Podcasts
- Watch Remote Conferences/Meetups
- Watch Webinars
Watch
- A Beginners Guide to React
- Libre Planet 2022
- ⭐ Gutenberg Blocks for WordPress and React Developers [2022]
- You Got This from your Couch Spring 2022
- How to Use Xdebug for Advanced PHP Debugging
- Perfectionism, Imposter Syndrome, and Anxiety
- It’s Not Your Job To Love Your Job
- Lending Privilege
- WPCampus 2021
- TheJam.dev 2022
- Building Better Development Teams Virtually
- The Ultimate WordPress CI/CD Pipeline
- Impactful Open Source: Teaching Open Source Technology Managers at Brandeis
Ongoing:
- WP Builds Live
- You Got This is a community event series focused on discussing core skills needed for a happy, healthy work life.
- WP Cafe / Highrise Digital
Upcoming
2022
| Event | Date | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Builder Basics: Headers and Footers in Full Site Editing | Apr 12 | WordPress Social Learning | |
| Hello Blocks! Coding a Custom Block | Mar 28 | WordPress Social Learning | |
| Beginner’s Guide to Full Site Editing | Mar 15 | WordPress Social Learning | |
| Understanding Display | Mar 14 | Conffab | |
| Cool Tools for PHP Development | Jan 13 | MergePHP |
2021
| Event | Date | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| This Week in WordPress #190 | Dec 20 | WP Builds Live | |
| State of the Word 2021 | Dec 14 | WordPress | |
| BU Training: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Foundations, working agreements, cultural norms & dominant culture. Intersectionality & positionality, biases, equity & justice, racism, micro-aggressions. | Nov 3 & Nov 10 | BU Organizational Development and Learning | |
| WP Café #11: Building Twenty Twenty-One | Apr 06 | WP Cafe | |
| Elevate Spring Summit on Engineering Leadership | Mar 11 | Plato | |
| Women: listen, learn, share, and hold my hand! Interview with Gabriela Mayer Event Info | Video | Mar 11 | Microsoft Reactor Sydney | |
| How to Champion Change for a Better Workplace Event Info | Video | Mar 10 | Microsoft Reactor Sydney | |
| Building an Inclusive Tech Community: Hear from Community Leaders Event Info | Video | Mar 10 | Microsoft Reactor Sydney | |
| DE{CODE} 2021 | Mar 04 | WP Engine | |
| Personalizing the Jamstack | Feb 25 | Certified Fresh Events | |
| Thinking in React | Feb 22 | ReactTraining.com | |
| Decoding Coding React | Feb 17 | Microsoft Reactor Sydney | |
| Recognizing and Rectifying Your Mistakes as an Engineering Leader | Feb 17 | LeadDev | |
| Build Continuous Integration (CI) Workflows by Using GitHub Actions | Feb 16 | Reactor Sydney | |
| Hour with a Tech Recruiter | Feb 11 | Treehouse Guest Speaker Series | |
| The Case for Web Accessibility | Feb 11 | Certified Fresh Events | |
| Laying the Foundations for Remote Success: Building an Effective Distributed Team Culture | Feb 10 | LeadDev | |
| Better Virtual Meetings | Feb 9 | Networkplaceless | |
| Exploring Tailwind CSS Event Info | Video | Jan 28 | Microsoft Reactor Sydney | |
| YOU GOT THIS From Your Couch Event Info | Videos | Jan 16 | You Got This | |
| LeadDev Live | Jan 21 | LeadDev | |
| Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager | Jan 12 | Leaddev Bookmarked |
2020
2019
2018
| Event | Date | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live Q&A: Gutenberg at WordCamp US | Dec 14 | Gutenberg Times | |
| Planning Before Pixels: Create with Purpose | Dec 11 | Aquent Gymnasium | |
| Creating Gutenberg | Nov 30 | Gutenberg Times | |
| Has Web Development Become Difficult? | Nov 27 | Certified Fresh Events | |
| Ethics in Software Engineering | Sep 18 | Certified Fresh Events | |
| Developing Success – How to continue learning as a developer & learn from your failures | Apr 5 | Certified Fresh Events | |
| Libre Planet 2018: Freedom Embedded | Mar 24 – 25 | Free Software Foundation | |
| LoopConf 2018 | Feb 21-23 | LoopConf | |
| Falling in Love with Accessibility | Feb 14 | WP Engine |
2017
| Event | Date | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BostonWP October Meetup | Oct 30 | Boston WordPress | |
| Going Serverless | Oct 20 | Certified Fresh Events | |
| Exploring JavaScript Frameworks | Oct 5 | Certified Fresh Events | |
| BostonWP August Meetup | Aug 28 | Boston WordPress | |
| WPCampus 2017 | Jul 14-15 | WPCampus | |
| BostonWP June Meetup | Jun 26 | Boston WordPress | |
| Out of Office: Work in the Digital Age ’17 | May 30 | Human Made | |
| Design and Exclusion | Apr 21 | Automattic | |
| Libre Planet 2017 | Mar 25 – 26 | Free Software Foundation | |
| React Conf ’17 | Mar 13 – 14 | React | |
| The Lead Developer NY ’17 (Archived videos watched on 3/20) | Feb 21 | White October Events | |
| Musings on the WordPress REST API | Feb 28 | Pantheon | |
| LoopConf 2017 | Feb 7 – 8 | LoopConf | |
| Building Better and more Intuitive Interfaces with the WordPress REST API and AngularJS (LoopConf 2017 Workshop) | Feb 6 | LoopConf | |
| BostonWP January Meetup | Jan 30 | Boston WordPress | |
| WP Campus Online 2017 | Jan 23 | WP Campus |
2016
| Event | Date | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BostonWP December Meetup | Dec 19 | Boston WordPress | |
| CSS4 Grid: True Layout Finally Arrives | Dec 14 | Boston CSS | |
| Bostonwp November Meetup | Nov 28 | Boston WordPress | |
| Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock | Sep 17 | ||
| Node.JS Boston: let [meetup, month] = [‘Node.JS Boston’, ‘April’] | Apr 21 | Node.JS Boston | |
| Libre Planet 2016: Fork the System | Mar 19 – 20 | Free Software Foundation | |
| Collaborating with Designers | Mar 09 | Boston CSS |
2015
| Event | Date | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Future of Web Apps | Nov 12 – 13 | Future Insights | |
| Inside Hearst’s New Agile Design Process | Oct 20 | Monotype | |
| Creating Sustainability in WP Client Handoff & Recovering from a WordPress Hack | Sep 28 | Boston WordPress | |
| GAME ON! Exploring the Boston Video Game Industry | Aug 13 | Children’s Media Association | |
| CodeConf 2015 | Jun 25 – 26 | Github | |
| Design the Future | Jun 22 – 24 | Penn State | |
| The Internet Age – Founders to Future | Jun 11 | ISOC | |
| Analytics SEO Updates | May 27 | Duda | |
| LoopConf 2015 | May 07 – 08 | LoopConf | |
| A Better World Through Integrated Testing -and- Building Themes with the REST API (LoopConf Workshop) | May 06 | LoopConf | |
| Libre Planet 2015: Free Software Everywhere | Mar 21 – 22 | Free Software Foundation | |
| Wild World Web and Styling Forms Semantically & Accessibly | Feb 25 | Boston Front End Developers | |
| Comparing Static Site Engines with Brian Rinaldi | Feb 18 | SFHTML5 | |
| The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer | Feb 10 | ||
| Putting the “we” in Januar-we! | Feb 04 | BostonJS | |
| Browser-Based Virtual Reality in HTML5 | Jan 16 | SFHTML5 |
2014
2013
2012
| Event | Date | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Odyssey: 2013 & Front End Performance Matters | Nov 28 | Boston Front End Developers | |
| Web Unleashed @ Bentley College | Nov 08 – 09 | FITC | |
| Environmental Design on the Web | Oct 24 | Boston Front End Developers | |
| HTML5 Prototyping + Using HTML5 to Create Windows 8 Apps | Sep 26 | Boston Front End Developers | |
| Building an iOS and Android Application with App Cloud | Jul 25 | Boston Front End Developers | |
| Adobe Night: Cross-Platform Apps with PhoneGap & A Better Web | Jun 27 | Boston Front End Developers | |
| An all-Sass evening: Tips, Tricks and Best-practices on using Sass and Compass | May 23 | Boston Front End Developers | |
| jQuery: Two New Features That Really Matter and Pragmatic Responsive Web Design | Apr 25 | Boston Front End Developers | |
| Global Censorship Conference at Yale Law School | Mar 30 | Thomson Reuters Initiative |
2011
| Event | Date | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker: Nicholas Zakas on High Performance JavaScript | Nov 03 | Web Performance Boston | |
| Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference | Oct 25 – 26 | AccessNow | |
| Patent Absurdity Screening at NEIA | Oct 06 | NEIA | |
| INET Philadelphia 2011 | Oct 05 | Internet Society | |
| jQuery Conference 2011: Boston | Oct 01 – 02 | The jQuery Foundation | |
| Software Freedom Day 2011 at NEIA | Sep 02 | Digital Freedom Foundation | |
| ISOC’s INET Conference NYC | Jun 14 | Internet Society | |
| NASA OpenSourceSummit | Mar 29 – 30 | NASA | |
| Libre Planet 2011 | Apr 19 | Free Software Foundation | |
| National Conference for Media Reform | Apr 08 – 10 | Free Press |
2010
| Event | Date | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software Freedom Day 2010 at NEIA | Sep 16 – 17 | Digital Freedom Foundation | |
| Libre Planet 2010 | Mar 19 – 21 | Free Software Foundation |