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

Upcoming
2021
Event | Date | Affiliation | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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Software Freedom Day 2010 at NEIA | Sep 16 – 17 | Digital Freedom Foundation | |
Libre Planet 2010 | Mar 19 – 21 | Free Software Foundation |