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:
- Watch Remote Conferences/Meetups
- Watch Webinars
- Listen to/Watch Podcasts
- Read Books
- Attend Training Sessions/Bootcamps
- Attend Conferences
- Attend Meetups
2022
| Event | Affiliation | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech’s Empathy Problem and How to Fix It By: Maelle Gavet | Sep 01 | ||
| Flex Course: Headless WordPress Development Session 2: Exploring WordPress as an API | Reclaim Hosting | Aug 25 | |
| Flex Course: Headless WordPress Development Session 1: What is Headless WordPress? | Reclaim Hosting | Aug 23 | |
| Clients Ruining Designs, Blocks vs Meta, Reselling Client Work | WP Café | Aug 03 | |
| Builder Basics: Headers and Footers in Full Site Editing | WordPress Social Learning | Apr 12 | |
| Hello Blocks! Coding a Custom Block | WordPress Social Learning | Mar 28 | |
| Beginner’s Guide to Full Site Editing | WordPress Social Learning | Mar 15 | |
| Understanding Display | Conffab | Mar 14 | |
| Cool Tools for PHP Development | MergePHP | Jan 13 |
2021
| Event | Affiliation | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| This Week in WordPress #190 | WP Builds Live | Dec 20 | |
| State of the Word 2021 | WordPress | Dec 14 | |
| BU Training: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Foundations, working agreements, cultural norms & dominant culture. Intersectionality & positionality, biases, equity & justice, racism, micro-aggressions. | BU Organizational Development and Learning | Nov 03 & Nov 10 | |
| Building Twenty Twenty-One | WP Café | Apr 06 | |
| Elevate Spring Summit on Engineering Leadership | Plato | Mar 11 | |
| Women: listen, learn, share, and hold my hand! Interview with Gabriela Mayer Event Info | Video | Microsoft Reactor Sydney | Mar 11 | |
| How to Champion Change for a Better Workplace Event Info | Video | Microsoft Reactor Sydney | Mar 10 | |
| Building an Inclusive Tech Community: Hear from Community Leaders Event Info | Video | Microsoft Reactor Sydney | Mar 10 | |
| DE{CODE} 2021 | WP Engine | Mar 04 | |
| Personalizing the Jamstack | Certified Fresh Events | Feb 25 | |
| Thinking in React | ReactTraining.com | Feb 22 | |
| Decoding Coding React | Microsoft Reactor Sydney | Feb 17 | |
| Recognizing and Rectifying Your Mistakes as an Engineering Leader | LeadDev | Feb 17 | |
| Build Continuous Integration (CI) Workflows by Using GitHub Actions | Reactor Sydney | Feb 16 | |
| Hour with a Tech Recruiter | Treehouse Guest Speaker Series | Feb 11 | |
| The Case for Web Accessibility | Certified Fresh Events | Feb 11 | |
| Laying the Foundations for Remote Success: Building an Effective Distributed Team Culture | LeadDev | Feb 10 | |
| Better Virtual Meetings | Networkplaceless | Feb 09 | |
| Exploring Tailwind CSS Event Info | Video | Microsoft Reactor Sydney | Jan 28 | |
| YOU GOT THIS From Your Couch Event Info | Videos | You Got This | Jan 16 | |
| LeadDev Live | LeadDev | Jan 21 | |
| Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager | Leaddev Bookmarked | Jan 12 |
2020
2019
2018
| Event | Affiliation | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live Q&A: Gutenberg at WordCamp US | Gutenberg Times | Dec 14 | |
| Planning Before Pixels: Create with Purpose | Aquent Gymnasium | Dec 11 | |
| Creating Gutenberg | Gutenberg Times | Nov 30 | |
| Has Web Development Become Difficult? | Certified Fresh Events | Nov 27 | |
| Ethics in Software Engineering | Certified Fresh Events | Sep 18 | |
| Developing Success – How to continue learning as a developer & learn from your failures | Certified Fresh Events | Apr 05 | |
| Libre Planet 2018: Freedom Embedded | Free Software Foundation | Mar 24-25 | |
| LoopConf 2018 | LoopConf | Feb 21-23 | |
| Falling in Love with Accessibility | WP Engine | Feb 14 |
2017
| Event | Affiliation | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BostonWP October Meetup | Boston WordPress | Oct 30 | |
| Going Serverless | Certified Fresh Events | Oct 20 | |
| Exploring JavaScript Frameworks | Certified Fresh Events | Oct 05 | |
| BostonWP August Meetup | Boston WordPress | Aug 28 | |
| WPCampus 2017 | WPCampus | Jul 14-15 | |
| BostonWP June Meetup | Boston WordPress | Jun 26 | |
| Out of Office: Work in the Digital Age ’17 | Human Made | May 30 | |
| Design and Exclusion | Automattic | Apr 21 | |
| Libre Planet 2017 | Free Software Foundation | Mar 25 – 26 | |
| React Conf ’17 | React | Mar 13 – 14 | |
| The Lead Developer NY ’17 (Archived videos watched on 3/20) | White October Events | Feb 21 | |
| Musings on the WordPress REST API | Pantheon | Feb 28 | |
| LoopConf 2017 | LoopConf | Feb 07-08 | |
| Building Better and more Intuitive Interfaces with the WordPress REST API and AngularJS (LoopConf 2017 Workshop) | LoopConf | Feb 06 | |
| BostonWP January Meetup | Boston WordPress | Jan 30 | |
| WP Campus Online 2017 | WP Campus | Jan 23 |
2016
| Event | Affiliation | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BostonWP December Meetup | Boston WordPress | Dec 19 | |
| CSS4 Grid: True Layout Finally Arrives | Boston CSS | Dec 14 | |
| Bostonwp November Meetup | Boston WordPress | Nov 28 | |
| Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock | Sep 17 | ||
| Node.JS Boston: let [meetup, month] = [‘Node.JS Boston’, ‘April’] | Node.JS Boston | Apr 21 | |
| Libre Planet 2016: Fork the System | Free Software Foundation | Mar 19-20 | |
| Collaborating with Designers | Boston CSS | Mar 09 |
2015
| Event | Affiliation | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Future of Web Apps | Future Insights | Nov 12-13 | |
| Inside Hearst’s New Agile Design Process | Monotype | Oct 20 | |
| Creating Sustainability in WP Client Handoff & Recovering from a WordPress Hack | Boston WordPress | Sep 28 | |
| GAME ON! Exploring the Boston Video Game Industry | Children’s Media Association | Aug 13 | |
| CodeConf 2015 | Github | Jun 25-26 | |
| Design the Future | Penn State | Jun 22-24 | |
| The Internet Age – Founders to Future | ISOC | Jun 11 | |
| Analytics SEO Updates | Duda | May 27 | |
| LoopConf 2015 | LoopConf | May 07-08 | |
| A Better World Through Integrated Testing -and- Building Themes with the REST API (LoopConf Workshop) | LoopConf | May 06 | |
| Libre Planet 2015: Free Software Everywhere | Free Software Foundation | Mar 21-22 | |
| Wild World Web and Styling Forms Semantically & Accessibly | Boston Front End Developers | Feb 25 | |
| Comparing Static Site Engines with Brian Rinaldi | SFHTML5 | Feb 18 | |
| The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer | Feb 10 | ||
| Putting the “we” in Januar-we! | BostonJS | Feb 04 | |
| Browser-Based Virtual Reality in HTML5 | SFHTML5 | Jan 16 |
2014
2013
2012
| Event | Affiliation | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Odyssey: 2013 & Front End Performance Matters | Boston Front End Developers | Nov 28 | |
| Web Unleashed @ Bentley College | FITC | Nov 08-09 | |
| Environmental Design on the Web | Boston Front End Developers | Oct 24 | |
| HTML5 Prototyping + Using HTML5 to Create Windows 8 Apps | Boston Front End Developers | Sep 26 | |
| Building an iOS and Android Application with App Cloud | Boston Front End Developers | Jul 25 | |
| Adobe Night: Cross-Platform Apps with PhoneGap & A Better Web | Boston Front End Developers | Jun 27 | |
| An all-Sass evening: Tips, Tricks and Best-practices on using Sass and Compass | Boston Front End Developers | May 23 | |
| jQuery: Two New Features That Really Matter and Pragmatic Responsive Web Design | Boston Front End Developers | Apr 25 | |
| Global Censorship Conference at Yale Law School | Thomson Reuters Initiative | Mar 30 |
2011
| Event | Affiliation | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker: Nicholas Zakas on High Performance JavaScript | Web Performance Boston | Nov 03 | |
| Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference | AccessNow | Oct 25-26 | |
| Patent Absurdity Screening at NEIA | NEIA | Oct 06 | |
| INET Philadelphia 2011 | Internet Society | Oct 05 | |
| jQuery Conference 2011: Boston | The jQuery Foundation | Oct 01-02 | |
| Software Freedom Day 2011 at NEIA | Digital Freedom Foundation | Sep 02 | |
| ISOC’s INET Conference NYC | Internet Society | Jun 14 | |
| NASA OpenSourceSummit | NASA | Mar 29-30 | |
| Libre Planet 2011 | Free Software Foundation | Apr 19 | |
| National Conference for Media Reform | Free Press | Apr 08-10 |
2010
| Event | Affiliation | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software Freedom Day 2010 at NEIA | Digital Freedom Foundation | Sep 16-17 | |
| Libre Planet 2010 | Free Software Foundation | Mar 19-21 |