Render ATL 2020: An Intro to Using GraphQL with Gatsby
Render ATL 2020: An Intro to Using GraphQL with Gatsby
Monica Powell
United States
Monica Powell is a software engineer who is passionate about making contributing to open-source more approachable and building online and offline communities. Find her creating content on dev.to like How to Create a GitHub Profile ReadMe contributing to projects like the The New York Public Library's eBook software, teaching web development or growing the React Ladies community she founded.
Community Contributions
Modern Web Summit: Contributing to Open-Source
Speaking at Modern Web Summit about contributing to open source software
Ladybug Podcast: Git & GitHub
Git is both simple and complex. You can usually get through your workday by memorizing a few commands, but under the hood there’s so much more to it. Today we will dive deep into Git with a special guest, Monica Powell.
Getting Started With Open Source Workshop
Interested in contributing to open source? Not sure where to start? Start this month at our Hacktober event with Monica Powell.
Topics the workshop will cover:
– What is Open Source? What are some of the different roles within Open Source?
– Best practices for contributing to open source
– How to identify opportunities to contribute to open source
– Opening an open source pull request
Leaning into Learning in Public with Monica Powell
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Scott Hanselman on Hanselminutes about my recent article on creating GitHub profile READMEs, digital gardening 🌱, the importance of owning your own content, leaning into learning in public and more. Listen to the episode above.
Migrating to MDX
I spoke at the inaugural MDX Conf about why someone would consider migrating from Remark to MDX and then walked through how to migrate and what problems you might run into.
Adding Environment Variables To GitHub Actions
This article walks through how to pass environment variables to GitHub Action Workflows. I went through a few of my GitHub Actions build minutes while testing how to properly pass environment variables to my .github/workflow/test.yml file. Hopefully this article saves you some time and build minutes the next time you set up environment variables for GitHub Actions.
Keeping SSR Cool with React Hydration
Speaking at React Rally, a community conference about React and topics interesting to React developers.
Learning GraphQL Panel, GraphQL Summit
Participating in a panel discussion at GraphQL Summit moderated by Eve Porcello.
How To Create A GitHub Profile README
This article walksthrough how to access GitHub's new profile level README feature and shares some profile-level READMEs that inspired me.
Global Diversity CFP Day NYC
I helped organize the annual Global Diversity CFP Day in NYC to encourage and prepare more diverse first-time speakers with a free 1-day Public Speaking workshop. I helped with various tasks and in particular coordinated having both remote and on-site mentors available for attendees.
Egghead Podcast: Personal Growth From Open-Source And Meetups
Monica Powell talks with Joel Hooks about the journey to her first development job, attending and organizing meetups, contributing to open-source, and time travel with git.
React Conf 2019: Git is Hard but Time Traveling in Git Isn't
This talk will cover how I accidentally discovered time travel in git, how to tell GitHub what languages a repository is composed of & other Git/GitHub hacks to make working with it more delightful (or maybe just make your commit history less embarrassing) with git hooks.
How To Automate Your React workflow
Do you find yourself copying and pasting the same boilerplate React code in multiple files every time you create a new component? Imagine a world without copy and paste. How much time would that cost you? This talk will walk through how to create a command-line interface (CLI) tool that generates React component files and other ways to automate your workflow.
ReactJS Girls Conference: Automate Your React Workflow
How to Automate Your React Workflow
Women Who Code NYC: Git is Hard but Time Traveling in Git Isn't
Women Who Code NYC: Git is Hard but Time Traveling in Git Isn't
Founder and organiser of React Ladies
Founder and organiser of React Ladies