Monica Powell

What does one need to do to make open-source code more approachable? How do you figure out which teams to join for maximum positive impact on your communities? And how do you build communities? These questions and more are the topic of my conversation with Monica Powell, software engineer extraordinaire, who also happens to be a GitHub Star - an exclusive group of contributors recognized for their outstanding work in the open-source software space!

Contributing to a community article on GitHub’s blog on keeping your skillset fresh as a developer “Whether you’re committing 30 minutes or 3 hours a day to learning, consistency is key. Klint Finley asks 3 tech professionals at different stages in their career for more advice.”

In Part Four of her GitHub ReadME Project series, Monica shows how you are in a unique position to be your best advocate.

In Part Three of this GitHub ReadME series, Monica explains how to build a second brain of knowledge you’ll use over and over.

Does your Netlify function appear to be working locally but you're having trouble successfully deploying the function due to it being greater than 50 MB? This article walks through how to use the Netlify CLI to determine the size of the bundled Netlify function locally in order to more quickly optimize the size.

In part two of Monica's GitHub ReadME series on the value of documentation, she discusses the mindset, process and benefits of public documentation.

I am going to speak at React Robins Meetup group, which I started, to share with other React enthusiasts how to get started with open source.

How maintaining remote configuration files, as well as automation and documentation within a code base can help improve someone's efficiency as a developer when on-boarding to a new project or device.