Monica Powell

Article/Publication / 08-19-2021

Getting Started with Storybook: React Component Library Example

I wrote an introduction Storybook article for SnipCart's blog that covers: What Storybook is? How can it save you valuable time when working with components? How to set up a Storybook instance that is co-located with a React application? How to create the first instance of a component along with its story? How do various prop values affect the component’s appearance and functionality?

Blogpost / 05-14-2021

Setting Up Shell with zsh and Autosuggestions

This post is an overview of how I recently migrated my bash history and settings from Bash to zsh and set up autosuggestions for my terminal. For a while whenever I opened a new terminal window,the below message greeted me to prompt me to migrate to zsh, which is the default shell for newer macOS versions (as of macOS Catalina).

Video/Podcast / 04-12-2021

FSJam Podcast, Open Source Education with Monica Powell

Monica Powell is a software engineer at Newsela, Egghead Instructor, and organizer of the React Ladies meetup. In this episode we discuss how to create free, high quality educational material, the Redwood IDE and structure package, and how to build a more diverse open source community.

Blogpost / 03-13-2021

Creating Protected Routes In NextJS With Supabase

This articles walks through how to create protected routes on NextJS with Supabase's user management.

Blogpost / 03-09-2021

Creating New Supabase Users In NextJS

This article is the beginning of a series about setting up a NextJS with Supabase for user management and database storage.

Video/Podcast / 11-02-2020

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.

Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 10-20-2020

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

Video/Podcast / 09-10-2020

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.

Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 08-24-2020

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.

Blogpost / 08-23-2020

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.

Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 08-14-2020

Keeping SSR Cool with React Hydration

Speaking at React Rally, a community conference about React and topics interesting to React developers.

Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 07-31-2020

Learning GraphQL Panel, GraphQL Summit

Participating in a panel discussion at GraphQL Summit moderated by Eve Porcello.

Blogpost / 07-11-2020

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.

Event organization / 01-18-2020

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.

Video/Podcast / 12-18-2019

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.

Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 10-24-2019

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.

Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 06-25-2019

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.

Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 05-21-2019

ReactJS Girls Conference: Automate Your React Workflow

How to Automate Your React Workflow

Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 03-14-2019

Women Who Code NYC: Git is Hard but Time Traveling in Git Isn't

Event organization / 01-01-2019

Founder and organiser of React Ladies

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