Brag now, remember later: Document your accomplishments
In Part Four of her GitHub ReadME Project series, Monica shows how you are in a unique position to be your best advocate.
Monica Powell
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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
Your future self will thank you: Building your personal documentation
In Part Three of this GitHub ReadME series, Monica explains how to build a second brain of knowledge you’ll use over and over.
How to Check Bundled Netlify Function Size Locally
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.
How to hone your new superpower: teaching
In part two of Monica's GitHub ReadME series on the value of documentation, she discusses the mindset, process and benefits of public documentation.
Getting Started with Open Source at React Robins
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.
Using code as documentation to save time and share context at GitHub Universe
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.
Using code as documentation to save time and share context
A guide in the GitHub ReadME Project to walkthrough various ways code can be used as documentation to help yourselves and others.
How to Create a Contact Form With Next.js and Netlify
An article on how to quickly set up a form on a NextJS website without having to write any server-side code.
