Monica Powell

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.

A guide in the GitHub ReadME Project to walkthrough various ways code can be used as documentation to help yourselves and others.

An article on how to quickly set up a form on a NextJS website without having to write any server-side code.

In this workshop, Monica Powell will cover the fundamentals of quickly developing a site with Gatsby, a React framework, and dive deep into the building blocks you’ll need to build your own custom Gatsby sites. After completing a mix of lectures and exercises you’ll be able to build and deploy a Gatsby site from the ground up. In particular, you’ll learn the ins and outs of creating Gatsby sites, from selecting a starter or theme, using GraphQL to manage site data, making Markdown content interactive with MDX, deploying your site, and more! This workshop is for JavaScript developers who haven’t had extensive experience with Gatsby and want a deeper understanding of Gatsby.

Spoke about my career journey with women interested in computing and data science at Barnard College.

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?

Being an effective web developer when investigating a software issue, locally or in production, requires some detective-like debugging skills. As I've grown as a developer I've not only improved the breadth of my knowledge about various ways software can break in unexpected ways but I've also enhanced my debugging skills over time. In this article, I share various strategies to approach understanding why the computer doesn't appear to be doing what you tell it to do. Computers interpret instructions literally and to resolve a discrepancy between actual and expected functionality you may need to revisit your assumptions!

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).

A tutorial on getting started with basic SVG animations

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.

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

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

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.

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

I had the pleasure of being on the Learn with Jason Show to show how to add Webmention functionality to a NextJS website. Webmentions let you pull tweets, other blogs, and other activity from around the web into your site? It was fun live pair programming the implementation of webmentions. Check out the video or read some of the highlights below!

Some of my thoughts on how to make quality contributions to open-source during Hacktoberfest and beyond

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.

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.

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

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

This article walks through how to access GitHub's new profile level README feature and shares some profile-level READMEs that inspired me. Awarded with Blog Post of the Year at GitHub's Nova Conf in 2020.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How to Automate Your React Workflow

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

Founder and organiser of React Ladies