Monica Powell

Attendees will have a better understanding of the fundamental concepts necessary to produce art with software as well as gain familiarity with popular approaches and techniques. Additionally, attendees should feel inspired to further explore their own creative coding experiments. This talk will explore the fundamentals of creative coding with JavaScript to design systems that generate unique but reproducible visual artwork, the significant role that randomness plays in the creative process, and how algorithmic coding compares to more traditional forms of software development. Throughout the talk various there will be numerous examples that illustrate core concepts and techniques that can be used to create stunning digital art.

An exploration of how using MDX with Remix enhances the Markdown authoring experience, unlocks an ecosystem of tools to improve accessibility, and enables developers to craft more customized content experiences. This talk will walk through multiple ways MDX can be incorporated into a Remix site and provides examples of leveraging MDX to strengthen the usability and accessibility of content.

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.