A curation of external (ie, not on this site) speaking and writing I’ve done. I’m in the slow process of turning many of these into internally-hosted articles or illustrated essays.

Talks

• guest speaker series to College of Staten Island CS students on GitHub and Technical Portfolios (Oct 2020)
• guest tech talk on pair programming to MongoDB engineering team (July 2018)
• Write/Speak/Code conference lightning talk on ship-it (Aug 2018)

External Blog Links

• The Kubernetes Aquarium
• Engineering Matters: An Interview with Team D4AD’s Lead Engineer Anne LoVerso
• Systems Thinking with Pivotal Act: A Tool for Every Software Project
• Consulting as a Co-Creation Conversation
• Frontend Contract Tests Without Magic Numbers
• An Illustrated Guide to Mob Programming
• ship-it: a humble script for low-risk deployment

Lightning Talks

• Being Solo (Aug 2020)
• Story Estimation: Whether to Point Chores (Jul 2020)
• The Kubernetes Aquarium (Jun 2020)
• Railway-Oriented Programming in Kotlin (Mar 2020)
• How and Why to Write a Brag Document (Mar 2020)
• Mob Programming (Feb 2020)
• The Either monad (Jan 2020)
• Lightning Debate - react-testing-library vs enzyme (Oct 2019)
• D&D Communication Techniques (April 2019)
• Highlights from the cutting edge of JavaScript (Mar 2019)
• Why and how we do retrospectives (Jan 2019)