I’m a software developer living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and I work on big WordPress websites and design systems at Penske Media Corporation.
I love CSS, and in my conference speaking and blog writing, I advocate for CSS to be treated more formally in code-bases, and I help others to see CSS as a programming language (yes, we write algorithms in CSS!). That said, I also really enjoy programming in PHP and JavaScript, and these days I work on a lot of back-end code in addition to front-end at my job.
In addition to my job, I facilitate the weekly meetings for the WordPress Core CSS focus, where we are working on a large scale CSS audit and an ongoing initiative to revamp the WordPress admin color schemes. I’m excited to become more involved with WordPress.
Apart from my work in tech, I love to run, bike and generally be outside. I’m learning Spanish, I draw monsters and create zines about a variety of topics, and I volunteer with racial justice initiatives in my home city of Pittsburgh.
I write about personal and tech-related topics.
And at this point, I am getting close to 10 years of content! Here are some recent posts.
- Versioning Larva, PMC’s design systemFor Larva, we are using semantic versioning with some modified definitions.
- An brief explanation of recursion for UI programmersA high level overview of recursion with an analogy that will be familiar to front-end UI programmers.
- Log a Gutenberg block’s attributes to the consoleHow to log a Gutenberg block’s attributes to the console for helpful debugging and an introduction to WordPress data stores.
- Non-Zero Days, Antiracism Edition: Day 62 (and notes on the future of this series)Thanks to the teaching of EbonyJanice in her lecture, White Urgency is Violence, I realized that there are potentially violent elements in this series. It is time to take a step back.
- Protected: Non-Zero Days, Antiracism Edition: Days 39 – 53 [WiH]There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
- TED Talks about DecolonizationThese are just a few I watched after searching Youtube for “decolonize your mind” – there are surely more!
- H.E.R. @ Roots Picnic 2020Excellent Saturday morning music discovery.
- The BREATHE Act is here in defense of Black livesSee more and take action at https://BREATHEAct.org