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Customer advocate => SWE | Engineering leader, building sewing.club | Meetup organizer | Mom of two | Proud Puerto-Haitian | Sewing, gardening, cooking, gaming (video games, board games, TTRPGs) | Avatar: @reverentgeek.com

Chazona's Workbook
Chazona's WorkbookMay 21, 2024
How love lessons can land you a great job (even in a down tech market)
What allows you to successfully navigate dating can also give you an edge in a competitive talent market. Communication, not AI, is the superpower.
leadership
Chazona's Workbook
Chazona's WorkbookAug 12, 2023
Programming paradigms: how to pick a programming language that won’t get in your way
How languages can be categorized by their major features—and what paradigms are especially good at solving different kinds of problems.
tutorials
Chazona's Workbook
Chazona's WorkbookJun 27, 2020
Managing agile at scale
A review of agile frameworks, the problems companies hit when they try to scale them, and the patterns that are actually working today.
tutorials
Chazona's Workbook
Chazona's WorkbookOct 19, 2019
Getting hired in tech
A strategy for standing out as a uniquely qualified candidate in a noisy field of prospects—without turning the job hunt into a numbers game.
tutorials
Chazona's Workbook
Chazona's WorkbookNov 16, 2018
Roughing it dev style: coding without a computer (live)
How I shipped a version-controlled project for a week with only an iPhone, and what that taught me about working under constraint.
computerless
Chazona's Workbook
Chazona's WorkbookAug 6, 2018
Return of the creative web
Why many of us got into the field in the first place—and how new browser APIs, mixed reality, and indie communities are reviving the joy.
tutorials
Chazona's Workbook
Chazona's WorkbookNov 16, 2017
Freelance Web App with Rails API 5.1 and React Frontend: Part 2 - Getting set up
The first commits of a Rails-API + React project, including the documentation scaffolding most projects defer until it’s sorely missed.
tutorials
Chazona's Workbook
Chazona's WorkbookNov 14, 2017
Freelance Web App with Rails API 5.1 and React Frontend: Part 1 - Why?
Picking a stack for a freelance CRM, and writing down the reasoning before the code makes it harder to change.
tutorials
Chazona's Workbook
Chazona's WorkbookApr 18, 2017
Roughing it dev style: coding without a computer
The week my Surface Pro died, and how an iPhone, Buffer Editor and a Digital Ocean droplet kept me shipping.
tutorialscomputerless
Chazona's Workbook
Chazona's WorkbookJan 17, 2017
Getting Started with Jekyll: Part 2 - Meeting Jekyll’s demands
All the Ruby-side moving parts a self-hosted Jekyll blog needs before it’ll actually deploy.
metabloggingtutorials
Chazona's Workbook
Chazona's WorkbookJan 7, 2017
Getting Started with Jekyll: Part 1- Servers and SSH
Standing up a Digital Ocean droplet for the blog—non-root user, key-only auth, Nginx, firewall—before any of the Jekyll bits arrive.
metabloggingtutorials
Chazona's Workbook
Chazona's WorkbookJan 2, 2017
Ways to involve young kids when coding
Working parents don’t always have a choice but to juggle their responsibilities—here’s how I managed.
parenting