Hyper Contextual Gallery Linguistics

Discussing the construction and curation on gallery exhibits

Hyper Contextual Gallery Linguistics

Discussing the construction and curation on gallery exhibits

Daydream

Dissecting the path it took to establish what I wanted to do for a living and how I got there. This is both a talk about achieving a goal and tempering those expectations A LOT.

Career Iteration: A Design Celebration

"Assumptions: Design is a moving target, chasing the future, embracing the now, and delivering meaningful experiences and value to businesses and users.

Assertion: The most meaningful realization of design does not have to happen in the Obvious places, and you might be overlooking potential for great design.

Let's explore where design happens, and what makes design Design."

Intro to Git

Intro to Git from creating a repo to publishing a GitHub Page

WP Admin as a User Experience

Leave those divs out of the WYSIWYG. Clean up that editing screen. This session covers the basics of Advanced Custom Fields, modifying the admin menu, and other ways to dummy-proof wp-admin and simplify data entry.

Clipping Your Way to the Top: How to be a Baller Couponer

Learn how to combine the Internet and your Competitive Spirit into a money-making scheme better than your mother's Sunday paper coupon clipping.

This discuss came from #68 and weren't addressed. I've created this issue to discuss the point and complete the required work.

If we plan to continue adding talks, do you think it'd be worth writing a script that generates the /archive page from a .json file or something?

• This is being discussed in #69.

The favicon is not showing up on either of the pages on my machine and I can't find a reference to the .ico in any of the files in either repo, I might be missing something but I'm not sure how it's showing up in prod.

• Since this have been merged to prod, I'm seeing the favicon working probably on my end. the .ico is in the main directory.

Should we make the spacing around the line break between the "Talk Archive" header and list of talks even?

• @beckyrother suggested that the subheader be widened so that it only take one line. If this is the consensus, that could be easily implemented.

nit ~ I think there's an extra comma after David's name :P

• Good catch! DevOps needs to be added after David's name :)

Clicking on the icon in the top should take the user back to the home page; can the buttons at the top stay the same between each page?

• Shouldn't be a problem to implement.

Add a home button under the subhead
@beckyrother where exactly should this be?

Subhead copy to come :)
@beckyrother you can add any copy on this issue!

Color Choreography of/a/an Pop Music Video: Presenting Considerate Epistemology and Culture

We're going to drink and watch 90s music videos and I'm going to say some words.

Inclusivity in Video Games + Nintendo Celebration

The spirit of Nintendo is one of creativity and inclusivity, inspiring a generation of games that can be played by anyone and that are more representative and diverse. I'll explore the ways indie, mobile, and mainstream games are becoming more inclusive, the missteps Nintendo and other developers have made, and how gaming is a hobby for everyone (especially people who don't identify as "gamers"). Then we'll play Wii U and 3DS (Pokemon!) games together!

Intentional and Accidental Career Development

From 2014 to 2017 I grew from being the office IT person to a devops engineer. Sometimes I was given great opportunities, sometimes I had to fight to learn or move throughout the company. I was given lots of help sometimes and dutifully ignored at others. In the end, I'm in a wholly different career than I expected to be.

Summary

Should we move this site to a static site generator?

Review all the options

If we go the route of using a static generator, there are a ton of great options. I'm going to list a few that I use and love:

• VuePress - Static site using Vue.js
• Gatsby - Static site using React.js
• Jekyll - Static site using Ruby (the OG generator)

I personally love Vue.js. Gatsby is fun to work with. I've created many Jekyll sites, but the industry is very slowly moving away from it (at least it's not in the bleeding edge anymore).

Reasons to keep it simple

There is an argument to not move this site into a static site generator. It would take some time to make and add some more overhead and assumed knowledge for people to help maintain it.

As Tom suggested, It would be possible to write simple vanilla JavaScript to scrape a .json file and add the content to the "Archive" page. We would have to write out documentation on the proper way to add the json, so that anyone could create a ticket or some process to easily update.

Let's discuss

10x engineers take long naps

I feel like I’ve never been so productive an engineer as today; and yet, I notice that I’ve never worked fewer hours in a given week. Paradox? Maybe not...

Jekyll - Static Sites on Steroids

Do you want a blog but don't want to host WordPress or the like? Ditch the database and host your blog on GitHub for free. We'll cover how to install Jekyll, use its command line tools, how to add dynamic content with liquid, and finally to deploy to GitHub. By the end, you'll have a website ready for you to blog until your heart's content!

Whyfi amiright?

Wifi is weird in an apartment. It gets even weirder in a giant office.

C.R.E.A.M.

Salary negotiation strategy and tactics

How I learned to Stop Worrying About How Much These Physical Products Cost

Physical Product design is more complicated than anyone knows. Why does a piece of acrylic glued to another piece of acrylic cost so damned much?

Gaming and Self Care

Just how in an industry where your life is your work and your hobby (coding personal projects on the weekends, etc etc) it's good to do things that have no real import or productive "value" outside of for funsies as a function of self-care