Talks, podcasts, and technical writing—public work on React, data visualization, engineering practice, and developer experience.
Seattle Design Systems · Seattle, WA · June 5, 2024
Data visualizations often fall into an awkward space between design systems and application-specific code. In this talk, I explored how teams can apply design system thinking to charts, graphs, and…
Read more →Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett · December 7, 2022
A wide-ranging interview on career path, engineering leadership, and the skills that matter in technical interviews and day-to-day software work.
Read more →DevReach · Boston, MA · September 11, 2022
This talk connects a difficult consulting engagement during the pandemic to research on resilience at work—not grit in isolation, but systems, protective factors, and what teams actually need. It's…
Read more →Formidable Blog · November 4, 2021
Part two of the fellowship series—using the Canvas API with Victory, trade-offs vs SVG, and the experimental victory-canvas package for performant charts in React.
Read more →Formidable Blog · October 27, 2021
Part one of a Formidable fellowship on data viz performance—how an overloaded main thread showed up in a real client dashboard, and what web vitals, frame rate, and rendering choices taught me about…
Read more →Formidable Blog · December 10, 2020
Originally published on the Formidable blog, this piece is about reviewing code with intention—framing feedback as risk, asking calibrated questions, and building trust on the team. Still how I think…
Read more →Reactathon · December 9, 2020
I gave this talk at Reactathon 2020, connecting Marie Kondo's tidying philosophy to refactoring—when to refactor, how behavior-driven tests make changes safer, and why the goal isn't perfect code but…
Read more →React Podcast · February 20, 2020
An episode of React Podcast on refactoring React components—testing for behavior, incremental change, and keeping refactors from becoming rewrites.
Read more →React Round Up · January 29, 2020
A conversation on the React Round Up podcast about state management approaches and how component design shapes the way teams reason about React architecture.
Read more →React Conf · Las Vegas, NV · October 24, 2019
I gave this talk at React Conf in 2019 about state management when hooks, Context, and Redux were all competing for attention. The landscape has changed since then, but breaking down a crowded topic…
Read more →Fullstack JS London · July 12, 2019
An early conference talk on why thoughtful component design matters beyond stereotypes and surface-level patterns—building UI that other engineers can actually use and extend.
Read more →Fullstack JS London · July 12, 2019
A workshop-style session at Fullstack JS London with a companion repo of React and TypeScript patterns for state management—practical material teams could take back to their codebases.
Read more →8th Light · November 20, 2018
A follow-up on render props—using React 16.3 Context to share alert state without prop drilling, and how I think about Context versus Redux for small slices of global UI state.
Read more →Chicago JS Camp; RVA JavaScript · September 22, 2018
A fundamentals-focused talk I gave at several local events on core JavaScript skills that help developers navigate unfamiliar codebases and growing frameworks.
Read more →8th Light · August 30, 2018
How dependency inversion shows up in React—extracting shared alert state with render props so views stay testable and are not locked to one alert component.
Read more →8th Light · July 18, 2017
An interview with Chicago camp coordinator Jessi Chartier on App Camp for Girls— the first Midwest site, what a week of iOS camp looks like, and why role models matter when girls are deciding whether…
Read more →8th Light · May 22, 2017
From my early years at 8th Light—a plain-language walk through Strategy and Decorator with TypeScript examples, written for developers who learn patterns by solving problems first and names second.
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